Word: ouedraogo
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...Islamic extremist group Abu Sayyaf, which wants an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. IVORY COAST Neighborly Interest Burkina Faso demanded a halt to attacks on foreigners, a feature of the five-week long battle between Ivorian government troops and northern rebels. Burkina Faso Foreign Minister Youssouf Ouedraogo said: "We cannot tolerate any longer the killings of foreign civilians." He did not, however, specify what action his country would take. A 1998 census found 2.3 million Burkinabés in the Ivory Coast. U.S. Last Visit Jiang Zemin visited President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch for talks that...
Eleven directors of international repute each made a film intended to be precisely 11 min., 9 sec. and one frame long. Some were poignant (Sean Penn's, on a man living in the shadow of the Towers), some funny (Idrissa Ouedraogo's parable of African boys who spot an Osama bin Laden look-alike and try to cop the $25 million ransom). Several (from England, Bosnia, Egypt and Israel) pointed fingers at the U.S., saying, in effect, other countries have suffered atrocities for decades, so welcome to the club, America. No surprise that the film has opened in Europe...
...world's reaction to the event. In Iran (the segment is directed by 22-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf), a teacher desperately tries to explain the meaning of the attack to schoolkids who think the worst calamity is when the village well overflows. In Burkina Faso (the director is Idrissa Ouedraogo), some boys spot a man who looks just like Osama bin Laden and scramble to capture him for the $25 million ransom. The Japanese episode (from Shohei Imamura) ends with the words: "There is no such thing as a Holy...
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