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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Africa's nearly two dozen wars in recent decades have robbed the continent of about $18 billion a year that could have gone to helping one of the world's poorest regions build stronger economies, according to a report being released Thursday.

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msaleem
Oct. 11, 2007, 2:38 a.m.
And all people seem to care about are diamonds.
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hamy
Oct. 11, 2007, 4:56 p.m.
$18 billion a year? for Decades? We are already at $1 trillion for this war and it has only been 4 years!
They obviously don't know how to really waste money!