Word: regionalization
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...proved that its hardline policies were justified. "Call it the politics of prudence," says government spokesman Oussama Romdhani. "Why open a Pandora's box by giving fundamentalists a political party? We are sitting peacefully." But even strict secularist laws might not shield Tunisia from growing Muslim fervor in the region. "Before, you never saw a woman veiled in Tunis," says Amel Belhadj Ali, a journalist for the Tunis magazine L'Expression, sitting in her office in jeans and a T shirt. "Now you see more and more." Anti-American sentiment may also be on the rise. The magazine's editor...
...Harvard report, oil exports are “a crucial source of revenue for the Sudanese government, essential to the government’s capacity to fund military operations.” In the past four years, those military operations have targeted innocent villagers in the Darfur region, directly and indirectly causing more than 200,000 deaths, according to U.N. estimates...
Sudan is infamously mired in civil conflict in its western region of Darfur. But for nearly two years now, the country's 10 southern provinces have begun to emerge from their own 20-year war with the central government in Khartoum that left the territory physically ravaged but in possession of oil, minerals, wildlife and forests. With its capital in the city of Juba, south Sudan, a semi-autonomous region with 6 million residents, now has an annual budget of $1.2 billion and is in possession of most of Sudan's oil reserves. Foreign investors are clamoring...
...officials say that they are not involved in either the production or marketing of the oil, much less the calculation of how much their share of the petroleum pie should be. (Oil accounts for 95% of Juba's income.) Equally problematic is the ownership of Abyei, an oil-rich region caught between the north and south...
...million tons by 2010. Qatari oil production, meanwhile, has jumped from 350,000 barrels per day in 1995 to nearly 1 million barrels per day now. Although the fear factor has brought huge revenue windfalls, al-Attiya said, Qatar has no wish for further conflict in the region. "In the more than 70 years [of conflict in the Gulf], war is never the solution," he said. "The whole world and I pray to see that...