Angelina Jolie Watch

In keeping with it’s goal of debt eradication for developing countries, One.org has managed to convince the World Monetary Fund to forgive Liberia’s debt as the WMF had previously promised. On October 26th, One.org members flooded the WMF with emails.

Yesterday, Masood Ahmed, IMF’s Director of External Relations, posted a response on the WMF website announcing that the organization will finally forgive Liberia’s debt.

Here’s a bit of the announcement.

I am pleased to inform you that on November 12, 2007, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has secured adequate pledges from member countries for the cost of the IMF’s debt relief to Liberia

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We have received a large volume of emails on this topic, so this letter is being posted because it is impossible to respond to each message individually.

Liberia is an African country located on the continent’s west coast. It was colonized by freed African American slaves in 1822, eventually become a country in 1847 with the help United States. Liberia means “liberty” or “Land of the Free. Now it is debt free.

Debt forgiveness will allow Liberia to focus on building their country’s infrastructure.

Congratulations to all you One.org members. Keep up the good work. Brad and Angie would be proud. Check out one of Brad’s One.org commercials.

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Angelina has returned to Africa, for the third time, on behalf of the UN. Angelina won’t be able to actually go to Darfur itself, though she’s there to monitor the area, due to the violent, unstable conditions. According to People, she arrived on Sunday at N’Djamena Chad and is scheduled to visit refugee camps about two miles from the border of Sudan.

She will be staying there for a few days to continue to raise awareness about the continuing crisis, and also see the current conditions – which have deteriorated since her last trip in 2004.

Neilson says the nomination (submitted by a sitting member of the council) was approved, but the board will still need to give its final approval in June. Said Neilson: “Few people are more committed than she is to these issues.”

This is the final installment of the video’s originally aired on MTV showing Angelina Jolie in Sauri, Kenya with Jeffrey Sachs. These videos show what changes Angelina’s work has helped to make as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Last week I posted the first installment of the videos I found of Angelina Jolie’s coverage of her visits with refugees in Suari. These clips are from her travels with Jeffrey Sachs Millenium Project, originally airing on MTV. This is the second clip.

This is the first time I’ve come across this video. It contains footage from her trips as UN High Commissioner for Refugees. And if you are interested in learning more of Angelina’s visits with refugees, I really recommend picking up her book, Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador
by Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen

Angelina has recently been quoted (repeatedly and everywhere it seems) as saying ill things about Madonna’s adoption of a little boy called David from Malawi. Angelina states, “The article included many falsehoods. I said many positive things that were omitted. I feel we must focus on the present and I encourage everyone to be supportive so that every child can adjust nicely to their new home.”

The quotes in question were published by France’s Gala magazine, “Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where (David) was born. It’s a country where there is no real legal framework for adoption. Personally I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal.”

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Just a note, I haven’t previously reported on these quotes because I couldn’t substantiate any of them and did not feel that they were credible.

I came across this interview of Angelina and Brad in Namibia from last summer. It seems that the interview is from shortly after the birth of Shiloh Nouvel. I have to say, all woman should look that good shortly after giving birth. Oh, and when watching this? Watch Brad… is it my imagination or does he look… bored?