March 3, 2003
Hundreds Die in China Quake
In China’s sparsely populated Xinjiang region, earthquakes rarely cause injury or damage; human habitation is spread too thinly across the remote, northwestern landscape. The exception is a cluster of villages in the region’s Bachu County, where last week a powerful quake toppled nearly 8,000 houses, killing at least 268 people and injuring 2,051. Read more...
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    		• World Vision Sudan to Receive $6.7 Million to Combat Malaria
    In Sudan, a country which to date has been spared the worst of Africa’s AIDS epidemic, another killer is on the rampage: malaria. So when World Vision workers in that nation learned recently that the relief agency had been awarded $6.7 million to fight the disease, they were jubiliant. “We will be helping the people of southern Sudan fight their biggest killer,” said Steffen Horstmeier, the World Vision program officer who helped write the grant proposal. Read more...
    		Southern Africa Faces ‘Calamitous Conjunction’ of AIDS, Hunger
    “I am overwhelmed by the very real prospect of nations of orphans.” With that sentence, James T. Morris, special envoy to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, captured the grim mood of his fellow delegation members following their recent fact-finding trip to southern Africa to study the impact of HIV/AIDS on food security. Read more...
    		Jordan Braces for Influx of War Refugees
    U.N. workers in Jordan are setting up border camps to accommodate thousands of refugees expected to flee Iraq in the event of a U.S.-led invasion, the Reuters news service reports. The camps could handle a maximum of 100,000 refugees -- nothing like the two million refugees Jordan received during the 1991 Gulf War. "I have to stress that Jordan will not accept large numbers of refugees as it has in the past,” said Jordan's Prime Minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb. “Jordan has suffered from this a lot." Read more...
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