Africa

Rep. Erik Paulsen brought three bags of Doritos to Africa last month, the Eden Prairie News reports.  

The situation in Darfur is grim.

Former U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz laments that just 7,000 African Union troops are confronting the monumental task of averting genocide in a region of Sudan “about the size of Iraq… or Texas.” Meeting with the Minnesota Interfaith Darfur Coalition last week, the current UN Human Rights ambassador said, “We despair [...]

US politicians on both sides of the aisle have spoken out about the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan that has killed some 400,000 people and displaced two million more — including a unanimous House vote that defined the violence as “genocide.” But in the two years since Congress spoke in that [...]