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Gaddafi's demise did not result in the hoped-for democratic revolution. Four years on, instead of forming a democratic and functioning state, the revolutionaries are fighting each other. Libya’s recently elected House of Representatives has fled to the eastern city of Tobruk as an alternative government has established itself in Tripoli. Thousands of people detained in 2011 are still in prison and without a fully functioning justice system look...
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The national unrest in Liberia has been called "a civil war on steroids." With child soldiers smoking heroin and rebels boasting of cannibalism, the country may be teetering on the brink of anarchy. In this program, reporters from Vice magazine travel to Liberia to meet with former warlords in Monrovia's red light district. An ex-guerilla-turned-Christian-minister introduces the journalists to young people who grew up amidst violence and systematic...
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In the first volume of his monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson tells the riveting story of the war in North Africa.
The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation
10) Building Bridges
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Countries from Vietnam to Kenya hope to pave the way for successful industrialization by building bridges with Japan.
11) North Africa
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This volume, focusing on the region of North Africa, presents articles on ethnic groups; material culture; performing arts and literature; and religion, society, and culture.
12) People for Sale
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"You are watching the auction of human beings." With those words, CNN's award-winning investigative journalist Nima Elbagir shattered the world's hope that slavery was confined to history. Elbagir's explosive under-cover footage shows Libyan "auctioneers" selling African migrants in an open-air market for as little as $400 USD. They call the men "merchandise." CNN's investigation ignited protests around the world, prompted world leaders to issue harsh...
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Two years after CNN exposed "Chocolate's Child Slaves," correspondent Richard Quest takes The CNN Freedom Project back to the cocoa plantations of the Ivory Coast. It is a journey that will take him in search of progress in the fight against child labor, which ultimately has its roots embedded in poverty. Following the supply chain, from bean to bar, Quest will examine the collective efforts to reform the cocoa industry—the fundamental socioeconomic...
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"Lincoln Smith, a young Texan living at the beginning of the twentieth century, thinks of himself as the last true cowboy. He longs for the days of the Old West, when men like his father, a famous Texas Ranger, lived by the chivalric code. Lincoln finds himself hopelessly out of time and place in the fast-changing United States of the new century. When he gets his heart broken by a sweetheart who doesn't appreciate his anachronistic tendencies, he...
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For forty years now the Sahrawi people have lived in exile. Their home: five refugee camps in one of the hottest parts of the desert where summer temperatures reach over 50 degrees centigrade. Having fled the Moroccan invasion of their homeland, Western Sahara, over 100,000 people now live in what is in effect an open prison where they are completely dependent on the World Food Programme for their survival. Yet they continue to dream of the prospect...
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Gold was in high demand in North Africa, and its source was the gold mines in sub-Saharan Africa, resulting long routes being forged across the desert. Alice Morrison hitches a ride in a crowded taxi of locals, Alice passes through the Islamic city of Fes, where she stays in a caravanserai; catches the Marrakech Express to the market town of Marrakech, where she learns to treat leather; treks in snow and storms across the mighty Atlas Mountains dotted...
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Alice Morrison treks across the Sahara via camelback. Her journey is halted by the closed border between Algeria and Morocco so she heads west on another trading route. She stops in Tamegroute, where she finds a hidden library of ancient books, before reaching Guelmim with its bustling livestock market. Border disputes halt Alice’s journey on the salt roads and she flies to Mali, Bamako where she visits the source of Timbuktu’s wealth. When she...
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Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.
The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub — and its barren and ever-changing coastline...
The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub — and its barren and ever-changing coastline...