“Green Nobel” to Zambian April 23, 2007
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The Goldman Environmental Prize was awarded this year to a Zambian whose lifework is protection of elephant populations from poachers. Through an innovative program combining health care, loans, and showing the population that they can profit by keeping elephants alive, Hammerskjoeld Simwinga helps to curb an epidemic of poaching.
The programs have been particularly empowering for women:
“We deliberately pushed our resources to the womenfolk in the community because we knew that working with the women was the strongest part of persuasion,” he told Reuters news agency.
The Goldman Prize is the richest environmental award in the world and pays $125,000.
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Mogadishu Turns Toward Chaos April 23, 2007
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Ethiopia invaded Somalia last December to rid the land of the Islamic Courts Union, a group accused of harboring al-Qaeda The Ethiopians thought they would be out in two weeks, replaced by an African Union peacekeeping force.
None of that has happened. Five months later, the Islamic Courts Union movement has morphed into a larger coalition of Union members and disaffected nationalsts, distrustful of Ethiopia and vowing to fight its purportedly imperial ambitions in Somalia. Mogadishu is a scene of chaos.
[q url="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6583095.stm"]Many bodies are lying around Mogadishu and hundreds of people are fleeing towards the Kenyan border, says the BBC Swahili reporter Khadra Mohammed said.
Some have serious injuries and need urgent medical attention, she says.
Only people with money are able to move out of the capital on public transport vans, most of the dead are poor people, our correspondent says.
War punishes the poor, as always.
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Zimbabwe Protestors Stripped, Jailed April 23, 2007
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Robert Mugabe has appeared to survive, once again, a number of prophecies predicting his certain demise. But protests in the country are spreading, with the churches now aligned against the government. The police are responding with increasingly questionable tactics.
Women arrested at a protest organized by a pro-democracy group were stripped of their clothes and jailed naked for hours, the group said Sunday, accusing police of violating Zimbabwe’s traditional moral values.
82 members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise were arrested for holding an “illegal political rally” in the second largest city, Bulawayo. Of those:
18 were stripped and jailed “the whole day in a state of undress
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