According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, only about 200 surviving veterans attended this yearâs commemoration, which coincided with the inauguration of the exciting new $56 million Pearl Harbor Visitor Center and Museum.
ICJ STATS â A case study: The Libya/Chad territorial dispute. General â 16 December 2008. Territorial disputes are one of the most pervasive stains of the colonial era, often straining relations between neighboring states around the world, and particularly so in places like Africa.
A largely semi-desert country, Chad is rich in gold and uranium and stands to benefit from its recently-acquired status as an oil-exporting state. Chad's post-independence history has been marked by instability and violence, stemming mostly from tension between the mainly Arab-Muslim north and the predominantly Christian and animist south. Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003, with the completion of a $4bn pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast. However, Africa's fifth-largest nation suffers from inadequate infrastructure, and internal conflict.