Word: port
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...visit last year to Eritrea, which had just won a 30-year war of independence from Ethiopia and had promptly shut down the airport and all other means of communication with the outside world. Michaels flew to neighboring Djibouti, chartered an Arab dhow to the Red Sea port of Mesewa and hitched a ride for the final 71 miles to the Eritrean capital, Asmara...
...Ethnic cleansing," it appears, plagues not just the Balkans but the Baltic as well. In a hail of rocks and Molotov cocktails, skinheads and neo-Nazis in the eastern German port of Rostock tried to storm an apartment block housing 200 asylum-seeking Romanian Gypsies, beginning an ugly battle that would last all week. After officials moved the Gypsies, the hooligans trapped 100 Vietnamese guest workers in a neighboring building and set it ablaze. By luck alone, none of the inhabitants was seriously hurt...
Some months later, I visited the beach at Badagry, not far from Lagos, Nigeria, which was an important slave-trading port, a place where manacles and other purported relics of the commerce in human beings are on display. The proprietor, an aging woman, told some Nigerian friends of mine that she would charge them 50 kobo (about $1) to examine the artifacts. You, she said, pointing to me, pay two naira (about $4). I protested that if the chains were indeed genuine, which I doubted, they might have been used to bind one of my ancestors; therefore, I didn...
...going to be allowed to retain the land they have grabbed" in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The conference will consider tightening sanctions against the Bosnian Serbs' patrons in Belgrade and may approve a plan to assign 10,000 fresh United Nations troops to escort relief convoys from the Adriatic port of Split to the besieged capital of Sarajevo. "The Serbs may discover that it is in their interest -- you have to persuade them that it is in their interest -- to negotiate," says U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. "Theirs is a pariah state...
...Last week, following more than a month of negotiations, Algerian diplomat Mohammed Sahnoun, the ranking U.N. representative in Somalia, and General Mohammed Farah Aidid, who heads one of two factions that have been locked in fratricidal war, agreed to the establishment of an armed U.N. force to open the port of Mogadishu, where tons of relief supplies have reportedly rotted away on the docks or been dumped into the harbor. U.N. officials said the planned contingent would number about 500 troops and could be deployed within two or three weeks. The U.S. has ( offered to fly the troops to Africa...