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		<title>Africa: competition for the AU Commission leadership intensifies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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The African Union&#8217;s (AU) Eight-member Ad hoc Committee of Heads of State and Government (Committee of Eight) met in Cotonou, Benin on 14 May 2012, to discuss the election of the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson and members of the AU Commission.

During the 18th AU Summit in January, the two candidates &#8211; Jean Ping of Gabon, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research coalition to boost Internet access in rural Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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An international group of research organisations are collaborating on a project to boost Internet access in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. 
The project was discussed at a meeting of the board of the  Global Research Alliance (GRA) — an international organisation that  seeks to align the efforts of its members with the UN&#8217;s Millennium  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Sudan’s announcement of $8 billion loan from China draws skepticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – The announcement made by South Sudan last month of an $8 billion loan from China appears to have been overblown, according to officials in Juba as well as diplomats.

During a visit by South Sudan president Salva Kiir to Beijing, his Information Minister Barnaba Mariel Benjamin told reporters that the two sides sealed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Less politics, more economic development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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NAIROBI – Economic and social growth have become the  heart of the development agenda of the bloc of leading emerging  economies known as IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) since it began  focusing less on politics.

 
This is according to Michael Sudarkasa, chief executive officer of  the African Business Group, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Church Grenade Attacker &#8216;A Known Terrorist&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, Kenya — Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere now says Sunday&#8217;s  grenade attack at a church in Ngara was carried out by a known Al  Shabaab terrorist. Iteere says the attacker who goes by the alias &#8216;Amar&#8217; was in Kismayu, Somalia, last year but returned to Kenya early this year.

Police are now circulating his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The UN guidelines against land grabbing</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24840</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coca-Cola can’t copyright colour: the art of Sokari Douglas Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African contemporary art]]></category>
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“Coca-Cola Bird” stands facing the corner of the gallery,  half-turned towards us in surprise or exhibition, oily red paint spun  across the bucket cocked over her head, the same brash colour on the  feathered tutu winding around her waist. Her chest sprouts sparkling  empty bottles bearing the famous label, and familiar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Look at relations between Niger and Saudi Arabia</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24830</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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On Thursday, Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou traveled to Saudi Arabia (French) accompanied by his wife and several major cabinet ministers.

On the trip he has been meeting with Saudi royalty, including King  Abdullah, as well as religious leaders, government officials, and  businessmen. The trip focuses broadly on improving bilateral relations  and in particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The latter day slave merchants in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24821</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 09:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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In Kenya today, due to the economic reforms packages of the 1990s which emphasised the deregulation of the state, privatisation and the liberalisation of the economy, the impact has been unemployment, poverty and the adoption of multiple survival or coping strategies in order to eke out a living.


The country’s economic growth has not been sufficient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The prize to create African media 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press freedom]]></category>

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I think we can all agree that journalism in Africa is not what it should be. When the news is not hand-written by some ruling party flunky for publication in a shoddy state-run newspaper, it’s a barely edited re-run of a wire story.

And if overt censorship isn’t preventing the dirty laundry from being aired, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: women farmers are key to a food-secure Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24808</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
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BULAWAYO  – While women constitute the majority of food  producers, processors and marketers in Africa, their role in the  agricultural sector still remains a minor one because of cultural and  social barriers.

 
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), women are the majority of the world&#8217;s agricultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What exactly is the value of ethnic accounting in Kenya?</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24788</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 13:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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We Kenyans have acquired another instrument for perpetuating ethnic  groups, ethnic accounting. In its latest ethnic accounting figures,  published in February this year, the National Cohesion And Integration  Commission (NCIC), claims that, with over 80 per cent, ‘the five largest  communities’ have a disproportionate share of total workforce in public  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global and national resistance to GMOs</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24795</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[GMOs]]></category>
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Our focus in this presentation is on modern biotechnology in crops and animal species. Traditional biotechnology is as old as agriculture and quite harmless.

We are not also looking at hybridisation of crops or animals. We will also not advance into any detail on the area of nanotechnology, or the newer and probably more worrisome, synthetic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Root Capital: Growing Food Security in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24769</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 12:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freshco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James G. Karanja]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Freshco is a Kenyan company that sells high-yield hybrid seeds,  especially maize seed, to small-scale farmers. Maize seed that is  optimized for the climates of Kenya&#8217;s various regions can produce up to  six tons of grain per hectare, compared to only one ton with ordinary  seed. In this video, you will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa as Science Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 07:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Utopia]]></category>
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Since Sun Ra descended in a breast-shaped Ark to recruit Americans for his planetary  Afrotopia, science fiction has played a significant role in  representations of African life. The original past represented by Africa  as ‘cradle-of-civilization’ has recently been inverted in work which  measures futuristic narratives against everyday life on the continent.

Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ode to Oshodi Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
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One of the more endearing attributes of Lagos, Nigeria are the  markets. In varying sizes and forms, they attract a multitudes from the  region for various reasons.


Wholesale, retail, technology, textiles, car  parts, all sorts of meat,  school supplies … you name it, Lagos markets  will satisfy your needs;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More detailed data &#8216;needed to tackle hunger in Mali&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24760</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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Using data from national household surveys could lead to a more accurate identification of malnourished people and more effective action to achieve the Millennium Development Goal on hunger, according to a Malian scientist. 

Although low income is a major cause of undernourishment, it  may not reveal the full picture, according to Ibrahima Bocoum, an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECAM and AU President discuss challenges confronting Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24774</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 08:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
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The Chairman of the African Union (AU) Dr. Thomas Yayi Boni has condemned in no uncertain terms religious intolerance that have taken certain political undertones in Africa.  He noted that most of the challenges confronting Africa are that of lack of respect for religious and political differences, good governance, democracy and free and fair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War and peace in Somalia: seven lessons Burundi and Uganda can teach Kenya’s soldiers</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24755</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 07:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Shabaab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amisom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burundi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Defence Forces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

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When you ask Burundi and Ugandan officers serving in Amisom, the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, when all of the country will be under control of the Transitional Federal Government, you will immediately sense that there is an elephant in the room.

That elephant is the question of when the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa’s two female presidents join forces for women</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=24745</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randa Ghazy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender Equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Joyce Banda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[women's health]]></category>

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MONROVIA – The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent.

Both Sirleaf and Banda have long championed women’s rights. And on Apr. 29 in Monrovia, two years into what [...]]]></description>
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