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		<title>Niger: A population on the brink</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FAO is stepping up support to farmers and pastoralists in Niger as part of its response to the alarming food situation in the Sahel, with new operations benefiting an estimated 2.8 million people. A video by A24Media.

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		<title>Ecological Design in Africa: Designers Take the Centre Stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emanuela Citterio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Fashion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Year of Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the world faces the real consequences of environmental degradation, conservation and ecological sustainability have become the focal points of global attention, and Africa fashion designers have joined their international counterparts in championing the green cause, with innovation and style.

Several international conferences are being held across the world to discuss and address serious environmental issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFRICA: &#8220;Free trade in natural resources bad for development&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[export duties]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GENEVA &#8211; While some believe that restrictions on natural resource exports should be done away with, this could cause an increase in such exports that would be detrimental to the environment and bad for development. Many African countries follow the strategy of exporting as much as they can and, since they are uncompetitive in manufactures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France, African countries move to counter al-Qaida-linked groups in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=7258</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mauritania]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Maghreb regional terrorist group.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.N-backed transitional government.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[French and African leaders are pledging to counter al-Qaida-backed violence in East and West Africa with more military force in the aftermath of suicide bombings in Uganda and the killing of a French aid worker in Mali.
The United States has also pledged more military help in the continent&#8217;s widening fight against terrorism. But, some analysts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boycott cedes power to Burundi&#8217;s ruling party</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUJUMBURA &#8211; The coalition of 11 major opposition parties which boycotted July 23 national assembly elections also boycott today elections to the senate. The Alliance of Democrats for Change, as the coalition is known, claims that two previous polls &#8211; to elect Burundi&#8217;s district administrators and the president &#8211; were characterised by &#8220;massive fraud&#8221;.
The Assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy. The collapse of aid for development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elisabetta Belloni]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italy has decreased funding to aid for development and will not meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs). It was announced on July 19 that seventy per cent fewer projects would  be financed this year compared to 2009. And in the meantime, staffing  problems at the Directorate General are preventing the €30 million  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glez &#8211; Al Qaeda</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=7213</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<title>Meet the best of Africa’s divas rocking the continent</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=7186</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emanuela Citterio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angeline Kidjo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Mbilia Bel in DR Congo to Aicha Kone in West Africa and Rebecca Malope down south, the continent is home to some of the world’s best vocal chords, writes AMOS NGAIRA.Africa has spawned a veritable Pantheon of musical goddesses who have kept her entertained over the centuries.


From Cairo to the Cape, Lagos to Mogadishu,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers and children: civil society calls for action</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=7155</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Union Summit in Kampala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood illnesses]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[heart disease.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil society campaigners attending the African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda are seeking new investments in stopping the deaths of women and children, which is the main issue slated for discussion by the African leaders.
In a report entitled Countdown to 2015 Decade Report (2000-2010), the campaign network, made of UN agencies and independent research institutions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: 1 million signs against xenophobia</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=7163</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emanuela Citterio</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sonke Gender Justice Network]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Civil society groups across South Africa have launched a campaign to collect one million signed pledges against xenophobia, intolerance, intimidation and violence in South Africa. A website - www.uniteasone.org.za &#8211; and a Facebook page have been set up.

The campaign follows a number of xenophobic attacks and violent outbursts across the country that occurred shortly after the [...]]]></description>
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