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Associated Press
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CARIBBEAN
Swollen river ruins crops and homes
In this Sept. 5 photo, a man stands on the wall of a submerged home to fish in the swollen Lake Azeue near Jimani, Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti.
in a year of heavy rains. But then it never stopped.
Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic has doubled in size
BOCA DE CACHON, Dominican Republic — No one thought much about it when the largest lake in the Caribbean began rising
over the past eight years, swallowing thousands of acres of farms and more than a dozen villages.
In neighboring Haiti, smaller Lake Azuei has also steadily swelled, destroying homes and farms as well as disrupting trade by occasionally blocking a key cross-border highway. The two lakes are only three miles (five kilometers) apart and are fed by some of the same streams.
It's been a slow-motion disaster and potentially catastrophic for two countries already burdened by major environmental challenges. The waters' rise has worsened exponentially in recent years, especially after heavy rains in 2007 and 2008 hit the island of Hispaniola, which both countries share. Tropical Storm Isaac dumped more water on the region last month, sparking more damage.
While the cause remains a mystery, theories as to why the lakes are rising range from sediment and trash clogging the water system to increased rainfall from climate change and heavy storms.
Dominican farmer Domingo Bautista recalls how the water gradually overtook his sugar cane,
banana and sweet potato crop. Within two months, the family had to abandon their one-bedroom home in the sunbaked village of Boca de Cachon.
"The water just crept up on us," said Bautista, who now works as a janitor at a roadside inn. "It didn't happen overnight."
The spread of Enriquillo has flooded 16 communities in two provinces, more than 46,500 acres of agriculture land and 1,000 properties, according to a July study authored by the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo and the NOAA CREST Center of the City College of New York. In all, some 10,000 families have lost cattle, farmland or their homes.
In Haiti, heavy rains made the situation worse last year and dozens of families were forced to evacuate. Many migrant laborers who cross into the Dominican Republic couldn't make the journey.
AFRICA
"It's a clear environmental disaster," said Antonio Perera, the Haiti country manager for the United Nations Environment Program. "It's happening slowly, slowly, slowly, and you won't see the immediate effects."
Strikes halt production costs billions of dollars
MARIKANA, South Africa — Detailing the heavy financial toll of unrest in South Africa's crucial mining sector, President Jacob Zuma said. Monday that strikes have cost close to 4.5 billion rand (nearly $563 million) in lost gold and platinum production this year while a major company announced it is halting construction of a platinum mine shaft, putting 1,200 people out of work.
The strikes that have stopped
work at seven gold and platinum mines also spread to the chrome sector, according to the South African Press Association. And police blocked politician Julius Malema, a diehard Zuma opponent, from addressing some 3.000 strikers gathered at a stadium at the Lonmin mine at Marikana, northwest of Johannesburg.
"Arrest him!" one officer ordered, giving Malema 20 minutes to leave or face arrest. This caused Malema
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Firebrand politician Julius Malema, left, argues with police officers, at Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa.
to take off with his entourage.
"I'm leaving. We're getting out of here. Why are you chasing me? Are you going to shoot me?" Malema
taunted, a reference to the police shooting of striking Lonmin miners, killing 34, on Aug.16.
Continued attacks sour NATO relationship
MIDDLE EAST
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier fired on a vehicle he believed was driven by NATO soldiers on a shared base in southern Afghanistan, slightly wounding a foreign civilian worker, officials said Monday. It was the latest in a string of insider attacks by local forces on their international allies.
The Sunday evening shooting in Helmand province came the same day an Afghan police officer shot and killed four American service members in Zabul, also in the south. That followed a shooting Saturday in which a man wearing the uniform of a government-backed militia group killed
The attacks are threatening to undermine a partnership that is key to the handover of security responsibility to the Afghan government and therefore to the entire plan to drawdown international troops. NATO said it was reviewing protocols for protecting its troops in the wake of the current attack spike.
two British soldiers in Helmand.
The soldier turned his weapon on a vehicle that was driving inside Camp Garmmser, a shared base in Helmand, said NATO forces spokesman Maj. Adam Wojack. Another Afghan soldier disarmed the attacker and took him into custody. The assailant told interrogators he had thought he was targeting troops, Wojack said.
He declined to give the nationality of the injured civilian, adding that the wounds were minor.
The insider assaults drew unusually strong comment Sunday from the U.S. military's top officer, Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, who called the problem of rogue Afghan soldiers and police attacking allied troops "a very serious threat" to the war effort. Dempsey said something has to change in order to address the escalating problem, suggesting that Afghans need to take the matter as seriously as the Americans do.
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Afghan police stand by burning tires during a protest, in Kabul, Afghanistan; hundreds of Afghans burned cars and threw rocks at a U.S. military base.
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REMEMBER:
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2. Scan the QR code or go to www.ecc.ku.edu for more information on employers and companies.
3. Bring multiple copies of your resume.