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		<title>Fun and games help communicate disaster science</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital apps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Niña]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Niño]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geneva &#8211; Playing games is helping to engage communities with the complex scientific information used to forecast natural disasters, as well as encouraging people to take steps to mitigate future risks, experts say. Tools ranging from simple probability-based role play scenarios to state-of-the-art digital apps that model the Earth&#8217;s changing environment were presented to the Global Platform for Disaster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr.President, we have a letter situation…and then Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29223&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mr-president-we-have-a-letter-situationand-then-obam</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brig Muhoozi Kainerugaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Ddembe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sejusa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forum for Democratic Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ugandan Communications Commission]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three months ago a letter supposedly authored by a little known member of opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Catherine Ddembe caused a buzz among Ugandans on social networks. “The letter detailed a plot to frame senior government officials in subversive activities. The letter also spoke of plans to kill key figures allegedly opposed to what has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Peas and Greens to Maximise Water Usage</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29208&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=growing-peas-and-greens-to-maximise-water-usage</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Convention on Biological Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Agricultural Research Institute]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi &#8211; Amid warnings that Kenya’s agricultural water use is surpassing sustainable levels and adversely affecting food security, biodiversity researchers say that agrobiodiversity should be considered as a vital tool to combat this. “In order to feed the nation, the country must explore agrobiodiversity, specifically (the growing of) vegetables and fruits, which have been neglected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Housewives of Harare</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29210&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-real-housewives-of-harare</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 15:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Memory Gumbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prostitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tsitsi Dangaremba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[woman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Memory Gumbo is a mother, an “ordinary woman”, living in Harare, Zimbabwe. Tsitsi Dangarembga is an internationally recognized writer and filmmaker, living in Harare as well. Both agree on at least one thing: That “No to loitering,” sold to the public as a ‘crackdown’ on sex workers, has nothing to do with sex workers. In plain language: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Automatically Classifying Crowdsourced Election Report</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29200&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=automatically-classifying-crowdsourced-election-report</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multimedia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crowdsourced election reporting data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[QCRI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uchaguzi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of QCRI’s Artificial Intelligence for Monitoring Elections (AIME) project, I liaised with Kaggle to work with a top notch Data Scientist to carry out a proof of concept study. As I’ve blogged in the past, crowdsourced election monitoring projects are starting to generate “Big Data” which cannot be managed or analyzed manually in real-time. Using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African soil diversity mapped for the first time</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29198&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=african-soil-diversity-mapped-for-the-first-time</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29198#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:43 +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[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Soil Information Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CGIAR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fertile soil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN Food and Agriculture Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zougmoré]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A team of international experts has drawn up the Soil Atlas of Africa — the first such book mapping this key natural resource — to help farmers, land managers and policymakers understand the diversity and importance of soil and the need to manage it through sustainable use. They say that despite soil&#8217;s importance, most people in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Africa’s mineral paradox: Want among plenty</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29181&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=east-africas-mineral-paradox-want-among-plenty</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29181#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa Trade Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International mineral extraction companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel Kamuzora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kofi Annan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax evasion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just how much do the East African Community governments stand to gain from oil and gas exploration and extraction deals with foreign oil majors? Will the governments use the revenue to lift millions of people out of poverty? Will the return on investment on the countries’ natural resources and the huge government spending on infrastructure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Takes a Village to Educate a Girl</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29179&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=it-takes-a-village-to-educate-a-girl</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29179#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hadiza Moussa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigerien Association for the Defence of Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salouhou Adou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UNICEF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Niamey (Niger) &#8211; A decade ago, less than a third of school-aged girls in Niger were in class. Today, though significant cultural and religious opposition remains, nearly two-thirds of girls are enrolled in school. “Back in 2003, we had only 15 girls at my school, out of 150 students. Now, we have 103 girls out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cartography of Bullshit</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29177&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-cartography-of-bullshit</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29177#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irene</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid and development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Fisher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington Post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Values Survey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WorldViews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the gutting of foreign coverage by most U.S. newspapers and the need to populate infinite Web space with content, a new creature has emerged: the foreign affairs blogger. Max Fisher, who hosts the Washington Post’s WorldViews page, is a leading exemplar of the species. Fisher’s newsy nuggets are often low-priority zeitgeist items that may or may not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swaziland: Wither absolute monarchism?</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29163&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=swaziland-wither-absolute-monarchism</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29163#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Rights and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LLDC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mswati III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sibusiso Dhlamini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tinkhundla]]></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>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29166&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=is-aid-to-south-africa-drying-up</link>
		<comments>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29166#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sahel]]></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?</title>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29155&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-demons-that-torment-african-journalists-to-run-or-stand-and-fight-part-i</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.afronline.org/?p=29151&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=soldiers-storm-bornoyobe-adamawa</link>
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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>
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		<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>
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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>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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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