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http://tinyurl.com/zpfok 03 May 2006 Darfur remains a troubled zone

While AmeriCares has contributed to the relief of Darfur with three airlifts this year, distributing more than 40 tons of essential medicines and relief supplies, the area remains in crisis. Internal strife has affected not only Sudan but northeastern Chad, where more than 400,000 Sudanese are displaced. Health care in this area continues to be provided almost exclusively by humanitarian agencies.

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5 Truths About Darfur April 23, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/s8l72

1. Nearly everyone is Muslim

2. Everyone is black

3. It's all about politics4. This conflict is international

5. The "genocide" label made it worse

But in September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin L. referred to the conflict as a "genocide." http://tinyurl.com/r2cct

http://tinyurl.com/r2y3h 21 Jan 2003 The charity (AmeriCares) describes itself as “the humanitarian arm of corporate America”. Among grandees currently on its advisory panel is US Secretary of State Colin . [...] “AmeriCares resembles a private foreign-policy operation of the US government.” [...] AmeriCares has been present in several recent Southern African crises. This kind of philanthropy is not new to Africa: first the missionaries, then the guns, then the suits.

All with assistance from Randall Tobias, former president and CEO of pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and U.S. global “AIDS czar.” Tobias replaced Natsios on March 31, 2006 as the administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the central agency managing U.S. overseas assistance. More important, Tobias is also serving as the first director of foreign assistance (DFA), a newly created position at the State Department, with a mission of bringing greater coherence, coordination and effectiveness to U.S. foreign-aid programs. http://tinyurl.com/jsrbl http://tinyurl.com/pa73v

Oh, beware such care.

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