Wolf was in Africa January 6-14. He visited the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Sudan and Kenya. In addition to meeting with Kabila, he met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Burundian President Pierre Buyoya, several other high-ranking government and elected officials, representatives from nongovernmental organizations, relief workers, American missionaries and average citizens in Central Africa and southern Sudan. Death, famine, disease and pain are a constant, as millions struggle just to survive another day. A recent report by the United Nations says that 180 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished.
Some children go days without a meal.
AIDS is reaching epidemic proportions. Seventy percent of the world's AIDS cases are in Africa where more than 16,000 people a day are being infected with the virus. More than 2 million Africans died of AIDS in 2000. Babies are dying of starvation. Children are being captured and sold into slavery.