Eden Textile Launches Recycling Program to Benefit Africa
It is a common complaint in Africa that even the most heinous crimes of some of its leaders and warlords merit barely a flicker of attention in the rest of the world while they are being perpetrated. As the genocidal slaughter began in Rwanda in 1994, TV viewers in Britain and United States were transfixed by the high-speed Californian car chase that ended in the arrest of O. J. Simpson. And for much of the 1990s, the murder and mutilation inflicted on the population of Sierra Leone in a conflict about "blood diamonds" was largely ignored outside West Africa until Britain's military...
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