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  1. Geopolitics and giant goats: thoughts from a week in Dakar

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 12 October 2009

    By Ilmari Soininen, KF9 UIMCEC Dakar, Senegal “Africa lite” is how a retired career diplomat once described Senegal to me. Glancing at a map of West Africa he may have a point. Bloody diamond-fuelled conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia, violent Islamic extremism in Mali and Mauritania and the recent military coup in Guinea make Senegal look like [...]

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