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South Africa: All in the Family
Rattling racial skeletons There is a well-worn jest in South Africa that the country's “colored problem” actually began about nine months after the first Dutch settlers landed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.
Somali Pirate Attacks Persist Despite Global Navy Effort
Correction appended April 28, 2010 This time last year, Somali pirates dominated headlines in the U.S. The hijacking of the Maersk Alabama, a tanker captained by an American, led to a made-for-Hollywood intervention by sharp-shooting Navy SEALS and triggered a media frenzy about the rise of piracy off the Horn of Africa
The Spirit of the Orient Express
Fed up with the delays, cattle seating, security lines and inferior food associated with air travel?
Study: Neanderthal DNA Lives On in Modern Humans
Correction Appended: May 8, 2010A decade after scientists first cracked the human genome, researchers announced in the May 7 issue of Science that they have done the same for Neanderthals, the species of hominid that existed from roughly 400,000 to 30,000 years ago, when their closest relatives, early modern humans, may have driven them to extinction. Led by ancient-DNA expert Svante Pbo of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, scientists reconstructed about 60% of the Neanderthal genome by analyzing tiny chains of ancient DNA extracted from bone fragments of three female Neanderthals excavated in the late 1970s and early ’80s from a cave in Croatia.
Sharing the Load
The farmers of western Niger normally spend the first few months of every year filling their mud-brick storage bins with grain.
Why Iran is Nervous About Iraq’s Oil Production
Iran may have had a political boost from the Arab Spring in North Africa and the Middle East — with some new regimes apparently more sympathetic toward Tehran while others brace themselves against the Iranian regime’s influence among opposition movements in the region. But there is no attendant economic windfall to all the change
Will Goodluck Jonathan Bring Good Luck to Nigeria?
At first glance, the election of Nigeria’s incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, who took nearly 60% of the votes cast, signals more of the same.
Behind the Migrant Row, Europe Keeps Shifting to the Far Right
When France temporarily blocked trains from Italy headed to French coastal destinations over the weekend, the move marked a dramatic escalation in the two countries’ spat over how to handle migrants fleeing unrest in North Africa — and raised legal questions about fundamental travel accords long embraced many European Union member states.
Africa’s Star? New Hope for Nigeria
On a visit to Nigeria eight years ago, Felix Ekundayo spotted what he thought was the perfect business opportunity.