Health efforts, peace negotiations, and minority and political issues are featured in this program. UN efforts in Tanzania to eradicate schistosomiasis––a tropical disease affecting 200 million people—are detailed. Families displaced by the 16-year Mozambique civil war are beginning to reunite, because of recent UN peace accords. Positive political changes in South Africa hold no promise of a better life for the men of neighboring Lesotho, who are the main labor source for South African gold mines. (29 minutes)

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Part of the Series : Our Developing World: Regional Political Geography

		Central America: Costa Rica The topics of economic development, education, and self-help are featured in this program. We see how the country uses coffee and banana exports to propel itself forward as a developing nation; how and why it chose educating its people over building ...(more details)
		Africa: Sierra Leone, Ghana, Kenya The plight of minority populations, international trade agreements, and preservation of wildlife are featured in this program. In refugee camps in Sierra Leone, 850,000 Liberians are welcomed by its residents, who share with them their meager resourc...(more details)
		South America: Brazil Human rights, environmental issues, and Brazil's drug problem are featured in this program. The efforts of ethnologist Porfirio Carvailho to save the Waimiri-Atraori Indians of the Amazon from extinction are detailed. A second segment shows how Swede...(more details)
		Africa: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt Women's issues, health, and population growth are featured in this program. Tunisia, a diverse nation of open-minded people, is also predominantly Muslim. Women, however, share equal rights with men and hold jobs from police officers to airline pilot...(more details)
		South America: Paraguay Economic development issues, politics, and human rights are featured in this program. The first segment details the 35-year reign of terror under dictator General Alfredo Stroessner, and the country's efforts to forget its painful political past. The...(more details)

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