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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s Election: What Uhuru Kenyatta&#8217;s Victory Means for Africa</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/09/kenyas-election-what-uhuru-kenyattas-victory-means-for-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uhuru Kenyatta, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, won election Saturday as Kenya’s new President. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission announced that Kenya&#8217;s richest man — the current Deputy Prime Minister, former Finance Minister and the son of Kenya&#8217;s first President Jomo Kenyatta — won 50.07% of the vote, just marginally more than was needed to avoid a second-round runoff. Kenyatta&#8217;s running mate William Ruto, a second of the four Kenyans indicted by the ICC, is slated to become Deputy President. Turnout was a high 86%. With the margin of victory so thin, and the count plagued by days of delays and hundreds of thousands of spoiled ballots, Kenyatta&#8217;s main rival, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has already said he would fight it in court. If the result withstands Odinga&#8217;s challenge, a win for Kenyatta would represent the most stunning articulation to date of a renewed mood of self-assertion in Africa. Half a century ago, Africa echoed with the sound of anticolonial liberation. Today, 10 years of dramatic and sustained economic growth and a growing political maturity coinciding with the economic meltdown in the West and political dysfunction in Washington and Europe have granted Africa&#8217;s leaders the authority and means to once again challenge Western intervention on the continent, whether it comes in the form of foreign diplomatic pressure, foreign aid, foreign rights monitors or even foreign correspondents. In his victory speech, Kenyatta said, &#8220;Today, we celebrate the triumph of democracy, the triumph of peace, the triumph of nationhood. Despite the misgivings of many in the world, we demonstrated a level of political maturity that surpassed expectations. That is the real victory today. A victory for our nation. A victory that demonstrates to all that Kenya has finally come of age. That this, indeed, is Kenya’s moment.&#8221; He also pledged to work together with his political opponents with &#8220;friendship and cooperation.&#8221; &#8220;Kenya needs us to work together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Kenya needs us to move on.&#8221; In a pointed warning to the international community, he added:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=73881&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s Election: Nationwide Polls See High Turnout, Limited Violence</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/04/kenyas-election-nationwide-polls-see-high-turnout-limited-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to the polls on Monday to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen as the country&#8217;s most important — and complicated — in its 50-year history.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=72626&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice for the Mau Mau: Court Case in the U.K. Sheds Light on Grim Colonial Past</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/10/justice-for-the-mau-mau-court-case-in-the-u-k-sheds-light-on-grim-colonial-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time after time they stood defiant; slight, frail figures before the imposing grandeur of Britain’s Royal Courts of Justice, in the heart of London. The three elderly Kenyans—Paulo Muoka Nzili, 85, Wambugu Wa Nyingi, 84, and Jane Muthoni Mara, 73—stood in the same spot many times over the past four years, waiting patiently as they held aloft placards with the words, “Human Rights For All.” They came to the U.K. to ask for justice for horrors allegedly perpetrated against them over five decades ago in Kenya, when the British colonial powers that then ran the country cracked down brutally on the armed pro-independence movement, Mau Mau. On Oct. 5, their wait for their day in court finally came to an end when the British High Court ruled that their legal case, which accuses the British government of carrying out torture half a centuryago, could proceed. The three elderly claimants—one says he was briefly a member of Mau Mau, the other two say they were mistakenly suspected of being members—had set  out to ask for an apology from the British government and a welfare fund to cover their medical needs as a result of the torture they suffered in the British-run detention camps. Yet throughout, the Foreign Office, the government department responsible for Britain’s foreign affairs, has maintained that the current government should not be held accountable for the actions of an earlier administration. The case could set a precedent that might allow past victims of British colonial rule to seek compensation for mistreatment. A lawyer for the three Kenyans believes there are an estimated 5,000 further Kenyan survivors of physical and psychological abuse by former British colonial authorities who could possibly bring similar cases for compensation as a result of this ruling. (MORE: The Bloody Mau Mau Revolt) In coming to its decision, the High Court rejected a series of arguments from the British government, which initially pushed for the case to be dismissed because responsibility for cases involving colonial-era torture had technically passed to the Kenyan government following independence in 1963. The second argument, which the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=48336&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countering al-Shabab: How the War on Terrorism Is Being Fought in East Africa</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/03/countering-al-shabab-how-the-war-on-terror-is-being-fought-in-east-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attack by suspected Islamist militants on two churches in eastern Kenya on Sunday, in which the assailants killed 17 people and wounded 60 more, is more bloody confirmation of the emergence of African terrorist groups. A group of seven masked men threw grenades into the Catholic Church and African Inland Church in Garissa, close to the Somali border, then opened fire with assault rifles. Though no group has claimed responsibility, it is the latest incident after a series of attacks carried out by Islamist militants across Kenya that have killed close to 60 people. The episodes began after Kenya invaded Somalia last September in pursuit of the Somali guerrilla group al-Shabab. For years Western terrorist hunters have war-gamed a scenario whereby al-Qaeda, pressed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, tries to establish a new staging ground in the Sahara and the Sahel, the band of lawless desert and scrub running east to west across Africa. According to the theory, al-Qaeda would likely try to extend its franchise to three indigenous African groups: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria, Mali and Niger; Boko Haram in northern Nigeria; and al-Shabab in Somalia. Theory is now becoming reality. After gestating for years, all three groups now present a real threat. Formerly a mostly criminal enterprise kidnapping foreigners for million-dollar ransoms, in the past year AQIM strengthened its arsenal with weapons smuggled out of the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, then piggybacked on a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali so effectively that it and its fellow Islamists now control a de facto new state. (In a move similar to the Afghan Taliban&#8217;s demolition of Buddhist statues, some of the militants have now set about destroying “idolatrous&#8221; Sufi shrines in the ancient city of Timbuktu.) In Nigeria, most of Boko Haram’s attacks have a local focus — the security forces, state institutions, churches — but a faction has emerged with bigger ambitions, as it demonstrated with a suicide car-bomb attack on Aug. 26 last year on the U.N.’s headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, which killed 24<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33483&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch from Somalia: War, but a Glimmer of Hope</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/07/dispatch-from-somalia-war-but-a-glimmer-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drive west out of Mogadishu, Somalia, in a convoy of three African Union armored personnel carriers, mounted with three heavy machine guns. No building seems untouched by bullet holes; many have collapsed, thorn trees growing through their ruins, their stone guts spilling out into the street. On all sides, in the rubble and on open patches of ground, are domed brushwood-and-rag shelters in which 200,000 refugees have lived since fleeing to the city during last year&#8217;s famine. One yellow wedding-cake villa leans crazily backward, its back wall crumpled underneath it, a radio mast on its roof pointing off to the side. &#8220;Al-Shabab destroyed it,&#8221; says Ugandan army Colonel Paddy Ankunda. &#8220;It belonged to a supporter of the government.&#8221; A few minutes later we reach a checkpoint manned by a militia allied to that government, known as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). A minibus approaches and, sensing the militiamen will want a bribe to let him pass, the driver makes to keep going. A militiaman opens fire with his AK-47 and shoots a female passenger in the leg. After a brief delay, the minibus is allowed to take the woman to a hospital. &#8220;Terrible,&#8221; says Ankunda, looking on. &#8220;They just know how to shoot, that&#8217;s all. They don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re supposed to protect people.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Somalia&#8217;s Catastrophic Famine) If this were anywhere else, our trip would be a tour of a failed state and a humanitarian disaster. But in Somalia, what we&#8217;re seeing is progress. A few months ago, our drive would have been impossible: the west of the city was plagued with guerrilla attacks by fighters from the al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab. Our destination, Afgoye, a town 30 km southwest of the city, was unreachable even two weeks ago: formerly an al-Shabab stronghold, Ugandan and Burundian troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) fought their way into the town in pitched battles at the end of May, killing 60 al-Shabab fighters. Their advance has been matched by gains by Ethiopian troops farther west, around the city of Baidoa, and to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=29409&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: April 18, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clutching at Straw – With former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw now being accused of complicity in the rendition and alleged torture of Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhadj, The Week investigates why MI6 agents have let blame fall upon the politician, suggesting that the “the spooks are plotting their revenge,” after the “corporate shame” of their diminished reputation under former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Choppy Waters &#8211; China Daily has shot back at the governor of Tokyo&#8217;s announced aspiration for Japan to buy part of the disputed Senkaku Islands, which China calls the Diaoyu Islands. &#8220;Any unilateral action taken by the Japanese side&#8230; is illegal and invalid, and will not change the fact that these islands belong to China,&#8221; Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin reportedly said. Aiming High - India&#8217;s Hindu newspaper reveals details of Wednesday&#8217;s launch of the country&#8217;s longest range missile to date, the Agni-V, which can reportedly hit targets up to 5,000 kilometers away. &#8220;The success of the mission will enable India join a select band of nations with capability to design, develop and produce Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles,&#8221; the newspaper says. Giant Killing &#8211; Australia-based Global Mail reports from Kenya on how demand for ivory in China is reversing decades of reduced elephant poaching in Africa &#8212; and how local NGOs are struggling to stop it. &#8220;Changing the attitude of China&#8217;s booming middle-class is a big task for an African-based anti-poaching movement, and until people stop buying, poaching will continue,&#8221; it writes. The End Of Spring – Al Jazeera argues that Tunisia, perceived to be an Arab Spring  “success story,&#8221; is facing a “social crisis” with a growing gap between those benefiting and those losing out from the revolution, with the working classes experiencing “little improvement in their daily lives.” The piece warns against Western powers seeing Tunisia’s revolution as “mission accomplished.” Scripted Settlement – As Iran prepares to negotiate with the U.S. over its nuclear program, The Washington Post views Tehran’s bargaining rhetoric as the mark of a “dignified process” of making concessions, in which the U.S. government can<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=24155&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 22, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Jackson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[War Crimes &#8211; The Global Mail details more damning evidence of Sri Lankan army atrocities at the 2009 end of the civil war, highlighting the murder of a Tamil Tigers colonel. &#8220;Of the mass of available evidence, the most compelling trail is that of Colonel Ramesh. His death provides a crack of light that illuminates the deaths of thousands of others, and the motives of the probable perpetrators,&#8221; it says. In Charge &#8211; Ahead of this year&#8217;s leadership transition, the South China Morning Post reports the Communist Party has stepped up an ideological campaign to control the People&#8217;s Liberation Army &#8211; using articles in the People&#8217;s Liberation Army Daily and party mouthpiece, the People&#8217;s Daily. The PLA is not the only target; the AP says lawyers will also now be asked to swear allegiance to the party. Geo-politics &#8211; Foreign Affairs examines the rising regional rivalry between Turkey and Iran. &#8220;The Arab Spring created an ideological contest between Ankara and Tehran, and the former seems to be winning. Among other thing, this falling-out undercuts fears that the Justice and Development Party would pull Turkey irrevocably to the East,&#8221; says a summary of Turkish journalist Mustafa Akyol&#8217;s article. Shifting Power &#8211; Just weeks before presidential elections, the Los Angeles Times reports a group of soldiers, going by the name of National Committee for the Establishment of Democracy (CNRDR), seized control of the presidential palace in Mali Thursday. In a televised statement a spokesman for the group, identified as Lt. Amadou Konare, promised to return control of the government to a democratically elected resident &#8220;as soon as national unity and territorial integrity are established.&#8221;  The New York Times explains Mali was considered one of the least likely countries in West Africa to experience a coup attempt. It is unclear how far the reach of the CNRDR extends beyond the presidential palace and state television station. Coming Home &#8211; A British women held hostage in Somalia for more than six months was freed Wednesday. The Telegraph reveals Judith Tebbutt was unaware of her husband&#8217;s death until<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=22037&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 5th, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Wong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Putin — Unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin won a third term as Russia&#8217;s president Sunday. In an op-ed following the election, Russian language opposition newspaper Kommersant urges those disappointed by the re-elction of Putin the appreciate the lessons of the past two years of political protest. &#8220;Over the past 24 months, Russian society has matured to such an extent that it may only be years from now that we’re really able to appreciate the scope of the changes,&#8221; the editor writes. Wukan Elex — CNN reports on the weekend&#8217;s unprecedented grassroots democracy exercise in the Chinese fishing village — and the end of a deputy chief bid by Xue Jianwan, whose father&#8217;s December death in custody sparked protests that ultimately led to the vote. &#8220;[She] gave up her short-lived political career after family pressure proved even harder to overcome than official intimidation,&#8221; it says. Fighting Famine — Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, writes about the human suffering in the Horn of Africa after making &#8220;a long walk with Daasanach nomads in northern Kenya, well inside the disaster zone, to see what it was like to move, as most famine victims do, on foot, through a landscape of chronic hunger,&#8221; in Foreign Policy&#8216;s feature article &#8216;The Last Famine.&#8217; Checkpoint Raid — The New York Times reports on a brash raid in the Anbar province of Iraq in the early hours of Monday. Gunman, dressed as SWAT, attacked the homes of police officers and sprayed checkpoints with bullets leaving more than 26 dead. Government spokesman Mohammed Fathi, told reporters the attackers claimed to have warrants for the arrest of the slain. Diplomatic Conversations — The Atlantic&#8217;s Jeffery Goldberg sat down with Barack Obama for a lengthy discussion on Israel and Iran.The president reveals his belief in a diplomatic solution to Iran&#8217;s nuclear program and a sometimes difficult relationship with the Israeli prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) over the weekend, saying there has been &#8220;too much loose talk of war.&#8221; He is scheduled to meet with Netanyahu later Monday. Dynasty —<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=20336&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Israel&#8217;s Netanyahu May Prefer a Waltz With Hamas to a Tango With Abbas</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/10/19/why-israels-netanyahu-may-prefer-a-waltz-with-hamas-to-a-tango-with-abbas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday&#8217;s milestone prisoner exchange does not, repeat does not portend a new peace process between Israel and Hamas. Neither side is even seeking that goal: If the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unable to agree peace terms with the moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, it&#8217;s hardly about to seek a &#8220;grand bargain&#8221; to end the conflict with the more intractable leadership of Hamas, which Netanyahu sees as a mortal enemy. Hamas, even though its leadership has come to define its immediate goal as establishing a Palestinian state on the 1967 lines, has no interest in replacing Abbas in a peace process whose terms it has long rejected. Their existential conflict notwithstanding, however, Hamas and Israel may see mutual benefit in a liaison of convenience of the sort seen in the prisoner exchange, in which Abbas was an ineffectual spectator. Netanyahu came to power in 2009 arguing that there was no prospect for completing the peace process that had been stalled since January of 2001. A grand bargain with the Palestinians simply couldn&#8217;t be done, he insisted: Abbas was unwilling or unable to accept Israel&#8217;s terms, and he was too weak, politically, to sell any compromise deal to his own people. Abbas&#8217; term of office had expired but he dared not risk new elections; his parliament was actually dominated by Hamas which had won the last vote; and he had no authority in Gaza since his forces were evicted by Hamas in 2007. Rather than seek a political settlement with Abbas, Netanyahu argued, Israel&#8217;s focus should be on &#8220;economic peace&#8221; &#8212; easing up on Israel&#8217;s stranglehold to allow the West Bank economy to grow and provide a basis for peace at some point in the future. (Gaza would remain under an economic stranglehold until its population was willing to topple Hamas.) While Netanyahu&#8217;s logic may have tracked for a time with the efforts of the U.S.-picked Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to build Palestinian institutions &#8212; and with Abbas&#8217; hopes of hobbling Hamas &#8212; both Abbas and Fayyad insisted that  statehood and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=11001&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Greatest Ongoing Humanitarian Disaster Reaches a Crisis Point</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/07/13/worlds-greatest-ongoing-humanitarian-disaster-reaches-a-crisis-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Everett Rosenfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With more than 60,000 starving and thirsty Somalis camped outside of the world&#8217;s largest refugee camp, what some aid agencies deem the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis is facing its &#8220;critical days,&#8221; according to a UNICEF spokesperson. Kenya&#8217;s Dadaab refugee camp, originally constructed to hold 90,000 people — making it the biggest camp in the world —  is now home to approximately 400,000 people according to Bettina Schulte, Dadaab spokeswoman of the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR. Well beyond capacity, the camp is drawing thousands upon thousands of drought-fleeing Somalis, many of whom have no choice but to live in even more tenuous circumstances in the environs around the camp. Yearly dry seasons often send inhabitants of the warn-torn country fleeing into neighboring Kenya, but the Horn of Africa&#8217;s worst drought in 60 years will provoke an even more desperate crisis should the current refugees in eastern Kenya and the 1,400 new ones arriving each day not receive sufficient aid. &#8220;In a week’s time we’ll know whether we’ve turned a corner,&#8221; said UNICEF spokesperson Patrick McCormick. &#8220;These are the critical days.&#8221; Although the problem of overcrowding has been brewing for years at Dadaab, aid groups tend to respond to the spikes every year rather than seek long-term solutions to the issue, McCormick says. But this year has already seen the largest influx refugees on record, and some estimates suggest the final tally will reach 500,000 by summer&#8217;s end. In addition to widespread poverty, the Horn of Africa is also suffering the effects of rising food prices and endless, destabilizing political conflict, particularly in Somalia, where the government controls little outside of the capital Mogadishu. All of these factors have created an environment in which a bad drought can tip the scales, leading to the loss of thousands of lives and mass dislocations. &#8221;There&#8217;s no quick fix, but it will get better when the rains start,&#8221; McCormick said. &#8220;What we really need to start doing is thinking about how we’re going to mitigate the problem further in future years.&#8221; Dadaab, which is actually three different camps knitted together,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=7117&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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