Word: continentally
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Sam Muyumba thought he was done with killing when he left the Democratic Republic of Congo. After civil war erupted there in 1998, he watched friends, family and millions of his countrymen die as neighbor turned on neighbor. Seven years ago, he arrived in South Africa, the continent's richest...
Some have argued that this is a uniquely Latin American phenomenon. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1982, Gabriel García Márquez addressed a regional “madness” afflicting the continent, perhaps at the core of what he famously described as ?...
Kerr's examples of organized criminal activity in Britain represent the final retail link in a vast chain of production, distribution and sale of criminal goods that is every bit as entrepreneurial and growth-oriented as the most dynamic global corporations. There are now few major crimes which do not...
The Magic Powder It is not only in the former Soviet Union and its satellites that the twin forces of globalization and communism's end have created criminal networks. In Africa, for example, proxy conflicts of the cold-war continent mutated into much more deadly struggles between criminally financed militias...
"The West is losing the New Cold War," Lucas writes, "while having barely noticed that it has started. Mr. Putin and his Kremlin allies have seized power in Russia, cast a dark shadow over the eastern half of the continent, and established formidable bridgeheads in the main Western countries. And...