Africa is growing. In spite of terrible wars, famine, misery, corruption and dictatorships, new generations of politicians and industrialists are coming to the fore, full of enthusiasm and energy. They come up against a very difficult reality, and generally, to get to the top, they have to
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On 22 March 2022, an idealist died, the John Rambo of Ajaccio[1], the strenuous defender of the identity of an entire region, desperate and the victim, throughout history, of constant injustice. He died a murdered man, a fervent independentist and dreamer, a proud man who claimed the
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Increasingly, as the process of globalisation transforms and permeates the life of the entire world, characters almost unknown to the public emerge who, because they occupy key positions in a given political, diplomatic, financial, military and industrial mechanism, become a sort of lever with which wars, alliances
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His whole life is a cemetery. Of people killed or had killed, of orchestrated revolutions, of ferocious repressions, of intrigues in which he played different parts at the same time. He is one of the most powerful men in the Arab world, and also one of the
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For years, competitors of PMI Philip Morris International (and especially BAT British American Tobacco) have been claiming that PMI also sells its cigarettes through smuggling. According to many observers, international cigarette smuggling takes place using four main hubs: Greece, South Africa, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
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It is Sunday morning, 5 September 2021, and in the Kaloum district of Conakry, numerous gunshots can be heard: more than 500 ‘red berets’, riding on military vehicles that left before dawn from the Forecariah base to occupy the country, are storming the Presidential Palace of Sékhoutouréya
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A handsome young man walking behind Carla Bruni. He accompanies her and Nicolas Sarkozy to important appointments. He discusses money, careers and billionaire contracts. The press discovers him and puts him on the grill until the whole Sarkozy galleon is sunk. But not him. Grégoire Verdeaux is
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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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