Africa on the Edge. Ray Wilkinson.
by Wilkinson, Ray; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 72Global Issues. Publisher: Refugees, 2003ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Africa -- Economic conditions | Africa -- Social conditions | Burundi -- History -- Civil War (1993- ) | Civil war -- Africa | Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War (1996- ) | Humanitarian assistance -- Africa | Liberia -- History -- Civil War, 1989- | Refugees -- African | United Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Deep in the heart of the Congo basin, some three million people, perhaps many more, perished during an ongoing war described as the deadliest documented conflict in Africa's history. And even as American marines mopped up last pockets of resistance in Baghdad in the full glare of thousands of television cameras, hundreds of people were being slaughtered almost unnoticed in the latest atrocity in one remote corner of the Congo region." (REFUGEES) This article describes the violent conflicts in West Africa which "seem almost incomprehensible" in today's world of "short wars, 'controlled' numbers of casualties and sanitized images."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Africa on the Edge, Vol. 2 No. 131, 2003; pp. 12-27.
"Deep in the heart of the Congo basin, some three million people, perhaps many more, perished during an ongoing war described as the deadliest documented conflict in Africa's history. And even as American marines mopped up last pockets of resistance in Baghdad in the full glare of thousands of television cameras, hundreds of people were being slaughtered almost unnoticed in the latest atrocity in one remote corner of the Congo region." (REFUGEES) This article describes the violent conflicts in West Africa which "seem almost incomprehensible" in today's world of "short wars, 'controlled' numbers of casualties and sanitized images."
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