George-Andrijeski,+Atticus

=3= Zimbabwe officials are removing soldiers from the Marange diamond field. Troops had supposedly killed over 200 people in the diamond field. Zimbabwe has until June 2010 to vacate. Zimbabwe has to follow what is called the Kimberley Process which regulates the trade of Blood Diamonds. The profits from these diamonds is going to President Mugabe. The Kimberley panel tried to kick Zimbabwe out of the field but had to settle on an independent inspector monitoring the diamonds leaving the field.

Both these articles are pretty similar but the Bloomberg article was much shorter. The Bloomberg article also called it withdrawing of troops while the BBC article said they were just leaving. The BBC article also referred to the diamonds as blood diamonds and the Bloomberg article called the conflict diamonds. The BBC article also included quotes. [|BBC News] [|Bloomberg]

I think that it is a great idea to regulate the flow of Blood Diamonds. I do wish that they could have removed Zimbabwe completely but this is a good thing that there won't be as many Blood Diamonds out there. I think the Bloomberg artice could have gone a little more in depth on it like the BBC article and use some more quotes. = = = = = = =2= = =

This article was about a three year old boy who was shot dead by the police in South Africa. Fikile Mbalula said that he will stand by his shoot-to-kill method. Fikile Mbalula stated that the death was unavoidable and that innocent civilians were going to get caught in crossfire. The minister said shoot the bastards, referring to the criminals in South Africa. South Africa has nearly 50 killings a day, one of the leaders in the world. The police officer said that he thought the boy was holding a firearm, but with further investigation there was no firearm, or item that could have been confused with a firearm.

The articles are very different for one, their titles aren't similar. The BBC Article is longer but the Telegraph article seems to have more information. The telegraph article also uses more quotes and says that the officer saw gunfire. The BBC article used a picture of the minister though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8357482.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/6555317/South-Africa-minister-tells-police-to-shoot-the-bastards.html

I think that it is wrong to shoot-to-kill, and I think that the police officer should have been more careful so as not to shoot an innocent child. The police officer should be tried and minister should change what he said. = = = = =1=

This article was about the UN praising the disarming, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of over 15,000 Sudanese former combatants in the civil war between the south and the north. They are hoping to have 180,000 former combatants to return to regular civilian life. The DDR was launched during February as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 that ended the war. Norway has also donated $5 million to help the DDR. The DDR offers job opportunities in agriculture, micro-businesses, vocational training, and formal education.

These articles are almost identical, they have almost the same title, the same quotes, and even very similar wording.

http://www.defenceweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5081&Itemid=428l http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32837&Cr=&Cr1=

I think that it is good that people are finally doing something about the ex combatants in Sudan, especially the child soldiers. Child soldiers seem to get brainwashed and end up wanting to go back and keep on fighting, but hopefully the DDR will fix that.