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	<title>The Statesmen &#124; Media you can Believe in &#187; AFRICA</title>
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		<title>At least 200 killed as mine collapses in the Bo district of Sierra Leone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FREETOWN: At least 200 people were killed when a trench collapsed at an unofficial gold mine in Sierra Leone, the West African country’s Ministry of Mineral Resources said on Friday. The accident occurred in the Bo district in the south of the country, about 180 miles from the capital, Freetown. “Over 200 gold miners were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>500 Christians butchered by Muslim gangs&#8217; night-time raids in Nigeria killing fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAGOS: Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess. One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signing of Darfur ceasefire welcomed; the conflict caused 300,000 deaths &amp; 2.7 million people displaced as per UN figures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada welcomed late Tuesday the signing of a ceasefire and framework for a final peace between Sudan and Darfur’s main rebel group. Since the conflict broke out in February 2003, some 300,000 people have]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast opposition challenges the President&#8217;s rule as he dissolves the govt</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast&#8217;s main opposition groups said they no longer recognised Laurent Gbagbo as president of the country on Saturday after he dissolved the government and electoral commission. The top cocoa grower&#8217;s leading opposition parties, who accused Gbagbo of staging a coup with the decision, said supporters should reject the president and called on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: Cashing in on the Nelson Mandela, 20 years after freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ibn-e-Umeed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOWETO: Oscar winner Charlize Theron, Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso and 2010 World Cup fraudsters have learned the knuckling-rapping lesson: the Nelson Mandela brand is not for sale. All have been rebuked by representatives for the 91-year-old who guard against misuse of Mandela&#8217;s name and image, which crops up everywhere from t-shirts to email scams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fragile calm holds in Darfur after years of mass killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EL FASHER (Sudan): The changes across the landscape here would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. The rebel groups that started the war in Darfur in 2003, catalyzing a conflict that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, almost seem to have gone into hibernation. So, too, have the infamous janjaweed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants planning attacks from Yemen: Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of al-Qaeda militants are planning terror attacks from Yemen, the country’s Foreign Minister said today. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi appealed for more help from the international community to help to train and equip counter-terrorist forces. His plea came after an al-Qaeda group based in Yemen claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day airliner bomb plot. [...]]]></description>
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