Katie Lewis

DDT stalemate stymies malaria control initiative

APAC, Uganda - Lucky Mirembe recalls that it was getting dark as the cluster of men arrived at her home. They made her wait outside as a man — wearing thick, black rubber gloves up to his elbows and a blue helmet with a face screen— meticulously began to spray the inside walls of her mud hut.
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The Night Commuters of Uganda

GULU, Uganda - Sophie was eight when the rebel army took her away. It was almost Easter, she remembers.
Four men came into her family's hut one night. They didn't knock.
Her parents stood by, silently.
Sophie says one of the men, pointed a small machete at her and said, 'If you don't cut your brother, we will kill you all.'
"So I did," she said. "I cut him."
Sophie cut her brother's neck. The first time, the rebels didn't think the cut was deep enough.
They made her do it again.
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Conflicted over Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia - Ana Gomez was 14 when she became a guerrilla fighter. Because she was so small, the rebels first gave her a pistol. Two years later she graduated to an AK-47 assault rifle. She learned to shoot straight, survive in Colombia's dense jungle and fought with such prowess that she became commander of a unit.
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'It's almost like he waited'; Carleton Place boy dies of cancer hours after Ottawa beats Buffalo

OTTAWA, Canada - In the end, it was a hockey game Elgin-Alexander Fraser was not going to miss.
The three-year-old spent his last hours at home, nestled between family and friends on a mattress on the living room floor in front of the television, watching the Ottawa Senators reach the Stanley Cup finals. His right lung had collapsed and he breathed loudly, wheezing.
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Accused killer's court appearance sparks strong emotions

BROCKVILLE, Canada - Andrew Stevenson, the man accused of gunning down his estranged wife in her driveway Dec. 23, said nothing as he was led from his holding cell and into the Brockville courthouse yesterday.
"Rot in hell, you bastard," screamed Michelle Bos, a co-worker of the deceased, Stefanie Stevenson, a 33-year-old maternity ward nurse who was the mother of two girls, Sarah, 6, and Erika, 9.
"You had to deal with your girls, how they took that news. You had to hear their words. You had to hear their cries," yelled Ms. Bos, dressed in green nursing scrubs under her sweater.
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Nepean team quits soccer event after girl told to take off hijab

OTTAWA, Canada - When Asmahan "Azzy" Mansour, 11, gets dressed for soccer games, she wears red. Red socks, red shorts and a red shirt.
And just like she does every morning, Azzy also puts on her hijab, a traditional head covering worn by many Muslim women.
She wears a red hijab, to match her red uniform.
Yesterday, the Nepean Hotspurs Selects, an under-12 girls soccer team made up of 18 sixth-graders, walked off the field at a tournament in Laval, Que., after a referee ordered Azzy to take off her hijab because he felt it was a physical threat to the other players.
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