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Archive for August 17th, 2009
Afghan election campaigning ends
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Today is the final day of campaigning in the run-up to Thursday’s elections in Afghanistan. Some 30 candidates are challenging President Hamid Karzai. Abdullah Abdullah (above), Karzai’s former foreign minister, is the leading contender to unseat the current president. Abdullah held a massive rally today in a Kabul stadium. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) >>> Afghans weigh in on the election and the candidates.
Abdul Rashid Dostum returns from Turkey
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General Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ex-warlord and President Hamid Karzai’s former chief of staff, returned to Afghanistan today. He had been living in exile in Turkey. Dostum is the leader of Afghanistan’s Uzbek community. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh). >>> See a BBC profile of Afghanistan’s ethnic communities.
Global Political Cartoons: August 8-14, 2009
Each week, The World brings you the best in political cartooning from across the globe. In this week’s cartoon slideshow, artists take aim at Afghanistan’s upcoming elections, the continued detention of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, and those noisy town hall meetings about health care reform in the United States.
Fighting drought with trees in Burkina Faso
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Most media stories about Africa convey gloom and doom. Add climate change and you might expect … double gloom and doom. But author Mark Hertsgaard recently found something quite different in the western Sahel. He was there researching a book on living with climate change. What he found was a small green miracle that offers a valuable defense against increasing heat and drought. It’s being pioneered by illiterate farmers… and their secret is trees. Hertsgaard prepared this reporter’s notebook from the West African country of Burkina Faso. (Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/rietje)
Baby boom
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They have been called the “Kreppa babies” – just over nine months after this country’s banking sector collapsed, this country is experiencing a baby boom. Deliveries are up about 3.5 per cent so far this year, putting the volcanic Atlantic island on course to record its most annual births for at least half a century. Also, check out Alda Sigmundsdóttir’s blog.
Entire program – August 17, 2009
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Today on The World: A controversial warlord makes a key Afghan election endorsement on the last day of campaigning; Chinese villagers break into a factory to protest the poisoning of hundreds of children; And West African farmers fight climate change one tree at a time.
A warlord returns to Afghanistan
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It’s the last day of campaigning for presidential elections in Afghanistan on Thursday. President Hamid Karzai got an endorsement from a notorious warlord. General Abdul Rashid Dostum returned from exile yesterday to urge his supporters to vote for the incumbent, Hamid Karzai. The World’s Jeb Sharp reports.
Monitoring Afghanistan’s elections
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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Glenn Cowan, the founder of Democracy International, about monitoring Afghanistan’s elections later this week. Cowan has monitored elections in more than three dozen countries and he says Afghanistan’s are the most difficult he’s seen in terms of security.
Protests over lead poisoning in China
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Chinese villagers broke into a smelting plant and smashed up equipment over the weekend. They were protesting the lead poisoning of hundreds of children living lear the plant. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the details from The World’s Mary Kay Magistad.
Quiet greening of West Africa
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The Sahel region of West Africa is being hit hard by climate change. But in this reporter’s notebook from the country of Burkina Faso, Mark Hertsgaard spotlights a small green miracle that’s helping farmers fight the warming trend. The secret, he says, is trees.
Remembering a refugee advocate
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Anchor Lisa Mullins remembers Kenneth Bacon, head of the advocacy group Refugees International. Bacon died over the weekend at the age of 64.
East Jerusalem settlement controversy
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Reporter Linda Gradstein updates us on the ongoing controversy over a planned settlement in East Jerusalem.
Who’s next in Egypt?
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Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is in Washington this week to speak with President Obama. But back at home, the big question is who will succeed the aging Egyptian leader. Ursula Lindsey reports from Cairo.
Economic strategy in North Dakota
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North Dakota has fared relatively well in the economic downturn. But as The World’s Jason Margolis reports, some farmers and agriculture businesses there are trying to position themselves to be even less vulnerable to the swings of the world economy next time trouble arises.
Geo Quiz
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