05 Jan 2011
African Farmers Displaced as Investors Move In

There is precedent for this thievery...

The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to leave.

(link) [New York Times]

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