Fear Creeps Over Zimbabwe

"The warning signs are proliferating. Journalists have been harassed and jailed. Threats of violence are swirling in the countryside. The president’s supposed partner in the government has been virulently attacked in the state-controlled media as a quisling for the West. And the president himself has likened his party to a fast-moving train 
that will crush anything in its way."
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     President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, is now planning his next election. 22 months ago, the regional leaders have been pressuring Mugabe and the Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, to share the power. Mugabe refuses to share power with his rival and he has made it very clear. 

First Methadone Maitenance Program Opens in Tanzania

"With the help of the American government, the first methadone maintenance program in sub-Saharan Africa opened this month in a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania."
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     Along with other reasons for the high rate of HIV and AIDS in Africa, here are a lot of people using serious drugs. "Tanzania now has an estimated 25,000 drug injectors, 40 percent of them infected with H.I.V., according to the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, a San Francisco-based group that is advising the Tanzanian government on the program." There is now a program opening in Tanzania that will hopefully help with this problem.