Sudanese vice president's plane disappears
Jul 31 2005 5:22PM (CT)
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - A plane carrying the former rebel who ascended to Sudan's No. 2 leadership post has disappeared after losing contact in bad weather, a Sudanese Cabinet minister said Monday on state television.
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Economist blames aid for Africa famine
Jul 31 2005 1:22AM (CT)
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - In Niger, a desert country twice the size of Texas, most of the 11 million people live on a dollar a day. Forty percent of children are underfed, and one out of four dies before turning 5. And that's when things are normal. Throw in a plague of locusts, and a familiar spectacle emerges: skeletal babies, distended bellies, people too famished to brush the flies from their faces.
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