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Bestselling books the week of 10/18/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 10/11/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 10/4/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 9/27/12, according to IndieBound*
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Opinion Beyond Kony 2012, child soldiers are used in most civil wars
Kony 2012 campaign calls for plastering posters everywhere tonight. But the use of child soldiers goes far beyond warlord Kony and his LRA. It is the norm in most civil wars. Governments, too, use children to fight. One way to stop it: Deny military aid to these governments.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/19/12, according to IndieBound*
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Backchannels Coup predictions: Africa doesn't look as volatile as you might think
Recent coups in Mali and Guinea-Bissau don't amount to a big continental shift, according to a new statistical analysis.
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Bestselling books the week of 4/12/12, according to IndieBound*
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Backchannels Did Libya's revolution topple Mali into crisis?
Maybe, but the Tuaregs have longed for independence for decades, and Mali's security has been declining for years.
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After Qaddafi, Libya's east tires of Tripoli too
Oil-rich eastern Libya is looking for greater autonomy after playing a major role in deposing Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
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Africa Monitor Chad: a closer look at the food crisis
The current food crisis in Chad could affect 3.6 million people, writes guest blogger Alex Thurston.
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Bestselling books the week of 3/15/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 3/1/12, according to IndieBound*
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In Nigeria, Somalia, and Afghanistan: what is a foreign fighter?
In countries where colonial borders don't reflect ethnic or family ties, it's not as easy to decide who is a foreigner. Yet Nigeria has deported 11,000 foreigners in the past six months on suspicion of Islamist sympathies.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/23/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 2/16/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 2/9/12, according to IndieBound*
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With oil pipeline attack, Niger Delta rebels announce return
After a year long truce, Niger Delta rebel group MEND launched an attack on an oil pipeline. MEND's attacks come as Nigeria's military is struggling with the Islamist Boko Haram movement in the north.
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Famine ends in Somalia, as drought looms in West Africa
Aid groups say that improved harvests and food donations have ended risk of starvation, but warn that ongoing war in Somalia could still reverse gains made.
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Bestselling books the week of 2/2/12, according to IndieBound*
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Bestselling books the week of 1/26/12, according to IndieBound*
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Global News Blog Aid groups: With new Africa drought looming, donors must speed response
Aid groups warned that a drought was coming to the Horn of Africa in 2011, and say now that a late response by donor nations unnecessarily cost thousands of lives.
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Bestselling books the week of 1/19/12, according to IndieBound*
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Difference Maker Tom Prichard pursues peace, education in South Sudan
American Tom Prichard founded Sudan Sunrise to promote religious harmony and build schools in the new nation of South Sudan.
12/27/2011 11:03 am -
HBO makes great TV from books
How do you compress a complicated novel into a two-hour, cinema-friendly format? The answer, most often, is: you can't. A better solution for many authors is to have their books turned into HBO series. The end result is often an in-depth adaptation – with story and characters intact – that would have been impossible get at the multiplex. Here are some of the best-known books that have been turned into successful HBO series – with many more to come.
12/19/2011 03:53 pm -
On the Economy Unemployment rate decline not as good as it sounds
People who drop out of the labor force, like those who give up looking for work, are not counted in the jobless rate, and about half of the 0.4 percentage point decline was due to this factor. In fact, about 190,000 of the unemployed left the labor force last month.
12/02/2011 04:00 pm -
Bestselling books the week of 12/1/11, according to IndieBound*
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11/30/2011 12:18 pm -
Africa Monitor Sahel grapples with food insecurity
There are major food production shortfalls across the Sahel – the band of countries south of the Sahara – that will jeopardize food availability next year.
11/21/2011 02:17 pm -
Bestselling books the week of 10/27/11, according to IndieBound*
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10/25/2011 04:02 pm
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