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SHOPS and taverns occupy a single row of tin shacks stocked with bottled drinks, the only consumer items available, while a road leading to a dozen thatched huts is still mud. At first sight little has changed in the farming village of Liriya since your correspondent’s last visit two years ago, just before South Sudan’s independence from the northern rump state. Yet on closer inspection, a few
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Posted by
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A Brotherly hug that rattles a lot of Sunnis
EVEN within his ruling circle, Muhammad Morsi, Egypt’s president, has looked increasingly embattled and isolated since his slim electoral victory last June. More than half of his score of official advisers have abandoned him, along with his vice-president, his minister of justice and numerous sundry bureaucrats. On April 23rd Fuad Gadallah, his most
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Posted by
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“IF I had a wish list,” says Luka Abgu, a farmer from Taraba state, in eastern Nigeria, “I would like a tractor.” “Farming is slow back-breaking work and I often have to employ labourers,” says Mr Abgu, who thinks he is about 60 years old. Though agriculture is still Nigeria’s largest employer, most of it is for mere subsistence. Farmers use age-old rudimentary methods and basic tools. Things are
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Posted by
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A RED shipping container is suspended from a crane above a tandoori-hot dock alongside the freighter on which it has just crossed the Indian Ocean. Suddenly something goes slightly wrong. The container slips, maybe by a foot: no harm done. Perhaps a mechanical fault is to blame, or a gust of wind that feels like the opening of an oven door. Men in bright vests scurry around the dock in a panic, t
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Posted by
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IT WAS just another day for the Israeli army on the West Bank. Having parked its jeeps in the hills south of Hebron, a unit of soldiers checked the papers of the Palestinians who lived there, confiscated one or two, and then herded the people and their flocks off a hilltop which a nearby Jewish settlement, called Susiya, has been eyeing with a view to taking it over. “Military zone,” tersely e
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HOPING to encourage tourists fond of hiking, the Tunisian authorities last year resurfaced a track leading up the Chambi mountain that boasts the country’s highest peak. Now it seems that its wooded slopes, not far from the town of Kasserine, south-west of Tunis and close to the border with Algeria, have also attracted a band of Islamist fighters. In December an encounter with the group cost the
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Posted by
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The beards have it
GIVING way to the country’s unruly militias, Libya’s General National Congress, its proto-parliament, on May 5th passed a law purging the body politic of officials who held senior posts under Muammar Qaddafi. After months of deadlock in the congress, Libya’s disgruntled militiamen forced the issue by blockading the foreign and justice ministries and storming three other minis
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Posted by
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Amina means business
WHEN Kenya’s new government was finally unveiled, nearly two months after the country’s general and presidential elections, it had a refreshingly unfamiliar look. For a start, it has shrunk from 44 ministers to 18. Out went a bevy of old sweats from the previous power-sharing coalition. In came a bunch of brighter faces, many of them from the business world. Among the most
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