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Obama, Barack •enthusiasm for phrase "hit the ground running" of •enthusiasm for phrase "there is only one President at a time" of •record for number of press conferences held by a President-elect is broken by with eight weeks...
...started unpacking and kept watching TV. I was constantly getting e-mails from family, from friends and colleagues... during these two days I must've got 2,000 e-mails. Some people would write in six to eight times a day, just to let me know they were hoping I'd make it out safe. Some would send humorous messages... it felt nice people were trying to keep me amused...
...PNTL police posts within the Comoro district of the city's west, poorly equipped officers paid $125 a month live in tents without mosquito nets or proper toilets. At one post the single radio shared by eight men is broken, forcing them to call in reports on their personal mobile phones. At another post, responsible for a 4-sq.-km district, officers have no patrol vehicles and sprint to jobs on foot. "The U.N. is providing everything," says one UNPOL officer. "Even the toilet paper...
Many of Africa's conflicts can be explained as tinderboxes that had long been waiting for a spark. In northern Kenya, Turkana tribes and armed gangs murder and rob each other in a cycle of violence fuelled by eight years of drought. In Rwanda, there is an increasing consensus that Africa's other recent genocide is at least partly understood as a contest between too many people on too little cultivable land. The U.N. Development Program predicted as long ago as November 1999 that one in two Africans would face water shortages by 2025, and said it expected violent flashpoints...
...they just couldn't prove it. Until, that is, he was picked up with banknotes and clothing that under ultraviolet (UV) light glowed green with splashes of SmartWater, a forensic marking liquid sprayed by a device fitted to four of the cashboxes. In September Lwanga was sentenced to eight years in prison...