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		<title>Assessing the Ban on &#8220;Conflict Minerals&#8221; from the DRC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report published by the Center for Global Development argues that a new American law designed to prevent mining profits from fueling violence in the Democratic Republic Congo has instead contributed insecurity in key regions and hurt local economies. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act contains novel provisions aimed at increasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decentralization and Power-Sharing in Africa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governance and Development Workshop: Notes on Power-Sharing and Decentralization As part of an effort to reach out to new constituencies and expand the dialogue with policy makers, the African Studies Association collaborated with the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2011 Annual Meeting to organize workshops the day before the conference formally began. American University’s School [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria&#8217;s Oil Reform Bill and Democracy&#8217;s Dividends</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Tug-of-War Over Oil Sector Reform For months, a coalition of civil society groups has been urging passage of Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB).  Early drafts of the legislation promised to increase transparency, for example by expanding compliance with “Publish What You Pay.”  CSOs are now concerned that if the bill is not passed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Appeals and Nigeria&#8217;s Election Protests</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Election Appeals Pacify Nigeria’s Protesters?  Nigeria’s elections in 2003 and 2007 generated literally hundreds of challenges to results at the national, state, and local levels.  (See Nigeria: Tribunals and the 2003 Elections, by the Legal Defence Centre, 2004.)  As these cases weaved their way through courts and tribunals, scholars and election observers pointed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria Prepares for 2011 Elections</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission called the press corps to announce the figures for the voter registry, which must be must be formally certified no less than 30 days before the election in order to comply with the electoral law. After a busy day of meetings with visiting international delegations, an inter-agency meeting [...]]]></description>
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