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/ 1 September 2003
Daniel arap Moi called her a ‘mad woman’ and a ‘threat to order and security’. MPs threatened to mutilate her genitals. Women in Kenya, particularly young women, see themselves in a different light since the advent of environmentalist Wangari. Caroline Kihato, a young Kenyan, explains why.
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/ 1 September 2003
In 1982, a group of private investors opened the Palm beach Hotel, a sprawling tourism complex by the Atlantic ocean in Benin, a small country on the coast of West Africa.
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/ 1 September 2003
At 83 years old Emmanuel Kouang is the oldest person in Ebome. Sitting in a dusty armchair in his wooden house next to the dirt road he recalls how, as a teenage boy, he sat on the beach and watched in disbelief as a dark figure seemed to walk out over the water and sink beneath the waves of the Atlantic.
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/ 1 September 2003
Somebody once said: "Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." But few can dispute the fact that Mexico’s unique relationship with the US is the primary reason for its stable economic performance in recent years. In the first of a two-part series we examine Mexico’s free-growth strategy.
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/ 1 September 2003
Events in Cote d’Ivoire last week illustrated the fragility of the three-month peace in that country. Drunken Ivoirean rebels killed two French peacekeepers in an exchange of fire 300km north of Abidjan last Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2003
An eleventh-hour deal to provide cut-price drugs for the world’s poorest people was being finalised in Geneva last week in an effort to save next month’s trade summit in Cancun, Mexico, from collapse.
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/ 1 September 2003
Geoff Hoon, the British Defence Secretary, last week appeared to undermine Downing Street’s carefully crafted defence for the Hutton inquiry when he insisted that key officials in No 10 were intimately involved in the ”naming strategy” that led to the unmasking of Dr David Kelly.
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/ 1 September 2003
When Linford Christie, Leroy Burrell or Maurice Greene got their massive frames rolling in the sprinting finals at major championships in the 1990s, the very foundations of the stadiums seemed to quiver and shake. Last week in Paris, Kim Collins changed all that.
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/ 1 September 2003
On paper, the war in Côte d’Ivoire’s war is over. Peace was declared in West Africa’s economic hub nearly two months ago, and rebels and loyalists united in a power-sharing government. But fears of a new conflict are on the rise with rumours of new uprisings and heightened military measures.
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/ 1 September 2003
Andy Roddick unfurled his body and unleashed an ace that forced a line judge to duck as the ball slammed against the wall with a thud. It was the loudest display the American produced on Sunday in his victory over Flavio Saretta of Brazil in the US Open.