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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/africa-july-dec09-ray_09-17 by PBS NEWS] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/africa-july-dec09-ray_09-17 by PBS NEWS] | ||
For Westerners, the emphasis on the Atlantic slave trade often obscures the long and sad history of the Indian Ocean slave trade. Bagamoyo is Tanzania’s oldest city, and was the major shipment point for slaves from the East African interior to the trade networks of the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and west Asia. | For Westerners, the emphasis on the Atlantic slave trade often obscures the long and sad history of the Indian Ocean slave trade. Bagamoyo is Tanzania’s oldest city, and was the major shipment point for slaves from the East African interior to the trade networks of the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, and west Asia. | ||
=====Fighting malaria in the remote reaches of Cambodia===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fighting-malaria-in-the-remote-reaches-of-cambodia by Fred de Sam 11/1/19 PBS NEWS] | |||
Every year, nearly half-a-million people die from malaria across the globe. Though there are drugs available to kill the parasite that causes malaria, there is new worry that those medications are losing their effectiveness. | |||
