Horn of Africa

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Horn of Africa
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Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia Sudan
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Darfur

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqQwCCm-H-sU

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Genocide

• genocide  n.   The systematic and planned
  extermination of an entire national, racial,
  political, or ethnic group.

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Kidnapped aid workers freed in Darfur

• By Andrew Heavens
• Three foreign aid workers kidnapped in Sudan's
  Darfur region were freed on Saturday by captors
  who an official said were protesting over an
  international arrest warrant against the
  country's president.
• The aid workers from the medical charity Medecins
  Sans Frontieres (MSF) were seized from their base
  on Wednesday after the International Criminal
  Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar
  Hassan al-Bashir on charges of orchestrating war
  crimes in Darfur.
• MSF Belgium's general director Christopher Stokes
  told a news conference in Brussels MSF had paid
  no ransom. He said the group was reconsidering
  its operations at the scene of one of the world's
  worst humanitarian crises.
• "We are as a movement...not able today to
  determine the level at which we are able to
  maintain our assistance in Darfur. This includes
  all projects in Darfur," he added.
• Today in Africa Middle East
• The three were welcomed back in Khartoum by MSF
  staff late on Saturday. A Sudanese guard held
  along with them stayed behind in the regional
  centre of El Fasher.
• North Darfur governor Osman Yusuf Kibir, who
  accompanied the freed aid workers to Khartoum,
  said kidnappers calling themselves the Eagles of
  Bashir had freed them at an agreed site in
  north Darfur.
• He told reporters negotiations had begun on
  Thursday on a telephone number the pro-government
  kidnappers had left behind.
• "They said they kidnapped the foreigners for the
  sake of the nation and they released them for the
  sake of the nation. It was an expression of their
  rejection of the unjust measure against the
  nation's sovereignty and the symbol of the
  nation," said Kibir, referring to the arrest
  warrant against Bashir.
• "We told them if you want to serve the interest
  of the nation you should release them. Thank god
  they did, without any ransom. I repeat there was
  no ransom, and they made no other demands,"
  he said.
• One of the male hostages appeared on state
  television, which did not name him.
• "I just will like to say to everybody we are
  safe, we are here, we are in good health and we
  will maybe be more talkative a bit later on,"
  he said.
• EXPULSIONS
• The seizure of the three foreign staff along with
  a Sudanese national sent shockwaves through the
  region's humanitarian community.
• MSF identified the kidnapped workers as Canadian
  nurse Laura Archer, Italian doctor Mauro
  D'Ascanio, French coordinator Raphael Meunier and
  Sudanese guard Sharif Mohamadin. A second
  Sudanese staff member who was originally
  kidnapped with the group in the north Darfur town
  of Saraf Omra was released soon after
  the abduction.
• Sudan expelled 13 international aid groups from
  the north of the country after the ICC warrant
  was issued, accusing them of passing information
  to the court, an accusation the groups deny.
  MSF's Dutch and French arms were ordered to leave
  but its Belgian operation was not expelled.
• Aid groups have said they have faced growing
  antagonism in Darfur since the arrest warrant
  was issued.

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Somalia
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Somali Pirates Living the High Life

• "NO INFORMATION TODAY. NO COMMENT," A SOMALI
  PIRATE SHOUTS OVER THE SOUND OF BREAKING WAVES,
  BEFORE ABRUPTLY ENDING THE SATELLITE TELEPHONE
  CALL.

• Lure of money
• Fashionable
• Calling the shots

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Round Four Obstacles

• Travel Brochure 20 items, itinerary, cost
• Gameboard 20 facts, geography, history, current
  events
• PowerPoint/Video 20 facts, 3-5 minutes, visuals,
  limited text
• Tallest Points on each of seven continents,
  research, 10 bulleted facts for each, latitude
  and longitude
• Interview African personality, 20 facts, role
  play

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Geography The World and Its People

• Read the section The Horn of Africa pages
  596-600
• On page 600 answer questions 1-6 and 8
• Complete Applying Mapping Skills 1 and 2 on page
  599