The sun shines for Bill Clinton.
Or at least it did this afternoon, when the skies cleared in time for the former U.S. president to address an audience of almost 12,000 at BMO Field at the Canadian National Exhibition.
Clinton, who had just flown to Toronto from the Boston funeral of Edward Kennedy, opened his [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 30, 2009
Bill Clinton talks climate change and health care at CNE
August 15, 2009
Clinton Urges Iran to Release Detained Americans
15 August 2009
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Iran to release all Americans detained in the country, including three hikers arrested last month.
Clinton Saturday called on Iranian authorities to grant consular access to the three hikers, who were detained July 31.
Iranian television has described the three as spies who illegally entered the country.
Clinton said [...]
August 14, 2009
Clinton in the Congo, and the real message gets lost…
Clinton in the Congo, and the real message gets lost.
by Nancy Johnston
THE BALTIMORE SUN
August 13, 2009
The UN reports that there have been 200,000 acts of sexual violence in the Congo since 1998, 65 percent against children. Since January, more than half of the thousands of rapes reported were perpetrated by the Congolese army, according [...]
August 9, 2009
Hillary’s relationship with Africa goes back decades…
Women are drivers of positive change…
August 09, 2009
Victoria Mxenge co-operative in Cape Town in 1997, I met homeless women working to transform an empty patch of land into a new community. They pooled their savings and microloans, bought shovels, poured concrete and built new homes for themselves and their children. In 1997 there were just [...]
August 6, 2009
Secretary Clinton honors victims of Africa embassy blasts
U.S. Secretary of State recalls ‘98 strikes in Kenya and Tanzania, and plans to pledge assistance to Somalia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton observes a moment of silence after laying a wreath of flowers on the site of the bombings against the U.S. embassy in Nairobi that killed 213 people in 1998.
NAIROBI, Kenya – U.S. [...]
