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...Going on strike just ahead of the World Cup may be a good strong-arm tactic to use with the bosses, but it ain't exactly going to win any sympathy contests. With thousands of soccer fans -- not to mention Eritreans attempting to flee the growing conflict with Ethiopia -- stranded, the pilots' popularity is plummeting. A poll in Le Journal du Dimanche showed that just 38 percent of the union-friendly French public support their strike. Compare that to 79 percent for the truckers last fall, and you have the picket-line equivalent of an own goal...
...Dead), probably no one has taken a longer, harder route to a city near you than Maryam Mursal. She fled Mogadishu, Somalia, with her five young children in 1991 at the height of her native country's bloody civil war. Bribing and buying her way through Kenya and into Ethiopia, she eventually journeyed to Denmark, where she resumed her career as a singer...
After studying groups of modern hunter-gatherers living in Ethiopia, the Amazon area and New Guinea, Pontius concluded that a constant fear for life altered the way the brains of their Stone Age ancestors operated...
...difficult changes that are giving the continent a second chance. But the description fits. Out of sight of our narrow focus on disaster, another Africa is rising, an Africa that works: the Africa of Mozambique and Mali and Eritrea and Ghana, of South Africa and Uganda, Benin and Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania...
...logic, the nation of Eritrea (pop. 3 million) should not exist. The secessionist province's independence fighters ought never to have defeated Ethiopia in their 30-year-long struggle. They were outmanned, outgunned, abandoned or betrayed by every ally; their cause was hopeless. They won by force of character, a unity and determination so steely not all the modern armaments, superpower support or economic superiority of Ethiopia could withstand it. The spirit that saw the Eritreans through 10 years in the trenches of their mountain redoubt at Nakfa has built them a nation from scratch, since independence was finally consummated...