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WITH polls in Israel ten weeks away, Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party fears the influence on Israeli voters of a resurgent Barack Obama back in the White House. “Say Obama appointed Bill Clinton his Middle East peace envoy before the Israeli election,” mused a seasoned observer. A fresh effort by Mr Obama to revive the moribund peace process might well stir even worse blood between Washington and
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Posted by
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AFRICA’S “mobile decade”, when telephones at last reached most corners of the continent, has meant a huge improvement in the lives of the poor. But quantifying it is hard. How useful can a mobile phone be to someone living on less than $2.50 a day, the World Bank’s standard benchmark of poverty? Researchers in Kenya have given a partial answer. They find that people will skip
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Posted by
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Iyad ag Ghali, through glasses darkly
BY THE end of this month an array of Western and African governments and regional bodies is supposed, according to a resolution passed unanimously last month in the UN Security Council, to have drawn up a detailed military plan to save the northern chunk of Mali from a clutch of Islamist rebel groups with ties to al-Qaeda. At the same time,
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Posted by
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Prince Muhammad: once bombed, not shy
IN OTHER places sand trickles through an hourglass at a steady rate. Saudi Arabia has a lot of sand, but it tends to get gummed up with oil or stuck in prickly religious conservatism. Yet now and then something jogs the glass, and those grains of Saudi sand briefly unclog.Just such a nudge came on November 5th, with the announcement of a su
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Posted by
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IT IS more than a century since cartographers drew east Africa’s coastal strip as a single territory. A map from 1876 shows “Zanguebar” stretching from what is now southern Somalia to northern Mozambique. In the colonial carve-up that followed, lines were drawn between the port cities of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam and the island of Zanzibar. The Swahili coast, named after a lan
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Posted by
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AFRICANS look at elephants much as Chinese look at Yao Ming, their 7’6" (2.29 metres) giant basketball star. They see power and majesty as well as gentleness and decency. That would make Mr Yao (pictured above) an ideal ambassador for elephant conservationists hoping to convince the Chinese public not to buy trinkets made from African ivory and thereby to deprive poachers of d
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Posted by
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UM HAYAN, a 48-year-old mother, used to travel the 30 kilometres (19 miles) from her home in the wooded hills of Jebel Turkman to Latakia city to buy clothes. There she gossiped with friends, stopping off for tea in various villages on the way back up. “Now the road has checkpoints and there is no contact between us,” she says. Her friends are members of an esoteric Shia sect known as the Alawite
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Posted by
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IN ADDITION to the shrinking readerships and advertising downturns that have ravaged print journalism across most of the developed world, Israeli dailies are up against an outside competitor with deep pockets: an American casino magnate called Sheldon Adelson, whose right-wing freesheet Yisrael Hayom (Israel Today) has become the country’s largest-circulation daily.Maariv, which proudly held that
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