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The politics of women’s clothing
By Barbara Miller The Economist reports that Sudan’s criminal law forbids “indecent clothing in public” with little in the way of further details. Sudanese journalist Lubna al-Hussein was recently...
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• Revenge against French fueling conflict in Mali and Algeria Mali. Source: CIA Factbook. The contested region is in the north. An article in The Star (Toronto) about how Mali’s conflict spilled across...
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• Violence in Africa begins with greed In an op-ed in The New York Times, Kamari Maxine Clarke, professor of cultural anthropology at Yale University, argues that violence in Africa is rooted in greed,...
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