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	<title>Crikey &#187; Africa</title>
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		<title>Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/23/letter-from-zimbabwe-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The one non-political word most likely to cause animated, angry outbursts in Zimbabwe is ZESA. Officially the acronym stands for Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, more appropriately it is known as Zimbabwe Electricity Sometimes Available.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Global climate talks hotting up in Barcelona</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/global-climate-talks-hotting-up-in-barcelona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/global-climate-talks-hotting-up-in-barcelona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hepburn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The global climate talks are hotting up. This week, negotiators are meeting in Barcelona for the last week of discussions before the Copenhagen meeting in December. But the talks were brought to a halt by a group of African nations.]]></description>
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		<title>The Nigerian scammers become the scammed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/20/the-nigerian-scammers-become-the-scammed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/08/20/the-nigerian-scammers-become-the-scammed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Bank of Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Someone may have been fleecing some of Nigeria's biggest banks, pushing the country's financial system to the edge of collapse.
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>An African autocrat takes the stand</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/an-african-autocrat-takes-the-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/an-african-autocrat-takes-the-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Libya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Hague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former Liberian president Charles Taylor's trial represents the first time that an African leader has been brought to account before an international tribunal.]]></description>
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		<title>Do condoms spread AIDS? Does the Pope spread genocide?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/do-condoms-spread-aids-does-the-pope-spread-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/do-condoms-spread-aids-does-the-pope-spread-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI demonstrates that the Vatican is not only out of touch with reality, but has no respect for the sanctity of black lives and effectively endorses ethnic genocide by disease, writes <b>Maxine Clarke</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abstinence doesn&#8217;t make the Pope grow fonder</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/abstinence-doesnt-make-the-pope-grow-fonder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/19/abstinence-doesnt-make-the-pope-grow-fonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If abstinence doesn’t work for a privileged family like the Palins in the richest country in the world, how’s it going to pan out in Africa?, asks <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ghana shows democracy can work in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/05/ghana-shows-democracy-can-work-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/05/ghana-shows-democracy-can-work-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Enlightened despotism can work, provided your despot is genuinely enlightened, writes <b>Charles Richardson</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politics in the Congo</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/crikey-clarifier-dumb-questions-for-smart-people-the-congo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/02/crikey-clarifier-dumb-questions-for-smart-people-the-congo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace talks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Mugabe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rwandan genocide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What exactly is going on in the Congo? <b>Dr David Dorward</b> explains in the first installment of an exciting new Crikey series.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conflict in the Congo: a Crikey wrap</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/12/conflict-in-the-congo-a-crikey-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/12/conflict-in-the-congo-a-crikey-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[child soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rebel faction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UN peacekeeping forces stand by useless as the rebels bump up recruitment of child soldiers and refugees keep pouring out of conflict zones, raising fears of a cholera outbreak in camps...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conflict in the Congo: a Crikey wrap</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/conflict-in-the-congo-a-crikey-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/11/conflict-in-the-congo-a-crikey-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rwandan genocide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Violence, rebel armies sponsored by the  Rwandan government, failing cease-fires, Guatemalan militia brought in as peace keeping troops and cholera breaks out in refugee camps... what's going on?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>US08: Obama&#8217;s pinko-browno dad and African socialism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/us08-obamas-pinko-browno-dad-and-african-socialism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/16/us08-obamas-pinko-browno-dad-and-african-socialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it looks like Obama's gaffe-gate is going to blow over, but now a new Obama controversey - Obama's father's support for African socialism. Say what? writes US correspondent <b>Guy Rundle</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Go west: Africa’s the next big thing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/19/go-west-africas-the-next-big-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/19/go-west-africas-the-next-big-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hedge funds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[share registry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the shudders and misapprehension from many, Africa is rapidly hitting the radar screens of the world’s smartest investors.]]></description>
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