Can west Africa’s jewel regain its shine?
A year after ending a nasty civil war, President Alassane Ouattara is struggling to make peace permanent (0)
Thursday May 24th 2012
Middle East & Africa
Cote d'Ivoire
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What we're reading
Syria's religious minorities
(The Daily Star Lebanon)
Yemen's new president
(Sami Moubayed in The Huffington Post)
Sierra Leone's vagabond king
(New Statesman)
Kony is not in Uganda: #Kony2012
(Michael Wilkerson at ForeignPolicy.com)
Syria and the post-Assad unknowns
(Stephen Cook at CFR.org)
Highlights
Racism in Lebanon
Black is not thought beautiful
Racial intolerance is pervasive in Lebanon and in much of the region
African child mortality
The best story in development
Africa is experiencing some of the biggest falls in child mortality ever seen, anywhere
The Lord’s Resistance Army
It hasn’t gone away
But the real problem is a lack of government in east and central Africa
The Economist Asks
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