washingtonpost.com - West AfricaWest AfricaJoy Tempered by a Wish for a Third World Pope- May 8, 2005 The selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church drew mixed reaction across Latin America and Africa. Political and church leaders issued warm statements of congratulations, but many people also said they felt a tinge of disappointment that the new pontiff did not come from the Third World.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/we... For Immigrants, Help Can Be Risky- May 8, 2005 Mariana C. Cordier, president of the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association, has heard an increasing number of complaints over the past year from people who say their immigration applications were botched by consultants.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10363-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/africa/w... Bill Shifts Burden to Asylum-Seekers- May 8, 2005 Soldiers in Cameroon seized Flaubert Mbongo in broad daylight in 1996 and hauled him to jail. They beat the bottoms of his feet with a heavy stick and threatened to kill him for helping to create a democratic party opposing President Paul Biya.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28690-2005May1.html?nav=rss_world/africa/we... New Pope Has Steadfast Beliefs in a Tumultuous World- May 8, 2005 His searing experience as a World War II Nazi conscript left Pope Benedict XVI with a distrust of nationalism and socialism, and a passionate belief in holding firmly to enduring truths.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1334-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/we... How Britannia came to rule those waves.By Daniel I. Davidson- May 8, 2005 Sir Walter Raleigh, the Elizabethan adventurer, believed that "Hee that commaunds the sea, commaunds the trade, and hee that is Lord of the trade of the world is Lord of the wealth of the worlde." In the mid-16th century, England commanded little. Spain controlled the vast wealth of the New World, and when its monarch inherited Portugal in 1580, he added the world's second-largest empire to its largest. France, for its part, had a population perhaps four times larger than England's.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24380-2005Apr29.html?nav=rss_world/africa/w... In Zimbabwe, AIDS Still Means Death- May 8, 2005 Politics and poverty are depriving Africans in rural areas of relief, even as new drugs stem the disease across the continent.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2441-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa/we... 30 Years Later, Immigrants Shed Vietnam War's Burden- May 8, 2005 Thirty is now the median age of the 1.2 million people of Vietnamese heritage living in the United States. Thirty is young enough to be haunted by Vietnam, old enough to have created new lives.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/w... New, Old Rules to Guide Balloting for Next Pope- May 8, 2005 Roman Catholic cardinals from 52 countries today begin to choose a successor to Pope John Paul II in a secret conclave that will follow elaborate customs.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60683-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/africa/w... Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply- May 8, 2005 PARIS -- Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/africa/w... In Nigeria, Where Money Talks, Reform Is the Word- May 8, 2005 ABUJA, Nigeria -- Police call it "a kola nut." Journalists call it "the brown envelope." And politicians call it "a welfare package." Whatever the name, the almighty bribe long has lubricated Nigerian society as it has few others on Earth.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27682-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/africa/w... |