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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?

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To: epicure who wrote (44)	4/27/2003 4:16:30 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 1267

Blood diamonds have been financing and causing atrocities in Africa for a few decades now. If the illicit trade didn't threaten the DeBeers cartel, the laws you see now probably never would have happened. "Blood oil" financed much of the civil war in Angola for decades (diamonds financed part of it too). And you and I were paying the tab at our local Gulf and Mobil and Exxon stations. It's a bad confluence of greedy international companies and corrupt, ruthless leaders (in government and in the bush) that make this whole sick circle go around. It won't stop until one or both are gone. So it goes on and on and on and on....

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