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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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It is a testament to the strength of Helen Epstein?s new book that the one scientific goof she makes actually matters relatively little.
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The tiny island nation of S?o Tom? may have attracted oil-related corruption without producing any oil.
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A judicial review body ruled that a former Libyan intelligence official might have been wrongfully convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
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By next year, more than half the world?s population, 3.3 billion people, will for the first time live in towns and cities, a report said.
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They came, they met, they agreed that more must be done, but a gathering in Paris aimed at solving the crisis in Sudan?s Darfur region ended with little visible progress.
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The West African nation of Cape Verde, where almost everyone has a relative abroad, is a microcosm of the forces of migration that are remaking societies across the globe.
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Zimbabwe?s population is falling as its economy fails, and South Africans face new competition for jobs and housing.
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Evidence is mounting that the kingdom of Kush, in its ascendancy from 2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C., exerted control or at least influence over a 750-mile stretch of the Nile Valley.
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At the epicenter of a war pitting nomads against one of the biggest armies in Africa, villagers said they had been brutalized by government troops.
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The first aerial survey of southern Sudan in 25 years has revealed vast migrating herds that have managed to survive 25 years of civil war.
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