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2011-04-15 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Fred 2011-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 So far Muslims controlled oil & heroin. Now they also control chocolate.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-15 03:51|| 2011-04-15 03:51|| Front Page Top

#2 You're forgetting diamonds.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-15 07:19|| 2011-04-15 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 The real nugget is buried in the last graph:

"Gbagbo's ethnic group"

Posted by mojo 2011-04-15 11:31|| 2011-04-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "Gbagbo's ethnic group" Means faithful Black Christians and anyone else that did not support this scumbag Ouattara in the first place. Scumbag.

Posted by newc 2011-04-15 12:41|| 2011-04-15 12:41|| Front Page Top

#5 You're forgetting diamonds

I do?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-04-15 15:27|| 2011-04-15 15:27|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know, but I suspect that's who controls a lot of the diamond trade in the rest of West Africa. And if you notice, Cote D'Ivoire is right between two other diamond-producing regions. I am speculating, but I wouldn't be surprised, and if I had a diamond mine there, I'd sell them saying I bought them somewhere else in the region.

Checking Wackypedia:

Côte d'Ivoire (also known as the Ivory Coast) began to develop a fledgling diamond mining industry in the early 1990s. A coup overthrew the government in 1999, starting a civil war. The country became a route for exporting diamonds from Liberia and war-torn Sierra Leone.[4][12] Foreign investment began to withdraw from the Ivory Coast. To curtail the illegal trade, the nation stopped all diamond mining, and the UN Security Council banned all exports of diamonds from Côte d'Ivoire in December 2005.[4] However, despite UN sanctions the illicit diamond trade still exists in Côte d'Ivoire. Rough diamonds are exported out of the country to neighboring states and international trading centers through the northern, Forces Nouvelles controlled section of the country, a group which is reported to be using these funds to re-arm.[13][14]

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-15 16:00|| 2011-04-15 16:00|| Front Page Top

#7 On second thought, I don't really understand what's going on. They closed DOWN their legitimate _diamond mine_ in a grievously poor country because someone might use it for cover for diamonds from elsewhere?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-15 16:05|| 2011-04-15 16:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and I suspect Forces Nouvelles were the predecessor group to the guys the UN and France just put in charge of the country.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-15 16:13|| 2011-04-15 16:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Same folks. A continuation of the Christian-Animist locals vs Muslim immigrants civil war, now with the UN/France providing firepower for Muslims.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 16:17|| 2011-04-15 16:17|| Front Page Top

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