Not long ago they were the rulers of their African or Arab countries. Today they are dead, deposed or driven from their homelands
(LA Times Clippers)

On Oct. 10, 2010, at an Afro-Arab joint summit in the Libyan coastal city of Surt, more than two dozen Arab and African leaders posed together for a group picture. What a difference seven years has made. In a sign of the changes that have swept the region, many of those leaders are gone. Some have...