Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, after Asia. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states, eight territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate through the establishment of the African Union, which is headquartered in Addis Ababa.
Africa is home to a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions. It is also home to a wide variety of natural resources, including oil, gas, diamonds, gold, and copper. However, Africa is also the world's poorest continent, with a high rate of poverty and illiteracy.
Africa is a continent with a rich history and a bright future. It is a continent that is full of potential, and it is a continent that is worth investing in. -Bard
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Natural Flow of History: Hamas Should Rethink Charter (Ramzy Baroud)
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Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 24, 2011 -- “Now it is time to naturalize the flow of history,” wrote Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (British Guardian, Mar. 16, 2011). Th ...
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US Army 'Kill Team' in Afghanistan Posed for Photos of Murdered Civilians (Jon Boone)
Read more...Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal Mar. 21, 2011 (The Guardian) -- Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for p ...
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All Out War on Libya: Surge in the Price of Crude Oil (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)
Read more..."Humanitarian Wars are Good for Business"... Speculators Applaud... This is Part III of a three-part article. PART I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya ...
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US begins assault against Libyan air defenses (AP)
Read more...Mar. 19, 2011 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military attacked Moammar Gadhafi's air defenses Saturday with strikes along the Libyan coast that were launched by Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. A s ...
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A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs (Ramzy Baroud)
Read more...Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 10, 2011 -- A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a p ...
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Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)
Read more...A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President O ...
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Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns (David Glenn Cox)
Read more...David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 9, 2010 -- Libya's Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, ...
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'Operation Libya' and the Battle for Oil (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
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This is Part II of a three-part article Part I: Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? Mar. 9, 2011 (Global Research) -- The geopolitical and economic imp ...
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Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US-NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya? (Prof Michel Chossudovsky)
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Part I of a three-part article. Part II. "Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil Mar. 7, 2011 (Global Research) -- The United States and NATO are supporting an armed insurrection in Eastern Libya, w ...
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Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)
Read more...A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad lo ...
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The Collapse of the Old Oil Order: How the Petroleum Age Will End (Michael T. Klare)
Read more...Mar. 4, 2011 (Information Clearinghouse) -- Whatever the outcome of the protests, uprisings, and rebellions now sweeping the Middle East, one thing is guaranteed: the world of oil will be permanently ...
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