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Africa on the brink
By STEPHANIE NOLEN, The Globe and Mail
World leaders are coming to Canada to discuss a rescue plan for the planet's most troubled continent, but do they realize just how great that challenge is? The Globe's Stephanie Nolen spent five weeks criss-crossing six countries and finds that Africa's hopes -- and needs -- have never been greater. This is the first of a four-part series on what she has learned in Sierra Leone, a nation best known for diamonds, death and
destruction.
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The bumpy road out of poverty
By STEPHANIE NOLEN, The Globe and Mail
A Ugandan coffee entrepreneur is a model for his country's emerging recovery. But you can't buy his product in Canada, and that shows just how far Africa still has to go. The Globe and Mail's reports from Kampala
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Vanishing grain yield trips up attempts at renewal
By STEPHANIE NOLEN, The Globe and Mail
It is bearing down on Malawi like a freight train without brakes. The hunger, as they call it in southern Africa, will be here by August, September at the latest. And everyone knows this.
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Continent's educated can no longer run things: They're dead or can't cope
By STEPHANIE NOLEN, The Globe and Mail
Doctors, nurses, teachers, civil servants, academics, police -- all are dying of AIDS in such numbers that few are left to see to the needs of the living.
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Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006
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