At 39, Daniel Weiss found what he loves overseas, in a ramshackle town in Brazil's hot and humid Amazon region.
In 1992, after working with Chicago gangs for several years, he took a break before starting a doctoral program and applied to agencies as a volunteer.
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VILANCULOS, Mozambique - A huge clean-up operation was under way Saturday in some of Mozambique's most popular resorts as the southern African nation's fledgling tourist industry struggled to recover from a devastating cyclone that left tens of thousands homeless.
Casualties from Cyclone Favio appeared to be limited thanks to a warning system and evacuations by authorities, with initial reports of 10 dead.
Vilanculos, which used to be an idyllic resort boasting some of Mozambique's most exclusive tourist lodges, was left in ruins, with mighty palms uprooted and the main road cut in half by a three-foot deep pothole. There was no electricity and no running water.
Call it an automatic rifle. Call it a submachine gun. Call it "the $10 weapon of mass destruction" or "the African credit card."
Call it the AK-47.
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MAPUTO, Mozambique A cyclone has hit Mozambique, bringing heavy rains and more misery to thousands of people who've already been affected by flooding.The cyclone, with 125-mile-per-hour winds, washed ashore in central Mozambique today. Officials say the same area could be hit by a second cyclone before dawn tomorrow.The storm has made a bad situation worse. Flooding from torrential rains has drenched the central portion of the southeastern African nation since January.World Vision relief worker ...
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) ? Cyclone Favio swept ashore Thursday in central Mozambique with sustained winds of 125 mph, bringing heavy rain and new misery to tens of thousands of people already forced from their homes by flooding. A second storm, Cyclone Gamede, churned in the Indian Ocean northeast of Madagascar and threatened to make landfall in the same area before dawn Friday, officials said.
As Favio moved ashore at Vilankulo south of Beira, it destroyed some homes and ripped the roofs off of others.
The government had evacuated many of the residents further inland.
SYDNEY, Australia - Potential takeover bids of Alcoa Inc. by one of two Australian-based companies reportedly considering such a move were unlikely because of the U.S. aluminum producer's company dynamics, cost factors and increasing Chinese competition, analysts said Wednesday.
BHP Billiton Ltd., the world's largest mining company, and Rio Tinto PLC, the world's second-largest iron ore producer, declined to comment on the takeover talk, sparked Tuesday by an unsourced report in the Times newspaper in London.
The report said the Melbourne-based mining companies were considering offers of up to $40 billion (euro31 billion) bid for the U.S. aluminum giant. Alcoa shares rose 6.38 percent to close at $35 Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange after rising as high as $36.05 earlier in the session.
Before my husband, Jason, and I got married, we'd taken a few vacations that played out like low-budget episodes of "The Amazing Race." We'd hitchhiked in Mozambique, pushed a broken-down car across the Swaziland border and toured glaciers in Argentina shortly after its economy collapsed.
For our honeymoon, we thought, we'd plant our feet firmly on the beaten track, escaping a Pittsburgh winter for several weeks to go someplace warm and full of English speakers.
Battling the elements, you see, was not part of our plan.
COCORICO, Mozambique (AP) -- Relief workers used dugout canoes, motorboats and a U.N. helicopter to rescue villagers from rising floodwaters Wednesday, but others refused to go because it would mean leaving their crops and livestock. Torrential rains have deluged southern Africa since December, killing more than 100 people, including 40 in Mozambique. The floods have destroyed thousands of acres of crops, washed out roads and bridges and uprooted utility poles. Despite memories of floods tha...
MAPUTO, Mozambique - Soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated some 60,000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100,000 others are at risk, officials said Monday.
Prime Minister Luisa Diogo ordered the forcible removal of people in low-lying areas amid reports that some peasant farmers were refusing to evacuate unless their cattle and goats also were rescued.
Some 100 people have drowned or been electrocuted and hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes in torrential rains that have swamped a swath of southern Africa from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east with Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe in between. Bridges have collapsed, power lines been torn down and roads swept away.
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