AltWeeklies Wire
Mercy Corps is Helping America's Image in Ethiopia One Goat at a Timenew
While Mercy Corps gets major publicity when disasters occur, the nonprofit also works throughout the year on myriad projects. One such effort is in the West Hararghe region in remote eastern Ethiopia, where the group has spent about $1 million since 2002 among the region's estimated 1,000 villages to vaccinate animals in an area the size of Maryland.
Willamette Week |
Don Lieber |
05-21-2008 |
International
Flight of Sudanese 'Lost Boys' Captured in Comic Booknew
A reality comic book, Echoes, portrays the suffering caused by the genocide and ethnic cleansing against animist, Christian and Muslim blacks in Sudan.
Dallas Observer |
Zac Crain |
10-12-2004 |
International
Africans Fleeing Genocide in Sudan Take Refuge in Egyptnew
Thousands of African refugees propelled by wars, economic misery, and politics have resettled in Cairo, a teeming metropolis with room for no more. Desperate conditions there have led to unrest.
The Village Voice |
Kareem Fahim |
09-15-2004 |
International
