Because of an insufficient and cheaper alternative to charcoal and a large former refugee population, tree felling and a great dependence on charcoal in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are adversely affecting the environment.
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With the enthusiastic complicity of the State and the participation of Canadian, US, British and South African transnational mining companies, Venezuela is seeing the execution of a project promoting the immediate exploitation of a rich gold reserve which, according to its promoters and beneficiaries, will turn out to be the discovery of the famous El [...] In 1880 the Italian explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza founded a new city in an African village called Nkuna. Brazzaville, capital of the Republic of Congo, was born. One hundred twenty-three years later, a 2003 survey found Brazzaville the worst city in the world in which to live. When Islam Karimov became the president of Uzbekistan in 1990, his country was officially called the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and was part of the USSR. In 1991 he declared Uzbekistan an independent state and maintained his presidency in an election that, according to every international group that monitors elections, was fixed. [...] The Hemmingway classic, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, may need a new title. Scientists are concerned that global warming may cause Mount Kilimanjaro, known as the “The Shining Mountain” (Kilima Njaro in Swahili) to shine no more. |
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