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...hope. Violence appeared to have subsided; international aid groups were servicing hundreds of displaced communities; the threat of starvation and disease seemed to have been contained. The African Union had deployed troops on the ground to restore security, while peace talks sponsored by the international community were underway in Nigeria's capital, Abuja...
...more restrictive policies toward travel abroad adopted this semester by the College, students are now barred from visiting countries including Lebanon, Nigeria and Yemen as well as 23 others on Harvard’s buck. Moreover, the policies prohibit the College from granting any academic credit for study abroad experiences there? While there are valid concerns about the risks inherent in traveling to some of these locations, we regret that at a time when the College is trying to encourage international experiences, it has put insurance considerations ahead of pedagogy...
According to Edwards, a review of the policy was prompted by concerns from the Provost’s Office about Harvard sponsorship of travel to Nigeria...
Today numerous factors are driving up the price of crude, from chaos in Iraq to turmoil in Nigeria to hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. "It is neither fair nor accurate to blame China for most of the rise in oil prices," says Jeffrey Logan of the Paris-based International Energy Agency. But China's impact should not be ignored. Even if China's blazing GDP growth of 9.1% in the first three quarters of this year (compared with the same period the previous year) slows to 8% in 2005, as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences predicts, the country...
Hafsat D. Abiola ’96, daughter of the democratically-elected president of Nigeria, calls on President Neil L. Rudenstine and the Undergraduate Council to support a campaign for the University to divest from Nigeria. The UC, dozens of professors, and several student organizations support her efforts. Abiola calls for divestment when the Nigerian military junta, which seized the country in 1993 and imprisoned Abiola’s father, hangs 11 activists, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. Harvard keeps its holdings in Nigeria, including $35 million in Shell Oil, a participant in business with Nigeria?...