Mozambique News Blog

First Lady Begins Africa Tour On AIDS

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:19:36 +0000

DAKAR, Senegal -- First Lady Laura Bush is in Africa. Her four-nation tour is expected to focus on how the U.S. can help fight AIDS on a continent where many countries struggle to even provide basic health care.

Bush is scheduled to visit areas that have benefited from U.S. AIDS funding: the west African nations of Senegal and Mali, along with Mozambique and Zambia in southern Africa. She's accompanied by her daughter Jenna.

The first lady and her daughter were greeted on the tarmac in Senegal's seaside capital late Monday by a group of about 30 dignitaries, including Senegal's first lady and her daughter. The two first ladies shook hands and posed for photographs, but neither spoke to reporters.

Laura Bush begins Africa anti-AIDS tour

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:19:36 +0000

DAKAR, Senegal -- First Lady Laura Bush started a four-nation Africa tour Monday that is expected to focus on how the U.S. can help fight AIDS on a continent where many countries struggle to even provide basic health care.

Mrs. Bush, accompanied by her daughter Jenna, is scheduled to visit areas that have benefited from U.S. AIDS funding this week -- the west African nations of Senegal and Mali, along with Mozambique and Zambia in southern Africa.

Mrs. Bush and her daughter were greeted on the tarmac in Senegal's seaside capital late Monday by a group of about 30 dignitaries, including Senegal's first lady, Viviane Wade, and her daughter. The two first ladies shook hands and posed for photographs, but neither spoke to reporters.

Laura Bush begins Africa tour to focus on anti-AIDS initiatives, women's rights and education

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:19:36 +0000

DAKAR, Senegal — First Lady Laura Bush started a four-nation Africa tour Monday that is expected to focus on how the U.S. can help fight AIDS on a continent where many countries struggle to even provide basic health care.

Mrs. Bush, accompanied by her daughter Jenna, is scheduled to visit areas that have benefited from U.S. AIDS funding this week — the west African nations of Senegal and Mali, along with Mozambique and Zambia in southern Africa.

First lady to tout aid on Africa visit

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:54 +0000

Many small children die each day and adults succumb to avoidable illness in the far corners of Africa where First Lady Laura Bush will spend this week promoting an unprecedented U.S. campaign against AIDS and malaria and offering the promise of education.

At a time when the Bush administration is seeking a doubling of the U.S. commitment to a global battle against AIDS -- asking Congress to add $30 billion over the next five years -- the first lady will attempt a sales pitch to Americans in a five-day, four-nation African tour with a display of what U.S. aid can accomplish.

With this, her third trip to Africa, Laura Bush carries a certain cachet, wearing the popular face of an unpopular administration. Yet for a president dealing with war and terrorism, the African agenda represents perhaps the greatest single initiative that he can claim as a legacy-staking achievement.

WISeKey and Group Brasilinvest Join Forces to Launch WISeKey Brasil

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:54 +0000

GENEVA, Switzerland, VALENCIA, Spain and SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey is expanding its global reach to South America. This cooperation allows the WISeKey Spanish subsidiary, with head offices in Bilbao, to expand its cooperation with Brasilinvest to offer WISeKey's technology in both Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries. WISeKey is currently a leading provider of Internet security.

The agreement includes an injection of capital into WISeKey ELA by the Brazilian group Brasilinvest, accelerating the setting up of a distribution network in Latin America with 22 subsidiaries and in all Portuguese speaking countries (Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau and Mozambique), to distribute WISeKey technology in a market with 1 billion potential users.

Carlos Moreira, Founder and President of WISekey said "this new joint venture agreement with Brasilinvest will allow us to enlarge our existing community of users in the targeted markets increasing WISeKey international positioning and leveraging our unique trust and security model of WISeKey, now considered as the fastest e-security company in the world.

Beyond Iraq: The First Lady, Back in Africa - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:54 +0000

If three words could sum up President Bush's foreign policy legacy, they would be: Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. But if first lady Laura Bush has her way, historians also will remember the president's determination to fight deadly diseases in Africa and other parts of the developing world.

This month, President Bush called on Congress to double to $30 billion over the next five years the funding for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. He has also pledged $1.2 billion in a five-year effort to cut in half the number of people killed by malaria, which claims more than 1 million lives a year, mostly of children.

Laura Bush will be highlighting those programs as she leaves today on her third visit to Africa. The five-day trip will take her to Senegal, Mozambique, Zambia and Mali. Although PEPFAR and other international aid programs are saving thousands of lives, the reality is that HIV's growth in Africa is outpacing treatment.

Immigration Bill: One More Shot - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:06:54 +0000

An immigration overhaul -- the chief domestic initiative of President Bush's second term -- will take center stage a final time this year as the Senate returns to a bipartisan bill that stalled a few weeks ago. Bush is expected to discuss the bill on Tuesday.

After five months of negotiations, backers of the bill are confident they can get the 60 votes necessary to end debate and move toward a final vote. But passage is far from guaranteed.

Both parties will be allowed to submit about a dozen amendments; however, a number that are being considered may be "poison pills," designed primarily to kill the bill.

Music Without Borders

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:19:46 +0000

"They all hang out with the Gnawa musicians and learned some stuff," says musician Hassan Hakmoun, who, at the time of the Stones' visit, was a 4-year-old performing alongside snake charmers and fire-breathers on Marrakech streets.

In the 1990s, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin "went to Morocco and did an album with Moroccan musicians," says Hakmoun, who by then had taken up residence in New York City.

When Hakmoun performs the music of the Gnawa people, during the Florida International Festival in July in Daytona Beach, he believes listeners may be as enchanted as those rock stars were by the music of his native Morocco -- even though no one likely will understand a single word of the Arabic-African dialect Hakmoun will be singing.

China's charm offensive

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:23:53 +0000

THE NORTH OF THAILAND remained little more than a collection of sleepy villages for decades. Today, the region resembles a burgeoning metropolis — a metropolis in China.

With trade booming, it has become a way station for ships delivering Chinese apples, mobile phones and other items. In the Thai city of Chiang Rai, China helped build a fancy cultural center at the local royal university and then used that to cultivate a closer relationship with Thailand's revered monarchy. Thai politicians, too, learn about China on all-expenses-paid junkets. Thousands of Chinese migrants have moved across the border to work. So many Thai businessmen are eager to learn Chinese that the local language schools cannot keep up with demand.

The north of Thailand would look familiar to people in many developing nations around the world. Over the last five years, China has laid the groundwork to become an international power. It has done so not only with high-level diplomacy but also through the tools of soft power: aid, investment, culture and skilled diplomacy. This charm offensive has proved remarkably successful. In countries where China was feared only a few years ago, Beijing's popularity has skyrocketed.

New York Times foreign correspondent to receive Lovejoy Award

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:23:53 +0000

WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) -- John F. Burns, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times' current bureau chief in Baghdad, is this year's winner of Colby College's annual Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award. Burns, 62, is a longtime foreign correspondent for The New York Times who won the Pulitzer in 1993 for his coverage of the destruction of Sarajevo and war in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in 1997 for his coverage of the Taliban's regime in Afghanistan. He has covered the overthrow of the Taliba...

Quinn Chapel to hold Women's Day Celebration

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:14:42 +0000

MARION - Quinn Chapel AME Church, 437 N. Park St., will hold a Women's Day Celebration at 11 a.m. Sunday with special guest speaker Bishop Sarah Davis, Presiding Prelate of the 18th District Episcopal District.

Bishop Davis is currently presiding over the South African countries of Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique.

First lady's Africa mission could be Bush's silver lining

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:32:45 +0000

It's legacy time for President Bush, and with his political arsenal largely emptied by the war in Iraq, high gas prices and other problems, he's going back to his secret weapon: Laura Bush.

The first lady leaves Monday on a five-day visit to Africa highlighting administration programs on AIDS, malaria, reading and more. Officials hope the still-popular White House ambassador will raise awareness and support for the president's largely overlooked Africa agenda.

"People may not realize, we had malaria in the United States until 1946, and we were able to totally eradicate it," Laura Bush told CNN this week.

First lady's mission to Africa could be Bush's silver lining

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:32:45 +0000

It's legacy time for President Bush, and with his political arsenal largely emptied by the war in Iraq, high gas prices and other problems, he's going back to his secret weapon: Laura Bush.

The first lady leaves on Monday on a five-day visit to Africa highlighting administration programs on AIDS, malaria, reading and more. Officials hope the still-popular White House ambassador will raise awareness and support for the president's largely overlooked Africa agenda.

"People may not realize, we had malaria in the United States until 1946, and we were able to totally eradicate it," Laura Bush told CNN this week.

Suiza da la gran sorpresa y elimina a Portugal en cuartos

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:32:45 +0000

el mundo del hockey patines, dio la gran sorpresa y eliminó gracias

a un "gol de oro" a Portugal, varias veces campeón del mundo, en los

cuartos de final del Mundial que se disputa en la localidad suiza de

Expanding horizons

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:59:42 +0000

Click photo to enlargeThe Swaziland countryside is one of vast vistas and a great variety of wildlife that enhances the exotic feel of the land. The Mliwane sanctuary is a privately-held wildlife trust filled with lakes, mountains and good tourist facilities.«123»Destination Swaziland

MLIWANE WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, Swaziland - Our guide handed us a key with a number on it and pointed to a cluster of windowless, beehive-shaped huts of grass and wood.

TRAVEL TALES:A 50-year journey through life celebrated with a safari

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:59:42 +0000

Tell us about your adventures in about 400 words, accompanied by a couple of photos that do not have the Daily Pilot in them, and send it all to Travel Tales, 1375 Sunflower Ave., Costa Mesa, CA 92626; by e-mail to dailypilot@latimes.com or by fax to (714) 966-4679.After several months of decision making, we decided to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary, which is in June, five months early by going on a two-week safari in Kenya.Our safari began with a five-hour flight from LAX to New York Ci...

AMD commits $1 million for UT engineering endowment; Seguin's Pure and Gentle Inc. will help ease suffering in Africa.

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:34:32 +0000

Advanced Micro Devices commits $1 million for endowment at UT

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has committed $1 million to the University of Texas College of Engineering. The money will be spent on course design, students and faculty, and laboratory improvement.

AMD will give the endowment pledge over four years for a program to be called the AMD Chair in Computer Engineering.

PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:24:02 +0000

FORGET ABOUT trying to control mass movements of people from a committee

room in Washington.

Movements of people are among the most ineluctable forces on the planet.

In Sudan, an Animal Migration to Rival Serengeti

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:32:16 +0000

The first aerial survey of southern Sudan in 25 years has revealed vast migrating herds, rivaling those of the Serengeti plains, that have managed to survive 25 years of civil war, the Wildlife Conservation Society and Southern Sudan will announce today at a news conference in New York.

J. Michael Fay, a conservationist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society, who has participated in the surveys, said in a telephone interview from Chad that southern Sudans herds of more than a million gazelle and antelope may even surpass the Serengetis herds of wildebeest, making the newly surveyed migration the largest on earth.

Its so far beyond anything youve ever seen, you cant believe it, Dr. Fay said. You think youre hallucinating.

Carter edges Spearmon in 200 showdown

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:32:16 +0000

EUGENE ? Sprinters aren't supposed to take it easy ? in a race or in training.

Consider it a lesson learned for Xavier Carter.

After struggling through the early season, Carter is back.

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