Africa

=AFRICA: HOPE OR DESPAIR?= ==

News Links: http://allafrica.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Special Reports or News Stories of interest:

Africa's forgotten WWII soldiers: []

Somali Adulterer Stoned to Death: []

**Special Report from the New York Times: Paradox of Plenty**
While Africa is blessed with much natural wealth — gold, diamonds, ores from tin to uranium, oil and ivory — it has also long been a target for plunder. Listen to Ian Fisher recount how some, mostly outsiders, built great fortunes off of Africa's material riches — and for centuries its people as well — while it remained the poorest continent in the world. This is a must-see: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/12/14/world/africa/20081215-africa-resources-graphic.html?ref=africa

Bono's Organization on Africa: http://www.data.org/

African Studies Center at UPenn: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/menu_EduBBS.html

Africana Heritage: http://www.africanaheritage.com/index.asp

The Atlantic Slave Trade (images): http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html

Everything about Slavery and Abolition (Yale University): http://www.yale.edu/glc/info/links.html

Black Cultural Resources: http://www.wright.edu/admin/bolinga/int_rsrces.html

Disease by Country (CDC): http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx

Who killed Lumumba? (BBC): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/974745.stm

**__Contemporary Issues:__**
Africa: The Issues: []

US AID: []

Global AIDS Vaccine: []

Green Belt Movement (Wangari Maathai): []

Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars: []

Sierra Leone Civil War: []

Liberian Conflict: []

Sudan Civil War: []

Darfur Genocide: []

Bill Gates vs. Malaria: []

Jimmy Carter vs. the Guinea Worms: http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/opinion/18kristof.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Food Production (UN): http://faostat.fao.org/DesktopModules/Faostat/WATFDetailed2/watf.aspx?PageID=536&lang=en

Women's Rights: []#

Sachs' The End of Poverty: []

Kristof on poverty: []

African Debt: []

Clean Water Charity: http://www.wateraid.org/international/about_us/

Earth Institute (Columbia University): http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9