AFP, Jerusalem) Israeli authorities claim that during the three weeks the Israeli military reoccupied the West Bank, Israel has prevented 18 suicide attacks and other attacks.
The revanche du berceau (“revenge of the cradle”) dreamed of by some romantic nationalists as retaliation for the British conquest of 1759 didn't seem so far-fetched.
Inhabited in precolonial times by a number of ancient kingdoms, including that of the Ashanti , Ghana was a British colony after the 1870's and became independent in 1957.