technoccult articles in august, 2010

African Food Production Challenged by ‘Land Grab’ for Biofuels . August 31, 2010 / Klint Finley . . . European Union countries must drop their biofuels targets or else risk plunging more Africans into hunger and raising carbon emissions, according to Friends of the Earth (FoE). . ..

government news 20/10

NEPAD is a socio-economic development flagship programme of the African Union (AU), adopted by African leaders at the 37th Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) held in Lusaka, Zambia, in July 2001. . ..

when the klan came to town

This resistance comprised disparate communities—Catholics, Jews, African Americans, bootleggers, union organizers—unified against the KKK’s vision for the United States. ... The Klan also ran into resistance in the steel and coal regions of Appalachia, where organized labor,..

jonathan masters

Al-Shabab remains capable of carrying out massive attacks in Somalia and surrounding countries despite a decade-long African Union offensive against the Islamist group.  . ..

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