Africa: bookmarks

What are they afraid of? That people might get along and perhaps bring some form of harmony to this war-torn country?

Another worthwhile campaign by Amnesty.

It's like watching my worst fears during my adolescence coming true, I particularly agree with Fiona's comment on a media 'attention span' and would also like to add that the most recent crisis, involving widespread ill health in Zimbabwe crystallizes those fears acutely. Why - for ALL of the 20th Century advances we can enjoy in the first world has not someone, somewhere addressed the issue of fresh clean water supply's for areas of the World that cannot rely on their own?! Rocket Science? Whilst constructing Dams that infringe on indigenous lands will construe lengthy debate I fail to see how the diplomacy or wherewithall to construct concrete enclosed water supply's that can guarantee freshh water supply's for thousands of miles around..without eviction, infringement or debts to be reclaimed.