Mail & Guardian, LITA BARRETTO
India's resort state of Goa has been hit by several setbacks in the last 18 months, including high-profile crime and the knock-on effects of Islamist extremist attacks up the coast in Mumbai. But with each holiday season, a greater threat to the tourist trade emerges -- coastal erosion that is leading to fears that some of the former Portuguese colony's famous white sandy beaches could disappear for good.
02 September, 2009
LRA spreads fear and threat of famine in Congo
Mail & Guardian
Attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army are spreading fear and the threat of famine through previously undisturbed tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of Unicef warned on Tuesday. As many as 320 000 people have been displaced in the north of the country by the notorious rebel group as it extends its abduction and terror raids across the region
Attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army are spreading fear and the threat of famine through previously undisturbed tracts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of Unicef warned on Tuesday. As many as 320 000 people have been displaced in the north of the country by the notorious rebel group as it extends its abduction and terror raids across the region
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