Emile Schepers
LATEST ARTICLES BY Emile Schepers
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Peace
Oil in the balance in Sudan-South Sudan war
April 30, 2012A full scale war may be developing between two key oil-producing countries in Africa, Sudan and South Sudan.
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Labor
Reverberations of Mexico Walmart scandal
April 30, 2012The accusations, which workers have leveled at the giant range from desecration of the important archeological site of Teotihuacan to the introduction of genetically-modified foods.
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World
Guinea Bissau: From Africa’s bright hope to narco state?
April 16, 2012Elements of the armed forces of the small West African Republic of Guinea Bissau seized the capital and arrested Acting President Raimundo Pereira and the former prime minister, Carlos Gomes Junior.
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World
Big push for freedom for the Cuban 5
April 12, 2012A broader-than-ever coalition of organizations, activists and well-known artists will be going to Washington to break through the wall of silence.
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World
As rebels seize half of Mali, the whole Sahel region is destabilized
April 4, 2012Tuareg separatist rebels and their shaky Islamist allies seized more than half of Mali, setting alarm bells ringing in all of West Africa and beyond.
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World
What’s behind the coup in Mali?
March 27, 2012On March 22, soldiers of the Republic of Mali in West Africa, led by junior officers, carried out a coup d'état against the elected president, Amadou Toumani Touré.
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World
Europe and Africa: a genocidal history
March 21, 2012During the "scramble for Africa" at the end of the 19th century, Germany had entered the game partly for economic and partly for geopolitical reasons.
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U.S.
Santorum played the clown in Puerto Rico
March 19, 2012The minute Santorum opened his mouth, he managed to infuse an unusual degree of unity in the Puerto Rican political scene, around the following concept: Santorum is an ass.
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