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Nina writes about what it feels like to discover that you’ve got very few rights once you’re on the wrong side of the Chinese authorities
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Deby closes the border with Sudan, displays captured rebels in N’Djamena
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Excellent analysis of the roots of the Chad situation from the London Times
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A bit of good news – Burundi is now so stable that they no longer feel the need for the midnight to dawn curfew… which was increasingly being ignored…
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Artemisinin is effective against choloroquine-resistant malarias, and might be economically produced from genetically engineered yeast or, better yet, bacteria
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This was the bright spot of my Friday. Several of the comments are as funny as the main post… though I may need to spring to the defense of poor, overeager Perl sometime soon