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GUINEA News:
20080119
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- "A
New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories."
... "Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest
slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States
are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new
factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners
unable to afford the raw material." ... "This is the other oil shock. From
India to Indiana, shortages and soaring prices for palm oil, soybean oil
and many other types of vegetable oils are the latest, most striking example
of a developing global problem: costly food." ... "The food price index
of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, based on
export prices for 60 internationally traded foodstuffs, climbed 37 percent
last year. That was on top of a 14 percent increase in 2006, and the trend
has accelerated this winter." ... "In some poor countries, desperation
is taking hold. Just in the last week, protests have erupted in Pakistan
over wheat shortages, and in Indonesia over soybean shortages. Egypt has
banned rice exports to keep food at home, and China has put price controls
on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs." ... "According to the F.A.O.,
food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico,
Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen." ... "A startling change is unfolding
in the world’s food markets. Soaring fuel prices have altered the equation
for growing food and transporting it across the globe. Huge demand for
biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using
it for food." ... "Cooking oil may seem a trifling expense in the West.
But in the developing world, cooking oil is an important source of calories
and represents one of the biggest cash outlays for poor families, which
grow much of their own food but have to buy oil in which to cook it." (1,
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-By Keith Bradsher with contributions by Andrew Martin,
Anand Giridharadas, and Michael Rubenstein
-NYTimes
20070618
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Analysis
- Countries
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-  Law
- Money
-  Environment
- Religion
-  Terrorism
-  Nuclear
-  Military
-  Politics
- "The
Failed States Index 2007." ... "The world’s weakest
states aren’t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress
and stability of countries half a world away." ... "The problems that plague
failing states are generally all too similar: rampant corruption, predatory
elites who have long monopolized power, an absence of the rule of law,
and severe ethnic or religious divisions." ... "For the second year in
a row, Sudan tops the rankings as the state most at risk of failure. The
primary cause of its instability, violence in the country’s western region
of Darfur, is as well known as it is tragic. At least 200,000 people—and
perhaps as many as 400,000—have been killed in the past four years by janjaweed
militias armed by the government, and 2 to 3 million people have fled their
torched villages for squalid camps as the violence has spilled into the
Central African Republic and Chad. These countries were hardly pictures
of stability prior to the influx of refugees and rebels across their borders;
the Central African Republic plays host to a modern-day slave trade, and
rebels attacked Chad’s capital in April 2006 in a failed coup attempt.
But the spillover effects from Sudan have a great deal to do with the countries’
tumble in the rankings, demonstrating that the dangers of failing states
often bleed across borders. That is especially worrying for a few select
regions. This year, eight of the world’s 10 most vulnerable states are
in sub-Saharan Africa, up from six last year and seven in 2005." ... "That
is not to say that all failing states suffer from international neglect.
Iraq and Afghanistan, the two main fronts in the global war on terror,
both suffered over the past year. Their experiences show that billions
of dollars in development and security aid may be futile unless accompanied
by a functioning government, trustworthy leaders, and realistic plans to
keep the peace and develop the economy." ... "Today, two countries among
the world’s 15 most vulnerable, North Korea and Pakistan, are members of
the nuclear club. Their profiles could hardly be less similar: The former
faces the very real prospect of economic collapse, followed by massive
human flight, while the latter presides over a lawless frontier country
and a disenchanted Islamist opposition whose ranks grow by the day." (1
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"The world’s weakest states are also the most religiously intolerant",
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"several vulnerable states took a step back from the brink",
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"Three of the five worst performing states—Chad, Sudan, and Zimbabwe—have
leaders who have been in power for more than 15 years",
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"correlation between stability and environmental sustainability",
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"world’s failing states tend to cluster together",
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"A dozen countries among the 60 most vulnerable contain “virtual states”",
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Failed State Rankings,
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"FAQ and Methodology"
-FundForPeace.org/fsi
-ForeignPolicy.com
[Below are the 20 most vulnerable countries out of
60 countries listed out of 177 countries examined and ranked by the
Fund for Peace's Conflict
Assessment System Tool (CAST) that uses 12
indicators of country vulnerability for it's country stability analysis.]
"[Failed
State] The Rankings."
-FundForPeace.org/fsi -ForeignPolicy.com
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Sudan
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Iraq
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Somalia
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Zimbabwe
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Chad
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Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire)
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Afghanistan
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Guinea
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Central African Republic
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Haiti
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Pakistan
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North Korea
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Burma (Myanmar)
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Uganda
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Bangladesh
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Nigeria
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Ethiopia
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Burundi
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Timor-Leste (East Timor)
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- "Rebels
strike back at gates of Liberian capital." ... "Liberian
rebels have struck into the outskirts of the capital Monrovia, sending
thousands of people fleeing for safety and shattering hopes of a peaceful
end to West Africa's bloodiest war." ... "Founded by freed American slaves
in the 19th century, Liberia has known little but killing and chaos since
1989. Its war has sent savage offshoots into neighbouring Sierra Leone,
Guinea and Ivory Coast." ... "Two rebel factions controlling 60 percent
of the country are determined to get rid of Taylor, a former warlord who
won 1997 elections and has been indicted by a U.N.-backed court for war
crimes in Sierra Leone." -By Alphonso Toweh-Reuters
via -MSNBC
20030313
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- "Japan
lobbies Security Council for support of US stance on Iraq."
... "Usually reluctant to step into the fray, Japan's leaders are working
the phones to persuade the UN Security Council to back the United States
on Iraq." ... "In the past few days, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has
called five of the six undecided council members - Pakistan, Chile, Guinea,
Cameroon, and Mexico - to urge them to support Washington. He's also warned
that a divided Security Council could undermine the United Nations' authority,
officials say." -By Kenji Hall
-AP via -Boston/Globe
20030309
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- "US
push for Iraq deadline quickens: Bush leads
intensive effort on UN resolution." ... "President Bush, spending the weekend
at the White House, where several thousand antiwar protesters gathered
yesterday, again made his case for quick action in Iraq." ... "''Unfortunately,
it is clear that Saddam Hussein is still violating the demands of the United
Nations by refusing to disarm,'' he said in his weekly radio address."
... "Council members who said they would vote against war, including veto-wielding
France and Russia, maintained that the destruction of the missiles is a
significant step forward and continued to press for more inspections. Paris
dispatched Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin on a whistle-stop tour
of three African states - Angola, Cameroon, and Guinea - to urge them to
reject the US-backed resolution." -By Bryan Bender
and Geneive Abdo -Boston/Globe
20030225
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- "Who
is for and who against a war on Iraq?" ... "A new
resolution on Iraq which Washington would like passed by mid-March will
need backing from at least nine of the 15 members of the U.N. Security
Council, and no vetoes." -Reuters
-AlertNet.org/Newsdesk
currently calculates four Security Council member countries are for a new
resolution: the US, UK, Spain, and Bulgaria; six member countries have
voiced opposition to a new resolution: China, France, Germany, Mexico,
Russia, and Syria; and five member countries are "unclear": Angola, Cameroon,
Chile, Guinea, and Pakistan.
The
five permanent UN Security Council members can each independently veto
any resolution.
Permanent
Members: France, China, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United
States
Rotating
Members:
Angola,
Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, Germany, Guinea, Mexico, Pakistan, Spain, Syrian
Arab Republic
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