In January 1991, Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, was consumed by the bloodiest battles of a three-year civil war as government troops tried to fight off a rebel attack. By the end, the rebels had won, and most of Mogadishu …
Omar Bongo, the president of the West African state of Gabon, was once famous on the continent for his fashionable clothes and colorful lifestyle. Bongo was never a model democrat, yet today the man is famous for freedom-sounding political remarks. …
In his presidential campaign in 1960, when the average number of unemployed workers was 3.9 million, John F. Kennedy made unemployment one of the major issues and promised to “get this country moving again.” After Kennedy won the election, there …
