Marc Perelman
By Marc Perelman
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News Sinking Into Africa’s ‘Poverty Trap’
PABBO, Uganda — Ana quietly joined the line, her 2-year-old daughter, Margaret, in tow. She carefully placed her green and yellow plastic containers behind the hundreds of others, and then joined the other women to chat and to wait for water. It is a daily ritual by which Ana receives water for her family of…
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News U.S., Europe Spar on African Aid
The Bush administration is facing a tense debate with its main allies this spring over its opposition to international plans for reducing African poverty by radically increasing foreign aid. Spurred by an ambitious United Nations declaration in 2000, a series of plans has been floated in recent months by European nations, Japan, the World Bank…
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News Sharon Overture Divides Opposition
A split is emerging among Gaza settlers, as several of their leaders met with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon to discuss a proposal to move all 8,000 of them to a coastal strip north of Ashkelon. The meeting is increasing the isolation of hardcore opponents of Sharon’s Gaza disengagement plan who object to the dismantling of…
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News A Decade After Rwanda, War Stalks Congo
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A decade after the genocide in neighboring Rwanda spilled over into this border town, unleashing years of warfare in this immense country, the scent of hatred is filling the air once again. Listen to Dieudonné Jacques Bakungu Mythondeke, a vice governor of North Kivu province, as he blasts Rwanda’s…
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News A Decade After Rwanda, War Stalks Congo
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — A decade after the genocide in neighboring Rwanda spilled over into this border town, unleashing years of warfare in this immense country, the scent of hatred is filling the air once again. Listen to Dieudonné Jacques Bakungu Mythondeke, a vice governor of North Kivu province, as he blasts Rwanda’s…
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News Children Forced To Become Killers, Sex Slaves in Forgotten Uganda War
GULU, Uganda — It is much harder, Nelson Oyet explains in a monotone, to hack a child with a machete than to shoot him with a gun. He is 16. Jennifer Atira recounts in a halting voice how she was given as a “wife,” at 13, to a commander twice her age who would beat…
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News International Court Criticized for Uganda Intervention
The newly formed International Criminal Court, already facing outright opposition from the Bush administration, is now under criticism from local leaders in northern Uganda , as it is about to issue its first-ever arrest warrants, against leaders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army. A coalition of Ugandan religious and traditional leaders, backed by human rights…
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News Annan’s Moves at U.N. Elicit Cautious Praise From Israel, Allies
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Kofi Annan’s wide-ranging United Nations reform proposals won a cautious welcome this week from Israel and its supporters, who praised his calls to define terrorism more stringently and to overhaul the U.N. Human Rights Commission. But they warned that the proposals’ implementation still faces hurdles and that the anti-Israel slant…
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