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		<title>Swaziland: Wither absolute monarchism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozambique]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mswati III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sibusiso Dhlamini]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swaziland has retained and continues to indefinitely retain its controversial status as an absolute constitutional monarchy. It is the only country in Africa with such a ‘distinctly maverick’ political order. The country’s political establishment is regarded by many critics as ‘archaic.’ There is not a vestige of doubt that there is a constant contest between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Aid to South Africa Drying Up?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neren Rau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Commentators and business leaders in South Africa believe that the recent announcement of an end to the United Kingdom’s aid programme to South Africa may be the start of a new trend to cut back on aid to this country, and possibly to the rest of Africa. “This British announcement was not entirely unexpected,” Neren [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With Billions of Euros Pledged, Mali Risks Aid Overflow</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29159&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=with-billions-of-euros-pledged-mali-risks-aid-overflow</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid efficiency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[International donors pledged to mobilise 3.25 billion Euros to rebuild Mali, a figure that surpassed all expectations. But experts warn that the country does not have the absorption capacity for so much aid, while others say donors should pressure the Malian government to stop ongoing human rights abuses. In January of this year, a French-led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Demons That Torment African Journalists. To Run, Or Stand And Fight? (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Media Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Onyango-Obbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiflu Hussain]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Kiflu Hussain,  a decent man and good Ethiopian journalist who lives in exile in the Uganda capital Kampala, is angry with the Africa Media Initiative for holding its next convention in Addis Ababa. Why? Because the Ethiopian regime is a dictatorship that torments journalists. And he is also unhappy with me, because he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soldiers storm Borno,Yobe, Adamawa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adamawa State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boko Haram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Borno State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goodluck Jonathan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yobe State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lagos &#8211; Troops, yesterday, moved into Yola, Adamawa State capital and Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, barely 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a State of Emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in response to Boko Haram insurgency which has claimed several lives and destroyed many property. Residents and journalists saw military trucks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>€3.25 Billion Mobilised By International Community to Rebuild Mali</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29146&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=e3-25-billion-mobilised-by-international-community-to-rebuild-mali-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:29:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dioncounda Traore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Development Fund (EDF)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EUTM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[François Hollande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[José Manuel Barroso]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plan for the Sustainable Recovery of Mali]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An international donor conference &#8216;Together for a new Mali&#8217;, organised by the European Union and France, together with Mali, took place in Brussels today. Represented at the highest levels, the international community has mobilised decisively in support of Mali&#8217;s development priorities. Donors have made public financial commitments on the basis of the Plan for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M23 warns SANDF: DRC army will rape your women</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democratic Republic of Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M23]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The M23 rebel group of the Democratic Republic of Congo has continued to maintain that the South African government has ignored its struggle, one that members claim mirrors the ANC&#8217;s own struggle against the Apartheid regime. The South African government, however, is having none of it. Thousands of South African troops have been readied for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Niger’s Desert Salt Pans</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29117&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=protecting-nigers-desert-salt-pans</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[salt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ténéré]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bilma &#8211; The Bilma community has mined the salt pans in the massive Ténéré desert region in northern Niger for centuries. But the threat of the ever-encroaching desert has become a real concern as locals here struggle to cope with a decline in salt prices. “If we don’t protect this site, salt mining will disappear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subsidised companies must be transparent</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29107&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=subsidised-companies-must-be-transparent</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29107#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 15:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Dr. Ludwig Schwarz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bishop Gabriel Mbilingi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic bishops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIDSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Mbilingi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Van Rompuy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ludwig Schwarz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multinational companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OECD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Paul VI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US FACTA legislation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US FATCA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In an open letter, published before the EU Tax Summit in Brussels on the 22nd of May, 2013, Catholic bishops from Europe and Africa call on the heads of state to fulfill their moral responsibility and act for financial transparency, against tax fraud. Body The authors of the letter, bishop Gabriel Mbilingi and bishop Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Britain’s MI6 have Patrice Lumumba murdered?</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29096&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=did-britains-mi6-have-patrice-lumumba-murdered</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Republic of Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Porter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Lea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London Review of Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mau Mau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrice Lumumba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Africa is a Country readers may not regularly check the London Review of Books, a British literary magazine with a circulation just over 50,000–it’s meant more for Bloomsbury than Bamako or Bloemfontein (though some readers could probably find it in Brooklyn; it’s online too with a subscription)–but the magazine has a pretty good, though not blameless (worst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethiopian Journalists Hope New Council Will Ease Restriction</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29091&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ethiopian-journalists-hope-new-council-will-ease-restriction</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29091#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Committee to Protect Journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Berhane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eskinder Nega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethio Mihidar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press freedom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Addis Ababa- Several Ethiopian publications are coming together to set up a ‘press council’ with the hope of easing restrictions on the media in Ethiopia. The journalists suggested the idea of the council at a May 3 meeting held at the behest of the Ministry of Information to discuss media reforms in the country. “The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For an enhanced EU-Africa agricultural cooperation, by Dacian Ciolos</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29070&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=for-an-enhanced-eu-africa-agricultural-cooperation</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andries Piebalgs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CAADP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE. The joint meeting of the Commissions of the African Union and of the European Union earlier in April confirmed our common desire to place agriculture at the top of our respective political agendas. The stakes are high if we are to take up the challenge of food security and economic development in rural areas. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Extremists a Second Chance</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29060&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=giving-extremists-a-second-chance</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 10:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Shabaab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somali Islamist extremist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MOGADISHU &#8211; At 18, Farah Osman should not be a battle-hardened soldier. He should not have spent the last seven years fighting for the Somali Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab, or have been trained by foreign jihadists in handling and repairing weapons and improving his shooting skills. But he has. And now he is also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Relationship between Visual and Text</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 08:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danny Hoffman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we seem to spend an enormous amount of virtual space at AIAC critiquing the ways that Africa and Africans are represented, we do so because we believe that it is possible to subvert expectations, to create images that shatter myths and ideology and that make people think about why they are surprised by particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Social Entrepreneurs of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Youn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Githuku-Shongwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Bicycle Company]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Slaughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick K.W. Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living Goods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Njideka U. Harry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five social entrepreneurs were named today Africa Social Entrepreneurs of the Year at the World Economic Forum on Africa, taking place in Cape Town, South Africa. The awards were conferred by Hilde Schwab, Chairperson and Co-Founder of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in the presence of President Jacob G. Zuma, Donald Kaberuka, Nkosazana Clarice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research topic trends are useful for Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 11:28:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[African science policymakers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis of scientific trends can help policymakers target limited resources where science and development collide, argues Linda Nordling. Last month, Thomson Reuters released a report identifying 100 &#8216;front lines&#8217; in research. These are topics seeing rapid growth in publications and citations — a measure of scientific activity and importance. The list contains several topics relevant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WEF Africa Competitiveness Report 2013</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29042&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wef-africa-competitiveness-report-2013-sa-leads-the-continent</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mauritius]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[jennifer blanke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mthuli Ncube]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa is leading the continent when it comes to economic competitiveness. That is the finding of the 2013 Global Competitiveness Index, which ranks South Africa as 52 out of 144 countries. This is, however, a drop of two places from last year’s index. Nonetheless, it’s the highest place that any African country managed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eritrea: Rampant Repression 20 Years after Independence</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29040&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eritrea-rampant-repression-20-years-after-independence</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asmara - Twenty years after its independence, Eritrea’s prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners, locked up without ever being charged with a crime, many of whom are never heard from again, Amnesty International said in a report released today.  Twenty years of independence but still no freedom details how throughout the past two decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China-Africa joint medical research to deepen</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29026&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=china-africa-joint-medical-research-to-deepen</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaborone, Botswana &#8211; China will deepen joint medical research with Africa, particularly in training African medical scientists. Ren Minghui, director-general of the Department for International Cooperation within the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, said research and development is one priority area of collaboration being explored. &#8220;China can support Africa in technical areas of research such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People in glass houses: South Africa’s news media and editorial independence</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29023&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=people-in-glass-houses-south-africas-news-media-and-editorial-independence</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late on Monday, the South African Mail &#38; Guardian ran an online feature contrasting how local newspapers have been covering what’s become known as “Guptagate”, the unimaginative shorthand for the bi-national diplomatic and national security scandal unfolding around the Guptas, a wealthy South African family of Indian heritage, and their outsize influence over the country’s senior government officials, particularly [...]]]></description>
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