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  • Africa turmoil looms over food price rise

    05/28/2011 3:09:59 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 19 replies
    UPI ^ | May 25, 2011 | unattributed
    Africa is facing what African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka calls a "Molotov cocktail" of rising food and oil prices that analysts fear could trigger widespread political upheaval like that which has swept the Arab world since January. There are concerns that the turmoil in North Africa, embracing Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Algeria, could mutate south into the sub-Saharan heart of the conflict-ridden continent, where democracy is in its infancy, although growing, populations are swelling and corruption and unemployment are rife. At the same time, popular anger is rising as foreign governments and corporations are pouncing on the continent's...