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					<title>Charles Taylor gets 50 years jail term</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Liberia&#039;s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. Special Court for Sierra Leone judges said the sentence reflected his status as head of state at the time of the crimes and&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Liberia&#039;s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting rebels in Sierra Leone during the 1991-2002 civil war. Special Court for Sierra Leone judges said the sentence reflected his status as head of state at the time of the crimes and&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 07:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Africa praise SKA bid outcome</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The move to allow South Africa and eight of its partner African countries to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope has excited the continent infamously known for poverty, disease and civil conflicts. South Africa with Australia and New Zealand were declared successful bidders to host the world&#039;s biggest radio telescope ever built&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[The move to allow South Africa and eight of its partner African countries to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope has excited the continent infamously known for poverty, disease and civil conflicts. South Africa with Australia and New Zealand were declared successful bidders to host the world&#039;s biggest radio telescope ever built&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 10:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Zimbabwe: Midwives shun rural health facilities</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is every woman&#039;s dream to be a mother. But sadly some women never get to hold their off-spring who die during delivery in Zimbabwe. The situation is particularly dire in rural areas whose ill-equipped public health facilities are shunned by medical professionals, including midwives.
When I had to give birth, I went to Chinhere Clinic, but I&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[It is every woman&#039;s dream to be a mother. But sadly some women never get to hold their off-spring who die during delivery in Zimbabwe. The situation is particularly dire in rural areas whose ill-equipped public health facilities are shunned by medical professionals, including midwives.<br/><br/>
When I had to give birth, I went to Chinhere Clinic, but I&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 08:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Africa: Unemployment takes shine off economic growth</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Africa is expected to grow 4.5% this year and 4.8% next, but more than half of the region&#039;s unemployed are aged 15 to 24. Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in the world after escaping the worst of the global financial crisis - but the phenomenon of jobless growth combined with the world&#039;s youngest population threatens progress,&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Africa is expected to grow 4.5% this year and 4.8% next, but more than half of the region&#039;s unemployed are aged 15 to 24. Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in the world after escaping the worst of the global financial crisis - but the phenomenon of jobless growth combined with the world&#039;s youngest population threatens progress,&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>AU troops secure Somali aid corridor</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[African Union and Somali government troops secured an aid corridor between Mogadishu and a former rebel stronghold close to the capital, the AU said, wresting control of a strip of land believed to hold around 400,000 people displaced by conflict. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali forces seized the town of Afgoye from the al Qaeda-linked&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[African Union and Somali government troops secured an aid corridor between Mogadishu and a former rebel stronghold close to the capital, the AU said, wresting control of a strip of land believed to hold around 400,000 people displaced by conflict. The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali forces seized the town of Afgoye from the al Qaeda-linked&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>OPINION: Welcome to African Green Revolution</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the past century and a half, Africa has tried various agricultural approaches without much success. In the colonial era our agriculture adjusted to exporting unprocessed agricultural products to the metropolis. At the time, African farmers were mere appendages to the colonial settlers bound to &#039;feeding&#039; colonial plunders to their mother&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[For the past century and a half, Africa has tried various agricultural approaches without much success. In the colonial era our agriculture adjusted to exporting unprocessed agricultural products to the metropolis. At the time, African farmers were mere appendages to the colonial settlers bound to &#039;feeding&#039; colonial plunders to their mother&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Egyptians vote in historic election</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Egyptians began voting freely on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. The contest is a novelty for a nation where elections during the 30-year rule of a man some called &quot;Pharaoh&quot; were thinly attended rigmaroles in which the&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Egyptians began voting freely on Wednesday for the first time to pick their president in a wide open election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak. The contest is a novelty for a nation where elections during the 30-year rule of a man some called &quot;Pharaoh&quot; were thinly attended rigmaroles in which the&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Africa Day 2012 - a moment for reflection and celebration</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[25th May is Africa Day. For many years it has been a celebration of African unity. It dates back to 1963 when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in Ethiopia on the 25th of May. Before then 15th April, which marked the first Conference of Independent African States held in Ghana in 1958, was upheld as African Freedom Day.
The significance&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[25th May is Africa Day. For many years it has been a celebration of African unity. It dates back to 1963 when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in Ethiopia on the 25th of May. Before then 15th April, which marked the first Conference of Independent African States held in Ghana in 1958, was upheld as African Freedom Day.<br/><br/>
The significance&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 08:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>South Africa's African agenda</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Mothlanthe paid a rare visit to Ghana in April at the invitation of John Dramani Mahama , Vice President of Ghana. It is significant in terms of a growing realisation of the need for South Africa to develop with Africa. The visit was within the context of consolidating the African Agenda&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Mothlanthe paid a rare visit to Ghana in April at the invitation of John Dramani Mahama , Vice President of Ghana. It is significant in terms of a growing realisation of the need for South Africa to develop with Africa. The visit was within the context of consolidating the African Agenda&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Women struggle to rinse hunger, poverty stains</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (FRAZER POTANI)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[Just looking at her one clearly appreciates that she is old and frail therefore in need of support for food, clothing and shelter to live comfortably in her last days. However, each passing day this 60-year-old woman Florence Mkandawire from Gowoyani Village, Chief Chikulamayembe&#039;s Area (Rumphi), over 80 Km from the country&#039;s third largest&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just looking at her one clearly appreciates that she is old and frail therefore in need of support for food, clothing and shelter to live comfortably in her last days. However, each passing day this 60-year-old woman Florence Mkandawire from Gowoyani Village, Chief Chikulamayembe&#039;s Area (Rumphi), over 80 Km from the country&#039;s third largest&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 09:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Climate Climate change affects migratory birds in Uganda</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (Paschal)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[Changes in the climate globally have affected the movement of both migratory and resident species of birds, Nature Uganda has said. &quot;We used to see strange birds perched up on that tree. But nowadays we chance on one after a long time,&quot; Ssonko, a nature lover says while pointing at the seemingly old tree.
He says some of the &#8220;strange&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Changes in the climate globally have affected the movement of both migratory and resident species of birds, Nature Uganda has said. &quot;We used to see strange birds perched up on that tree. But nowadays we chance on one after a long time,&quot; Ssonko, a nature lover says while pointing at the seemingly old tree.<br/><br/>
He says some of the &#8220;strange&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 07:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Ghana: Foreign retailers cited for currency depreciation</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is attributing the sharp depreciation of the Ghana cedi against major currencies to the illegal activities of foreigners in the retail sector. GUTA President, George Ofori, has cited this as one of the justifications in the renewed drive to flush out foreigners operating in the retail business, emphasizing&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) is attributing the sharp depreciation of the Ghana cedi against major currencies to the illegal activities of foreigners in the retail sector. GUTA President, George Ofori, has cited this as one of the justifications in the renewed drive to flush out foreigners operating in the retail business, emphasizing&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 07:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Kenya: Community radio brings succour to dwellers</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (AfricaNews editor)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[Korogocho, a slum in northeastern Nairobi with 100,000 inhabitants, had many of the ingredients for a political explosion similar to those that rocked other parts of Kenya in early 2008. It is crowded and very poor and has a reputation for brutal crime. But when a contested election brought violent protests to Mathare and other nearby slums, with hundreds&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Korogocho, a slum in northeastern Nairobi with 100,000 inhabitants, had many of the ingredients for a political explosion similar to those that rocked other parts of Kenya in early 2008. It is crowded and very poor and has a reputation for brutal crime. But when a contested election brought violent protests to Mathare and other nearby slums, with hundreds&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 06:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Veld fires 'flame' Zimbabwe's economy</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (Problem Masau)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[Over the years, Zimbabwe has experienced the scourge of veld fires destroying property worth thousands of dollars. Last year about in 714 000 hectares of land was &#039;chewed&#039; by veld fires and according to the Meteorological Office , the season were the risk of veld fires are high is once again upon us. Environment activists said threat not only&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the years, Zimbabwe has experienced the scourge of veld fires destroying property worth thousands of dollars. Last year about in 714 000 hectares of land was &#039;chewed&#039; by veld fires and according to the Meteorological Office , the season were the risk of veld fires are high is once again upon us. Environment activists said threat not only&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Liberia commends ECOWAS for support</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (Jammeh)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[The induction training of pioneer Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Volunteers for Liberia kicked off in Monrovia, with the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning, Mr. Christopher Wallace, expressing immense gratitude to ECOWAS for assisting the country to end a civil war and accompanying it in capacity building to promote&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[The induction training of pioneer Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Volunteers for Liberia kicked off in Monrovia, with the Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs and Planning, Mr. Christopher Wallace, expressing immense gratitude to ECOWAS for assisting the country to end a civil war and accompanying it in capacity building to promote&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Vanishing Lake Chad puts 30m lives at risk</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (AfricaNews editor)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[As you approach the Lake Chad basin from Maiduguri, in north-eastern Nigeria, the evidence of despair is telling. The air is dusty, the wind is fierce and unrelenting, the plants are wilting and the earth is turning into sand dunes. The lives of herders, fisher folks and farmers are teetering on the edge as the lake dries up before their eyes.
Vegetation&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[As you approach the Lake Chad basin from Maiduguri, in north-eastern Nigeria, the evidence of despair is telling. The air is dusty, the wind is fierce and unrelenting, the plants are wilting and the earth is turning into sand dunes. The lives of herders, fisher folks and farmers are teetering on the edge as the lake dries up before their eyes.<br/><br/>
Vegetation&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Heavy rains cause havoc in Kenya</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heavy Rainfall continued to wreak havoc across the country leading to the suspension of relief food in some parts of the country as most roads in Turkana district have been rendered impassable following the heavy down pour.
&#8220;Due to dilapidated roads trucks carrying the relief food are unable to reach families in need of the supplies&#039;&#039;&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Heavy Rainfall continued to wreak havoc across the country leading to the suspension of relief food in some parts of the country as most roads in Turkana district have been rendered impassable following the heavy down pour.<br/><br/>
&#8220;Due to dilapidated roads trucks carrying the relief food are unable to reach families in need of the supplies&#039;&#039;&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Zimbabwe: Growth points lie dormant</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (Problem Masau)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[The Zimbabwean government mooted the concept of growth points in the 1980s as a means of decongesting cities and towns. This was done mainly to curb the rural-to-urban migration through employment creation and the availing of basic services to people in rural areas, but almost three decades later, most growth points are now like ghost towns with most&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Zimbabwean government mooted the concept of growth points in the 1980s as a means of decongesting cities and towns. This was done mainly to curb the rural-to-urban migration through employment creation and the availing of basic services to people in rural areas, but almost three decades later, most growth points are now like ghost towns with most&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 06:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Sierra Leone improves in infant mortality</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (Murtala)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone has improved in infant mortality cases according to Save the Children- World Motherhood index 2012 report. The West Africa country described as one of the worst places to have a child moved from the bottom to twelve places up in the tier 111 of the least developed countries.
Of the 165 countries surveyed, Sierra Leone is ranked 30th position&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sierra Leone has improved in infant mortality cases according to Save the Children- World Motherhood index 2012 report. The West Africa country described as one of the worst places to have a child moved from the bottom to twelve places up in the tier 111 of the least developed countries.<br/><br/>
Of the 165 countries surveyed, Sierra Leone is ranked 30th position&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 06:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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					<title>Zimbabwe: Resettled farmers fail to utilize land</title>
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					<author>dummy@example.com (Problem Masau)</author>
					<description><![CDATA[Resettled farmers in Zimbabwe are failing to utilize land due to inadequate farming inputs and lack of resources. &quot;The owner of this farm is not around, he lives in Harare and we pay rentals to him, he is not into farming and he come here occasionally to collect his rentals, we don&#039;t use the whole farm,&quot; said another peasant farmer in&#8230;]]></description>

					<content:encoded><![CDATA[Resettled farmers in Zimbabwe are failing to utilize land due to inadequate farming inputs and lack of resources. &quot;The owner of this farm is not around, he lives in Harare and we pay rentals to him, he is not into farming and he come here occasionally to collect his rentals, we don&#039;t use the whole farm,&quot; said another peasant farmer in&#8230;]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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