Categoria: Africa
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Blues From the Desert, Recorded On-Site
Marie Planeille The African band Tinariwen named its new album “Tassili,” after the desert region near Algeria’s border with Libya where it was recorded. More Photos » By LARRY ROHTER Published: August 31, 2011 In the language of the Tuareg nomads who for centuries have roamed the most remote reaches of the southern Sahara, “tinariwen” …
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Food Crisis in Somalia Is a Famine, U.N. Says
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: July 20, 2011 MOMBASA, Kenya — The United Nations on Wednesday officially declared Somalia’s food crisis a famine in several parts of the country, with millions of people on the brink of starvation and aid deliveries complicated by the fact that Islamist militants aligned with Al Qaeda control the famine …
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Standing Up to the King
Damon Winter/The New York Times Nicholas D. Kristof Perhaps no Arab ruler responded as wisely to this year’s pro-democracy protests as the king of Morocco — although that is an exceptionally low bar. When other dictators in the Arab world answered protesters with gunfire, King Mohammed VI grudgingly accepted demonstrations, at least when he was …
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News World news Mauritania Mauritania’s hidden manuscripts
Pages of history … reading an ancient Koranic manuscript in Chinguetti. Photograph: Remi Benali/Corbis The bone-dry wood creaks as the book opens at a page representing the course of the moon, framed by black balls and red crescents. The manuscript contains 132 pages of Arab astronomy bound in well-worn leather, a 15th-century treasure …
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Libya and the Potemkin alliance
America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is in its fourth month and has revealed NATO to be an increasingly fictitious military organization. Although this war has no discernible connection with U.S. national security, it serves the national …
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White House Report on U.S. Actions in Libya
In a broader package of materials the Obama administration sent to Congress defending its Libya policy, the White House, for the first time, offered lawmakers and the public an argument for why Mr. Obama has not been violating the War Powers Resolution since May 20. The White House released an unclassified version of the report. …
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