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Le Monde diplomatique January 2003 In this issue: AFRICA: EXTERNAL INTEREST AND INTERNAL INSECURITY The new Gulf oil states by JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SERVANT The United States used to attach little importance to Africa, but now it is reviewing its oil sources strategy and sub-Saharan Africa, with its good quality reserves, could account for 25% of all US crude oil imports by 2015. Translated by Harry Forster <http://MondeDiplo.com/2003/01/08oil> Gangsters in uniform * by ANATOLE AYISSI Africa's armies are despised and feared, divided between the many marginalized and penniless men at the bottom and the few privileged and often corrupt men at the top, who operate on the political scene. Translated by Luke Sandford IVAN ILLICH: A TRIBUTE The nonconformist * by THIERRY PACQUOT Ivan Illich, who died last month in Bremen, Germany, where he taught at the university, won international recognition in the 1970s for his original and still influential ideas about technical progress, health, work, consumerism and human dignity. Everyone opposed to globalisation and standardisation owes him a debt. Translated by Harry Forster ____________________________________________________________ (*) Star-marked articles are available to paid subscribers only. Yearly subscription fee: 24 US $ (Institutions 48 US $). ______________________________________________________________ For more information on our English edition, please visit http://MondeDiplo.com/ To subscribe to our free "dispatch" mailing-list, send an (empty) e-mail to: dispatch-on@monde-diplomatique.fr English language editorial director: Wendy Kristianasen _______________________________________________________ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 1997-2003 Le Monde diplomatique
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