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MOST foreign investors in Nigeria have reckoned that the profits outweigh the risks and the hassle. But a spate of kidnappings, on top of an Islamist insurgency that refuses to die down, may make them think twice before venturing into the country’s northern reaches. On February 16th an Islamist group calling itself Ansaru nabbed seven foreign construction workers from their compound in the state
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Posted by
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The lady’s not for joining others
“WE ARE not here to occupy a space that is already occupied,” says Dr Mamphela Ramphele, a day after launching Agang (meaning “to build” in the language of the Sotho), a political party that will contest South Africa’s next elections. Dr Ramphele is admired as a heroine of the fight against apartheid and is the former lover of Steve Biko, leader of
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Posted by
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BEIT SAFAFA, Arabic for “summertime home”, was the only one of some 40 Arab villages in the district of West Jerusalem to survive the war of 1948 that created Israel; the others were more or less emptied of their inhabitants, who mostly fled the killing and found their return barred by the victorious Israelis. As a result, the people of Beit Safafa have generally been loyal to the
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Posted by
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Which way to the mausoleum?
DURING his two decades running Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi almost single-handedly engineered its rise from lost cause to model pupil. Even his enemies admit he was both popular and competent. Often working around the clock, he could make complex policy choices and then explain them to ordinary people. He planned meticulously for everything—from road building t
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Posted by
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IN A wealthy neighbourhood in Tehran, Iran’s capital, a 12-year-old boy in a tatty red shell-suit patrols neat cul-de-sacs in search of bins. Like thousands of illegal Afghan refugees in Iran, he rummages daily from dusk till dawn for plastic to sell. “If Iran didn’t exist, neither would I,” says Zalmai, dropping a big sack. “I don’t want to go back.” He left his parents in Herat, in west Afghani
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Posted by
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UNLESS you take to the air or the high seas, the only reasonably safe passage from north Africa to the rest of the continent is a weekly ferry on a lake on the eastern edge of the Sahara. The few roads that cross the vast desert are either broken or infested with kidnappers. So every Monday morning a horde of turbaned migrants lines up at a concrete pier in the southern Egyptian city of Aswan on
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Posted by
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THANKS to inspired team play, the Nigerian national football squad on February 10th won for the first time since 1994 the biennial African Cup of Nations held in South Africa (see picture above). Opposition politicians at home, along with millions of countrymen, celebrated wildly. But can they follow the footballers’ example and work as a team?Days earlier, opposition leaders annou
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Posted by
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ONLY a month ago, a rebel force that had swept through most of the Central African Republic in a matter of weeks was on the verge of capturing Bangui, the capital, and seemed poised to overthrow President François Bozizé. Now, thanks to the last-minute intervention of troops from several neighbouring countries and from South Africa, Mr Bozizé has managed to hang on for the time being by agreeing
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