Middle East & Africa
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If you can think of something even beastlier, do it
From 1988: Our correspondent reports on Iraq's chemical attack on a Kurdish town that killed thousands
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A world against itself
The Arab states would like to combine their strengths. But first, argues Peter David, they must decide whether they are one nation or many
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Thomas Sankara
Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader was assassinated by rivals on October 15th 1987. He sought to give his country dignity, The Economist wrote at the time
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Black revolt
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Give him his bread
In 1980, The Economist was optimistic about Zimbabwe's new leader, Robert Mugabe
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The coming of an obdurate messiah
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Voting with their stamping feet
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Flight from Angola
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Golden Dubai
1970: Dubai is in strange and welcome contrast to anywhere else on the Gulf
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We just want to teach them a lesson
On the Six-Day War of 1967 between Israel and the Arab armies that encircled it
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