Global Report -27-Feb-2009

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Mexico sends troops to fight drug cartels in Ciudad Juarez

Mexico is sending up to 5,000 new troops and federal police to the country's most violent city, where law and order is on the brink of collapse in a brutal war between drug gangs aided by corrupt police. Mexico's most-wanted fugitive, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, who leads a cartel from the Pacific state of Sinaloa, wants control of Ciudad Juarez, currently in the hands of local drug lord Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, . Law and order in Ciudad Juarez is close to collapse as Guzman's hitmen seek to destroy the Juarez cartel's entire operation. The army said on Thursday the new deployment could take the number of soldiers and federal police to over 7,000 in Ciudad Juarez.

Afghan detainees at Bagram air base

The afghan government has demanded that the Afghan prisoners held in the Bagram air base be handed over to them for trial in Afghan courts. This came soon after the US announced that it wont allow Bagram air base inmates to appeal in US courts of law. The demand has come very late of the present government. The government has been functioning for the last 4 years and never made such demands before although everything went on within its good knowledge. This move has raised new questions on the independent functioning of the government and whether if allowed these inmates could have fair trial in the corrupt judicial system of Afghanistan.

Fighting HIV infection in Kenya

The development comes at a time when the local researchers at the University of Nairobi collaborating with international scientists have testified about their efforts to find a gene that protects the Kenyan prostitutes from HIV infections despite lethal exposure to the virus. The government is also several anti retro viral medicines that are found to have severe side effects especially on women. However, scientists say that the procedure is difficult to repeat on other patients. They have since modified the delivering method through gene therapy used to correct defective genes responsible for the disease.
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Housing in Jordan
At this time around last year a real initiative was launched under the name Decent Housing for Decent Living. This initiative was meant to help citizens with low and limited income by providing 1,20,000 housing units during a period of five years. Overseas Private Investment Corporation developed a financing agreement to provide 3 major Jordanian banks with an amount up to $250 million to facilitate the funding of 25 year mortgages at low and affordable interest rates for those who will benefit form the housing initiatives. Beneficiaries will not have to pay any down payments and the monthly payments will not exceed one third of the beneficiaries monthly salary. Numbers of citizens estimated to be benefitted from it is 11,000 Jordanians.
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• Vicente Carrillo Fuentes
• Felipe Calderon
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• Mexican army
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• Sinaloa cartel
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• Bagram air base
• Afghan government
• US courts
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