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		<title>The Looming Shadow of Baga in Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2009, Nigeria’s President Yar’Adua told The Guardian newspaper, “Restoring respect for the rule of law is honestly one thing I would want to be remembered for.”  A few months later, the military went on a brutal house to house rampage in Maiduguri, resulting in the public execution by the police of a controversial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Secrets in South Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a blow to freedom of the press in South Africa, parliament yesterday passed a bill that will make it easier for the government to prosecute journalists who publish stories about state secrets.  President Zuma plans to sign the Protection of State Information Act into law.  The bill had previously been passed in 2011; Reporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Africa become the New Persian Gulf?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A guest post by By Raj Verma Africa Programme at the London School of Economics IDEAS and PhD Candidate in the Department of International Relations, LSE Oil prices have increased dramatically since the beginning of the new millennium due to high demand. From US$26 a barrel in 2000, oil prices peaked at approximately US$147 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Poem from Igboland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my friend in Nsukka, Ikeogu Oke, comes this new poem. I am also pleased to mention the release of his new book, complete with an endorsement from Nadine Gordimer. What does it mean to be African, or black? To be ever threatened with drowning in a sea of lack? Does it mean to wake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Momentum Builds Against Drones in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Momentum to rein in the arbitrary and expansive use of drones has been growing over the last few weeks. The United Nations announced plans to investigate their impact on civilians, and in a Harvard Law School speech in October 2012, the UN Special Rapporteur warned that that some US strikes may actually constitute war crimes. [...]]]></description>
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