Gully Foyle's African News Thread

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Given that individual pieces of African news almost never get any attention by anyone (except major natural disasters ala Haiti or a major war... and sometimes not even then). I have decided to start up this thread for commentary and the likes.

What sparked was this on the BBC website (I expect it will taken down in about an hour):

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Discuss?

(Despite this start, I will try from time to time try to find a good news story on Africa. Because you know such things never happen according to Media(TM)).

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I'm now going turn this into a few articles on Guinea-Bissau, a country that should be watched with interest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/09/drugstrade

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*continues*

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http://afriweb.blogspot.com/2009/07/guinea-bissau-as-narco-state_23.html

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I won't but I admit that I am more unfamiliar with 'French Africa' then I am with 'British Africa'.

Post articles if you like. Personally this should be the forum's "raise conciousness about Africa" thread.

I will get back to Guinea Bissau ('Portuguese Africa' is a different bucket of spades all together) but here is yet another 'everyone should know but doesn't' type of story - Coltan mining in the DRC:

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8234583.stm

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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/kenya/100118/congo-conflict-minerals-mining?page=0,1

Out of interest (though admittely it is wikipedia and the article isn't precisely great but worth looking at): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/world/africa/12sudan.html

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('Portuguese Africa' is a different bucket of spades all together)

Wow...if Duke or DWTL said that their "fans" would be repeating that for the next 10 years.  You might not know, but that could be taken as a bit racist.  Not that I mind, just words to me, but "spade" is a touchy word here in the states.


(unless you did that on purpose, knowing full well....in which case, ignore this)

Oh really? I didn't know that (I was actually trying to think of a subsistute for "kettle of fish", that's too cliche).

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