Only Chinese entrepreneurs and Robert Mugabe, president, are profiting from the complete economic and moral collapse of once proud and prosperous Zimbabwe.

Seeking an effective end to the murderous mayhem in Darfur is representative of the few truly moral foreign policy initiatives of the Bush administration.

Africa is greatly afflicted by many apocalyptical scourges - HIV/AIDs, tropical diseases like malaria, global warming and frequent bouts of drought, and periodic waves of pestilence, especially locust infestations. It suffers greatly from war: approximately 12 million civilians
have lost their lives in the intrastate battles of the last sixteen years. For all of these reasons,and others, Africa each year lags farther behind Asia and Latin America in economic growth.
attainments; four decades ago Africa was well ahead of Asia.

There is a striking antidote to worsening security in Afghanistan, where suicide bombing and convoy ambushes now occur every day. Increasingly, these Taliban- and Al Qaeda–sponsored attacks are linked to opium and heroin trafficking. Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of Europe's heroin and is the largest grower of poppies in the world.

Although Afghanistan and Iraq are at the epicenter of America's war on terror, terrorist groups are active in other parts of the world as well. One of the most dangerous is the greater Horn of Africa region--Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Sudan, along with Yem, their volatile neighbor.

"NEVER AGAIN!" promised Washington, London, Brussels, and the United Nations after the massacres in Bosnia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. But the killing fields of Darfur are more than two years old, and still the world permits innocent farmers, children, and displaced people to be killed and women repeatedly raped. What is to be done?

TYRANNY OFTEN ends in a whimper, not a conflagration. So it seems in today's Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe's immensely corrupt regime has destroyed a once prosperous African country, leaving behind only the stench of decay.

Dictatorial despotism spirals Zimbabwe ever downward. Zimbabweans struggle to survive, some even starving.

AS ANGOLANS die piteously of Marburg virus and Africans everywhere suffer from HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and a host of other killers, too little attention is paid to the desperate nature of Africa's routine health services.