Articles by Richard Tren
Lady Madonna, Children at Your Feet
Yohane Banda, the father of Madonna's newly adopted son, David, has thanked the pop diva for rescuing his son from "poverty and disease." However recent news reports have suggested that Mr. Banda was not fully aware of the implications of...
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Freedom and Sedition
Editor's note: what follows is an interview with Andrew Mwenda, Political Editor of the The Monitor, Uganda. Richard Tren: Uganda has had many years of stable government and increasing prosperity -- it certainly must be vastly improved since the days...
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Finding Hope Where the Streets are Named for Lenin and Mao
MAPUTO, Mozambique -- Driving around Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, is like driving through the pages of a socialist history book. Avenida Vladimir Lenin leads into Avenida Mao Tse Tung and Avenida Kim Ill Sung runs parallel to Avenida...
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The Millennium Development Goal Merry-Go-Round
This week the world's leaders are gathering in New York to discuss the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals were set in 2000 by the United Nations and aim to improve the lot of humanity on a whole host...
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Clinton and African AIDS
Former President Bill Clinton is visiting several African countries in an attempt to boost AIDS treatment programs. His visit to Africa must be welcomed as HIV/AIDS is already imposing colossal human and economic costs on the continent and this is...
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Meet Pinky: Africa's War on Self-Reliance
JOHANNESBURG -- Friday afternoons are a busy time at the small shopping centre in the up market Johannesburg suburb of Oaklands. The green grocer and nearby butcher do a swift trade so that Johannesburg's housewives can put on lavish dinners....
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Whose Responsibility
The innovative drug company Bristol Myers Squibb and its charitable foundation, the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation have just announced a $40 million program to create a pediatric AIDS treatment corps for Africa. UN-AIDS estimates that there are more than 2...
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World Health Assembly Coverage: The Fluff and Lies of the WHA
GENEVA -- When attending a United Nations meeting, there comes a time when you simply have to escape. After just four days at the 58th World Health Assembly in Geneva and after a persistent headache and increasing bouts of nausea,...
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World Health Assembly Coverage: Beware Deadly Pools
GENEVA -- Just when you may have thought that the global debate on the role that drug patents play in access to medicines had died down, it rose again in prominence at the 58th World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting...
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World Health Assembly Coverage: Who Needs WHO?
GENEVA -- The World Health Assembly began this week for many people with a long and boring wait in the rain in order to register. The queue that snaked along slowly was made up largely of hundreds of Taiwanese, waiting...
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