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...sectarian violence, "in Sierra Leone there is no religious bigotry," Kabbah says. "This is one of the things of which we're very proud." Given the country's interfaith harmony, mineral riches, abundant natural resources and a once-vaunted educational system that boasted the first university in sub-Saharan Africa, Kabbah's promise to return it to its past glory seems less quixotic than Sierra Leone's current war-scarred state would suggest. Age, says the 70-year-old widower, is no impediment to his plans, but money is. That is why, when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly...
...Britain can no longer beat up its former colonies on the battlefields of sub-Saharan Africa, the expanses of the City of Manchester Stadium became the location where Britons had to prove—more to themselves than any neutral (and, doubtless, uninterested) third party—that they were superior to their colonial underlings...
...last week bluntly described the E.U.'s development programs in Africa and other poor countries as "an outrage and a disgrace.'' She criticized the Commission for spending too much money on places such as the Balkans and North Africa and not enough in the more desperate countries of sub-Saharan Africa. The Commission says the money is going where member states want...
...path that diverged from that of chimps, our closest living relatives. Even more surprising, this ancient hominid was not discovered anywhere near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where all the record setters of the past three decades have been found. Instead, it turned up in the sub-Saharan Sahel region of Chad, more than 1,500 miles to the west, forcing a rethinking of the conventional wisdom about where humans arose...
...their summer holidays with Spanish families. Each year a "caravan" of trucks travels through Spain collecting goods for the Saharawi: in my village this year we were asked to give toothbrushes, toothpaste and other toiletries. In the southern region of Andaluc?a, Spaniards even held a mock referendum on Western Saharan independence, highlighting the United Nations' failure to keep this promise. The mock referendum infuriated the Moroccans, and brooding on this insult may have had a lot to do with their flag waving on Perejil. The canny Moroccans, of course, are aware that right now Spain needs rock problems like...