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		<title>Carbon projects for smallholder farmers can &#8216;reduce poverty&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CAAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon dioxide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shem Wandiga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi &#8211; Projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on small-scale farms can help African farmers access carbon markets and reduce poverty, and should be scaled-up, according to a policy brief. Carbon projects that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane can earn farmers &#8216;carbon credits&#8217; for sale in the global carbon market. But smallholder carbon projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diamond Mining Could Push Angola’s Antelope to Extinction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Angola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antelope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giant Sable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kissama Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luando Reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palanca Negra Gigante]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dubai – Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world’s last wild population of a rare antelope, the Giant Sable. There are believed to be fewer than 100 purebred animals left and the species is listed as “critically endangered” on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The District on Cape Town’s “Fringe”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Centre for Cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Putter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonita Bennett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cape Town]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[District Six Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fringe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ismail Farouk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kai Berthold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Area]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cape Town is changing. One recent Sunday morning I took a walk through Walmer Estate, a suburb bordering on District Six, on the edge of the City Bowl, and stopped at one of the corner stores to inquire about buying some koeksisters. Sunday mornings, in the Cape Town of my childhood, are speckled with sweet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stealing Gas from the Poor to Power the Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chama cha Mapinduzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dar es Salaam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kilwa District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mika Minio-Paluello]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mtwara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oilwatch Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salim Riziki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sospeter Muhongo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mikindani (Tanzania) &#8211; In Kilwa District in southern Tanzania local community leader and fisherman Salim Riziki stands next to a set of turbines, newly imported from Dubai, talking about the gas finds on Songo Songo, an island 15 km off the mainland. http://www.afronline.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=29508&#38;action=edit&#38;message=1 The whirring sounds and lights from the turbines are in stark contrast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyans Mobilise Against Taxing the Poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commodities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Institute of Economic Affairs Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Revenue Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenyans for Tax Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unga tax bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Value Added Tax (VAT)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi &#8211; On a side street in Nairobi’s bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians. “Do you know taxes are increasing in Kenya?” he asks, handing out flyers urging Kenyans to say “no to Unga (maize flour) tax” by dialling a phone number that will register [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tunisia: The rocky road to elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Ali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ennahda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Revolution Protection League (LPR)]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tunisians are concerned that the uprising that overthrew the Ben Ali dictatorship has failed to bear any meaningful result. The ruling coalition is only interested in its own survival and national institutions are very weak. The path from dictatorship to democracy is riddled with roadblocks. Take Tunisia, the genesis of the 2011 Arab spring uprisings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Abderrahmane Sissako</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mauritania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abderrahmane Sissako]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bamako]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ousmane Sembène]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Abderrahmane Sissako is a Mauritanian-born, Mali-raised filmmaker whose completed cinematic training at Moscow’s Federal State Film Institute during the 1980s. The program concluded with his first film, the 23-minute short Le Jeu [The Game], which he shot in Turkmenistan to double for Mauritania. His next film was the 37-minute October, shot around Moscow and following the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Riots and Rice in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Massarenti</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AfricaRice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CGIAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marco Wopereis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cotonou (Benin) &#8211; Thanks to food riots in several African cities fuelled by high rice prices between 2007 and 2008, sub-Saharan Africa is growing and eating more rice after governments were forced into ambitious production programmes. Rice is the third most important source of dietary energy in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Cotonou-based Africa Rice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Kenya the new haven for tax dodgers?</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29469&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-kenya-the-new-haven-for-tax-dodgers</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city authorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Financial Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax dodgers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Haven Capital of the World.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tax havens such as Ireland and the Cayman Islands have become a key driver of vast inequality around the world, siphoning somewhere between $21 and 32 trillion from the global economy. As financial structures, they exist for one purpose only: to let the rich get around the taxes that pay for the infrastructure and services that everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany’s African “Big Five”</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29464&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=germanys-african-big-five</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AfricAvenir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Die Welt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[German cooperation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laboratoire Déberlinisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mnyaka Sururu Mboro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NGO Berlin Postkolonial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WWF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the occasion of the country’s first “development day” last week, the German ministry for economic cooperation and development launched a new campaign to educate Germans about what development policy is—or more accurately what the “new German development policy” looks like. What the campaign actually teaches us is that there is nothing new about German development policy and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPS and phones to help map neglected diseases in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29477&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gps-and-phones-to-help-map-neglected-diseases-in-africa</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eastern and Southern Africa Centre of International Parasite Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Medical Research Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London School of Tropical Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi's Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Brooker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi &#8211; Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa will begin using the latest technologies to map and collect data on the distribution of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) later this year. Officers running national NTD control programmes will be trained to use the latest mapping tools — including geographic information systems (GIS), geographic positioning systems (GPS) and smart phones to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timbuktu&#8217;s Cultural Heritage More Damaged Than First Estimated</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29450&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mali-timbuktus-cultural-heritage-more-damaged-than-first-estimated-un-agency-says</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Maiga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Djingareyber Mosque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Farouk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lassana Cissé]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lazare Eloundou Assomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MINUSMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Zink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damage to Timbuktu&#8217;s cultural heritage due to fighting between Government forces and Tuareg rebels is more extensive than first estimated, a United Nations-led team said today following an assessment of the fabled city. Lazare Eloundou Assomo of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization&#8217;s (UNESCO) World Heritage Centre said the destruction is &#8220;even more alarming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Uganda’s Working Kids Back in School</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbra Ongodia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamidu Kizito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids in Need]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Action Plan on Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Uganda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kampala (Uganda) &#8211; Children around the world may complain about attending school and doing their homework, but not 14-year-old Raya*. For two years she was forced by her illiterate parents to spend every day, rain or shine, selling sugar cane from the family garden to customers on the streets of Entebbe, about 35 km outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S., Malaysia Lead Worldwide “Land Grabs”</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29430&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=u-s-malaysia-lead-worldwide-land-grabs</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaia Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Land Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Grab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land Matrix Global Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Environment Program]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uxbridge (Canada)- Africa is the main target for “land grabs” by foreign investors, according to a new report on large-scale land acquisitions around the world released Monday. “Africa is the place for cheap land deals and most investors are from Western countries like the U.S. and UK,” said Michael Taylor of the International Land Coalition (ILC). Globally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Geography of Twitter: Mapping the Global Heartbeat</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29426&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-geography-of-twitter-mapping-the-global-heartbeat</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran and China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalev Leetaru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Meier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tweets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Kalev Leetaru recently co-authored this comprehensive study on the various sources and accuracies of geographic information on Twitter. This is the first detailed study of its kind. The detailed analysis, which runs some 50-pages long, has important implications vis-a-vis the use of social media in emergency management and humanitarian response. Should you not have the time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa is a country is back!</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29428&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=africa-is-a-country-is-back</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African National Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AfricanDigitalArt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibrahim Babangida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jepchumba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leo Africanus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sean Jacobs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[June 12th is a momentous day in African history. To take two events: in 1964, Nelson Mandela — whose passing now seems imminent — and seven other African National Congress leaders were sentenced to life in prison for terrorism by an Apartheid South African court. Twenty nine years later, in 1993, three years after Nelson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted: Peaceful Religious Co-existence in the Sahel Region</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29412&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wanted-peaceful-religious-co-existence-in-the-sahel-region</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central African Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kizito Sesana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kofi Annan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sahel region]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I do not think that what is happening in the Sahel, Mali and Sudan, through the Niger, northern Nigeria, Chad, all the way to the Central African Republic, is part of a grand Islamic scheme. The question I ask is why a brother who is following with interest and expertise in social and religious developments in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rwanda: Kikwete In Trouble Over FDLR</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29414&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kikwete-in-trouble-over-fdlr-but-does-he-really-understand-who-they-are</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emergencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rwanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tanzania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADF-NALU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ban Ki Moon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDLR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Framework of Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jakaya Kikwete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louise Mushikiwabo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Kagame]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just over a fortnight ago, Jakaya Kikwete, President of Tanzania, kicked off a firestorm of controversy with what many in Rwanda and outside of it saw as a terrible faux pas. It started with what would have struck followers of events in the Great Lakes region, as a common-sense proposal by the head of state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research topic trends are useful for Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29392&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=africa-analysis-research-topic-trends-are-useful-for-africa</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Finance Corporation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polymer solar cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science and innovation]]></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 to Africa, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya’s Flower Farms No Bed of Roses</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29388&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kenyas-flower-farms-no-bed-of-roses</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Mumbi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Kasuku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flower sector]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Labour Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Flower Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Medical Research Institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pesticides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rift Valley Province]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic poison]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Naivasha (Kenya) &#8211; Catherine Mumbi knows the difficulties of working in Kenya’s flower sector. She was fired as a casual worker at a flower farm after taking time off to recover from complications of the liver. But that was just the start of her problems. “When I felt better I went back but my superior [...]]]></description>
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