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This March, two years after spearheading the intervention by NATO forces which helped topple the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Nicolas Sarkozy returned to Libya. The former French president, who was abruptly ejected from the Elysée Palace last spring by the Socialist Party’s François Hollande, was greeted in Tripoli by crowds chanting "Vive la France".Later, addressing members of the Tripoli local c
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Around the world today, approximately 400 million women were married as children. This practice is particularly prevalent in certain parts of Africa. In Chad and Niger, for example, which have the highest child marriage rates in the world, 70% of women were married off before their 18th birthday. According to some estimates, between 10 and 14 million child brides are married every year – in spite
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Few people enjoy the distinction of having been both imprisoned by the US government for 'terrorist activities' and financed by it to fight a revolutionary insurgency. Sufian bin Qumu is one of them.A former member of proscribed Libyan Islamic Fighting Group and then of the Taliban in Afghanistan, bin Qumu is believed to have been captured in 2001 shortly after 9/11. He was detained in Guantanamo
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Posted by
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Nathan Road is Hong Kong’s busiest shopping street. It is lined with skyscrapers and decorated with neon signs of every size, colour and shape. Most of the logos are familiar: McDonald’s, KFC, Samsung, Rolex, Carlsberg, 7-Eleven, Standard Chartered. This is Asia’s Times Square, a luminous roll call of the world’s biggest companies and products, a shrine to consumer culture in the modern world.Wor
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I met Fatuma in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, late last year. A few days before, she had been raped by an armed militia man while she slept in one of the city’s camps for displaced people. She had nowhere to turn for redress. Months earlier, 13-year old Abdi told me how he had been kidnapped from school by armed members of the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab and forced to serve in Mogadishu’s
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Posted by
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Was it coincidence or was it deliberate? Following the January 2013 attack at the natural gas complex in the Saharan town of In Amenas, the Algerian government once again spurned the adoption of modern mobile phone standards. The government blamed administrative procedures for its decision. Others viewed the rejection as the regime’s latest step to curb dissent.The In Amenas hostage siege led to
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Music history is full of watershed moments; now available for the first time since its initial boom is the raw funk masterpiece Funky Pack which sank without trace in 1976. The band is C.S. Crew, made up of a collection of session musicians who found themselves together in Lagos at the height of Fela Kuti’s afrobeat movement, with enough time to record an album.Avoiding psychedelic guitars (and b
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Posted by
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Today, on 30 April, the mandate of MINURSO – the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara – is to be renewed yet again.The UN body was initially set up in 1991 to facilitate the referendum for self-determination promised to the Sahrawi people living in disputed Western Sahara region occupied by Morocco. The planned referendum of 1992 failed to materialise, however, amidst disputes over whi
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