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		<title>COTE D&#8217;IVOIRE: Centre offers children health and hope</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: IRIN NEWS
COTE D&#8217;IVOIRE: Centre offers children health and hope
BOUAKE, 8 May (IRIN) - A straw hut in the courtyard of the Ariel Glaser Paediatric Centre in Bouake is filled with children of all ages playing or eating meals prepared by the centre&#8217;s cook, all under the watchful eye of relatives.
This special space for children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BENIN: The end of river blindness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: IRIN NEWS
BENIN: The end of river blindness
COTONOU, 8 May (IRIN) - Twenty years ago Benin was among the countries in West Africa most affected by endemic river blindness. Today the disease, which causes blindness and chronic skin irritation and is blamed for stunting economic growth of the populations it affects, has been almost completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi: Free AIDS drugs slash death rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: AlertNet

Free AIDS drugs slash death rate in Malawi study 		 
08 May 2008 23:01:03 GMT
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Source: Reuters


By Ben Hirschler LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commission on Sustainable Development considers how to help africa better manage natural resources, boost agricultural productivity, modernize infrastructure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: African Press Organization


8 May 2008

Commission on Sustainable Development

Sixteenth Session

8th &#38; 9th Meetings (AM &#38; PM)

Commission on Sustainable Development considers how to help africa better manage natural resources, boost agricultural productivity, modernize infrastructure

With many African economies heavily dependent on agriculture — a climate-sensitive sector highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shocks — the Commission on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many Culprits in Food Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following post is contributed by Dave Donelson. Although it is not Africa-specific I feel it may be of interest to those following the current food crisis in African countries.
Many  Culprits in Food Crisis
Dave Donelson, author of Heart of  Diamonds

Culprits on both the supply and the demand side have caused the current  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African blog and website: Strengthening Managing for Impact</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting programme funded by IFAD funded is &#8216;Strengthening Managing for Impact (SMIP)&#8217; in eastern &#38; southern Africa. They  work with pro-poor initiatives and development aid programmes to try and bring about a shift in the way they’re managed, from activities to impact; from a top-down perspective to a bottom up one.  A key part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senegal: 17 people in Casamance attacked and ears sliced off</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sad story is emerging from the Casamance region of Senegal.  17 people picking cashew nuts in the village of Tampe near the Guinea-Bissau border had their left ears sliced off by unidentified attackers on the 7th May.  According to AllAfrica.com the attackers claimed to belong to Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mali, Guinea: Ali Farka Toure lives on!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by sociolingo on May 8, 2008


I know a lot of you guys already know this, but I am finding out what a rich source of cultural material YouTube is! Whilst trying to get together a post on a Jazz festival in Guinea in honour of the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, who sadly died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burkina Faso to harvest 4.2 million tons of cereals this year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 21:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: APA
 Burkina Faso to harvest 4.2 million tons of cereals this year 

APA-Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) Burkina Faso anticipates harvesting almost 4,231,479 tons of cereals this year, representing a 13 percent growth rate compared to last year, Agriculture, Hydraulics and halieutic resources ministry officials said.
The ministry announced it would give producers 4,000 tons of improved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African health: AFM PLoS One Bad Malaria Drugs Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Africa Fighting Malaria
AFM&#8217;s study of antimalarial drug quality in six  major African cities is now live on PLoS One: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002132


Reuters India has provided a nice summary: 
http://in.reuters.com/article/health/idINN0651796020080507
 Study Abstract: A range of  antimalarial drugs were procured from private pharmacies in urban and peri-urban  areas in the major cities of six African [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mauritania: farmers urged to grow food, cut imports</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: AlertNet
ROSSO, Mauritania, May 6 (Reuters) - Mauritania&#8217;s president wants peasant farmers to cultivate more land and grow more food to reduce its overwhelming dependence on costly imports, and insists the Saharan country could one day be self-sufficient.
Launching Mauritania&#8217;s 2008/09 agricultural season on Monday in Rosso, on the fertile northern bank of the Senegal river, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: Romance books in Nigeria&#8217;s Muslim north address the meaning of love.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Kuwait Times
Each evening, headscarf-shrouded women seeking romantic advice gather at book stalls lining a rush-hour intersection in Nigeria&#8217;s Islamic heartland. With the sun setting red behind a nearby mosque, the women thumb through northern Nigeria&#8217;s unique, female-authored literary offerings: cheaply bound but popular volumes that address issues confronting women in a Shariah society: courtship, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: The search for a true Igbo National Attire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been discovering more African bloggers. The Long Harmattan Season is a Nigerian blogger who writes informed comment about many aspects of life.
One article that caught my eye was about The search for a true Igbo National Attire
In Nigeria, there is no better way to identify people from the different ethnic regions than through their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: Igbo spirituality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 20:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Igbo are a people group of Nigeria. An interesting article about Igbo spirituality can be found on Assata Shakur Forums.

Igbo spirituallity

  by Onyi Anyiwo
The spiritual system of Ndi Igbo (the Igbo people) is one of the oldest on Earth. The roots of Igbo spirituality is the same as the roots of every other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African book review: French Colonialism Unmasked - The Vichy Years in French West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 19:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: H-French-Colonial@h-net.msu.edu
H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-French-Colonial@h-net.msu.edu (May 200  
Ruth Ginio. &#8220;French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa&#8221;. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xviii + 243 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8032-2212-2; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8032-1746-1.
Reviewed for H-French-Colonial by Richard S. Fogarty, Department of History, University at Albany, State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senegal: Abolish wasteful world food body says Senegal&#8217;s Wade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: AlertNet
DAKAR, May 5 (Reuters) - The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation is an inefficient money-gobbler and should be replaced by foreign investment and assistance to help Africa end its food aid dependency, Senegal&#8217;s president said.
In a speech late on Sunday, President Abdoulaye Wade called the Rome-based FAO, created in 1945, a &#8220;bottomless pit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African food crisis: AfDB adds $1 billion to its agriculture portfolio</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 11:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: AfDB
Tunis, 2 May 2008 – The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group, Donald Kaberuka, announced on Friday, 2 May 2008, in Tunis that the Bank Group would add US$1 billion to its agriculture portfolio, raised to US$ 4.8 billion, as part of a short-term action to help address the food crisis in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Telecommunication / ICT Indicators 2008 report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 11:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: APO
ITU TELECOM AFRICA kicks off with the launch of ITU’s African Telecommunication / ICT Indicators 2008 report, which is an invaluable information tool to inform and guide policy-makers, investors, analysts and other observers of Africa’s telecommunications landscape. It contains an extensive overview of key sector developments, and includes a number of recommendations to sustain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberia IMF:Conclusion of Staff Mission 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Press Release: Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Mission to Liberia
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		<title>Togo IMF: Country Report 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 10:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: IMF
Country Report No. 08/146: Togo: Request for Three - Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility - Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Togo
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