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VIDEO: America’s New Frontline: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Translate] Rageh Omaar travels to the US and through East and West Africa to investigate the US strategy for the continent. Can Barack Obama make a decisive break with the path set in Africa by the Bush administration?

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ARTICAL: The Real Genocide is Playing Out in Ethiopia–And the West is Funding It

[Translate] Busting the myth As one of the first to write about the problems in West Sudan/Darfur, in mid 2003, and living side by side here in Asmara for three years with representatives of the Darfur, and other Sudanese resistance, my investigation has found no evidence of genocide. Of course, genocide has and is being committed by Ethiopia against [...]

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ARTICAL: Lieberman used Africa trip to lay groundwork for arms deals

[Translate] Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman returns Friday from a visit in five African states, where in addition to discussing Africa’s internal problems, he and his entourage laid the groundwork for weapons deals. While Lieberman talked with African leaders about the hunger, water shortage, malnutrition and plagues afflicting their nations, the visit was also used to advance arms [...]

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MOVIE: Desert Flower – Liya Kebede’s Upcoming Movie

[Translate] More Pictures of Liya Movie Mysterious, proud, beautiful, as the young Somalierin Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede) in a London fast-food restaurant by star photographer Terry Donaldson (Timothy Spall) is detected, celebrating the international fashion world inspired the birth of a new top models. But behind the glamorous facade hides a deeply moving destiny. Born in [...]

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Country Case Studies: The Horn of Africa (Somalia-Eritrea-Ethiopia)

[Translate] Lecture in the ’African Security’ series (NAI – FOI samarbetsprojekt) Country Case Studies: The Horn of Africa (Somalia-Eritrea-Ethiopia). Ken Menkhaus and Abdi Samatar. Filmed 4 May, 2009 Part 1: Ken Menkhaus (66 min) Part 2: Abdi Samatar (55 min)

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The story behind the thugs? Why Did Somalia Piracy Begin

[Translate] It´s not the hype that is wrong. It´s that it consumes all space for context and perspectives. Especially way from an Western centrism. Read these articals… Somali piracy is worst in world European fishing pirates hit Pacific: Greenpeace Shipping and Fishing Piracy How Somalia’s Fishermen Became Pirates Somali Piracy – Causes and Consequences

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