Word: coloniale
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In order to fix Pakistan, the new government must move simultaneously on several fronts: besides tackling militancy, also the slowing economy, skyrocketing inflation, a nationwide electricity shortage and the integration of the troubled tribal areas that operate under colonial-era laws separating them from the rest of the country. But...
If Africa is to be truly free, if - decades after throwing off colonial rule - it is now to escape poverty, corruption and autocracy, it needs a second, quiet revolution. The repression and electoral theft in Zimbabwe, the riots and civilian coup in Kenya in January, both suggest that the worst...
Steven Spielberg is no stranger to India. He shot part of Close Encounters of the Third Kind here in 1977 and the second Indiana Jones installment was set in a temple and dungeon complex in colonial-era India. (The movie was initially banned in India by angry politicians who said...
But the two Western powers with most influence in Zimbabwe - the U.S. and Zimbabwe's former colonial power, Britain - are constrained from acting against Mugabe by the uncertain results of their own foreign policy interventions elsewhere, and by Mugabe's accusations that they are behind a plot to overthrow him...
On a recent humid afternoon, Jack "Whitey" Knupp stood atop Grand Tower's levee, surveying the Mississippi. The portly 73-year-old with ruddy cheeks and a shock of silver hair spent much of his life steering barges along the river. Indeed, for years, the river produced the drama in...