Word: civilizations
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According to Massaquoi, the problems in Sierra Leone stem from the civil war in Liberia. The U.S. government established Liberia by sending previously enslaved blacks there and allowing them to rule...
When the native Liberians eventually rebelled against the government in the early 1990s a civil war began. Because of Sierra Leone's humanitarian aid to the Liberian government, the rebels invaded Sierra Leone...
...potato blight which killed crops throughout Ireland was the final movement in this first symphony of sorrows, to be joined later by Civil War and the Troubles. Potatoes were all that was left for most Irish people to eat. By 1845, potatoes had become the sole staple of the Irish diet. When they were gone, there was no food available to the poor. They could not afford anything else, and it was knowingly not given to them, prompting some historians to label the Famine not as an unfortunate calamity but as a genocide...
Kabila meant to turn that promise into a future. Between his arrival in office in May 1997 and the outbreak of civil war last August, he changed the name of the country back to Congo (from Zaire). He brought inflation down from 900% to 5%. He attempted to build a professional army. But what Kabila didn't do was broaden his political base beyond his own tribe. And he began using arrests of politicians and journalists as a management tool...
...senior administrator said some professorsquestioned whether Douglas's civil liberties hadbeen violated by the Ad Board process...