21.  A small nation in Africa took a big step toward peace Wednesday and a big African nation took a small one.

22.  A Texas-educated Baptist missionary in Rwanda escaped the slaughter in that African nation.

23.  African nations are making great strides.

24.  African nations had lobbied for a formal apology and stronger guarantees that reparations would be made.

25.  African nations reported fewer cases, but the numbers are considered vastly under-reported and less reliable because of poor health services there.

26.  African nations also have dined on the scraps of the multmillion-dollar sponsorship deals between the IOC and major corporations.

27.  African nations have gotten the most aid, but most performed dismally.

28.  African nations have undergone name changes by the dozens, most of them to cast off names imposed by colonial powers.

29.  African nations protested what they felt were the victimizations of Cameroon and Morocco, both subjected to elimination by controversial refereeing decisions.

30.  African nations would commit to fair elections, respect for human rights, better education and health care, and financial accountability.