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All About Africa
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Conflict in Africa"There have been over eighty violent or unconstitutional changes of government; nearly ninety leaders have been deposed; at least twenty-five heads of government have been killed in political violence. Thirty-one countries have been plagued by the violent overthrow of government, and in twenty of them this kind of political turmoil has occured more than once. Benin had six coups, five different constitutions and twelve heads of state all within the first ten years of independence... [But] what [these figures] hide is the relentless, gruelling, dispiriting, demoralising, enervating, corrupting, painful slide into the disgrace of poverty, ignorance and ill health that has disfigured virtually every family in Africa." - George Alagiah, A Passage to Africa. Related Links
Landmine Action, an organization who deal with the disabling of landmines.
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