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...doesn't help that the region is so geologically complex - with lots of fractures and offshore oil deposits likely deep underground. Or that many of the countries likely to have deposits have seen wars and unrest. Somalia remains a no-go zone, and Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region is beset by a violent rebel insurgency. And while Mozambique's civil war may have ended in 1992, it has taken years for the country to fully recover. (See pictures of Somalia's pirates...
...Kakabadse blames a lethal combination of outside oil interests, long-standing local conflicts and poverty for the sectarian strife. "In Nigeria the Christian-Muslim thing is the tip of the iceberg," he says. "What's underneath the water is a much more complex sociopolitical situation, which cannot be explained just in terms of the religious divide. You have a recipe ripe for conflict, and it just so happens to be Christian-Muslim...
...complex interplay between characters demands much from the actors in a play that finds room for both comedic and dramatic moments. For the most part, the cast pulls it off. Kramer delivers as Clive, nailing the desperate, angst-ridden teen with a deliberately exaggerated performance, allowing for ambiguity concerning how much of his persona is affectation and how much is real anguish...
...past is not simply a dead history," George Eliot wrote in the sweeping novel Middlemarch. "It is a still quivering part of himself." As an executive summary of A Life Apart - the complex, occasionally overwrought but ultimately satisfying fiction debut of TIME contributor Neel Mukherjee - that pretty much fits the bill. The book was first published as Past Continuous in India, where, along with Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, it was joint winner of the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award, the country's most prominent prize for English-language writing. The newly entitled edition is slightly revised and tighter...
Though the museum is only a design project—meant to encourage students to utilize immersive multimedia techniques to deal with a complex political issue—it has garnered attention in Armenia, the group said...