Africa.

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Ethnic conflict in the Darfur region of SUDAN where Arab militias have been attacking black villages for several years, has Left 300,000 people dead and displaced 2.7 million more.

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President Robert Mugabe's 30-year reign over ZIMBABWE has Ieft a once-vibrant economy in ruins. In June 2008, Mugabe held on to power in an election widely condemned as a sham.

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Although it is still recovering from the 1994 genocide that kilted more than 800,000, RWANDA is making real...