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Article: 1998: ... as seen from the perspective of the majority world.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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OUR MEDIA FEED US NEWS DOMINATED BY RICH-WORLD EVENTS AND PREOCCUPATIONS. HERE THE NI REDRESSES THE BALANCE WITH AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW OF THE YEAR'S KEY EVENTS.
JANUARY
SOMALIA Rival Somali factions sign a peace agreement in Cairo to end six years of clan warfare and rebuild state institutions. The warlord Hussein Mohamed Aideed and his main rival, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, sign the deal after 40 days of negotiation.
ALGERIA More than 400 villagers are slaughtered on the first evening of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim year, in attacks on remote hamlets around the town of Relizane, west of Algiers. The Armed Islamic Group, the dissident wing of ...