The last half century of the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly called Zaire) is overflowing with blood. Blood, which has been shed in civil wars, but also in conflicts with neighboring countries, against the private armies of foreign businessmen, or trying to contain
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In West Africa, among the states born from the Berlin Conference of 1884, which created nations with rulers without any respect for the secular history of local ethnic groups and causing endless bloody conflicts, Mali is among the poorest and most unstable. On the contrary: it is
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Endless sand. Like a nightmare. A landscape in which no point can be distinguished to grasp it with thoughts, in which there is no right direction. It is called Mauritania and is one of the poorest countries in the world (157th), as almost two-thirds of the people
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War is not absolutely necessary to destroy a people. In a globalized world where trade lays the foundations for the fight against hunger and poverty everywhere, economic sanctions are an exceptional tool to condemn a people to poverty: to prevent a country from selling the products it
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Life in the richest country in the world is not a blessing, it is hell. For more than two centuries, the exploitation of Central Africa, facing the two banks of the Congo, has been the target of indescribable violence and international treaties which see in the extermination
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Chad: A landlocked country in the heart of the African continent, in the center of the Sahara, as large as France, Italy and Germany combined (1,284,000 km²), but almost uninhabited: until 20 years ago, the population of Switzerland. Today they’ve doubled and count nearly 16 million of
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You better believe it: Zambia is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. Explorer David Livingstone, who described this land, said: “Such beautiful places have been created to soften the sight of angels in flight[1]“. A lush nature, a mild climate, a fertile and generous
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For nearly four years, the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have believed they could persuade, if not compel, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to provide diplomatic, economic and military support for the destruction of Qatar. Over the past few weeks
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The world is small and full of things you don’t expect. But they really do happen: when Donald Trump called a G7 meeting in May 2017, he wanted it to be in Sicily. Despite the objections of the Italian police and the embarrassment of the American government,
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As the saying goes, there is no one more radical than a convert. Mohamed Louizi is a clear example of this: According to his own biography, he began his career as an activist[1] (in 2002) as a member of the UOIF (Union des Organizations Islamiques de France):
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