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...imagine such a reality when I think about South Africa, when I think of the U.S. and when I think about France, where race is not even an official category but black people and North Africans are suffering under great implicit discrimination. Race will remain a primary signifier for a long, long time...
...world's most sophisticated and tightly organized insurgent groups, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may be nearing defeat in its 25-year war against the Sri Lankan government over a separate homeland for the region's minority Tamils. Sri Lankan troops captured the rebel group's last remaining airstrip on Feb. 3, following the military's Jan. 25 takeover of the city of Mullaittivu, an LTTE stronghold. An estimated 250,000 ethnic Tamils remain trapped in the war zone, with human-rights groups accusing both sides of putting civilians' lives at risk. Violence between the rebels...
...Zimbabwe Finally a Unity Government, But Huge Problems Remain After a nearly five-month impasse, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai (below) has agreed to serve as Prime Minister in a power-sharing arrangement with President Robert Mugabe. Although the political turmoil may be over, Zimbabwe faces a cholera epidemic, mass hunger and hyperinflation. The central bank has said it will permit the use of foreign currency and announced on Feb. 2 that it would chop 12 zeros off new notes, making an old trillion-dollar bill equal to one new Zimbabwean dollar...
...difficult to get an accurate picture of the economic disruption in Russia, where reliable information and open public discussion remain rare. As a result, the very word crisis is only now starting to enter the official vocabulary, and even then in a relatively muted way. Challenging the official line is still hazardous for any media outlet...
Even if it has to remain buried, anger is not far from the surface. A young woman standing outside the Lyudinovo emporium rocks her infant son's stroller and, looking around nervously, vents her worries. Prices keep going up, she complains, and she had to pay a $200 bribe to get her son into a local nursery. "You tell that to Putin and Medvedev," she fumes and then worries that she'll get into trouble for talking to foreigners...