Word: swaziland
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Nondumiso T. Qwabe, a freshman at Middlebury College and an international student from Swaziland, said the speakers “enabled the audience to put a face to the statistics...
King Mswati III of Swaziland has always had extravagant tastes. But as the tiny southern African kingdom sinks deeper into poverty and an AIDS crisis, the latest royal purchases - 10 new BMW X5 4.4i sport-utility vehicles, worth around $800,000, one for each of his 10 official wives - must qualify as a personal best. Africa's last absolute ruler presides over a land where 70% live in destitution and 38.8% are infected with HIV, the world's worst rate. And ordinary Swazis are increasingly fed up with Mswati's gold-plated insensitivity, profligate spending and authoritarian ways, says...
...annually to the U.S. and the European Union. As a result, the Children's Place--and every other American retailer--can't buy exclusively from the countries that make them most efficiently and cheaply, such as China, but must also order from less competitive places, such as Burma and Swaziland. "It's crazy: 80% of our clothing comes from 20% of the countries," says Joshi. "But we need to go to all these places because of the quota system...
...European Union. As a result, the Children's Place?and all other American retailers?can't buy exclusively from countries that make them most efficiently and cheaply, such as China, but must also order from less competitive factories in places such as Burma and Swaziland. "It's crazy: 80% of our clothing comes from 20% of the countries," says Joshi. "But we need to go to all these places because of the quota system...
...Church of the Covenant in Birmingham--and thus one of the few female Southern Baptist pastors in Alabama. She had been on the job about a week when the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (S.B.C.) rejected two of her congregants' applications to do missionary work in Swaziland. The convention's grounds: their refusal to sign a belief statement that says women should not serve as pastors, a view rooted in such biblical verses as Paul's observation that "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over...