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Educate boys, or they'll go to war | FP Passport
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A World Bank research
paper posted today finds that countries with a high proportion of young
males with low levels of secondary education are significantly more conflict-prone. -
"youth bulges"
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The Saturday Profile - Back From the Suburbs to Run a Patch of Somalia - Biography - NYTimes.com
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Mr. Aden, 37, is part militia commander, part schoolteacher, part lawmaker, part engineer, part environmentalist, part king — a mind-boggling combination of roles for anyone to play, let alone for a guy who dresses (and talks) like a rapper and recently moved from Minnesota to Somalia in an effort to build a local government.
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With money channeled from fellow clansmen living in the United States and Europe, he has transformed Adado and its surroundings in central Somalia, which used to be haunted by bandits and warring Islamic factions, into an enclave of peace, with a functioning police force, scores of new businesses, new schools and new rules.
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Project Syndicate
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We need a global vision of sustainable recovery that includes leadership from China, India, Europe, Latin America, and, yes, even Africa, long marginalized from the world economy, but very much part of it now.
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The US is not the only economy in this equation.
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Chris Blattman's Blog: The new scramble for Africa
There are already more Chinese living in Nigeria than there were Britons during the height of the empire.
China Digital Times » Congo Outlines $9bn China Deal
The deal, finalised last month, could prove one of Beijing ’s most ambitious forays into Africa yet. On paper it secures 10.62m tonnes of copper and 620,000 tonnes of cobalt for resource-hungry Chinese industries, but this is dependent on overcoming ope
China Digital Times » Chinese Weapons Headed Home After Zimbabwe’s Neighbors Protest Shipment
After South African dock workers refused to unload a Chinese weapons shipment bound for Zimbabwe, the ship may be headed back to China, according to AP:
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