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Zimbabwe: The end of a dream?

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: The end of a dream?

By Wolfgang H. Thome l eTN Africa

As Zimbabwe was led down the road of ever increasing violence by its brutal rulers over the past few weeks, the patience of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party and of Morgan Tsvangirai and

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Sarkis laments loss of $3 billion in tourism revenues to instability

Lebanon

Sarkis laments loss of $3 billion in tourism revenues to instability

By Daily Star (Lebanon)

BEIRUT - Lebanon lost nearly $3 billion in revenue due to the sharp drop in the number of tourists in 2007, Tourism Minister Joe Sarkis said on Thursday. "We were expecting 1.6 million visitors in 2006 and the same number in 2007 and this would have generated gross revenue of nearly $3 billion a year," Sarkis told The Daily Star.

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