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		<title>Kenya: MPs urged not focus on salary increment at the expense of service delivery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to Members of Parliament not push for salary increment at the expense of serving Kenyans. President Kenyatta said once the Members of Parliament deliver their pledges and the economy grows by double digits, Kenyans will have no problem paying them the salaries they want. “We all made pledges to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46242&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justine Sija has boosted her business as a fish vendor through access to microcredit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Solange Nyamulisa/UNDP Justine Sija has boosted her business as a fish vendor through access to microcredit TOLIARA,  - Justine Sija, 60, begins her day at 4am, when she buys catch from local fishermen to hawk on the streets of St Augustin Village, in Madagascar’s southern Atsimo-Andrefana Region. The work is hard, but in the last [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46236&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 14:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: UNICEF Pakistan/Warrick Page Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio is endemic LAHORE/DUBAI, &#8211; Hamza Mazhar, a 35-year-old teacher from Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, says he never wants to see the inside of a government hospital again. “My mother was taken to the hospital with an upper respiratory tract infection in February [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46233&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;One on one&#8221; with Tone Winje, The Director of The Arts Festival of North Norway</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Arts Festival of North Norway is an annual cultural event in Harstad lasting well over a week around Midsummer organized by a foundation of the same name. Director Tone Winje, took over leadership from Birger Carlsen in 2011. Winje tells African Press International that this year&#8217;s festival has many ingredients and she encourages Festival lovers to turn [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46214&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repeating past failures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Congolese government will today announce plans to move forward with the Grand Inga Dam at a conference in Paris. World Bank President Jim Kim is expected to support the return to mega-dam projects in Africa during his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Uganda on May 21-24. The proposed dam [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46227&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In 2001 just 73,000 Burkinabés could access clean water, according to research by Peter Newborne at the Overseas Development Institute,</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OUAGADOUGOU,  - Earlier this year Denis Ouedraogo, a tailor living in the Tampouy neighbourhood just north of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou, connected his mud-walled home to the water network for the first time. “Even without electricity, having enough water can make you happy,” he said. He is among 1.9 million people to have connected to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46225&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the causes of violent extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAKAR,  - Academics and government, military and civil society representatives gathered for a conference in the Senegalese capital this week to assess the interplay between development and violent extremism in West Africa, with some participants suggesting that underdevelopment, marginalization and weak governance create a breeding ground for militancy. While local factors in West African and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46069&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan: Doctors wanted the family to pay a bribe to get into the Intensive Care Unit &#8211; corrupt system contribute to unnecessary deaths</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LAHORE/DUBAI, - Hamza Mazhar, a 35-year-old teacher from Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, says he never wants to see the inside of a government hospital again. “My mother was taken to the hospital with an upper respiratory tract infection in February this year and doctors said she needed care in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU),” [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46229&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>168 countries signs a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG,  - A month after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck in December 2004, affecting millions, 168 countries signed on to a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards. Yet the plan, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015, focused primarily on “what to do to prevent disasters, but not enough on how [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46223&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What now for UNPOS and AMISOM in Somalia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NAIROBI,  - Following the unanimous adoption of a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolu tion setting up an integrated mission in Somalia, the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) will be set up for an initial one-year period beginning on 3 June; it will be based in the capital Mogadishu.  The UN defines an integrated mission [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46065&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Norway: Right-wing Extremism and Hate Crime &#8211; Minorities under Pressure in Europe and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The final Chair&#8217;s Summary of Conclusions from the Oslo Conference on Right-wing Extremism and Hate Crime: Minorities under pressure in Europe and beyond, which took place in Oslo 14-15 May 2013.&#8221; Based on the discussions at the Oslo Conference on “Right-wing Extremism and Hate Crime: Minorities under Pressure in Europe and Beyond” (14-15 May 2013), [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46163&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICC: Kenya&#8217;s Deputy President William Ruto addresses the Status Conference in the Hague</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 06:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Status Conference which was scheduled to take place Tuesday the 14th and 15th of May 2013 started with Ruto and Sang being Present in person in the Internationa Criminal Court. Ruto has told the court that he is a victim of falsehood. This is not far from the truth because those who have come [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46155&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption trumped building code: Need for “building-oriented disaster management”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis: “Wake-up call” for Bangladesh’s building industry Photo: Contributor/IRIN Nothing natural about this disaster HIGHLIGHTS Corruption trumped building code Need for “building-oriented disaster management” Business representatives to identify unsafe factories Planning authority unclear DHAKA,  - Corpses are still being recovered from Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster ever &#8211; a factory building collapse on 24 April that killed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45941&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Norway congratulates Pakistan on historic election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I would like to congratulate Pakistan on a historic election. For the first time in the country’s history, a democratically elected government will be replaced by another democratically elected government,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide. “Pakistan’s democracy is developing. Although the final assessments of the election may identify mistakes and shortcomings, the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46151&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: ”We have the potential and the capacity to perform exceedingly well; School head proclaims</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 13:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Godfrey Wamalwa,Bungoma. Seated on a black swivel chair behind a maiden table with trophies and files neatly stacked at all corners of his office, Mr.Edward Namasaka is the man in charge. But underneath the tranquil exterior he radiates lurks and understandable task to perform daily. Mr Edward Namasaka is the Principal of Bungoma High [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46146&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somali women parliamentarians &#8211; the predicament of finding a voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Farhia Ali Abdi.  “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear” Nelson Mandela. Parliamentary democracy is described as a political system based on the idea that parliament is supreme [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46138&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Brothels of Kisumu breeds prostitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dickens Wasonga. It is ten in the morning. Along a street down town Kisumu, a few cars zoom past. Apart from the Mpesa shops dotting the place, not much activity is going on along the lonely street near Kamas area. Being a Monday morning, the street could be deserted probably because most people are at [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46135&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: The Catholic University of Eastern Africa donates drugs worth Ksh 210.000 to help flood victims in Kisumu County</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 12:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Maurice Alal, API &#8211; Kenya A great gesture of good-will for the benefit of flood victims has been realised. The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) has donated drugs worth Ksh 210,000 to for evacuation centers in Kisumu County where flood victims have been camping after floods invaded their homes. The University’s Community Service [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46133&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Status conference &#8211; Deputy President Mr William Ruto at the ICC Yesterday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 08:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8216;s Deputy President William Ruto accompanied by his wife Rachel appeared at the International Criminal Court in person during the status conference Tuesday. The court is to decide when his trial will commence. Mr Ruto wants the trial to start in November or thereafter. His trial has been postponed and will now not take place [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46122&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beating wild weather</title>
		<link>http://africanpress.me/2013/05/15/beating-wild-weather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ COLOMBO,  - Planners in Sri Lanka should do more to mitigate the effects of extreme weather in order to help those most likely to be affected, experts say. According to Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC), in 2012, 1.2 million people were affected by drought and over half a million by floods, while in early 2011, floods [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46056&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DRR doesn’t always get sufficient funding &#8211; Sometimes the donors don’t put a priority on disaster risk</title>
		<link>http://africanpress.me/2013/05/15/drr-doesnt-always-get-sufficient-funding-sometimes-the-donors-dont-put-a-priority-on-disaster-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AQABA, &#8211; Investing in preparation for potential disasters is a “no brainer”, Elizabeth Longworth, director of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), told a recent disaster risk reduction (DRR) conference in Aqaba, Jordan. And yet a report published last month by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said DRR [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46054&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Donors stopped all development funding in Guinea-Bissau following the 12 April 2012 coup d’état</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BISSAU/DAKAR,  - The World Food Programme (WFP) has not received the money it needs to run basic nutrition and food security schemes in Guinea-Bissau, leaving projects in jeopardy or at a standstill.  The organization needs US$7 million immediately to cover its food security and nutrition programme targeting 278,000 people for 2013; and a further $8 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46061&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear: Deputy President William Ruto is in the Hague (ICC) today 14th May 2013 for a Status Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Korir, Oslo &#8211; Norway This is a sign of nothing to hide, and no fear. A man of character &#8211; already Deputy President Ruto knows he has nothing to hide nd fear , thus he decided to travel to the Hague yesterday evening even if it was not a must for him to do [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46105&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Boosting global malaria?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Gregory Dicresce/IRIN Artemisinin is usually extracted from the sweet wormwood tree, mainly grown in Asia (file photo) NAIROBI,  - The UN World Health Organization has accepted the first semi-synthetic version of artemisinin, the key ingredient for malaria treatment globally, for use in the manufacture of drugs, boosting hopes that more people will have access to life-saving [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46044&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WFP needs money to run basic nutrition and food security schemes in Guinea-Bissau</title>
		<link>http://africanpress.me/2013/05/14/wfp-needs-money-to-run-basic-nutrition-and-food-security-schemes-in-guinea-bissau/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo: Anna Jefferys/IRIN Farmers in Bafata preparing the land to plant rice seedlings (file photo) BISSAU/DAKAR,  - The World Food Programme (WFP) has not received the money it needs to run basic nutrition and food security schemes in Guinea-Bissau, leaving projects in jeopardy or at a standstill. The organization needs US$7 million immediately to cover its [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46041&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A day in the life of a family hosting Syrian refugees</title>
		<link>http://africanpress.me/2013/05/14/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-family-hosting-syrian-refugees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 22:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAADNAYEL, BEKAA VALLEY,  - Two years ago, as Syrian refugees began streaming across borders, Lebanese families opened up their homes. Unlike in Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, where hundreds of thousands of refugees are being housed in camps, at the beginning of the influx into Lebanon, the majority of refugees were hosted by families. Some Lebanese [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45969&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: Across the board, women are suffering more now than they used to do</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBAI,  - In the 1980s, the UN says, Iraqi women enjoyed more basic rights than other women in the region. But years of dictatorship, sanctions and conflict, including the US-led invasion one decade ago, led to deterioration in women’s status. “Across the board, women are suffering more [than they used to],” said Sudipto Mukerjee, deputy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45982&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food security in Iraq has improved in the last decade &#8211; Less dependent on rations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD/DUBAI,  - Food security in Iraq has improved in the last decade, as the American-led invasion brought an end to sanctions and a resumption of open relations between Iraq and t he rest of the world.  Historically, Iraq’s vulnerability to food insecurity has been largely due to barriers to international trade &#8211; caused by two [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45973&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DRC: Conflict for Coffee?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOMA,  - Entrepreneur Gilbert Makelele wants armed groups in his part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to wake up and smell the coffee. &#8220;You should tell the population to grow coffee, as it&#8217;s the best way for them to make money,&#8221; he told a militia member during a recent visit to the town [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45967&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in preparation for potential disasters is a “no brainer”, Elizabeth Longworth, Director of UNISDR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 22:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Analysis: Getting governments to cough up for DRR By John James Photo: Jason Gutierrez/IRIN Survivors pass through their devastated village in Mindanao, Philippines, following Typhoon Bopha (Dec 2012) HIGHLIGHTS Funding argument not yet won Disaster preparedness saves lives Donors putting more money into resilience Climate funds also help DRR AQABA,  - Investing in preparation for potential [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45980&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Thugs die in the hands of irate mob</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 22:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY GODFREY WAMALWA, API KENYA, 10/5/2013 A gang of two suspected to be behind a spate of killings in Bungoma county on the 9th succumbed to its destiny in the hands of an irate mob. Acting on a tip-off, traders at Chwele market in Bungoma central district surrounded a rental house alleged to be accommodating [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46063&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Additional funding for the fight against international crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 22:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government is to provide NOK 26 million for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Organised crime undermines development. The criminal networks embezzle the resources that should be benefiting society as a whole and they destroy the environment. Corruption and tax evasion lead to greater disparities between rich and poor,” said Minister [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45971&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: A Swiss National arrested while making a pornographic movie &#8211; girls were having sex with a dog in Mombasa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JACK MARWA  Twelve women among them a foreigner have been arrested in Nyali, Mombasa after they were found shooting a pornographic movie with a dog. The women and the foreigner who police identified as a Swiss national were arrested at an apartment in Nyali and cameras used in the shoot were also confiscated from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46072&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killing UN Peacekeepers: A Ruthless Proclivity of Khartoum&#8217;s SAF, Militia Proxies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Eric Reeves, 9 May 2013, USA The recent (May 4, 2013) deaths of two UN peacekeepers in Abyei have a chilling familiarity, though to this point there has been no firm establishment of responsibility. Familiar also are the formulaic declarations of outrage coming from various quarters when UN peacekeepers are killed in greater Sudan. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46048&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Kagame attended inaugural ceremony of President Uhuru Kenyatta on 9th April in Nairobi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Kagame attended the swearing-in of Kenya’s fourth and youngest President, Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy, William Ruto at Kasarani Sports Complex in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi on the 9th of April. The son of Kenya&#8217;s founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, President Kenyatta served as deputy Prime Minister, Minister for trade, and Finance Minister under outgoing President Mwai Kibaki. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46032&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: Fire takes down Kamusinde Secondary School dormitory &#8211; over 100 students stranded</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY GODFREY WAMALWA, API KENYA  Fire gutted down a dormitory at Kamusinde Secondary School in Bungoma County leaving over 100 students stranded and property of unknown value destroyed. However, no one was injured as the incident happened at noon when student were in classrooms undertaking their early second term examination. The school’s management declined to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=46028&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pretoria-based think tank the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) estimates there are more than 33 armed groups currently operating in eastern DRC.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 22:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG,  - The imminent deployment of a UN-backed 3,000-strong international force mandated to “neutralize… and disarm” all armed groups in the ea stern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) marks a switch to a more belligerent international stance towards rebel militia, but has met with scepticism in some quarters. The deployment of this “international brigade” made [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45964&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya: How poverty drives minors into child labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 22:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY GODFREY WAMALWA,API,KENYA Stella Barasa, 13, a resident of Webuye suburb Malaha estate,wakes up at 4am each day and trudges to a nearby river to fetch water for his bosses.Stella also helps prepare and serve the family with meals and sweeps the whole compound among other chores. surprisingly, stella has no shoes but a half-heel [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45984&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there evidence that mHealth is an effective and suitable health delivery intervention in the developing world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 22:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lack of Justice: A Malian survivor of abuse with her four-month-old baby</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little support, no justice for Mali rape survivors Photo: Tanya Bindra/IRIN A Malian survivor of abuse with her four-month-old baby GAO/BAMAKO,  - During the rebel takeover of northern Mali in April 2012, many women said they were subjected to rape or sexual assault. Since then, little or no support has come through for these women, say [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=africanpress.me&#038;blog=458516&#038;post=45939&#038;subd=africanpress&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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