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New Analysis: July 3, 2009

By Justin Long ⋅ July 3, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

AFRICA’S HEAVY TOLL: Globalization was supposed to be the continent’s answer, but after years of progress that very integration has spawned the worst slump in decades. (Globe & Mail)

The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: Here comes trouble: looking at the regional dimensions of the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Economist.com…)

The sex industry in Cambodia: The traffic police: briefly examines different approaches to controlling the sex trade, in particular locking workers up rather than helping them get out of the business. (Economist.com)

Bangladesh’s government: Keeping its head above water: hundreds of thousands homeless after the Cyclone Aila; much of the area still under water; 4.8 million affected, and more. (Economist.com…)

Crisis in Sudan: The promise and peril of independence: Africa may get a new state (South Sudan) in 2011, but “it could well start life as a prefailed state.”

Rural Advertising Comes to Life in India. International brands send traveling salesmen to spread global consumerism to India, one village at a time (WSJ).

Sri Lanka Begins Painful Reconciliation: the government is now confronting the fallout from its fight with the Tamil Tigers.

Frontier Church Ministers to Taliban and Christians Alike: an article giving insight into the lives of 100,000 Christians who live with the Taliban in northwest Pakistan.

GLOBAL: Refugees in the spotlight. Countries with more than 1 million IDPs include: Columbia, 3m; Iraq 2.6m, Pakistan 2.5m, Sudan 2m, DRC 1.5m, Congo 1.3m, Uganda 1.2m. Countries hosting more than 1 million refugees (from other countries): Pakistan 1.8m, Syria 1.1m, Iran 0.9m, Germany 0.6m, Jordan 0.5m, Chad 0.3m, Tanzania 0.3m, Kenya 0.3m (IRIN, with link to UNHCR’s Global Trends annual report).

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