Word: uprootedness
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More than 6,000 Kenyans have fled since last month's disputed presidential elections erupted into violence. For more than two weeks, Kenyan towns have suffered mass riots and looting, more than 600 people have been killed and a qaurter of a million have been uprooted. The refugees bring horror...
For example, there is what the locals call the "sex tree," which grows deep in Mabira's dense, tropical bush. It is a skinny, scruffy, slow-developing plant with springy green leaves that is decidedly unremarkable. It has a lonely existence. Other members of its plant family have been uprooted...
"Probably the biggest threat to us today is the scenario of a small, well-prepared group of Algerians making it to France without detection, and quickly unrolling an attack," a French intelligence official tells TIME. Interviews with French intelligence and counter-terrorism officials indicate recent busts of jihadists groups in...
I say 20th-century art; you think Liu Guosong. Okay, so maybe that’s a stretch. Granted, your introduction to modern art course probably didn’t cover contemporary Chinese painters. All the more reason to head to the Sackler Museum and see them for yourself. ?...
Juba has maintained a sizable military force independent of Khartoum as defense and deterrent. The potential for a breakdown in security, as well as the lack of basic services in the war-ravaged area, has made hundreds of thousands of southern Sudanese refugees wary of returning home from neighboring countries...