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Resentment and Rations as Eritrea Nears a Crisis
Facing rising prospects of war with Ethiopia and increasing tensions with the West, Eritrea has hit its most difficult point since winning its hard-fought independence 14 years ago.
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Long used by farmers as a guard against grazing animals and erosion, a plant called jatropha is now being hailed as a potentially ideal source of biofuel.
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Though she may be nobody?s vision of a rabble-rouser, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, recently dismissed as South Africa?s deputy health minister, has found herself at the center of controversy.
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In large swaths of Congo, many people rely on an increasingly dangerous railway system long past its prime.
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Various European officials are trumpeting a substantial drop in the number of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
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Manufacturing has suffered in Africa as cheap Chinese goods flood the market, eliminating needed jobs.
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Thabo Mbeki?s hopes to remain head of the ruling A.N.C. even after his presidency ends are being jeopardized by growing dissent from within his party and from coalition partners.
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A world away from their homeland, Sudanese in America have turned to the Episcopal Church, with some in the priesthood.
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Southern African political leaders appear unlikely to press President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe to change any of the policies that have caused a crisis in his nation.
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Two fossils could rearrange major branches thought to be in a straight ancestral line to Homo sapiens.
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Chinese companies are investing heavily in impoverished African countries like Chad, raising Western concerns.
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