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...remains to be done. Pierre Beckouche, a senior researcher with IPEMED, a Paris-based think tank on Mediterranean issues, says that regional economic advantages have been well exploited elsewhere over the past decade: by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in North America and the ASEAN free-trade area in Southeast Asia. But the E.U.'s 1995 "Barcelona Process," which was meant to encourage deeper ties across the Mediterranean, has largely been a Brussels-driven dud. "What's missing is a network of firms, of experts, of political leaders committed to regional cooperation," says Beckouche, whose institute has advised...
...behind its $1.4 billion in farm imports. North Africa's natural gifts are too often wasted, says Gunther Feiler of the Tunis office of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "There is big potential in fruits and other high-value crops," Feiler says of the entire Maghreb area. "But there are too many small farms that don't have the resources to gain access to foreign markets." Policy changes are needed on both sides of the Mediterranean. In North Africa, governments have kept prices low, fearing the political consequences of expensive food. And in Europe...
...dense and impoverished neighborhood, which houses an estimated 3 million people was easily Iraq's most devastated locale during the seven weeks of fighting that wracked the area as U.S.-backed government forces confronted the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. According to Nasser Hashem al-Saadi, a member of parliament aligned with al-Sadr, some 25,000 residents fled the area during that time...
...Saadi moves through the neighborhood, men and women approach him, pleading with him to bring help, and to take their cases before parliament. "People expect a lot from me because I'm from this area," says Saadi. "What is the fault of all these people? What have they done to warrant this bombing? Of course I'm under pressure to do something about...
...much-needed drugs and other supplies. Hospital electricity has been restored, out of a combination of city power and generators, to 24 hours a day - up from just six hours of generator power at the height of the fighting. Doctors say the water supply is being repaired in the area, but not quickly enough to stop a summer spike in water-borne diseases, such as typhoid...