decision was taken to upgrade the system following a review of the rate at which we are activating capacity. By utilising 40Gbps wavelengths‚ the EASSy system will be able to continue to offer the most cost-effective and reliable solution to customers in East and southern Africa‚” said Mr C. Seenevassen of Mauritius Telecom. More than 25 telecommunications operators mainly from Africa‚ along with a number of global operators who invested in EASSy‚ have activated capacity on the system since going live
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An Interview With Adam Trask: East of Eden Today I will be interview Adam Trask from John Steinbeck’s bestseller East of Eden. East of Eden‚ of course‚ is the story of the Trask and Hamilton families who live in the United States from 1862 to 1918. The book is mostly about the Trask family starting when Adam and his brother Charles were kids and continuing until Aron‚ one of Adam’s twin boys‚ dies after going to war. Adam throughout the story tries to be kind and do the right thing although he is
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Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II. During the Cold War era‚ two major political beliefs were involved in the Cold War: Democracy‚ which was the US and its allies‚ and communism‚ which was the Soviet Union and its allies. The Cold War was caused by of the action’s that were taken by the USSR resulting in a Cold War. There are a lot of reasons that can show why USSR is to blame‚ however‚ the most important ones are: Stalin: the major cause of the Cold War‚ and
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IS genocide of Assyrians Imagine being driven from your house and on the way out‚ anything of value that you own is taken from you. As you are leaving your sister is kidnapped as a slave and the neighbors down the street have been shot. This is the plight of the Assyrian Christians‚ who are descendants of the Assyrian empire and the only native group in northern Iraq‚ and the Yazidis who believe in an ancient religion and live in southern Syria. They are being persecuted by the Islamic State (IS)
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Eastern Europe. Under the Hallstein Doctrine‚ relations with Eastern Europe had basically ground to a halt during the mid-fifties‚ so Brandt in 1970‚ along with his foreign minister Walter Scheel‚ agreed to hold negotiations with the leaders of the East. This policy of improving relations with the Eastern communist bloc was known as Ostpolitik. The aims of this policy were mainly to leave future reunification with the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a possibility‚ as well as to stabilize relations
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challenges than men are faced with. Women struggle to claim themselves as equals to men. Even though women primarily take care of men and their family‚ women are still seen as beneath men. Women mainly in the Middle East face the most Phantoms and obstacles in their lives. Women in the Middle East today do face phantoms and obstacles because of sexism‚ patriarchy‚ and religion. Sexism is something that plagues women all over the world. Sexism is discrimination against women just because of their gender
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Source of Contention and Cooperation Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestinian Water issues — From Conflict to Cooperation edited by Hillel Shuval and Hassan Dweik. Berlin: Springer‚ 2007. 454 pp. Olli Ruohomäki Dr. Olli Ruohomäki. former deputy representative of Finland to the Palestinian Authority‚ is currently .senior advisor with the Ministiyfor Foreign Affairs. Finland. The arid landscape ofthe Middle East and the expanding human settlements suggest that water scarcity is
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during transition and the new order in the Asia-Pacific region after the Cold War. In order not to being marginalized in this new reformed regionalism structure‚ by comparing the relations with neighboring regions of Taiwan such as South-East Asia and North-East Asia‚ or the role in kinds of organizations like APEC‚ WTO‚ OECD‚ BFA (Boao Forum for Asia)‚ Soong intends to analyze Taiwan’s new values and weakness in terms of economic‚ diplomatic and trade strategies. Challenges in Taiwan’s future have
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The author Campbell Craig’s viewpoint of the Berlin Crises was that they had occurred to symbolize the conflict between communism and capitalism of the Cold War. The crises were significant because Berlin was the only place where the US and the USSR troops were face to face at the Checkpoint Charlie and Friedrichstrasse border crossings. Notably‚ Berlin was originally divided into four sections between Britain‚ France‚ the US and the USSR‚ as the Cold War escalated‚ the three allies distanced from
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ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF THE BANTU Bantu is used as a general label for the 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak the Bantu languages‚ distributed from Cameroon east across central Africa and eastern Africa to Southern Africa. The bantu family is fragmented into hundreds of individual groups‚ none of them larger than a few million people (the largest being the Zulu with some 10 million).The bantu language-Swahili with its 5-10 million speakers is of super-regional importance as tens of millions
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