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		<title>“Quiet Corruption” Undermining Development in Africa &#8211; World Bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments is pervasive and widespread across Africa and is having a disproportionate effect on the poor, with long-term consequences for development.]]></description>
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		<title>Gospel Recording Artist TolumiDE Talks About Her Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Stitch</dc:creator>
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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s Ushahidi: &#8216;New Frontier of Innovation&#8217; &#8211; NY Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis" on New York Times is a must-read for all Africans. The story is anchored on Ushahidi, a Kenyan-originated idea.]]></description>
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		<title>African Billionaires in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.africanloft.com/?p=4034</guid>
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Eight of the 937 billionaires listed on 2010 Forbes' Billionaire ranking are Africans; four Egyptians, three South Africans, and one Nigerian. Who are they?]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Ghana! Long live Nkrumah! (An Ode to Pan-African-ism)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emmanuel.K. Bensah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is always difficult to talk about Ghana's March 6 independence day without talking about Dr.Kwame Nkrumah--quintessential Pan-Africanist. I cannot wait to see what the African Union (AU) has in store to commemorate his birthday on 21st September, and what they also have for AU day on 25 May!]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana goes Green with Bamboo Bikes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bamboo-bike.jpg" alt="bamboo bike" title="bamboo bike" width="329" height="272" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4027" /><br/>Ghanaian entrepreneurs earn about USD 150 for every frame they build, while the finished bikes are sold in United States for about USD 950 each.]]></description>
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		<title>The Riots in Nigeria: Missing Out on the Bigger Picture Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Codrin Arsene</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience as a young researcher in Africa there are three factors that have been a part of most of the violent clashes I have heard of or lived through: politics, ethnic rivalries and economics.]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria, JOS: A Crisis Triggered by Inequality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many commentaries on the Jos crisis touched on the role of religion, politics, and even geography. However, the common denominator in the crisis -- as in most sectarian crises in Nigeria -- is traceable to the deep inequalities in the society. The elements of religion or politics are just mere facilitators in the conflict. ]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty on the Decline in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. A recent study published by US-based National Bureau of Economic Research shows that:

African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly;
If present trends continue, the poverty Millennium Development Goal of halving the proportion of people with incomes less than one dollar a day will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago Doctor Plans to Give Back to his Native Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now at age 65 -- and with his four children out of college, Dr  Godwin Onyema, obstetrician/gynecologist is preparing to return to Nigeria to open a women's hospital. It would be Onyema's chance to make good on a promise he made to his father in 1974 when he came to the United States to study medicine.]]></description>
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