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The United Nations Organization brings food, medicines, provisions and hope to situations where before there was little or no hope. Its employees risk their lives saving the elderly, defenceless women and children, the homeless, the dislocated, the starving, the frightened. Yet this does not protect them, for there are those who blackmail, kidnap...
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Niger is a very wealthy state when it comes to its natural resources, but the majority of the nation’s population lives below the poverty line. It may seem at first sight that it is the government of Niger that is guilty of such a state of affairs. However, this country strongly depends on the West, particularly France, which is the former owner of...
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Drugs in Africa are gradually becoming a new type of currency. Every year, 50 to 60 tons of cocaine travel through West Africa, mainly from South America. Guinea-Bissau is the main drug trafficking center in that region of the black continent. East Africa specializes in Afghan heroin. Every year, 30 to 35 tons of the white powder travel through...
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A conflict developed between the world famous influential French newspaper Le Monde and the Moroccan Royal Family. Moroccan law-enforcement agencies confiscated circulations of two newspaper issues for October 22 and 23. The grounds for the confiscation were offensive cartoons of the Royal Family printed on the front page. The October 22 issue had...
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At first sight, FIFA's decision to hold the 2010 World Cup in the South African Republic seems logical. South Africa is the most developed country on the African continent and one of the thirty most successful countries in the world. But despite the obvious success, the issue of suppression of blacks by white people is still acute. A third of the...
