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That portrait is real, all right, in places like Nigeria, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, Kenya. But it is no longer the whole picture. Academics, diplomats and bankers who do business there talk seriously these days about an African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, 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...
...Countries (OPEC) as it meets today in Vienna is not whether to cut production, but how to ensure that the 11 member states and such non-member producers as Norway, Russia and Mexico stick to their agreed cutbacks totaling 1.5 million barrels. Analysts are skeptical over whether Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria and others will avoid the temptation to exceed their new production quotas, which would quickly unravel the agreement -- and even the oil cartel itself. After all, it?s not as if renegades face the prospect of having their legs broken or anything...
...There are many, many shades of this thing called activism," Nelson says. The fact that activists on campus have fought for such diverse issues that span from Nigeria to transgenderism, he says, is "unhelpful" to the activist movement...
...There are many, many shades of this thingcalled activism," Nelson says. The fact thatactivists on campus have fought for such diverseissues that span from Nigeria to transgenderism,he says, is "unhelpful" to the activist movement...
...NIGERIA "[W]e may have to [reinvent] the Soviet Union. If only to help the Americans get their act together." --Mma Agbagha, Post Express...