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Editorial
Nature 440, 383-384 (23 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440383b; Published online 22 March 2006
A scramble for Africa
Abstract
Large dams benefit contractors and corrupt governments more than they aid the African people.
Towards the end of nineteenth century, Europe suddenly woke up to the riches that lay in the vast unexplored continent to its south, and the 'scramble for Africa' began. By the start of the First World War, almost all of the continent had been taken by European powers.
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type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.