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...which she's found to be an effective way of pushing conservatives' buttons. Her letter to Zapatero was the second time in two weeks that she caused an uproar by extending France's regrets for Sarkozy's utterings. On April 6, Royal asked an audience in Senegal's capital Dakar to pardon France for a controversial speech the president gave there shortly after his election in 2007. In the speech, Sarkozy said "the African man has not sufficiently entered history" as a result of becoming caught in an "eternal re-starting of time by the endless repetition of the same...
We’ve been going about this all wrong. As I perused the paper after reveille last Friday, I couldn’t help but feel a mite more morose than usual, a dose more dolorous. Nine AIDS activists in Dakar, in the supposed shining citadel of West African democracy, had been sentenced to eight years imprisonment upon suspicion of homosexual conduct. Even more shocking was the well-worn statement issued by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW): merely, that the Senegalese state had violated Article 7 of the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, and that the doctrine...
...seize two French nationals in Algiers was thwarted by security services, and the same month, a group of Italian civil engineers were captured but ultimately released in northern Mali. The growing risk of abduction or terrorist violence by jihadists in the region ultimately caused the organizers of the annual Dakar Rally to cancel the cross-desert off-road car race for the first time since was launched...
...time of African renaissance, from Dakar to Pretoria, from Dakar to Johannesburg,” he said...
...protect its brand. The employees of the Harvard Trademark Program, with an official Orwellian mandate to “protect and control” Harvard’s brand identity across the world, show up to work each day to ensure that, Heaven forbid, no street vendor in Dakar or Dot sells an unlicensed T-shirt with our sacrosanct insignia on it. The Harvard name does not merely signify unrivaled academic power—it signifies the registered trademark of unrivaled academic power, full rights reserved to the President and Fellows of Harvard College...