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This use of artillery intensified after revolutionary forces pushed deep into Sirte on Saturday, seizing the vast pan-African conference center that Col.

Libya Rebels Press Attack on Gadhafi's Hometown Yaroslav Trofimov 2011

But China built the line, between 1970 and 1975, at the behest of two African leaders: Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, who wanted to open up the remote south of his country and bolster his pan-African credentials; and President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, whose landlocked country was seeking an alternative to the trade routes south through white-ruled Rhodesia.

The Next Empire 2010

The Communist bosses in Central Asia who reinvented themselves as supreme leaders of the - stans are a good case in point, though an interesting anomaly here might be Gadhafi in Libya, who has always balanced nationalistic leanings, first with pan-Arab and now pan-African ones.

Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In 2009

In just the past six months, he has played in a pan-African band organized by Quincy Jones, toured in a duo with singer-guitarist Raúl Midón, collaborated with the Danish Radio Orchestra and toured Japan with a big band dedicated to the legacy of bassist Jaco Pastorius.

At Home in Music's World Larry Blumenfeld 2011

Mr. Walter's view was shared by Edward George , soft commodities analyst at pan-African banking group Ecobank Transnational Inc., who said the supply of cocoa is forecast to outpace demand in the 2011-12 marketing year as poor prospects for global economic growth are seen weakening chocolate consumption.

Cocoa Supply Plentiful as EU, U.S. Chocolate Demand Stays Flat Neena Rai 2011

In some respects it's a return to my teenage patterns, with the absence of dedicated night periods involving DX-ing radio stations (one of my regular entertainments was a show called Bleecker Street on a radio station out of Little Rock, Arkansas, which helped add a dimension to the pan-African/surreal Jamaican of overnight RJR-FM and the mad variance of Radio Nederland, which had a Caribbean repeater.)

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But China built the line, between 1970 and 1975, at the behest of two African leaders: Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, who wanted to open up the remote south of his country and bolster his pan-African credentials; and President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, whose landlocked country was seeking an alternative to the trade routes south through white-ruled Rhodesia.

The Next Empire 2010

She spoke in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital.

Hillary Clinton Warns Africa Of 'New Colonialism' 2011

Such a shift would be a setback to the Libyan leader, who has been an influential figure in pan-African politics for more than 40 years.

AU Summit Endorses Libya Peace Map, Demands Air Strikes Halt 2011

She spoke in a pan-African television interview in the Zambian capital.

Hillary Clinton Warns Africa Of 'New Colonialism' 2011