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Tiny African Nation, Helpless to Fight Back, Is Overtaken by Drug Trade
Lacking boats, planes, or for a while even handcuffs, Guinea-Bissau can do little against the flow of cocaine that moves in from South America and out to Europe
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Lacking boats, planes, or for a while even handcuffs, Guinea-Bissau can do little against the flow of cocaine that moves in from South America and out to Europe
Mujahid Safodien/Reuters
Speculators, among them Muammar Qaddafi, are snatching up much of Africa's arable soil -- enough acreage to cover Norway in a single year -- driving up food prices and leaving locals homeless
Antony Njuguna / Reuters
As new technology brings Africans online, everyone from Google to local developers are looking to seize the growing market
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