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Bribes Corrode Afghans' Trust in Government
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/world/asia/02kabul.html?hp By DEXTER FILKINS Published: January 1, 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan — When it comes to governing this violent, fractious land, everything, it seems, has its price. Want to be a provincial police chief? It will cost you ...
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Blood burgers feed Congo conflict
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,245012775012895,00.html October 16, 2008 12:00am FOR years, African militias have used proceeds from precious natural resources to fund conflicts a practice dramatised in the 2006 film Blood Diamond. Now, there's a new ...
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Madagascar to Sell Carbon Credits to Protect Forest
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48759/story.htm\\ \\ MADAGASCAR: June 13, 2008 \\ \\ {}PORT LOUIS Madagascar will sell nine million tons of carbon offsets in a voluntary scheme to help protect one of its biggest and most pristine forests, a conservation group ...
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Is water becoming 'the new oil'
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/05/29/iswaterbecoming%e2%80% 98thenewoil%e2%80%99/ By Mark Clayton \ Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / May 29, 2008 edition Public fountains are dry in Barcelona, Spain, a city so ...
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World food shortages to stay, riots a risk, FAO
http://www.enn.com/agriculture/article/34367 From: Reuters Published April 9, 2008 07:32 AM By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) Food riots which have struck several impoverished countries could spread with shortages and high ...
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Grain prices soar globally
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0327/p01s02woap.htmlBy Daniel Ten Kate Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the March 27, 2008 edition Bangkok, Thailand Rice farmers here are staying awake in shifts at night to guard their fields from thieves. In Peru, shortages of wheat ...
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Illegal Animal Trade Finances War in Africa
Submitted by Lisa Raffensperger on Mon, 20080310 03:28. http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/291 Illegal animal trade, once a highprofile environmental concern, has largely taken a back seat to climate change, habitat destruction, and pollution as a threat ...
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Kandil accuses Siniora of sending water to Israel via Cyprus, a decision equal to war-and-peace
Kandil accuses Siniora of sending water to Israel via Cyprus, a decision equal to warandpeace March 10, 2008 http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=34079 Former MP Nasser Kandil accused Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora of planning ...
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How a tiny West African country became the world's first narco state
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/09/drugstrade t is the world's fifth poorest nation with no prisons and few police. Now this small west African failed state has been targeted by Colombian drug cartels, turning it into a transit hub for the cocaine trade out of Latin America ...
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SWAZILAND, Too much bread to buy a loaf
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75757 MBABANE, 7 December 2007 (IRIN) The escalating price of bread is the latest blow to Swazi households, already struggling with a parallel rise in the cost of maizemeal caused by the worst drought in a generation. On 10 December ...
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