Africa is the least understood continent among the US people. This ignorance is largely due to racism and the legacy of slavery. Of course, it is also due to the racist inattention by the media and US foreign policy, which is in equal measures dismissive and scandalizing. But things are changing. There is a new interest in Africa among the US public today and a new focus in government policy.
I live in a US town of around 80,000 people. Access to healthcare has never been a major issue here. We have 30 pediatricians serving the 15,000 youth in the area. On the other hand, in the small African nation of Lesotho, there are only six pediatricians to care for the country's 800,000 children. AIDS Orphans in Lesotho
Somalia is the forgotten front in the "War on Terror." Americans are rarely told anything about what goes on there, who the actors are and, more importantly, the reasons behind conflict in the Horn of Africa. Hence it is not surprising that there has been no concerted activist challenge to U.S. support for Ethiopia's war in Somalia, but such a challenge is urgently required. Somalian insurgent forces
Who is Jean-Pierre Bemba and how did he rise to power in the heart of darkness? Did Bemba order his rebel soldiers to cannibalize pygmies? What is Bemba's relationship to the competitors of George W. Bush and the friends of Bill Clinton? How is Bemba linked to blood diamonds in
A four-part radio documentary series about the destructive impact of
In February, George W. Bush announced the creation of a new unified combatant command for
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