Western Africa

A Case for Impeachment of President Bush

Authors: Ross C. Anderson

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Impeachment is a vital protection against evisceration of the balance of power among the three branches of government.

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Western Saharans Resist Moroccan Occupation

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Authors: Stephen Zunes

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Western Sahara is a sparsely populated territory about the size of Colorado, located on the Atlantic coast in northwestern Africa just south of Morocco. Traditionally inhabited by nomadic Arab tribes, collectively known as Sahrawis and famous for their long history of resistance to outside domination, the territory was occupied by Spain from the late 1800s through the mid-1970s, well over a decade after most African countries had achieved their freedom from European colonialism.

The nationalist Polisario Front launched an armed independence struggle against Spain in 1973, and Madrid eventually promised the people of what was then still known as the Spanish Sahara a referendum on the fate of the territory by the end of 1975.

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Conscientious Objection to Female Genital Mutilation in Mali

Authors: Susan McLucas

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Dialogues about the girls' suffering have motivated 131 excisers to quit, and three villages to renounce the practice.

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