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<title>Mugabe gives deal deadline to MDC</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7597493.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe gives the opposition MDC until Thursday to agree a deal, state media reports.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7598308.stm">
<title>Nigeria arranges &#x27;HIV marriages&#x27; </title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7598308.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A Nigerian state government encourages HIV-positive men and women to marry each other.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7597589.stm">
<title>Ethiopia celebrates the unveiling of the ancient Axum obelisk</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7597589.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ethiopia celebrates the reassembly of the Axum obelisk, following its return from Italy.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7435977.stm">
<title>Live: 2010 World Cup qualifying</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7435977.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Latest scores from 2010 World Cup qualifying on Fifa.com (the BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites).]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7600942.stm">
<title>Libya stun Ghana in Tripoli</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7600942.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Libya take control of Group Five of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers after pulling off a 1-0 win over Ghana.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7600943.stm">
<title>Algeria return to Group 6 summit</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7600943.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Algeria beat Senegal 3-2 on Friday to blow wide open the race in Group Six of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers.]]></description>
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<title>In pictures</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/in_pictures/7600473.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[From high jumps to sweet dates in Africa's week]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7600785.stm">
<title>Fast forward</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7600785.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Libya adjusts as it opens up to the West and oil profits]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7601101.stm">
<title>Promise of change</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7601101.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The BBC's Peter Biles sees Angola vote]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7594353.stm">
<title>Angola views</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7594353.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[From war amputees to first-time voters on historic poll]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7594790.stm">
<title>&#x27;Mad dog&#x27; no more</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7594790.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Profile of Libya's maverick Colonel Muammar Gaddafi]]></description>
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<title>Through a window</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/in_pictures/7574046.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Pictures of Africa through glass, sent in by BBC readers]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7599048.stm">
<title>Angola election chief denies bias</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7599048.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Angola's electoral chief denies campaigning has unfairly favoured the ruling party.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7597415.stm">
<title>US man bribed Nigerians</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7597415.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[An ex-KBR chief executive pleads guilty on corruption charges relating to Nigerian gas deals.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7598476.stm">
<title>Congo plane crash bodies found</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7598476.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Rescuers recover 17 bodies from a crashed plane in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN says.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7598144.stm">
<title>Court annuls Somali assets ruling</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/7598144.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Europe's highest court overturns a ruling to freeze the funds of a Somali money-transfer firm.
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7597679.stm">
<title>Call for truth on Nigeria leader</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7597679.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[An opposition party in Nigeria calls for an official statement on the president's health.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7596813.stm">
<title>Video parlour blast in Ethiopia</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7596813.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[People at a video parlour in the Ethiopian capital are caught up in a large explosion.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7595149.stm">
<title>Mwanawasa buried in Zambia</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7595149.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[The late Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa is buried at a sombre ceremony in the capital, Lusaka.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7595727.stm">
<title>Somali pirates seize French boat</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7595727.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two French citizens are seized by pirates off Somalia, along with their boat, officials say.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7592336.stm">
<title>High-tech Angolan election</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7592336.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Solar-powered faxes for landmark Angola poll]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7549444.stm">
<title>DR Congo gorilla diary</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/7549444.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Conflict comes closer to DR Congo's gorilla park ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/today/hi/today/newsid_7584000/7584098.stm">
<title>Sudan&#x27;s orphans of war</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/today/hi/today/newsid_7584000/7584098.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Boys tell of misery despite peace in South Sudan]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7582817.stm">
<title>Zimbabwe voters&#x27; views</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7582817.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[What Zimbabweans make of the political impasse ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7599652.stm">
<title>One Laptop signs up with Amazon</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7599652.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Online retailer Amazon will help the One Laptop Per Child organisation with its plans to sell its XO laptop in the US.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7596521.stm">
<title>S Africa plans to stop blackouts</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/7596521.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[A massive investment in new energy in South Africa is needed to prevent more power cuts, according to one of the country's government ministers.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5298&#x26;edition=2">
<title>What can Africa get from Angola?</title>
<link>http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5298&#x26;edition=2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Angola holds its first peacetime election on Friday. What can the resource-rich country give Africa?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5293&#x26;edition=2">
<title>Should Africa take the train?</title>
<link>http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5293&#x26;edition=2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Efforts are being made to revamp the railway. But are trains the answer to Africa's transport challenges?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5288&#x26;edition=2">
<title>Should boys and girls mix?</title>
<link>http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5288&#x26;edition=2</link>
<description><![CDATA[Are you in favour of schooling boys and girls together? Or do single sex schools work best?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/3909787.stm">
<title>Send us your pictures of Africa</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/3909787.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[BBC News website wants your digital photographs of life in Africa.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06king.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>In Destitute Swaziland, Leader Lives Royally</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06king.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The extravagance of King Mswati III, who has given his 13 wives palaces and BMWs, is spurring protests.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06angola.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Angolans Go to the Polls</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06angola.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[War-ravaged Angola, a country with an abundance of oil, diamonds and grinding poverty, held its first election in 16 years on Friday.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06diplo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Isolation Over, Libyan Leader Meets With Rice</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06diplo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[For the first time in more than half a century, a sitting American secretary of state is in Libya, as Condoleezza Rice arrived on Friday to meet with Muammar el-Qaddafi.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01algeria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>A Threat Renewed: Ragtag Insurgency Gains a Lifeline From Al Qaeda</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01algeria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A group of Algerian militants has been transformed from a nationalist insurgency to a potent ally of Al Qaeda.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/world/africa/22zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Assassins in Zimbabwe Aim at the Grass Roots</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/22/world/africa/22zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[At least 85 people have been killed in a campaign against the opposition in a presidential runoff, civic groups said.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/world/africa/20safrica.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>South Africans Take Out Rage on Immigrants</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/world/africa/20safrica.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The violence continued to rage on Monday, as police fired rubber bullets and made arrests to try to quell the violence in and around Johannesburg.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/africa/17somalia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/world/africa/17somalia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Villagers say Somalis are dying of hunger and thirst amid soaring food prices, skimpy rainfall and rising violence.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06briefs-NOACTIONONAT_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: No Action on a Threat</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06briefs-NOACTIONONAT_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe has apparently postponed carrying out his threat to unilaterally appoint a cabinet.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06briefs-VOTETAKESPLA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Angola: Vote Takes Place in Peace</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06briefs-VOTETAKESPLA_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Angola’s first election in 16 years took place peacefully Friday, but it was marred by disorganization in Luanda, the capital, where 30 percent of the voters live.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06briefs-BRIEFRELEASE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Nigeria: Brief Release for Prisoner</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/world/africa/06briefs-BRIEFRELEASE_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Andrew Berends, an American filmmaker who was arrested Sunday and charged with spying, has been moved to the capital, Abuja, and released for the weekend.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/05nations.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Donors&#x2019; Aid to Poor Nations Declines, U.N. Reports</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/05nations.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Aid to poor nations has slumped even as higher food and energy prices and slowing global economic growth have made such assistance more urgent, according to a report released Thursday.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/africa/05zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Mugabe Threatens to Appoint Cabinet</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/africa/05zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe’s president said he will name a new cabinet if opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai refuses to sign a power-sharing deal by Thursday.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/africa/05briefs-PROTESTSTURN_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Swaziland: Protests Turn Violent</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/world/africa/05briefs-PROTESTSTURN_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Demonstrators stoned shops, looted a market and set off an explosion that damaged a bus, in a second day of protests for democratic change in Swaziland.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/business/04bribe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Former KBR Executive Pleads Guilty to Bribery</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/business/04bribe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[A former chief executive of the former Halliburton subsidiary pleaded guilty to federal bribery and kickback charges in connection with work done in Nigeria from 1995 to 2004.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03nigeria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>American Filmmaker Arrested in Nigeria</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03nigeria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[An American documentary filmmaker and his translator working in the volatile Delta region of Nigeria were accused of spying, Nigerian officials said.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03egypt.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Egypt Tycoon Is Charged in Killing of Pop Diva</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03egypt.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The arrest of Hisham Talaat Moustafa capped weeks of speculation that the politically powerful Egyptian had ordered the murder of the singer, Suzanne Tamim.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03congo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Plane Carrying Aid Workers Goes Down in Congo</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03congo.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Seventeen people were feared dead in eastern Congo after a small plane carrying United Nations employees and other aid workers crashed during a fierce thunderstorm.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03briefs-RICEPLANSRAR_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Libya: Rice Plans Rare Visit</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/world/africa/03briefs-RICEPLANSRAR_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will go to Libya on Friday, the first visit by a senior American diplomat in more than 50 years.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/world/africa/02briefs-CIRCUMCISION_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Circumcision Training Urged</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/world/africa/02briefs-CIRCUMCISION_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Health workers in sub-Saharan Africa need more training and better equipment to circumcise men and boys safely for HIV prevention, according to a study by the World Health Organization.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/world/africa/31nigeria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Nigeria Militants Claim Attacks on Army</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/world/africa/31nigeria.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Militants in Nigeria’s oil heartland said Saturday they had used missiles, grenades and speedboats in a deadly offensive against army positions.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/africa/30zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Zimbabwe Lifts Ban on Aid Groups, but Its Effects Linger</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/africa/30zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The suspension of the groups’ field operations deprived more than a million Zimbabweans of basic assistance, according to the nations that donated the aid.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/africa/30brief-CAMPRAIDDENO_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Sudan: Camp Raid Denounced</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/world/africa/30brief-CAMPRAIDDENO_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations high commissioner for human rights condemned Sudan’s attack on a camp in Darfur for displaced persons “disproportionate and excessive.”    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/africa/28sudan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>2 Hijackers of Jet in Darfur Surrender and Free Hostages in Libya</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/africa/28sudan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Passengers said the hijackers identified themselves as members of a Darfur rebel group, the Sudan Liberation Movement, which denied any involvement.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/africa/28liberia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Ex-Rebel Leader Deflects Questions About Atrocities in Liberia</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/africa/28liberia.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nigeria’s former rebel leader Sekou Conneh refused to accept blame for any wrongdoing during an appearance before a public commission.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/africa/28briefs-NOPOWERSHARI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: No Power-Sharing as Mugabe Forms Government</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/world/africa/28briefs-NOPOWERSHARI_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe said he planned to appoint cabinet ministers and form a government unilaterally, the state-owned newspaper reported.    

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<title>Zimbabwe Parliament Opens to Jeers and Arrests</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/africa/27zimbabwe.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe opened Zimbabwe’s Parliament to heckling from opposition lawmakers, hours after police arrested three of them, bringing the total in custody to five.    

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<title>World Briefing | Africa: Sudan: Plane Is Hijacked From Darfur</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/africa/27briefs-PLANEISHIJAC_BRF.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hijackers in the Darfur region of Sudan seized a jetliner carrying nearly 100 people, including local Darfur officials, and forced it to land at an airfield in the Sahara Desert in Libya.    

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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/africa/26sudan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Dozens Are Killed in Raid on Darfur Camp</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/africa/26sudan.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The deaths resulted from an assault by the government on a huge camp for displaced people in Darfur, according the witnesses and leaders at the camp.    

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<title>World Briefing | Africa: Malawi: AIDS Deaths Drop by 75%</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/world/africa/26briefs-Malawi.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Greater access to free medicine has helped reduce AIDS-related deaths in Malawi by 75 percent in the past four years, the country’s principal secretary for H.I.V. and AIDS said.    

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<title>Global Update: Rwanda: Hospital&#x2019;s Design Keeps Fresh Air in Mind</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/science/19glob.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[The design of a new hospital in Rwanda relies on simple features to reduce the spread of airborne disease.    

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        Rice meets with Libya leader, a former pariah</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/384277155/la-fg-libya6-2008sep06,0,4264621.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Moammar Kadafi is a gracious host, but the U.S. and Libya are not friends yet.
                        
                    
                    
                        Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi welcomed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to his high-security personal compound Friday, in symbolic recognition that after nearly three decades of animosity, the U.S.-Libyan relationship is now officially normal,  if not entirely friendly.]]></description>
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        Sudan doesn&#x27;t see relations improving after the U.S. election</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/384840739/la-fg-sudan6-2008sep06,0,7012542.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Officials in Khartoum are renewing efforts to reach agreement with the U.S., spurred by a genocide investigation and the impending end of the Bush administration.
                        
                    
                    
                        The American presidential race and a genocide investigation by the International Criminal Court are propelling Sudanese officials to renew efforts to strike a deal with the U.S. aimed at normalizing relations and improving stability in the volatile Darfur region.]]></description>
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        World Briefing</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/384840737/la-fg-briefs6-2008sep06,0,3646062.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ukraine: Cheney urges closer ties with West / Canada: Parliament to be dissolved / Angola: Voters go to polls
                        
                    
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        Oil-rich and impoverished, Angola votes</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/383949626/la-fg-angola5-2008sep05,0,3716188.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[The African nation goes to the polls to elect lawmakers for the first time in 16 years. The ruling party is expected to win, but there is a hunger for change.
                        
                    
                    
                        Voters in Angola, one of Africa's biggest oil producers, will take part in parliamentary elections today for the first time in 16 years,  with analysts forecasting peaceful balloting and a victory for the MPLA party, which has been in power for 33 years.]]></description>
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        Morocco music festivals bring culture clash</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/379101433/la-fg-morocco31-2008aug31,0,1954733.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities across the overwhelmingly Muslim country sponsor some 400 such events yearly to promote liberal values.
                        
                    
                    
                        This is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, but you wouldn't know it from the music festivals.]]></description>
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<title>

        World Briefing</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/382092249/la-fg-briefs3-2008sep03,0,1286760.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan: U.S. disputes U.N. report on civilian toll / Congo: 17 feared dead in crash of aid flight / Israel: Agents found Mengele in 1960 / Nigeria: U.S. filmmaker held on spy charges
                        
                    
                    AFGHANISTAN   U.S. disputes U.N. report on death toll]]></description>
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        Nigeria police seize funds allegedly raised for Obama</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/380253088/la-fg-nigeria1-2008sep01,0,5321247.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nigerian anti-graft police have seized $629,834 raised at a gala dinner in support of Sen. Barack Obama's  presidential campaign, authorities said Sunday.]]></description>
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        World Briefing</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/379471393/la-fg-briefs31-2008aug31,0,1543107.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka: 45 hurt in Colombo blast / Italy: $5-billion deal for Libya / Bangladesh: Police clash with rioting workers
                        
                    
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        Agreement on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq said to be in peril as Maliki ousts negotiators</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/379471392/la-fg-iraq31-2008aug31,0,7044672.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Times is told that the prime minister has replaced the team with loyalists at the 'make-or-break' stage of talks. The two sides reportedly remain deadlocked on key issues.
                        
                    
                    
                        At the "make-or-break" stage of talks with the U.S. on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has swept aside his negotiating team and replaced it with three of his closest aides, a reshuffle that some Iraqi officials warn risks sabotaging the agreement.]]></description>
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        Hijackers of Darfur plane surrender in Libya</title>
<link>http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/africa/~3/376261634/la-fg-hijack28-2008aug28,0,6729648.story</link>
<description><![CDATA[Two Sudanese men, armed with handguns and the threat of explosives, stormed the cockpit of the Boeing 737, taking control just minutes into the flight. Passengers said the hijackers remained calm but they still spent a night in fear.]]></description>
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<title>Situation worsening for Horn of Africa&#x27;s children, warns UN agency</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27947&#x26;Cr=horn+of+africa&#x26;Cr1=drought</link>
<description><![CDATA[Almost three million children across the Horn of Africa are at risk of death, disease and malnutrition due to a combination of drought, rising food prices and conflict, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned today.]]></description>
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<title>Top UN envoy speaks out against piracy off Somali coast</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27943&#x26;Cr=somali&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The top United Nations envoy to Somalia today said that he is extremely alarmed by the rise in piracy off the Horn of Africa nation's coast and deplored the destabilizing effects of the attacks in the region.]]></description>
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<title>UN to train African Union peacekeeping support staff</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27952&#x26;Cr=african+union&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations peacekeeping arm launched a training programme this week for senior officials of the African Union (AU), aimed at improving the planning, deployment and management of its peacekeeping support missions.]]></description>
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<title>UN-backed carbon forum helps Africa profit from greenhouse gas offset scheme</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27954&#x26;Cr=africa&#x26;Cr1=climate</link>
<description><![CDATA[Three days of deal-making and networking wrapped up today at the United Nations-backed Africa Carbon Forum in Senegal, aimed at improving the continent's standing in the global carbon marketplace.]]></description>
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<title>States must deliver on promises made at Accra aid forum - UN official</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27945&#x26;Cr=accra&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has urged countries to make good on the promises they made this week at a high-level conference in Ghana devoted to making international aid more effective.]]></description>
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<title>Remains of 17 dead found at DR Congo plane crash site, UN says</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27936&#x26;Cr=DRC&#x26;Cr1=</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations has confirmed that the remains of the 17 passengers on board an aid flight that went down in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Monday have been located in the vicinity of the crash site.]]></description>
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<title>African ministers agree to roll out vaccine to fight meningitis - UN agency</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27926&#x26;Cr=africa&#x26;Cr1=health</link>
<description><![CDATA[Health ministers from sub-Saharan Africa's "meningitis belt" pledged today to introduce a new vaccine that they hope will immunize more than 250 million people against the deadly disease, at a United Nations-backed conference held in Cameroon.]]></description>
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<title>Security Council welcomes Somali peace and reconciliation accord</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Security Council today welcomed the recent signing of a peace and reconciliation agreement by Somalia's warring political groups and urged the two sides in the troubled Horn of Africa nation to fully implement their commitments under the accord.]]></description>
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<title>Ghana: UNICEF to provide thousands of extra bed nets in fight against malaria</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has unveiled plans to spend an additional $1.7 million for insecticide-treated bed nets in Ghana as part of the fight against the spread of malaria in the West African country.]]></description>
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<title>International Criminal Court rejects appeal to start trial of Congolese militiaman</title>
<link>http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27929&#x26;Cr=drc&#x26;Cr1=militia</link>
<description><![CDATA[The International Criminal Court (ICC) has dismissed an appeal by prosecutors against its earlier decision to suspend the trial of the Congolese rebel leader Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, accused of recruiting child soldiers to serve in his militia.]]></description>
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<title>Somalia: Hunger and terror </title>
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<description><![CDATA[There has been no pause in the country&#8217;s relentless downward spiralIT HAS been a long, dreadful summer for Somalia. The UN says that 3.2m Somalis (out of about 8m) now need aid just to stay alive: a 77% rise on last year. A sixth of Somali infants are at risk of starving to death. Due to what aid organisations call &#8220;intolerable insecurity&#8221;, almost all international charity workers have left. Offshore, Somali pirates are as bold as ever. They are holding around ten vessels, including three large tankers with 130 crewmen captured this week.Foreign governments still wrangle over Africa&#8217;s worst humanitarian and political crisis. UN people working for a deal between Islamist insurgents and the weak Somali government want 8,000 peacekeeping troops to replace the few thousand beleaguered African Union and Ethiopian soldiers. But more senior people in the UN&#8217;s peacekeeping office, already failing to get enough troops into Darfur, rule that out. A multinational force would be the next best thing, but who would pay? Mooted Saudi cash has not materialised. ...]]></description>
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<title>Kenya: When not imploding is not enough </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Six months after its bloody election crisis, the country is still struggling to recoverIN THE past few weeks, Kenyans have been celebrating. They were delighted when their athletes came back from the Olympics in China with 14 medals, five of them gold, whereas South Africa, often the continent&#8217;s sporting giant, got just one silver. A buoyant president, Mwai Kibaki, handed bonus cheques to the medallists on their return. And then Kenyans had the pleasure, early one morning on television, of watching Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan civil servant, accept the Democratic nomination to be president of the United States. But despite such good cheer it is evident that east Africa&#8217;s leading country has yet to recover fully from the post-election violence that ravaged it earlier in the year, when some 1,700 people were killed and 300,000 displaced. Its fragile coalition government is struggling to take the necessary decisions to tackle the country&#8217;s manifold problems. With Mr Kibaki as president and the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, as prime minister, the mere fact that their cumbrous joint administration has hung together is an achievement. But beyond that, six months into its existence, it has little else to celebrate.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Israel: Come and have a good time </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Israelis want foreigners to see their country in a new lightCOUNTRIES, like items in the supermarket, sell better with clever advertising. So Israel, long frustrated by its image as a country tarnished by danger and strife, wants to rebrand itself&#8212;as hip, cool, cultured, fun and creative.The initiative comes from Israeli diplomats and Jewish groups in America, whose research shows that even though Israel enjoys strong political support from Americans, its image is far too lean and mean. Asked to describe &#8220;Israel house&#8221;, one focus group imagined it as arid, all-male and surrounded by barbed wire. The concepts that first spring to mind in polls are conflict, desert and religious extremism. &#8220;We want people to know other things about us,&#8221; says a top Israeli involved in the scheme. &#8220;About our computer chips and health-care innovations.&#8221; ...]]></description>
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<title>The West Bank: The villagers hemmed in </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Israelis' security barrier continues to threaten Palestinian livelihoodsTHE tear gas has dispersed but the dirt road leading out of the village of Nilin is still strewn with rocks and broken bottles. Strips of carton and carpets, which served as makeshift prayer mats during the clashes that took place the day before, are still spread beneath the olive trees. A Palestinian village of some 5,000 souls west of Ramallah, the Palestinian capital, Nilin is the West Bank&#8217;s latest hot spot. Nearby, on Palestinian land, are two Israeli settlements, Modin Illit and Hashmonaim. For the past four months, the people of Nilin, aided by Israeli and foreign campaigners, have been protesting against the barrier the Israelis are planning to build across their land. ...]]></description>
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<title>Ramadan: Time for tall tales on television </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Muslim month of fasting allows for ever-juicier television fare at nightIN RAMADAN&#8217;s past, pious Muslims in the big cities of the Middle East waited, in the hush before sunset, for the sound of a cannon shot, followed by the cry of &#8220;Allahu Akbar!&#8221; from a nearby mosque, to break their day-long fast. Now, during the month-long fasting period, families tune instead to their televisions. As the broadcast call to prayer declares the start of another night of furious eating and alcohol-free drinking, so it heralds a visual feast. Satellite television has taken off in the region like nowhere else. In wealthy Gulf states, some 95% of households own digital receivers; even in poorer countries, such as Jordan and Morocco, the satellite penetration rate now tops 75%. Not surprisingly, the number of free-to-air channels available on Arab satellites has grown sixfold in the past five years, to more than 300. Those willing to pay subscription fees or to have a clever technician break encoded blockers can tune in to dozens more.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Angola: Marching towards riches and democracy? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[An oil-rich country prepares to vote for the first time in 16 yearsAFTER recent election fiascos in Kenya and Zimbabwe, all eyes are on Angola. On September 5th, 8m-plus registered voters (in a population of some 17m) should cast their ballot to choose a new parliament. They have certainly had to wait for the privilege. Since independence from Portugal in 1975, Angola has had only one multi-party election, in 1992, and it led to a resumption of the horrific civil war that had ravaged the place since independence. The government has repeatedly promised and postponed fresh elections since the end of the conflict in 2002. Only now, it judges, is Angola finally ready.  Decades of war, first pitting Angolans against their Portuguese colonial masters and then against each other, destroyed and traumatised a country that is rich in oil, diamonds and fertile soil. The two sides in the civil war are still the main political parties that will contest these elections: the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The latter, for many years a rebel movement, gave up arms after the death of its leader, Jonas Savimbi, in 2002. Now led by the articulate and urbane Isaias Samavuka, it has turned into a proper party. Though 14 groups are registered to contest the election, UNITA is still by far the largest opposition one. Incidents still occur in the oil-rich province of Cabinda, but a peace deal signed in 2006 has eased separatist tensions there.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Zimbabwe: Unspeakably rude to the old man </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The opposition scores a telling point IT WAS a humiliating week for Robert Mugabe. As the new parliament elected in March was convened for the first time, the chairman of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Lovemore Moyo, won the vote to become speaker, beating Mr Mugabe&#8217;s candidate. Then the veteran leader was booed and heckled during his speech, for the first time in his 28 years in power. Negotiations between the ruling ZANU-PF and the MDC are still suspended, after the two sides failed to agree on who should hold executive power. Mr Mugabe, not one to take humiliation well, looks set to harden his stance: prospects for an early deal look slim. But it was a rare and telling victory for the opposition.The Zimbabwean leader had violated ground rules, agreed on before the negotiations began, stipulating that the new parliament should not be convened, nor a new cabinet appointed, while negotiations were under way. Several MDC MPs have already been arrested, some as they were entering Parliament to be sworn in. Ahead of a regional meeting earlier this month, Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC leader, and his party&#8217;s secretary-general and chief negotiator were both detained at the airport and their passports confiscated en route to the meeting; they were allowed to continue on their way after South Africa&#8217;s President Thabo Mbeki, mandated by the region&#8217;s leaders to mediate in the talks, apparently intervened. ...]]></description>
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<title>The Gaza Strip: Ceasefire plus blockade </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Though a ceasefire is more or less holding, Gaza is still under siegeDESPITE warnings by Israel&#8217;s government that it would stop two boatloads of pro-Palestinian campaigners from &#8220;breaking the siege of Gaza&#8221;, the ships, carrying some 40-plus enthusiasts, were eventually allowed to dock safely in Gaza&#8217;s main port on August 23rd and to disgorge a cargo of medicine, hearing-aids and other items that the local Palestinians have sorely lacked. But, though a ceasefire signed in June is more or less holding and there has been a slight increase in an inflow of humanitarian supplies, Gazans still feel they are virtually under siege. Since a year ago, when the Islamists of Hamas clobbered their secular rivals, Fatah, in the Strip, the Israelis have restricted the supply of necessities in a bid to make Hamas stop firing rockets at Israel and encourage Gaza&#8217;s Palestinians to turn against their new rulers. In June, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. Since then, the flow of goods has increased, but not enough. The boat campaigners intended to publicise the Gazans&#8217; continuing plight.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Nigeria: Master of his commanders </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The president shows who&#8217;s bossGIVEN Nigeria&#8217;s long record of military coups, President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua&#8217;s dismissal of his top military commanders last week might have looked a bit risky&#8212;suicidal, even. And, indeed, there were rumours of rebellion in the air. But the fact that Mr Yar&#8217;Adua not only removed the officers but calmly left the country immediately afterwards for a pilgrimage to Mecca speaks of a growing confidence among Nigerians that the bad old days of military intervention have finally been laid to rest. Until recently Africa had a deserved reputation for violent military takeovers, and Nigeria was no exception. Half a dozen coups took place in the three decades or so from 1966 until elections restored civilian rule in 1999. Even then the new president, Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr Yar&#8217;Adua&#8217;s predecessor, was a former general who had previously run the country as head of a military junta. With their aviator shades and shiny epaulettes, the generals plundered Nigeria&#8217;s vast oil wealth, none more aggressively or brutally than Sani Abacha in the 1990s.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Libya: Time for a new generation </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Change, if it is on the way, comes in most mysterious waysHOWEVER much of a mess it has made of Libya, the Qaddafi family certainly puts on a diverting show. Like a television serial with several sub-plots, the drama involving Muammar Qaddafi, who has run his oil-rich state since seizing power 39 years ago, and his eight children, manages to sustain suspense even as the story twists in different directions at once. For the past few years, a striking sub-plot has been Libya&#8217;s emergence from the international isolation brought by its involvement in terrorism in the 1980s. This story has now taken a final happy turn with the inking of an agreement with America to settle all outstanding legal claims between the two countries. A compensation fund, likely to be filled by a mix of Libyan oil money and &#8220;donations&#8221; from big American firms keen to do business with Libya, will now pay the remaining compensation to American victims of the PanAm aircraft blown up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 and for other Libyan-sponsored attacks, as well as for 40-plus Libyans killed by an American bombing raid in 1986 in retaliation for an earlier terrorist incident.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Saudi Arabia: Buying the farm </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Feeding its own people more cheaplyWHILE Saudi Arabia sets up its first sovereign wealth fund, ordinary Saudis are more preoccupied with the rising price of food. This is prompting the Saudi government to consider a new direction for foreign investment: buying farms in the poorer parts of the world. Inflation in Saudi Arabia is running in double digits, its highest rate for three decades. Last December, 19 prominent Saudi clerics gave warning that inflation constituted a crisis that would lead to social unrest and crime. Since then, the poorest Saudis have got poorer, with prices going up across the board because of rapid monetary growth. Food and housing costs are rising fastest.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Iraq: Whose law must mercenaries obey? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Private contractors in Iraq operate in a legal limbo. That may changeTHE American federal agency that monitors progress in rebuilding Iraq recently gave warning to Congress that proposed changes in Iraqi law could provoke an exodus of private contractors, who remain a crucial part of the American presence in the country. In particular, proposals by Iraq&#8217;s government to end the contractors&#8217; immunity from prosecution in Iraqi courts is a contentious aspect of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that will, among other things, define the Americans&#8217; legal status in Iraq after the UN mandate ceases, at the Iraqis&#8217; request, at the end of this year. This week American and Iraqi negotiators sounded close to an agreement. But it was still unclear whether contractors&#8217; immunity, let alone a date for America&#8217;s troop withdrawal, has been nailed down.If all the privateers in Iraq ran scared of the new law, the American coalition&#8217;s manpower would be drastically squeezed. The Congressional Budget Office says that 190,000 people work for contractors in Iraq. Some 38,000 are American, 82,000 hail from elsewhere and 70,000-plus are Iraqi. But the law under which the foreigners operate has been murky. &#8220;We should have figured out the laws first and then hired the guys,&#8221; says Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution, a Washington think-tank. &#8220;We did the opposite.&#8221; ...]]></description>
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<title>Liberia: With a little help from her friends </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, halfway through her first term as president, is doing well IN HER inaugural speech in January 2006, Africa&#8217;s first female head of state set out the daunting tasks facing Liberia, citing her determination to heal the awful wounds inflicted during the civil wars of 1989 to 2003 by her various appalling predecessors, including Charles Taylor, now on trial for war crimes at The Hague. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former World Banker, also promised to reduce Liberia&#8217;s dire poverty and to consolidate democracy. On the whole, she has made progress&#8212;albeit with a lot of help from friends abroad. Liberia is more stable these days, thanks in part to a large force of UN peacekeepers, whose numbers are due to fall from 13,000 to just under 10,000 by the end of 2010. Security is gradually to be taken over by a revamped national police force and a new army, both being recruited and trained by an American firm, DynCorp, which is being paid by the United States. ...]]></description>
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<title>Algeria: Not again, please </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Islamists linked to al-Qaeda may be reviving their campaign in the Maghreb&#8220;THIS looks like Iraq, not Algeria,&#8221; declared a distraught witness to the carnage of a bombing that killed 43 police recruits in a town to the east of Algeria&#8217;s capital, Algiers, on August 19th. His words were apt. There has been a dramatic rise in attacks by Islamist extremists in the country during the past fortnight, with at least 79 people killed in various incidents across eastern Algeria, most of them in a spate of suicide bombings similar to those that have ravaged Iraq. The targets have been similar too, including police stations, a coast-guard outpost, and a bus transporting Algerian workers for a big Canadian company. The attacks appear to be the work of Algeria&#8217;s main remaining Islamist guerrilla group, which in 2006, after contacts with al-Qaeda&#8217;s mother organisation, renamed itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Earlier this month it issued a chilling warning to Algeria&#8217;s pro-Western rulers: &#8220;We tell the sons of France, the slaves of America and their masters, too, that our finger is on the trigger, and the convoys of martyrs are longing to rampage your bastions in defence of our Islamic nation.&#8221; ...]]></description>
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<title>Zambia: Why Africa needs more cabbage </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The death of a decent president, Zambia&#8217;s Levy Mwanawasa, raises questions about the state of leadership elsewhere in the continentON PAPER, Levy Mwanawasa should never have been president. He lacked charisma, wit or style&#8212;the sort of qualities that propel populists to high office in much of Africa. At rallies even his own supporters were fast bored by the former lawyer&#8217;s monotone drawl. His ill-health and slurred speech, the results of a car crash, led to nasty jibes about his mental capacity. When he narrowly won his first, disputed, presidential election in 2001, opponents dubbed him &#8220;the cabbage&#8221;, deriding him as a stooge for others more powerful.But Mr Mwanawasa, who died this week in France after suffering in June the latest of several strokes, deserves to be remembered more fondly than the showmen who have beggared much of the continent. In the past seven years he made a serious effort to clean up Zambia&#8217;s pervasive corruption. At some political risk, he turned against his predecessor and one-time patron, the diminutive Frederick Chiluba, who was charged with 168 counts of theft. Mr Chiluba was convicted of graft in a civil court in London last year. It was a rare success: few African leaders have been held to such account. ...]]></description>
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<title>Nigeria: Are the banks as shiny as they look? </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Doubts persist about Nigeria&#8217;s banksTHE bright logos of Nigeria&#8217;s financial institutions adorn the tallest and poshest office blocks in central Lagos, the country&#8217;s commercial capital, testimony to years of impressive growth in banking. But now, after a rocky year, there are worries that some of the optimism may have been overblown. The reform of Nigeria&#8217;s creaking, corrupt banking system was one of the big achievements of President Olusegun Obasanjo in his second term in office (2003-07). As part of a policy to squeeze weak or failing banks out of business, in 2005 the Central Bank of Nigeria raised banks&#8217; capital requirements. In a hectic round of consolidation, the number of banks dropped from 89 to 24. Those that remained have had a very good few years, with massive local expansion and sometimes triple-digit growth in their share prices. And with less than a fifth of Nigerians keeping their money in banks and with fast growth led by private companies, there still seems to be plenty of potential for more business. Banks surveyed by a Lagos-based stockbroker, Afrinvest, showed that median before-tax earnings had risen by 141% year-on-year by June.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Uganda: Drums of war across the borders </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since peace talks with Uganda&#8217;s rebels collapsed, some say war must resume IN MARCH, after nearly two years of on-and-off peace talks, negotiators for Uganda&#8217;s Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) announced that their leader, Joseph Kony, an elusive self-styled mystic, was at last ready to emerge from the bush and sign a deal to end one of Africa&#8217;s longest wars. For two decades, the conflict had brought misery to a region bordering several countries (see map), left tens of thousands of people in northern Uganda dead, and displaced nearly 2m others. Earlier this year, the date for signing a peace deal approached. But at the last minute Mr Kony called off the event and sacked his negotiators. Now there is a danger the war may resume.It is yet another humiliating setback for those who have advocated talking to a man wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court at The Hague. So those who have always argued for taking a tougher stand against the LRA, such as Uganda&#8217;s senior soldiers, have the upper hand again. At the end of June, citing the lack of progress towards a peace deal, the leaders of Uganda, Congo and the autonomous region of south Sudan agreed for the first time to co-ordinate military efforts to stamp out the rebellion once and for all.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Israel: Temple temptations </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The issue of Jerusalem&#8217;s holiest site may again be dividing JewsTHE lead singer, with yarmulke, beard and guitar, appears with a sheep on the cover of the latest record by Lechatchila, a religious-rock group popular among Orthodox young Israelis. &#8220;Don&#8217;t stare at me,&#8221; the lyrics go. &#8220;The Temple is sure to be rebuilt right now. We&#8217;ve got to prepare, to believe, to make the redemption happen.&#8221;For two millennia, ever since the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, Jews have continued to study, write and indeed sing about the intricate rituals of service and sacrifice, in the belief that one day the Messiah would come and the Temple would be rebuilt. Meanwhile, the faithful were forbidden even to walk on the Holy Mount, let alone worship there.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Iraq: The benefits and the curse of oil </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The country is awash with oil money but still lacks a proper planIN THE second quarter of the year, an American military auditor recently reported, Iraq&#8217;s oil production averaged over 2.4m barrels a day, the highest level since America invaded Iraq in 2003, and a marked improvement on last year&#8217;s average of around 2m b/d (see chart). Rising output, along with the high (if now falling) price of oil, should pump up Iraq&#8217;s oil revenues to almost $80 billion this year. That, in turn, has allowed the country&#8217;s parliament to boost this year&#8217;s budget from $48 billion to $70 billion in a supplementary spending bill approved earlier this month. As security improves, the government has a lot more cash to spend than it did a year ago. Will it make the best of it?For one thing, revenue from oil should go up more sharply still. Iraq produced 3m b/d as recently as October 2001, despite the crippling UN-enforced sanctions at the time. Iraq&#8217;s oil minister, Hussein al-Shahristani, has spoken of raising output to 6m b/d. In theory, that is possible. Iraq&#8217;s proven reserves, of 115 billion barrels, are the world&#8217;s third-largest after Saudi Arabia and Iran. Yet Iraq ranks just 13th in terms of production, suggesting there is plenty of scope to pump more. Russia, for example, produced almost 10m b/d last year from reserves of 80 billion barrels. Only 27 of the 80 or so fields that have been discovered in Iraq have ever been tapped. ...]]></description>
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<title>Rice travels to Libya to meet with Qaddafi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time in more than half a century, a sitting U.S. secretary of state is in Libya, with the arrival of Condoleezza Rice to meet with the man that Ronald Reagan called the "Mad Dog of the Middle East."]]></description>
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<title>Opposition parties call to redo elections in Angola</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The leader of Angola's main opposition party, Unita, said he had asked election officials to rehold Friday's parliamentary election because of widespread delays at polling stations.]]></description>
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<title>Angolans go to the polls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[War-ravaged Angola, a country with an abundance of oil, diamonds and grinding poverty, held its first election in 16 years on Friday.]]></description>
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<title>The costs of living in a fairy tale kingdom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A young and handsome king ruled over a land of mountainous splendor near the southern tip of Africa. He liked to get married, and as the years passed he took 13 wives, each of them a great beauty.]]></description>
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<title>Israel bolsters Palestinian Authority&#x27;s arsenal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some 900 assault rifles were transferred to the Palestinian Authority in late August with Israeli approval.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. plan would shift troops from Iraq to Afghanistan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pentagon leaders have recommended a modest shift of U.S. forces by early next year, officials said.]]></description>
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<title>Egyptian ship hijacked near Somalia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pirates off Somalia's coast hijacked an Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members, the 10th vessel to be seized in the region in less than two months, a global maritime watchdog said Friday.]]></description>
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<title>Syria sends peace proposals to Israel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[But President Bashar al-Assad said that the latest round of indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel had been postponed because of internal Israeli politics.]]></description>
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<title>Mugabe&#x27;s threat could end power-sharing negotiations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said he will name a new cabinet if opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai refuses to sign a power-sharing deal by Thursday.]]></description>
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<title>Handshake defuses a standoff in Baghdad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The intensification and resolution of a conflict between a Sunni citizen patrol and the Iraqi Army on Wednesday offered a vivid illustration of the tension between the two organizations.]]></description>
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<title>Aid to poor nations slips as need becomes more acute</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A UN report released Thursday showed that aid dropped 8.4 percent in 2007, after a 4.7 percent drop in 2006. Commitments to help Africa in particular have lagged.]]></description>
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<title>Rice travels to Libya to meet with Qaddafi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time in more than half a century, a sitting U.S. secretary of state is in Libya, with the arrival of Condoleezza Rice to meet with the man that Ronald Reagan called the "Mad Dog of the Middle East."]]></description>
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<title>Opposition parties call to redo elections in Angola</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The leader of Angola's main opposition party, Unita, said he had asked election officials to rehold Friday's parliamentary election because of widespread delays at polling stations.]]></description>
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<title>Angolans go to the polls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[War-ravaged Angola, a country with an abundance of oil, diamonds and grinding poverty, held its first election in 16 years on Friday.]]></description>
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<title>The costs of living in a fairy tale kingdom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A young and handsome king ruled over a land of mountainous splendor near the southern tip of Africa. He liked to get married, and as the years passed he took 13 wives, each of them a great beauty.]]></description>
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<title>Israel bolsters Palestinian Authority&#x27;s arsenal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some 900 assault rifles were transferred to the Palestinian Authority in late August with Israeli approval.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. plan would shift troops from Iraq to Afghanistan</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pentagon leaders have recommended a modest shift of U.S. forces by early next year, officials said.]]></description>
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<title>Egyptian ship hijacked near Somalia</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Pirates off Somalia's coast hijacked an Egyptian cargo ship with 25 crew members, the 10th vessel to be seized in the region in less than two months, a global maritime watchdog said Friday.]]></description>
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<title>Syria sends peace proposals to Israel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[But President Bashar al-Assad said that the latest round of indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel had been postponed because of internal Israeli politics.]]></description>
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<title>Mugabe&#x27;s threat could end power-sharing negotiations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said he will name a new cabinet if opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai refuses to sign a power-sharing deal by Thursday.]]></description>
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<title>Handshake defuses a standoff in Baghdad</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The intensification and resolution of a conflict between a Sunni citizen patrol and the Iraqi Army on Wednesday offered a vivid illustration of the tension between the two organizations.]]></description>
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<title>Aid to poor nations slips as need becomes more acute</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A UN report released Thursday showed that aid dropped 8.4 percent in 2007, after a 4.7 percent drop in 2006. Commitments to help Africa in particular have lagged.]]></description>
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<title>Angolans go to the polls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[War-ravaged Angola, a country with an abundance of oil, diamonds and grinding poverty, held its first election in 16 years on Friday.]]></description>
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<title>Palestinians losing faith in 2-state solution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even among the most moderate Palestinians, the credo of a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is beginning to erode.]]></description>
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<title>2 Israeli border guards convicted of kidnapping death of Palestinian teen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two Israeli border policemen were convicted Wednesday of manslaughter in the 2002 kidnapping and death of a Palestinian teenager on their last day of service in a West Bank city.]]></description>
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<title>Sarkozy meets Assad in Syria</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Nicolas Sarkozy of France met the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, on Wednesday on a visit meant to help ease the international isolation of Syria and to explore prospects for direct peace negotiations between the country and Israel.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. &#x27;mistaken fire&#x27; kills 6 Iraqis, officials say</title>
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<description><![CDATA[American troops on boats in the Tigris River mistakenly killed six Iraqis on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between the two sides north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.]]></description>
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<title>Rice set for historic visit to Libya</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The secretary of state's plans to meet with Muammar el-Qaddafi are part of a dramatic turnaround in U.S. relations with a former pariah nation.]]></description>
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<title>Hezbollah shrine to terror suspect enthralls Lebanese children</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hezbollah has opened an exhibit in honor of Imad Mugniyah, who is accused of masterminding devastating bombings and hijackings in the 1980s and '90s.]]></description>
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<title>American filmmaker arrested in Nigeria</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/03/africa/03nigeria.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[An American documentary filmmaker and his translator working in the volatile Delta region of Nigeria were accused of spying, Nigerian officials said.]]></description>
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<title>Iraq to take control of Baghdad citizen patrols</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/02/mideast/baghdad.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Iraqi government will take over responsibility from Oct. 1 for paying and directing the Sunni-dominated Awakening Councils that operate in and around Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.]]></description>
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<title>Egyptian businessman accused in murder</title>
<link>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/02/africa/egypt.php</link>
<description><![CDATA[He paid a former policeman to kill a Lebanese pop singer, chief prosecutor in Cairo charges.]]></description>
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