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...family pictured in "How the World Eats" [June 25-July 2]. While you showed other families in other parts of the world in the relative comfort of their homes and flush with food, you depicted a Chadian family in a refugee camp with meager rations. Has the whole of Africa turned into one big refugee camp, so that there isn't even one functional family that could have been pictured? The black American family pictured on the next page was cold comfort. Bukola Eleso, lagos...
...enjoyed the cover story on Africa's Oil. Although West Africa has the potential to be the next Persian Gulf, its oil probably won't make the region an economic powerhouse. There should be a commitment by all stakeholders to redistribute oil wealth among Africa's people. The oil-rich states should stop channeling the proceeds from oil sales into the bank accounts of the ruling élite while the majority of their citizens suffer economic stagnation and social deterioration. That pattern fuels only political instability. Oluwole Akinbi, lagos...
Rina van Coller, PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA...
...world has gotten much smaller. Country of origin is no longer the immutable trait it once was. The suspects arrested so far in the unsuccessful July 21, 2005, transit bombings in London were all from Africa. But the men charged with the devastating July 7, 2005, bombings were U.K. nationals who allegedly began plotting after a trip to Pakistan...
...world's opiates. Top Opium Poppy Cultivators In hectares, 2006 Mexico 3,300 (2005) Columbia 1,000 Afghanistan 165,000 Pakistan 1,545 Burma 21,500 Laos 2,500 Source: UNODC World Drug Report 2007 THE USERS Opiate abusers, 2005 Asia 54% Europe 25% Americas 14% Africa 6% Oceania...