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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Africa |
 | | They are represented by the Barabra, the Kabyles of the Atlas, the Tuareg of the Sahara, and the Moors of the western coast, and have had a considerable part in the formation of the so-called "Arab" populations of the "Barbary States". | | | It was thus that Islam gained the shores of the Red Sea, Somaliland, the Zanzibar coast as far as Kiloa, and the islands as far as the Comoto Islands and Madagascar. | | | The first historical record of the settlement of the Jews in Africa is the story of Joseph; but it is probable that there had been others there before him. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01181a.htm
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| | Online NewsHour: Africa Background Reports |
| | August 25, 2005 -- Tensions Over Oil in Nigeria Following his recent trip to Africa, NPR's Steve Inskeep reports on the tensions and violence rising in Nigeria as Shell Oil seeks the rights to drill there. | | | November 23, 2001 -- Egyptian Reaction Elizabeth Farnsworth reports from Cairo on the political repercussions of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. | | | February 1, 2001 -- Terrorism on Trial The trial of four suspects accused in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa opened today in New York. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/africa.html
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| | Indymedia South Africa |
| | The SASF 2005 provided a platform for networking against the world capitalist system that destroys lives for the sake of profits, and activists made sure that proposals were made to map out real alternatives. | | | Update: Letters of support from Zackie Achmat, Costa Gazi, Dennis Brutus, COMSA (UKZN's biggest union), academics from the University of Pretoria, Radio Al Ansaar and Monthly Review. | | | Finally, please email City Manager Mike Sutcliffe michael@demarcation.org.za to protest the brutal suppression of today's march. |
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| | Africa Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 118 BC the Numidian prince Jugurtha attempted the reunification of the smaller kingdoms under his rule. | | | The Vandals controlled the country as a warrior-elite, enforcing a policy of strict separation and suppressing the local Romano-African population, while persecuting the Catholic faith. | | | Called the "granary of the empire," North Africa, according to one estimate, produced 1 million tons of cereals each year, one-quarter of which was exported. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(province)
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| | Africa |
| | To face these challenges, the Wildlife Conservation Society has worked for decades with Africa’s governments, institutions and people to preserve its natural heritage for both wildlife and humans. | | | Today WCS funds research, training and applied conservation projects in 20 African countries and supports more African-based field scientists than any other conservation organization. | | | Extreme poverty, the highest human population growth rates in the world, limited economic opportunities, and rapidly changing political systems combine to create tremendous pressure on both people and natural resources. |
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http://www.wcs.org/international/Africa
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--Africa |
| | • Africa Intelligence-- Excellent source of news, analysis, and guides about the continent, individual countries, and top people, with archives. | | | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa-- News, information, many statistics, and many online reports are available free in full-text from this United Nations regional organization. | | | • Africa Action-- "National [U.S.] organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa. |
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http://www.etown.edu/vl/africa.html
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| | IOL: Africa |
| | [ Africa ] A meningitis epidemic in eastern Guinea has affected 168 people and killed 17 since the beginning of April, according to the Swiss branch of Doctors Without Borders. | | | [ Africa ] Suspected Algerian Islamist militants have killed seven people and wounded another eight at a bogus roadblock near the eastern town of Skikda, east of Algiers. | | | [ Africa ] Chimpanzees have attacked and killed a Sierra Leonean driver and injured three foreign visitors at a wildlife sanctuary near the town of Tacugama, according to police and officials from the reserve. |
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68
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| | African Studies Center Africa: Development |
| | This paper discusses the planning process involved everyone from youth, parents, volunteer leaders from the villages to representatives of government, NGOs, international agencies and donor groups to identify priority needs and interests among young people living in rural areas of Uganda. | | | The programs offer participants an opportunity to work with people who are in need of assistance and to also use the experience to educate others about the state of the world and the people in it. | | | The Economic Commission for Africa was established in 1958 when its Terms of Reference wereadopted by resolution 671A(XXV) of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on 29 April 1958. |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/About_African/ww_dev.html
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| | Uganda has dismissed claims made last month, that it has been secretly draining Lake Victoria to maintain electricity supplies. | | | Ironically, South Africa has one of the most liberal constitutions in the world, last year, the Constitutional Court ruled in favour of same sex marriages, making the country among a handful in the world to do so. | | | She said the AIDS epidemic is so massive that concerns about using inexperienced trial participants are outweighed by the benefits of bringing an effective microbicide to market as long as the trial is conducted ethically. |
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http://www.aviva.org/africa.htm
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| | INKPOT NEWS LINKS: AFRICA |
| | Draws from a data base of 18,000 articles appearing over the past five years in The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Africa Energy & Mining, La Lettre du Continent and Maghreb Confidentiel as well as all the biographies of African leaders published in the Top 100 People series. | | | Africa Intelligence: coverage of political and economic events in Africa. | | | This page was last updated on: September 8, 1998. |
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http://inkpot.com/news/africa.html
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| | USAID Africa |
| | The United States has extensive and growing ties with the continent of Africa. | | | The humanitarian emergency in Darfur is a direct result of violence and harassment directed toward the Fur, Zaghawa, and Masaalit civilian groups by Government of Sudan (GOS) forces and GOS-supported militia groups collectively known as Jingaweit. | | | Africa’s challenges are numerous and complex, but there is also much potential and opportunity for growth and development throughout the continent. |
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http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa
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| | africa maps of countries landforms rivers and information pages |
| | Africa, the planet's 2nd largest continent, includes (53) individual countries. | | | All maps, graphics, flags and original descriptions created by Graphic Maps, a d/b/a of the Woolwine-Moen Group, unless otherwise noted and/or directly linked to the source, and use of same for any application whatsoever (with the exception of outline maps) requires written permission. | | | Africa (Name the Country Map Test) and the answers here! |
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http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/af.htm
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| | An MBendi Profile: Africa: Exchanges - Stock Exchanges - Overview |
| | Sound corporate governance a guard against fraud and mismanagement | | | Africa's relative attractiveness as an emerging market has led to an improvement in foreign investment, with a concomitant increase in the number of bourses now operating on the continent. | | | There are a number of stock exchanges in Africa, most of whom are very small by world standards. |
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http://www.mbendi.co.za/exaf.htm
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| | Africa |
| | Havana’s Policy in Africa, 1959-76: New Evidence from Cuban Archives by Piero Gleijeses | | | Africa Religions and Missions 1913, "Africa Religions and Missions" from Literary and Historical Atlas of Africa and Australasia, by J.G.Bartholomew 1913. | | | RUSSIAN and EAST GERMAN DOCUMENTS ON THE HORN OF AFRICA, 1977-78 |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/africa.htm
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| | IPS- Regional Services- Asia -Pacific |
| | WASHINGTON, Apr 22 (IPS) The Western-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose credibility with some of its largest clients is eroding because of what they consider counter-productive economic policy advice, is facing renewed accusations that its prescriptions have compounded major health crises. | | | CAPE TOWN, Apr 21 (IPS) Officials in south Sudan are looking for foreign investment to develop the impoverished but oil-rich region that has been devastated by a 21-year conflict which ended last year. | | | JOHANNESBURG, Apr 14 (IPS) Activists lobbying for democratic reform in Swaziland have vowed to push ahead with their campaign, even though several of them were temporarily detained this week for blocking the five border posts between South Africa and Swaziland. |
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| | United Nations Integrated Regional Information Networks OCHA IRIN |
| | SOUTH AFRICA: Walking the long trail to reconciliation | | | BUJUMBURA, 21 April (IRIN) - Foreign ministers from four of Africa's Great Lakes countries adopted on Friday a "working document" that could result in sanctions being imposed on leaders of illegal armed groups that continue to destabilise peace and security in the region. | | | NDJAMENA, 21 April (IRIN) - As Chad prepares for presidential elections on 3 May IRIN finds the capital N’djamena’s residents desperate for a peaceful poll, fast losing patience with the incumbent President Idriss Deby, but divided in their support for the rebels. |
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| | allAfrica.com: Home |
| | China's interest in Africa's natural resources and investment opportunities will be solidified with President Hu Jintao's visit to Morocco, Nigeria, and Kenya after a brief stop in Saudi Arabia. | | | Chinese companies have invested heavily in the energy and construction sectors in many African countries, and analysts say Jintao also hopes to open up markets for Chinese goods. | | | South Africa Freedom Day: Concert on the Square (2001) |
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| | Reuters AlertNet - Africa |
| | No sign of end to Thailand crisis despite polls (3 hours ago) | | | U.S.: States Negligent in Use of Lethal Injections (3 hours ago) | | | Malaria still kills needlessly in Africa - effective drugs are not reaching patients |
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http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/countryprofiles/africa.htm
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| | Global Connections: Africa |
| | Church Agency Reaches out to Africa via Radio, UMNS | | | Washington Office on Africa (WOA) is a church-sponsored organization working toward a just American policy toward Africa | | | Africa Fund works for a positive U.S. policy towards Africa and supports human rights, democracy and development |
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| | AdmiNet - Africa |
| | The list of French embassies around the world | | | Darin Kinsey (a question about World War I)) | | | Macmillan in Africa - Publishing books for and about Africa since 1960. |
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| | Internet African History Sourcebook |
| | Africa: Political Entities Before the Scramble [At ASU] | | | It is not possible, in any non-ideological way, to claim any one of these peoples or societies as more essentially "African" than others; nor is it possible to exclude a given society as "not really African". | | | Africa is both the most clearly defined of continents - in its geography - and the hardest to pin down in historical terms. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
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| | Africa |
| | Mother & Child Reunion / Hot Pop / Buzz You / Promised Land / Richie The Rich / Eyes / Demonstration / Invasion / Just Do It / Proud / Don's Party / Africa Your Safe / Invasion | | | Miles Cleret speculates that perhaps first time around they did not sell as well as when Fela changed the name later on and began to gain more of a reputation. | | | This 10" LP was probably released in 1966 because Orlando Julius & His Modern Aces's 'Super AFro Soul' (PLP003) was released in 1966, too. |
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| | Mail & Guardian Online: Breaking news Africa |
| | Africa's last absolute monarch has invited banned opposition parties to enter the political playing field in Swaziland, speaking publicly on the issue for the first time in a rare interview. | | | Media reports say that about 52 people are killed every day in South Africa. | | | Algerian officials said 69-year-old Bouteflika, who was operated on for a bleeding stomach ulcer at a Paris military hospital last November, was in the country for a routine consultation. |
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http://www.mg.co.za/articleList.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa
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| | Central Africa |
| | After the death of its most important political leader, Boganda, David Dacko took power and became president. | | | French penetration goes back to 1889 when the city of Bangui “the rapid” was founded. | | | In 1905, under the name Ubangui-Chari it became a French colony and part of French Equatorial Africa, where it was defined the “poor relative”. |
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| | Africa - World News From African Newspapers - Worldpress.org |
| | Deby has survived more rebel attacks this month and maintains that presidential elections on May 3 — in which he will be running after doctoring the national constitution — will go ahead as planned. | | | In December, Raymond Majongwe became the third critic of Zimbabwean President Robert G. Mugabe's government to be placed under virtual country arrest when security agents seized his passport. | | | Soldiers are out in force on the streets of the Chadian capital N'Djamena after rapidly advancing rebel forces closed in on the city's outskirts late on Wednesday. |
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| | Africa Action: Activism for Africa Since 1953 |
| | Zimbabwe says it is prepared to give land to white farmers who had their property seized under land reforms. | | | Africa Action is the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs. | | | Africa Action also challenged the World Bank's new "anti-corruption" agenda..." Go > |
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| | africa.iafrica.com |
| | Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday accused political opponents of plotting to topple him and warned they were playing with fire. | | | The Chadian government on Monday accused neighbouring Sudan of forming a new rebel army to attack the country, but withdrew a threat to expel 200 000 refugees from the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur. | | | Ten former African presidents called on Africa's diaspora, especially in the US, to return and use their skills and economic power to help develop the world's poorest continent. |
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| | Independent Online Edition > Africa |
| | The munitions trail leads from the world's richest nations to its most impoverished corners. | | | Liberia asks Nigeria to hand over exiled former president | | | Voters have been to the polls to choose between a leading economist and a former prime minister in a run-off vote to select Benin's next leader. |
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| | Amazon.com: Africa: Books: Jane Goodall,Art Wolfe,Michelle A. Gilders |
| | This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. | | | Africa presents a selection from 20 years of his career, and it easily makes a place for itself in the crowded field of books about the second largest continent. | | | I suspect there are many photos in this book that overlap with his 'Tribes' book, so that is my next book from Art. |
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| | AfricaEducation Portal |
| | This is the site where you'll find out most of what's happening in the area of education and development in Africa. | | | For comments or questions regarding this website contact the Webmaster. | | | The African Virtual University's library contains around 2400 journals which are free and could be of help. |
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| | AfricaFocus home page |
| | But rich countries are still stalling on fairer international trade rules that would block such subsidies and other similar policies. | | | "Corruption is bleeding Africa to death and the cost is borne by the poor. | | | These fundamental prescriptions of our constitution of 11 December 1990 must resist all opportunistic revisionism, short-term interests and subjectivism." - Outgoing Benin President Mathieu Kerekou, who turned over the presidency on April 6 to his elected successor Yayi Boni, a strong critic of Kerekou's record. |
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| | The Africa Guide - Map of Africa |
| | Africa Political Enlarged Laminated Wall Map - MapsWorldwide | | | If you would like to view information for a particular country click on that country name. | | | An excellant popular political map of Africa and part of southern Europe. |
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| | Geographia - An Introduction to Africa |
| | Empires rose and fell in Africa thousands of years before the European powers began their protracted exploitation of the continent, and much pre-colonial culture remains intact. | | | Botswana's Kalahari desert is home to one of the Africa's most unique cultures, the resourceful bushmen who have lived there for thousands of years. | | | For those who wish to safari in style, South Africa has some marvelously developed parks. |
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| | African Timelines - Table of Contents |
| | "historical sources on the history of human societies in the continent of Africa": | | | debunk the myths and reveal the misperceptions that Western people have about Africa. | | | Today, the rich history of the continent is being rediscovered by the rest of the world." |
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimelinetoc.htm
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| | United Nations - OCHA IRIN Africa News |
| | DRC: Interview with Pierre Akele Adua, president of the Congolese military high court | | | BUJUMBURA, 21 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - Foreign ministers from four of Africa's Great Lakes countries adopted on Friday a "working document" that could result in sanctions being imposed on leaders of illegal armed groups that continue to destabilise peace and security in the region. | | | NDJAMENA, 21 Apr 2006 (IRIN) - As Chad prepares for presidential elections on 3 May IRIN finds the capital N’djamena’s residents desperate for a peaceful poll, fast losing patience with the incumbent President Idriss Deby, but divided in their support for the rebels. |
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| | Welcome to South Africa |
| | ETEYA Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 Entry Form. | | | Find out more information about Indaba 2006 and register online. | | | For hundreds of years, the West Coast has been the fish basket of South Africa, and has developed a character and culture all its own. |
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| | Africa Watch |
| | Below are links to the World Wide Web with information on Africa | | | Here are some materials on the relationship between Africa and the the western world. | | | Africa and the Media Schecter for ZNet, 2000 |
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http://www.zmag.org/racewatch/africawatch.cfm
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| | Atlas: Africa |
| | Africa Profile: History · Government · Economy · Population … | | | Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland (Lonely Planet South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland) by Becca Blond, Gemma Pitcher, Mary Fitzpatrick, … | | | Lonely Planet Southern Africa (Lonely Planet Southern Africa) by Deanna Swaney, Mary Fitzpatrick, Paul Greenway… |
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| | Africa - International News - New York Times |
| | Wole Soyinka's new memoir focuses on his political activity rather than his art. | | | Africa - International News - New York Times | | | Marc Lacey reports on the case of the stolen vigango, statues put up in Africa to appease the spirits of the dead. |
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| | OneWorld Africa home |
| | They are on hunger strike, believing that this is the only way under the current regime that they can get their issues into the limelight. | | | 23.01.2006 Africa, the world's poorest continent, for the first time is playing host to the World Social Forum, the anti-globalisation movement set up as a counterweight to a forum of the world's rich and powerful. | | | Bringing together a network of people and groups working for human rights and sustainable development from across the globe. |
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| | Sustainable Africa: Home |
| | South Africa: Cosatu to Protest State of Global Trade Talks With Strike | | | The provision of safe water and sanitation in African cities will benefit from $500 million in funding from the African Development Bank (ADB) in coming years under a landmark memorandum of understanding signed with the United Nations agency entrusted with promoting socially and environmentally sustainable cities. | | | Africa Action Confronts World Bank and IMF on Health Impact, Corruption |
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| | Technorati Tag: Africa |
| | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged Africa. | | | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | There is good news in Africa today as a report shows good economic growth through the countries making up Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/Africa
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| | World Economic Forum - World Economic Forum on Africa |
| | The Africa Economic Summit is the region's premier gathering of leaders from business, politics and civil society. | | | key economic policies in Africa through outcome-oriented sessions and the referral of key recommendations to African decision-making bodies | | | a rigorous, integrated view of the state of Africa's leading economies and contribute to developing the strategic insight to improve Africa’s competitiveness |
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| | CNN.com - WORLD/africa |
| | A program to resettle more than 300,000 Liberians who were forced to flee their homes during the country's 14 years of civil war has been completed, the United Nations said on Friday. | | | Nigeria ordered a final debt repayment to rich lending nations on Friday, completing Africa's biggest debt relief deal that will free up billions of dollars in coming years to fight poverty. | | | • Taylor trial ups hope for justice in Africa |
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