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In Ethiopia, farmland is hot property

"Why Attractive?" reads one glossy poster with photos of green fields and a map outlining swaths of the country available at bargain-basement prices. "Vast, fertile, irrigable land at low rent. Abundant water resources. Cheap labor. Warmest hospitality. ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Food and Agriculture Organization,  Meles Zenawi

Sudan's 'trouser lady' continues to fight decency laws

"Since all this happened, I will only wear pants," she said in the calmly defiant manner that led to her fleeting global celebrity as "the trouser lady," and a less-publicized backlash that has included anonymous death threats and newspaper columns ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Rosa Parks

U.N. peacekeepers won't back Congolese soldiers accused of killing civilians

The decision follows a U.N. investigation that confirmed the killings, said Madnodje Mounoubai, a spokesman for the mission. "By taking this position, it's a statement that [the U.N. mission] will no longer tolerate the Congolese army's violations of ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Human Rights Watch

Darfurians Living in Khartoum See Themselves as ÃÂLucky'

"Here, in Khartoum, you can have almost whatever life you want," says Zacaria Adam, 30, sitting with his father in his tiny room. Adam has a government job. Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: International Criminal Court

U.N. Rights Official Denounces Drive Against Rebels in Congo

"Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, thousands raped, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground and at least 1,000 civilians killed," Philip Alston, the United Nations' special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said in a statement. "In many ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

After war, wildlife returns to Sudan

BOMA, Sudan - He grew up here, became a rebel here, and one day recently he was flying low across this vast, grassy savannah in southeastern Sudan, now a park warden pointing out big-tusked elephants traipsing across the landscape. From the window of ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, Boston Globe,  11 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

As War Becomes a Memory, South Sudan Calls Back Its Wildlife

From the window of the small plane, Kolor Pino, who is also a general in the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, could see a few black ostriches and then a skittish mass of yellowish-brown kob, a kind of antelope, that appeared from the air ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

Obama Administration Engages Sudanese Regime It Blasted

Top administration officials are scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss a major review of the United States' Sudan policy. But even as that document is being finalized, U.S. diplomacy has remained mostly in the hands of one man, Obama's special envoy to ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Parched Kenyans Blame Leaders

In crowded, iron-sheet settlements as well as in high-hedged enclaves of the city's elite, water taps are running dry. With widespread crop failures, the price of staple foods such as corn flour is soaring. Low water levels in dams have led to power ...

From STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  21 Aug 2009

Clinton Condemns Attacks on Civilians in E. Congo

GOMA, Congo, Aug. 11 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called for the prosecution of Congolese soldiers and militiamen involved in a staggering epidemic of rape in eastern Congo and said the world must take stronger action to end ...

From MARY BETH SHERIDAN AND STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN, The Washington Post,  11 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Joseph Kabila

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