The Great Lakes region has been sharply divided over how to deal with the threat.
Security Council, but there's no coherence in the broader neighborhood of the Great Lakes region.
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Forecasters said snowfall was possible in varying amounts from the Great Lakes region through the Northeast.
All of the sites have suffered from political instability in the Great Lakes region over the past two decades.
Naming a special envoy for the Great Lakes region of Africa, to deal multilaterally with these overlapping issues, would be a step forward.
Peace and Sport participated in the round-table discussion on youth violence prevention in the Great Lakes Region, organized by UNESCO in June 2011.
Swahili is spoken in many African nations, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique and parts of the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region.
The countries belonging to the Great Lakes region are the following: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Mr Museveni's critics accuse him at best of overreaching himself, at worst of being a military adventurer, bent on establishing an empire of ethnic Tutsis in the Great Lakes region.
Even within the Great Lakes region, Wisconsin, which ranks second in per capita employment in manufacturing, has held onto most of its industrial employment due to its large, highly diversified base of smaller-scale specialized manufacturers.
This includes relevant pacts and protocols, such as the December 2006 Protocol on Management of Information and Communication in the Great Lakes region and its proposal to establish an independent Regional Council of Information and Communication (RICC).
This is bad news for the stability of the Great Lakes region and for those foreign donors, notably Britain, which poured money into Rwanda on the understanding that it did not repeat its previous brutal incursions into Congo.
From 1991 to 2000, Mr. Menkerios represented the Eritrean Government in various capacities, including as Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Organisation of African Unity, Special Envoy to Somalia and also the Great Lakes region, and as Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
"I don't like to get into an us-versus-them situation, but the drought in these other locations is going to get worse and worse and what we have to offer is going to get more and more attractive, " said David Ullrich, executive director of an organization representing the Great Lakes region's mayors.
As manufacturing has recovered, employment has rebounded quicker in the Southeast than in the rival Great Lakes region.
Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
Meanwhile, the Ohio Valley, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast states should expect unseasonably warm air to linger until late in the week, while it should remain relatively cool in the Northeast and Great Lakes region.
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From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.
The biggest number of vulnerable seats lie in the region bordering the Great Lakes, in states such as Indiana, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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The region around the Great Lakes is home to some 60m Americans and Canadians.
But Austin, the Brookings analyst, said economic revival also depends on doing more to make the region's 10, 000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline and many rivers and inland lakes a draw for tourists and for service companies that want a beautiful setting.
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