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		  <title><![CDATA[One year on, feuds stall Zim unity govt]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe's grip on power was pried open one year ago on Thursday, but mistrust and bickering are hampering Zimbabwe's recovery.]]></description>
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		  <title><![CDATA[MDC wants fresh elections for Zimbabwe]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Fresh elections are the only way to a lasting solution for Zimbabwe, the Movement for Democratic Change in South Africa said on Tuesday.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Sudan, Chad agree to end proxy wars]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Sudan and Chad agreed on Tuesday to end their proxy wars and engage in direct talks to rebuild their war-affected border areas.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Nigerian Parliament votes to suspend ailing president]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Nigeria's Parliament on Tuesday voted to suspend ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua and hand power to his deputy until he is well enough to resume.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Israel in Africa]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Much of the world came to learn of Rwanda in 1994, when the majority Hutu people went on a three-month killing spree against the minority Tutsi.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe strike forces Bennett trial delay]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[The trial of Zimbabwe opposition politician Roy Bennett was postponed indefinitely as court workers joined a wage strike by government employees.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Sands shifting for Africa's nomadic herders]]></title>
		  <link>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-08-sands-shifting-for-africas-nomadic-herders</link>
		  <description><![CDATA[Nomadic herders who move their cattle ceaselessly across some of the harshest environments in the world are vital for Africa's prosperity.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Chad's D&eacute;by in Sudan amid thaw in ties]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Chadian President Idriss D&eacute;by Itno on Monday arrived in Khartoum on his first visit to Sudan since 2004.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Private schools sprout in Zim as public system struggles ]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA["No disruption to learning" touts a newspaper ad for a new private Zimbabwean school, one of many springing up in living rooms across Zimbabwe.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Zim civil servants embark on strike over wages]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe's civil servants have launched an open-ended strike for a more than four-fold hike to their salaries, piling pressure on the government.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA['Terminator' lives in luxury while peacekeepers look on]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[The casual sportsman in an oasis of luxury amid the poverty of Goma, in the DRC, is a man the United Nations would prefer did not exist at all.
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		  <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Whitewashing Zimbabwe's history]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[The film <i>Mugabe and the White African</i> puts a heroic gloss on the colonial attitudes that endure in independent Zimbabwe.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Zim civil servants go on strike over wages]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe's civil servants went on strike on Friday to demand an increase to their monthly salaries of $150, their unions said.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Guinea junta chief's aide ready to face justice]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[An aide to Guinea junta chief Moussa Dadis Camara, on the run since he shot the leader, said on Friday he was ready to face international justice.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[AU: ICC decision on al-Bashir harms peace process]]></title>
		  <link>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-05-au-icc-decision-on-albashir-harms-peace-process</link>
		  <description><![CDATA[AU says a decision by the ICC to consider adding genocide charges to an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir harms the peace process in Sudan.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Nigerian minister calls for ill president to transfer powers]]></title>
		  <link>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-05-nigerian-minister-calls-for-ill-president-to-transfer-powers</link>
		  <description><![CDATA[A Nigerian minister has called on ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to transfer power, a senior official said on Thursday.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Obama condemns Uganda anti-gay bill as 'odious']]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama has denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that has drawn international condemnation.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Nigeria warns militants against violence]]></title>
		  <link>http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-04-nigeria-warns-militants-against-violence</link>
		  <description><![CDATA[The Nigerian government warned Niger Delta militants on Wednesday against issuing threats of violence.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Darfur rebels hail court decision on al-Bashir]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[A Darfur rebel group has hailed a court's decision to order a review of the dropping of genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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		  <title><![CDATA[Poor Eritreans increasingly joining gold rush]]></title>
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		  <description><![CDATA[More than a dozen mining firms are now working in Eritrea, but villagers are also increasingly using their bare hands to claim some of the riches.]]></description>
		  <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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