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Will the World Cup Screw Africa?
African nations have been looking to next month's tournament as the event that will help pull the continent out of economic misery and raise their global profile. But as Ellen Knickmeyer reports, most of the money will be going elsewhere.
Ellen Knickmeyer
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May 24 2010
5:45AM EDT
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