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Berliner Morgenpost. Als sie im Berufsausbildungszentrum der SOS-Kinderdörfer in den Osramhöfen (Wedding) hinter das Rednerpult trat, sprach sie nur wenige Sätze. Dann konnte sie die Tränen schon kaum noch zurückhalten. «Es ist außerordentlich wichtig, den traumatisierten Kindern dieser Welt eine Dorfgemeinschaft, Brüder und Schwestern zu geben», sagte Prinzessin Salimah Aga Khan, Ex-Frau des Aga Khan, des Oberhaupts der schiitischen Glaubensgemeinschaft der Ismailiten.

BBC News, June 12 - ...During the Adriatic symposium the (Prince Sadruddin) Aga Khan called on other religious leaders to follow the Patriarch 's lead on environmental issues. 'I think (religion) can play a crucially important role to propagate and encourage the dialogue generally, not only on what the general values are at a high level but also the priests, the imams to use their sermons to be able to preach to their flock.

Interfax News Agency - Moscow, 30 April: Russian President Vladimir Putin and [spiritual] leader of the Shiite Muslim [Ismaili] community Prince Karim Aga Khan IV discussed peace settlement in Afghanistan.

Russian minister discusses Afghanistan with Muslim spiritual leader
BBC Monitoring Service - United Kingdom; May 1, 2002

Moscow, 1 May: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Ismaili leader Prince Karim Aga Khan IV discussed prospects of peaceful development of the situation in Afghanistan at a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday [30 April].

Newsweek International - Calling for Conservation

The East African (Nairobi): By Dagi Kimani. The Aga Khan University, which commissioned its Kampala campus last week, will soon start admitting Tanzanian and Kenyan nurses to its Advanced Nursing Studies programme. The first Ugandan students in an 18-month Enrolled Nurse-to-Registered Nurse conversion course at the university will complete their studies in July this year, while those on a 30-month Post-Registered Nurse, Bachelor of Science in Nursing programme are expected to graduate in 2003.

Globe and Mail: KAMPALA -- Amin Shivji never intended to stay. On a hot day in 1990, he stepped onto the 600-hectare Ugandan sugar-cane plantation he and his family had fled 20 years before, and surveyed the chaos. Bush had reclaimed the farmland; the house was a shambles, and what equipment remained littered about was rusted and ruined. As he had expected, it looked quite hopeless; his family's fortunes in Uganda were lost. There was nothing for him, and he prepared to return to the comfortable life he had built in Vancouver.

Lisbon, Portugal: The Minister of Culture, Dr. Pedro Roseta and the First Lady, Maria Jose Ritta were amongst the distinguished guests who last night joined Her Highness Begum Inaara Aga Khan at a concert and exhibition from Tajikistan at the Ismaili Centre, Lisbon. Expressions of the Pamir includes a performance by twenty-five professional artistes of music, song and dance reflecting traditions of mountain peoples of Central Asia presented for the first time ever in Portugal.

Vecherniy Bishkek - Ahe third stage of the action by the international humanitarian coalition (IHC) to give food aid to Northern Afghanistan is being postponed until the autumn.The chief engineer of the Badakhshonnakliyet (the main freight company) joint-stock company, Kudrat Davlyatenov, told a Vecherniy Bishkek correspondent this, quoting the organizers of the operation. He said that the drivers of the Osh [Kyrgyzstan] and Mountainous Badakhshon [Autonomous Region] (Tajikistan) transport enterprises that are involved in the delivery of humanitarian aid have been sent off on unpaid leave.

New Vision, Uganda: 'PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni yesterday held talks with His Highness, the Aga Khan, who paid a courtesy call on him at the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe.

Kampala - New Vision: EXAMPLES of excellent students, excellent teachers, and excellent schools can be found worldwide. The challenge for public education, however, is to create school systems where all children experience success; where all teachers have the capacity for excellence and where the evidence of school-wide effectiveness is not limited to a few exemplary schools.

Pakistan Television - By Talat Hussain For News Night : We are delighted and honoured to have as our guest tonight, His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, who is currently visiting Pakistan. Thank you for joining us...

The Dawn News from Karachi writes: 'Speaking on the occasion, Prince Karim Aga Khan said the tourism was a different industry which easily shied away when it perceived threats to security, to health, or from inequitable business practices.'

Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt - Issue No. 597 - Opinion: Ahead of the UN Summit on Sustainable Development, to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, later this month, Sadruddin Aga Khan questions the very notion of sustainable development. The following is the text of a recent speech he delivered: It will be my thesis today that the dogma of 'sustainable development' is inherently misleading, and is now deluding our mindsets in much the same way as the flat earth theory once did -- but with implications which are infinitely more dangerous to our future survival.