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		<title>Hopes To Heal Economy Through Devaluation, Which Has Hit Poor Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, May 17, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; As Malawi’s poor struggle to afford food and other staple items since the 48 percent devaluation of the local currency against the dollar, economic commentators are optimistic that the move will provide an opportunity to boost the country’s export [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cashew Producers&#8217; Pain Is Intermediaries&#8217; Gain in Senegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Koffigan E. Adigbli ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, May 3, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. The Casamance region produced 40 million dollars worth of cashews in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protest Time in Tunisia Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Jake Lippincott TUNIS, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Thousands of centre-left demonstrators violently clashed with police in street battles that completely shut down central Tunis last week, left scores seriously injured and underlined the persistent divisions in Tunisian society. The demonstrations were organised by several political parties, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Andrew Green* JUBA, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Jared Ferrie PIBOR, South Sudan , Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria Turning to a Powder Keg</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis A wind of disgruntlement is blowing across Nigeria. There are fears that, unless President Jonathan steadies the ship of state, divisions within the polity and the rising discontent could be hijacked by political opportunists to cause something more catastrophic. ABUJA (IDN) &#8211; Unless something urgent happens, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival Fear Stalks Millions in West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Jerome Mwanda IDN-InDepth NewsReport NAIROBI (IDN) &#8211; Massive leasing of lands, which the government of Mali justifies with the need to &#34;modernize&#34; the country&#8217;s agriculture, is threatening the survival of populations dependent on the water flows of the Niger River in Mali and in the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rush for Oil in West Africa &#8211; The New Wild West?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Meena Bhandari FREETOWN, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; There is a new oil rush off the coast of West Africa. But there are fears that the sector is not sufficiently regulated, and watchdog groups are raising concerns about transparency and governance in the region. Anticipation is building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Proxy War in Scramble for Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsEssay – Part 3 of 3 Kenyans can now reflect on the changing alliances of the US military inside Somalia before and after the Ethiopians were defeated by nationalist elements. Abdi Samatar has written extensively on the ebb and flow of the fabrication of terrorism. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind &#8216;Counter-Revolution&#8217; In East Africa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsEssay – Part 2 of 3 The government of Yoweri Museveni in Uganda is seeking external support from the conservative factions in the United States as the region of the Great Lakes becomes a major target for increased oil exploration and production. In what is now being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remilitarisation of Africa Set to Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Horace Campbell* IDN-InDepth NewsEssay – Part 1 of 3 Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa. This Western-supported incursion is more against the Kenyan people than against the forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Kristin Palitza CAPE TOWN , Nov 15, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. But economic [...]]]></description>
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