November 2008 Entries
Never again do I want to experience the throws of cholera. The fateful time was right after my first trip to Sudan.
Can anyone name the one country to have ever barred former President Jimmy Carter from coming on a peace mission?
For those who have been following Somalia, the recent ship-jacking of a Saudi supertanker with about two million barrels of oil is not a surprise at all. The Somali pirates have increasingly bolder in the past two years of marauding.
A group of women demonstrated in the Democratic Republic of Congo's embattled city of Goma. They are angry about the ongoing campaign of rape being conducted by the government-backed Mai Mai militia.
The United States is counting down the hours to tomorrow's historic election between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama. Here in the States, it's all election, all the time. Quite frankly, it's been this way for the past few weeks, but in the past few days there have been very few stories about anything else.