Having two global business newspapers owned, even partly, by one of the world's largest companies would create a potentially devastatingconflict of interest.
The ongoing war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is counted as perhaps the largest, most devastatingconflict the world has seen in some time, while the conflicts inside Sierra Leone, Sudan and the Congo have sapped countless of millions of dollars from the continent's economy, and claimed perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives.
"They were destroyed in the context of the conflictdevastating Afghanistan and to undermine the power of culture as a cohesive force for the Afghan people, " said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in a statement Monday.