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...lack of cooperation within the region has been a key impediment to more investment in North Africa, notes Carlo Altomonte, a professor of international economic policy at Milan's Bocconi University. "One of the main reasons of the trading success in Eastern Europe is that they integrated among themselves," he says. "If you invest in Tunisia, you get stuck in Tunisia. The North Africans are painfully slow to trust each other...
...Recently, we called an ambulance from the nearest township when my mother-in-law came down with a bad case of strangulated hernia. I walked half a mile through a heavy rain to the main road to meet the medics, lest they lose their way in our forest - which happened the last time we called for urgent medical help. They do carry cell phones, but can't afford the cost of using them. An hour after I got to the main road first, we finally connected. The medical orderly was friendly and unflustered. Having examined the patient, she advised hospitalization...
...nations - most prominently China - quietly allow the dumping to continue, for the money it brings in. At an international summit on the convention held last week in Bali, Indonesia, environmentalists and many poor countries insisted the agreement had failed, and pointed to the growth in e-waste as a main reason. "We are faced with the ugly truth that the Basel Convention has been unable to accomplish even the prerequisite steps of addressing the inequities and exploitation made possible by globalization," Jim Puckett, director of the Seattle-based Basel Action Network, told delegates at Bali...
...Baghdad security plan, which manages the expansion of checkpoints and development projects in the city. Sheikhli says projects are being implemented to double the number of hospital beds in Sadr City, rehabilitate 51 schools, and provide basic services. Officials at the al-Shaheed al-Sadr hospital, one of two main hospitals in the district, say that government money has already bought them much-needed drugs and other supplies. Hospital electricity has been restored, out of a combination of city power and generators, to 24 hours a day - up from just six hours of generator power at the height...
...Sydney Jones, who heads ICG's Indonesian office, says there are two main theories about Noordin's location. One is that he is living in central Java "under JI's enforced protection on the condition of non-activity, spending most of his time reading downloads from the Internet." The other theory, Jones says, is based on claims by the recently arrested JI commander Abu Husna that Noordin had been helped to escape to Malaysia. Indonesian police sources tell TIME the chances that Noordin has escaped from Indonesia are very slight. "Why? He's got very good networks here," says...