NYMHM: China's water shortage; Darfur ripple effect; Zimbabwe crisis deepens

Wed Aug 1 10:44:07 PDT 2007

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QUOTED: 

   "Even today people call us the Janjaweed. They won't say it to
   our faces, but when our backs are turned they call after us."

   -- Zakaria Yacoub, an Arab village chief in Chad, on the ripple
   effects of violence in Darfur (see "Sudan," below).  

CONTENTS:

   *Top Stories*
     Officials praise cabbie's plan for China's water
     Iraqi politicians fear U.S. pullout
     Pentagon delayed bomb-proof cars

   *Zimbabwe*
     Crises in climax

   *Sudan*
     You can't go home again

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 > Officials Praise Cabbie's Plan for China's Water

   Chinese officials say a Beijing cab driver's proposal on how to
   increase natural rainfall in north China is on the right track. 

   Environmental officials solicited public proposals on what went
   wrong with China's once-abundant water supply. Liu Zhenxiang's 
   theory, which Chinadialogue.net says is borne out by science, is 
   that a lack of groundwater means a lack of evaporation ....

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 > Iraqi Politicians Fear U.S. Pullout

   While Congress debates (or refuses to debate) a withdrawal 
   timeline for Iraq, most Sunni and Shia Arab parties in the 
   Iraqi parliament are getting nervous at the prospect of 
   losing the protective presence of U.S. troops.

   A Sunni-led group called the Iraqi Accord Front has reversed 
   its earlier position, which was for an immediate ...

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 > Pentagon Delayed Bomb-Proof Cars 

   Roadside bombs are the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops in Iraq, but
   the No. 1 security solution -- obtaining a fleet of Mine 
   Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, to protect 
   against such explosives -- was pushed aside by ... 

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 ZIMBABWE 
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 > Crises In Climax 

   With inflation at over 4,500 percent and hospitals, water, power
   and food access close to collapse, Zimbabwe faces its worst 
   crisis since independence from Britain, reports the 
   Associated Press. 

   In June, the government of President Robert Mugabe accused store
   owners of fueling the inflation and ordered 50 percent price 
   cuts on commodities such as bread, eggs and milk. Some stores 
   are now refusing to re-order because prices are so low ...

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 SUDAN .............................................................................

 > Darfur: You Can't Go Home Again

   Driven by environmental pressures and ethnic divisions, the
   violence in Darfur is reaching across borders to affect black 
   African and Arab communities alike throughout the region. 

   Aid groups believe Khartoum has rounded out its ethnic cleansing
   campaign against black farmers in Darfur by resettling their 
   burned-out villages with Arabs from Chad and Niger, who are 
   entering Darfur in "unprecedented" numbers ...

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   http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004353.html    

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