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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onJune 21, 2011
The troubled nation is seeing improvements in health and education.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onMay 11, 2011
The astounding rate is 26 times more than the previous estimate.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onApril 6, 2011
Author explains why suffering in the country seems "anonymous."
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May 3, 2010
This is the latest in a string of violent acts committed by the Lord's Resistance Army.
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August 11, 2009
It appears the person translating for the Secretary of State PUNK'D her...
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August 11, 2009
The number of reported rapes in the east of the country has risen dramatically since January, when the government launched a joint operation with Rwanda against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda...
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August 11, 2009
The Secretary of State got a little froggy after a university student asks her husband's opinion of foreign policy matters...
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August 5, 2009
For years, the thickly forested hills and clear, deep lakes of eastern Congo have been a reservoir of atrocities. Now, it seems, there is another growing problem: men raping men...
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by Jennifer Brea onMay 27, 2009
The metals used to make your cell phone, iPod and laptop are fueling a horrific war. Can you do anything to stem the trade of blood minerals?
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May 20, 2009
The Afternoon Round-Up:
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