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...agriculture - a process as old as sailing ships - means products that originated in Africa are now grown elsewhere. Coffee came from Ethiopia; Vietnam now grows more than all Africa. Palm oil was originally exported from West Africa to the industries of Europe; today Indonesia is a major producer and Nigeria a major importer. Often, donors are scrambling to make up ever bigger shortfalls in ever more desperate circumstances. The World Food Programme says emergency food aid rose from $258.1 million in 1989 to $2.8 billion in 2003. The OECD adds humanitarian disasters are becoming "more frequent, more severe and longer...
...purpose-driven network to Saddleback and urged them to send out teams as part of the "PEACE Coalition." "There was a lot of energy afterward," he says. "Guys with tears in their eyes. A guy was going, 'I'll take Mozambique,' and one was going, 'I'll take Nigeria.' They were dividing up the world...
...choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007--28% of which occurred in the lawless waters off Nigeria and Somalia. With its vast coastline and crippled government, Somalia is especially pirate-infested. Despite a June U.N. resolution that lets naval allies surveil its waters, ships are warned to stay 200 nautical miles from land...
...about the bombing of the World Trade Center. Any religion with its foundations enmeshed in brutal wars and the use of jihads, and with some adherents who display an inclination toward bizarre violence, deserves nothing less than serious scrutiny by all right-thinking persons. Gbenga Oduntan Lagos, Nigeria...
...with much interest that i read Jack White's article on Nigerians' blighted hopes ((NIGERIA, Sept. 6)). In particular the reference to the U.S. government's ''quietly warning businessmen to beware of scams in which executives are lured to Nigeria . . . only to be kidnapped and held for ransom'' caught my attention. In fact, we would like our warnings to be much more public. Too many U.S. businesses and individuals have lost tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and at least one businessman has lost his life. Yet the volume and variety of these scams remain overwhelming...