Africa

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Where has all the rice gone?
While Sam's Club rations the world's number one staple in the U.S., China makes long term plans in Africa
The Washington food crisis consensus
Did following the advice of the IMF and World Bank in the 1990s set poor countries up for a big fall when grain prices spiked a decade later?
The fine art of battling oil addiction
Why I hope the president of Nigeria will make good on his plans to attend my show on oil politics.
African recessions lead to democratic concessions
How bad weather contributes to the toppling of tyrants
Breadbasket inflation
Wheat prices are out of control. Corn and soybeans and rice, too. Is this good or bad news for the biotech industry, and Africa?
Big Think: "I'm a soldier for social justice"
Arthur Mutambara on making Zimbabwe the Switzerland of Africa.
Running for their lives
Kenya's long-distance runners are moving targets in a recent outburst of ethnic violence -- two have been murdered and many more fear death.
The roots of Kenya's upheaval
It's not just tribal hatred that's spurring bloodshed in this stratified African nation.
"They are done to destroy women"
How to help victims of sexual violence in Congo
Crying "witch!"
Growing accusations of witchcraft aimed at children.
Sub-Saharan dilemma: Food vs. fuel or radioactive waste?
Or both? In Senegal, fossil fuel shortages are forcing government leaders to explore every option.
A step forward for the World Bank?
Robert Zoellick's choice of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as a top deputy may win him some favor with long-suffering bank staff.
China's deadly Darfur games
Slick P.R. moves around the '08 Olympics can't hide the fact that China is still complicit in the Darfur genocide.
Fighting AIDS with abstinence
Bush's plan for AIDS relief in Africa: Promote condoms for "high-risk" groups, ignore transmission within marriage.
Joe Biden lets it all hang out
In Iowa, the long-shot candidate stuck with his blunt, freewheeling style, and warned of the dire mess in Iraq facing the next American president.
Rachel Carson's birthday bashing
The right has revved up its claim that the environmental pioneer who criticized DDT was responsible for the spread of malaria that killed millions. The facts say otherwise.
The destiny of bad geography
The slave trade sent some Africans running for the hills. Where they got a little stuck.
My hapless African rebel
A funny thing happened on my way to civil war in Ethiopia -- I met Reagan, and I would never see guerrilla rebels the same way again.
Bollywood in Africa -- Is it getting too Western?
China isn't the only former victim of colonialism asserting itself in Africa. India's also on the move.
Ending "the world's hottest war"
Can a citizens movement enlisting the likes of George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Don Cheadle finally stop the genocide in Darfur?
Milk money
How one American mom's desire to donate breast milk to African orphans, with a little help from Oprah, stirred up a milk bank mess.
Real bodies of research
What do AIDS researchers owe their poor, at-risk subjects?
Can Africa be more like China?
To achieve lasting prosperity African nations will have to compete with what East Asia does best, and not just feed its maw with raw materials.
Women's rights latest ammo against AIDS
Researchers say improving women's lot will stem the virus' spread in Africa.
Ask the Pilot
What caused the Kenya Airlines 737 to nose-dive just after takeoff, killing all aboard? We still don't know -- and neither does the press.
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