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| The genocide claimed the lives of almost one million people in Rwanda, over 300,000 in Burundi and plunged the Congo into a war which cost over three million people their lives. The fighting may be consigned to the history books in Rwanda but Burundi and the Congo still live with daily uncertainty as ethnic tensions threaten to bubble over into conflict. Since January 2004, over 150 women have been raped each month. 10 per cent are infected with HIV as a result, 7 per cent are pregnant and over 80 per cent contract a sexually transmitted infection. | |
| Disasters/War | Scottish Catholic Observer - 7th May 2004 |
| All of Liberia's 3.1 million inhabitants have been affected by war. One million people live in Monrovia with no water or electricity. Two-thirds of the country are still under rebel or militia control. | |
| Disasters/War | Tear Times - Summer 2004 |
| Only 47 per cent of a poll published by the New York Times and CBS News thought the US had done the right thing to invade, down from 58 per cent last month and 63 per cent in December. Among Iraqis there is barely any nostalgia for Saddam's rule and significant enthusiasm (61 per cent) for his eventual execution, after a trial. The Iraqis reserved their disdain for outsiders. Only a third thought well of the United Nations, 27 per cent looked favourably on the coalition provisional authority, 26 per cent for France and 23 per cent backing for the US. 19 per cent of Iraqis asked looked at the British government favourably, 56 per cent had an unfavourable opinion and 19 per cent were indifferent. | |
| Disasters/War | The Guardian - 30th April 2004 |
| The cyclone that ravaged northern Madagascar last month, leaving over 300,000 homeless, has devastated the diocese of Antsiranana reports Bishop Roger Chung. The devastation destroyed schools and churches, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Cyclone Gafilo struck the island on March 7, with winds of up to 180km (110 miles) per hour killing 237 and leaving 181 as yet inaccounted for. The UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said an estimated 700,000 people were affected by the storms, with 280,000 of them needing emergency aid. | |
| Disasters/War | The Church of England Newspaper - 8th April 2004 |
| In 100 days of the Rwandan genocide, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus, many by those who had been their friends and neighbours. On one day alone over 2,000 children, women and men were killed as they took refuge in a church in the village of Nyarubuye. | |
| Disasters/War | The Christian Herald - 17th April 2004 |
| 30-40 per cent of Iraqis are jobless and there are frequent attacks against US troops and Iraqis involved in law enforcement. | |
| Disasters/War | Christianity and Renewal - April 2004 |
| "The country of Rwanda holds the world record for the most people killed in 100 days: an estimated 1 million. Whole generations were wiped out. People lost their entire families. | |
| Disasters/War | Salvationist - 13th March 2004 |
| The 1,800+ children who lost their parents in the earthquake in Bam may face a future growing up in an orphanage, according to World Vision. | |
| Disasters/War | Enough - Issue 6 2004 |
| Rwanda has been crucified by a genocide that killed 1.2 million people out of its population of 8 million. Half of the women in Rwanda are widows now, and half of these were raped. | |
| Disasters/War | Lent Extra 2004 |
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