The Sudan. As part of the peace agreement to end the civil war, an election was held in January to determine whether the southern part of the country would remain as part of the existing nation or form a new one. The results, officially announced this week, are overwhelmingly in favor of independence. They have less than six months to divide resources, firm up the boundary, and take care of the myriad of details that come with the partition of a single nation into two.
How quickly we have forgotten the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia. The president may have fled the country, but he took millions in assets. The search goes on for him and members of his family. Protests still continue, and the future is very unsettled for Tunisians.
As if the earthquake and the recovery efforts were not enough for the struggling nation of Haiti, former dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier arrived last month. Now former President Jean Betrand Aristide also plans to return.
This is Myanmar, which most of us know as Burma, if we remember it at all. The military dictatorship there has a long history of human rights violations.
Gay rights activist David Kato was murdered in Uganda late last month. The official police report says he was killed in a robbery. Given the government's, and most churches', animosity, this is unlikely. And we may never know the whole truth. Lesbian, gay, and transgender Ugandans continue to live in fear.
When the child abuse scandals rocked the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, many church officials claimed it was an aberration peculiar to the U.S. churches. Last year stories of abuse began breaking across Europe. Allegations touched even the current Pope. In Belgium, there have been new allegations regarding children in institutions run by nuns.
And this final map shows poverty levels around the United States.
So do we really need to spend so much air time on how Christina Aguilara messed up the words of the National Anthem?
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