Word: chadli
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...date, fell over themselves in welcome. China inked deal after deal: a $2.3 billion stake in a Nigerian offshore petroleum field; a $1.5 billion pact to upgrade Ethiopia's telecom system; massive investments in Angola, now China's largest source of oil imports. China won diplomatic victories, too, getting Chad, Malawi and Senegal to switch recognition from Taipei to Beijing in just the past three years. And in 2006, Beijing hosted a triumphant follow-up summit with nearly every African leader...
Some of these worries make sense. In nations like Angola and Chad, Chinese aid has allowed venal governments to ignore multinational donors seeking conditions to ensure that governments buy bread, not BMWs. In a world where easily recoverable oil is dwindling and the price has hit record highs, competition for untapped offshore petroleum in West Africa could spark conflict, with Chinese and Western firms jockeying to build new infrastructure, control ports and woo political leaders. Through its training programs for African technocrats, many of whom return from China amazed, Beijing could indeed promote its authoritarian development model to a continent...
...starring Richard Chamberlain, and I still am today. I still blare Haddaway’s “What Is Love” while driving down the street, hoping that people start unconsciously walking to the beat. I still sometimes pretend that I am secretly married to Chad Michael Murray, though for all worldly purposes that became unattractive quite a long time ago. In the essentials, I am timeless. Harvard’s terrible fashion spurred me into action, and my life here has been defined by combating it. Leggings haunted my dreams. Hunting jackets ruined my waking hours. Hillary...
...issues confronting non-governmental organization workers in Darfur. Volunteers will role-play as refugees, while military checkpoints, mock Janjaweed attacks, and security evacuations are incorporated into the experience. The program directors intend to create an environment that closely resembles the tension and turmoil currently present along the Chad-Sudan border, according to Appleby. HHI’s Humanitarian Studies Initiative is a seven-year old program that attempts to provide students with hands-on experience that emphasizes the policies that HSPH has developed, according to a press release. “Our program is one of four or five...
...They’re putting on the roller skates, now they’re about to step on the rink,” says Chad Hugo, one half of producing duo The Neptunes. Hugo’s co-producer and N.E.R.D frontman Pharrell Williams was responsible for signing Chester French to Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records, over a year...