DownloadArticles : Mary Stata
July 12 issue
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MCC urges peaceful plan in Uganda
WASHINGTON — Mennonite Central Committee is urging the Obama administration to pursue diplomacy instead of military force to disarm rebels in central Africa.
July 5 issue
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Congo’s bittersweet birthday
This summer, the Democratic Republic of Congo turns 50. In 1960, Belgium abruptly transferred its colonial keys and declared Congo independent.
Jan. 4 issue
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Women: face of HIV/AIDS
The toll on women and girls presents Africa and the world with a practical and moral challenge, which places gender at the centre of the human condition. The practice of ignoring gender analysis has turned out to be lethal.
July 6, 2009 issue
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Congo’s conflict minerals
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery; they have oppressed the poor and needy and have extorted from the foreigner without redress. And I sought for anyone among them who would repair the wall and stand in the breach before me on behalf of the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I found no one. — Ezekiel 22:29-30
Dec. 22, 2008 issue
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A weapon that kills civilians
Suraj Ghulam Habib, 17, of Afghanistan lost both his legs when he found a cluster bomb that he mistook for a can of food. He and five members of his family were walking home from a picnic when the bomb exploded. Suraj’s cousin was killed instantly, and everyone else was injured by the blast.
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