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		<title>Political Interference Threatens to Undermine Anti-Corruption Efforts in Sierra Leone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The criminal justice approach in combating corruption in Sierra Leone is at serious risk of failing to dismantle the economic, cultural and political forces driving a corruption zeal across the nation. Corruption is simply a part of the human condition in the political life of  some officials in Sierra Leone.  Recently, the ruling party unleashed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi&#8217;s President Secretly Buys a Private Jet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) party in Malawi  are furious. They are accusing President Bingu Wa Mutharika’s  government of acting  irresponsibly when it secretly purchased a multi-million dollar presidential jet. The (UDF) party’s Fahad Assani says last year’s purchase signifies the misplaced priorities of Mr. Mutharika’s government. Mr Assani went on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than 50 People Killed in Somalia Fighting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heavy fighting continued to rock Somalia capital of Mogadishu for the third day running, the fighting is between the Somalia insurgent group of Al-Shabab and the transitional federal government troops allied to sheikh sheriff sheikh Ahmed administration. The total number of deaths reported as at now stand at 50 and the casualties has reached 100 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11278</link>
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		<title>Estimated One Million Kenyans Suffering From Kidney Ailment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi,Kenya 12th March 2010 &#8230; Kenyan government  has  released  Kidney ailment statistics in the country which  indicated that an estimated one million people suffer from kidney ailments, 600,000 of whom being the  youths. With the higher number of Kidney ailment in the country, Kenya also suffers from acute shortage of kidney specialists with one nephrologist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11274</link>
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		<title>Japan Gives Kenya Yen 34.5 Billion Grant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan has extended Sh288 million grant assistance to underprivileged farmers in Kenya in  support of government’s initiatives to increase food security through procurement of essential inputs including fertilizer, agricultural chemicals and machinery. Within the framework of TICAD IV, Kenya has benefited from many projects including expansion of teacher training in Mathematics and Science through the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11268</link>
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		<title>Pandemonium in Mogadishu as Residents are Told to Vacate the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mayor of the Somali capital Mogadishu has issued a warning to resident’s to vacate the city amidst fierce battles between government forces and insurgents. According to reports coming out of the country, more than 50 people have been killed in three days of Islamist insurgent attacks. The Mayor, Abdurisaq Mohamed Nor said the long-anticipated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11264</link>
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		<title>Didier Drogba is African Footballer of the Year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chelsea football club striker, Didier Drogba, who is also Captain of the Ivory Coast National football team has been named African Footballer of the Year. Drogba, who has been having a successful season, scored five goals as Ivory Coast qualified for the 2010 World Cup and also scored for Chelsea in the FA Cup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11260</link>
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		<title>British MP Accuses Government Ministers in Sierra Leone of Misappropriating DFID Funds Meant For Aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Public Accounts Commission chairman of the British House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Edward Leigh said he would relay the concerns of former British Foreign Minister Denis MacShane who claims that British aid to Sierra Leone is being siphoned by senior politicians in the West African Country, to the Comptroller and Auditor General of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11255</link>
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		<title>WFP Wants an Independent Probe Team on its Operations in Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi, Kenya 11th March,2010 &#8230; World Food Programme (WFP) has said it would welcome an independent investigation into its food assistance operations in Somalia. At the same time, the agency said it would not engage in any new work with three transport contractors named in a report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11249</link>
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		<title>Mayhem in Somalia as Al-Shabaab Behead 2 Somali Telecoms Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu have been engaged in intense fighting that has left 17 people dead and 65 wounded. This is according to a Somali human rights group. It has also been reported that Al-Shabaab beheaded two employees of a telecoms company who they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11245</link>
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		<title>Anti-Corruption Commissioner Becomes Politicised as he Embarks on a Radical Witch-hunt in Sierra Leone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has come to the knowledge of this press that the Anti-Corruption commissioner himself may have become corrupt. Some of the allegations levied against Abdul Tejan Cole range from abuse of power to becoming politicised by the current regime. He has gone out of his scope and seems to clamour around political influence in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11236</link>
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		<title>Sierra Leone’s President Koroma in Nigeria to Endorse Initiative For the Development of Agro and Agri-Business in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Ernest Bai Koroma has arrived in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Tuesday March 9th to join his counterparts in Africa in a bid to endorse the initiative for the development of Agribusiness and Agro-businesses in Africa. He will join his colleagues on the third and final day of a three days conference on Wednesday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11230</link>
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		<title>Miss African Spirit 2010 &#8211; A Celebration of African Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Milton Keynes this year plays host to a brand new and exciting cultural event, the inaugural Miss African Spirit Beauty pageant. Taking place on the on May 22nd 2010 it is by no accident that the event coincides with Africa Day festivities taking place during that same week. Miss African Spirit will be an annual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11225</link>
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		<title>Blatant Corruption As Law Enforcement Chief is accused of  Extortion in Sierra Leone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The man presiding over the implementation of law and order in Sierra Leone is an unusually crafty politician, who for many years, long before entering politics, have been renowned to be corrupt and unworthy of holding any office of state. Abdul Serry Kamal is a trained lawyer who instead of using his skills at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11218</link>
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		<title>Nigerians Demand To See Their Sick President</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, thousands of people gathered for a march to the state office of the presidency to demand the appearance of their leader Musa Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua who has not been seen in public since his arrival from Saudi Arabia where he underwent treatment for heart problems two weeks ago. It was reported that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IGAD Calls for Peace in Sudan During Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IGAD’s  14th Extra Ordinary Summit Meeting held in Nairobi today  has resolved to ensure democracy prevails In Sudan ‘s elections and referendum scheduled to take place In April and January 2011 respectively. During The Meeting IGAD members states pressurised Sudanese people  to ensure they conduct a  free and fair elections during its first democratic polls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinea to Elect a New President on June 27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Members of the government in the West African State of Guinea have announced that the country will hold a presidential election on June 27. It will be the first since a military coup that brought Dadis Camara into power in December of last year.
The proposed date was set last month by the main electoral commission and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Blow for Mugabe As Opposition Speaker’s Election is Upheld by Courts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The High Court of Zimbabwe has refused to overturn the election of the first opposition Speaker of Parliament since the country&#8217;s independence. The decision comes after a challenge by a member of parliament from Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party. This is an important ruling as it will ease concerns within the MDC, which accuses its coalition partners in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Blair Talks About His Motivation for Africa in an Exclusive Interview With Newstime Africa&#8217;s Ahmed Kamara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the tenure of Tony Blair as British Prime Minister, Africa was at the center of British Foreign policy. A Commission for Africa was established by Tony Blair to recommend solutions that will improve the economic and social conditions of the continent. Little did the world knew that this was a master plan for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11065</link>
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		<title>National Security Adviser Sacked in Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has replaced Sarki Mukhtar, the country&#8217;s National Security Adviser. The move is seen as a further sign in Jonathan asserting his authority after the return of the sick President Umaru Yar&#8217;Adua. Sarki Mukhtar has been a powerful figure in the inner circle of Yar&#8217;Adua.  He has been replaced with Aliyu Gusau, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenyan Cabinet Barred From Travelling Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi,Kenya 8th March &#8230; President Mwai Kibaki has barred Cabinet Ministers and their assistants from travelling outside Kenya to ensure they attend parliamentary debates on the draft Constitution. In a move to ensure the country attain the constitution after two decades of waiting the president issued the directive to ensure Ministers attend parliament Session. Parliament [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11186</link>
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		<title>Post-Election Violence Threatens Togo’s Stability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the opposition swore to contest President Faure Gnassingbe&#8217;s re-election in Togo, there are reports coming out of the country that teargas was fired at hundreds of protesters on Sunday. Among the protesters was opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre, who has accused the President Faure Gnassingbe of rigging the country’s elections. Opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre, took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11182</link>
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		<title>Faure Gnassingbe Has Been Re-elected as President of Togo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to reports coming out of Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe the incumbent in the country’s Presidential election is said to have won the elections by a comfortable margin.  The election commission said Faure Gnassingbe, had beaten opposition challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre. He won 1.2 million votes of two million cast, according to officials, considerably more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11168</link>
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		<title>Wedding in Tanzania Marred by Killings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the East African state of Tanzania, unidentified gunmen raided a wedding party at a village in the north of the country killing five people according to the country’s police.  About seven people were also injured in the incident that happened in Tarime district, in the Mara region, on Thursday night. According to Tarime police [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11159</link>
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		<title>Niger Set For Return to Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coup leaders in the West African State of  Niger&#8217;s have named a transitional government of 20 ministers in a move to steer the country through to a democratic transition and civilian administration The leader of the coup which ousted Mamadou Tandja, Niger&#8217;s president, Major Salou Djibo, announced the formation of the provisional cabinet on state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11150</link>
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		<title>Mugabe &#8211; The Ruthless Dictator has Plans to Stand For Re-election in Zimbabwe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shameless and brutal dictator in Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday he would stand for re-election if his party decides to nominate him.  Having been in power for over 30 years in which period he has oppressed his people and strangled all forms of democracy in the country, this pathetic octogenarian does not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11145</link>
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		<title>No End to Zimbabwe Sanctions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he wanted to see further progress on human rights and democracy in Zimbabwe before the European Union lifts sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his allies. The Prime Minister defended sanctions on Zimbabwe after holding talks with South African President Jacob Zuma. The South African President who has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11139</link>
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		<title>The Sins of Jacob Zuma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you have the President of a nation engaging in sexual promiscuity at a disgraceful level unaccepted in modern society, you have no choice but to question his sanity and ponder whether South Africans have made a regrettable mistake by voting in numbers to elect this mad man of insatiable sexual appetite as Head of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/10824</link>
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		<title>Prosecutor Ocampo Hands ICC Judge 20 Names in Connection With 2007 PEV in Kenya.</title>
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In response to the request by ICC Judges of 18 February 2010, the Prosecutor clarified today that senior political and business leaders associated with the main political parties, the PNU which was in the government at the time of the violence and the ODM which was the main opposition party at the time, organized, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11125</link>
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		<title>Former Rwandan President’s Wife Arrested and Released on Bail in France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just hours after her arrest in France, Agathe Kanziga Habyarimana, widow of former president Juvénal Habyarimana was released on bail. Her arrest on an international warrant, issued by the Rwandan government came barely a week after French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Rwanda, in the first visit by a French president in over a quarter decade. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11117</link>
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		<title>Pirates Capture Small Saudi Tanker With Crew off the Coast of Somalia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pirates in Somalia have captured a small Saudi tanker and its crew. The announcement came from the EU naval force in the Gulf of Aden. It is alleged that the tanker was travelling from Japan to Jeddah, and was empty of its cargo when pirates hijacked the vessel and took its crew captive.. The tanker, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11113</link>
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		<title>Kenya Moves Closer to Releasing a New Constitution After Two Decades of Waiting</title>
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Nairobi, Kenya 2nd 2010 &#8230; Kenya is inches aways from releasing a new constitution as the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the new constitution hand over the harmonized  draft today in parliament to be debated for 30 days for its adoption before it is put to a referendum. PSC Chairman Abdikadir Mohammed said that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50% Increase in Salaries For Public Servants in Guinea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guinean government have announced a 50% increase in the salaries of public servants in the country. A move which is aimed at softening the impact of a 30 percent increase in fuel prices. According to an official statement read on state media &#8211; An important increase &#8211; of 50 percent in the salaries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EU to Spend €3.3 Million in Curbing Trafficking of Small Arms in Africa</title>
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Nairobi,Kenya 1st March,2010 &#8211; The European Union is funding a pilot project on the fight against illicit accumulation and trafficking of firearms in Africa to the tune of 344 million shillings(3.3 million Euros).The funds will be channelled through the Nairobi-based Regional Center on Small Arms in Great Lakes Region and  the Horn of Africa. European [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11091</link>
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		<title>Kenya and Malawi Strengthen Trade Ties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kenya and Malawi governments have been challenged to chart the way towards accomplishing the task of realizing the full potential of the business opportunities that exist between the two countries. Noting that trade and investment potential between the two countries is immerse, both Malawian Minister for Trade and Industry Eunice Kazembe and her Kenyan counterpart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11062</link>
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		<title>Curfew in Liberia as Religious Turmoil Threatens The Country’s Stability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government of Liberia has imposed a curfew in the county of Lofa, in the northern part of the country, after clashes between Christians and Muslims. The curfew orders were issued on Saturday after the Talawayon hospital in Vionjama confirmed that four people had died and 18 more injured in clashes on Friday. The fighting which took place near the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Opposition in Ivory Coast Agrees to Join a Unity Government</title>
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Leaders of Ivory Coast’s opposition party have agreed to join a new unity government. This comes after a standoff that has threatened the country&#8217;s peace process. The opposition made the move after President Laurent Gbagbo&#8217;s decision to appoint a new electoral commission. The crisis was sparked two weeks ago, when the President dissolved the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/11032</link>
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		<title>Economy of Southern Sudan Gets Boost From Investors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Southern Sudan’s economy received a boost on Tuesday as members of the Arab League convened in Juba to explore investment potentials with First Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit touting to League members  Southern Sudan’s attractive investment opportunities. The Arab League Conference on Investment and Development in Southern Sudan began with Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League States, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East Africa Common Market Set to Increase Trade in The Region</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of East African Community (MEAC) has asked service professionals in the country to position themselves prior to the roll out of the Common Market in July to reap fully from its opportunities. Speaking yesterday in Nairobi, MEAC Assistant Minister Peter Munya called on professional bodies to reduce stringent conditionality that might hamper the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yar’adua Returns To Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, President Umaru Yar’adua returned back to Nigeria on Wednesday. He arrived in the country when it was already dark and was whisked off from the airport by a waiting ambulance. His spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi said &#8220;President Yar&#8217;Adua wishes to re-assure all Nigerians that on account of their [...]]]></description>
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