February 2011
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In 2008 Milton Blahyi, a former warlord, admitted to eating children’s hearts...
– A spate of ritual killings is unnerving Liberia, a country still seeking to escape the scars of civil war.
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A South Sudanese girl is more likely to die in childbirth than to learn to read...
– Last month’s referendum has confirmed that South Sudan will become a sovereign country. But it will struggle to prosper.
“Reports confirm what any American can tell you; our infrastructure is inefficient and it is woefully outdated.”
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The State of the Union in 60 seconds. “We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time … we need to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.”
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The richest 1% of adults control 43% of the world’s assets; the richest 10% have...
– Want to know more about the global elite? Our business editor, just returned from Davos, will soon be answering your questions on Twitter.
January 2011
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It is reported in London that William Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary,...
– It seems ”going forward” has infected the refined world of diplomacy just as thoroughly as the world of business. Sadly, so have “stakeholders”.
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