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		<title>Rwandan Diaspora Launches &#8216;One Dollar Campaign&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Rwandan Diaspora have started a 'One Dollar Campaign' charity initiative that will see approximately 20,000 Diaspora members mobilise a symbolic one dollar each to raise money to provide shelter for Genocide survivors in different parts of Rwanda.]]></description>
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		<title>The Africa Channel: TV Network plans to Shine Light on the &#8220;Dark continent&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Africa Channel is a new television network that offers over 1600 hours of high quality and award winning television programming from the continent of Africa &#8212; shows never before seen in the United States. 
The Africa Channel which debuted on the Time Warner Cable Network in Los Angeles in July and became available in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghana Attains Mature Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As Ghanaians await the results of Sunday&#8217;s presidential election, political scientists are weighing in on whether Ghana would pass the test of mature democracy that has eluded most African countries.
Some political scientists define a mature democracy as a country that has had two successful handovers of power from legitimately elected leader to another. Joel Barkan,a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pan-African Education Awards Honor Entrepreneurs for Innovative Classroom Initiatives</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/pan-african-education-awards-honor-entrepreneurs-for-innovative-classroom-initiatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pan-African Education Awards: Three prizes for three great educational initiatives in Africa. Earlier this year, the Teach A Man to Fish organization an international non-profit organization working to improve education in developing countries, via its &#8220;The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education&#8221;, sought to identify African organizations that are entrepreneurial, sustainable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria: James Iroha Uchechukwu Wins Prince Claus Prize for Photography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[James Iroha Uchechukwu (b. 1972, Enugu) described as the &#8220;leading light of a new generation of Nigerian photographers&#8221;, according to the Prince Claus Fund, a Netherlands-based  inter-cultural  exchange organization. 
James Iroha Uchechukwu was one of the ten Prince Claus Laureates working in the fields of visual arts. Each award comes with €25,000.
View a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi wins Awards for Food Security</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/malawi-wins-awards-for-food-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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In what can be considered a rare feat from an African head of state, President Bingu Wa Mutharika has received two international awards for his remarkable display of leadership in securing Malawi’s food security. 
The first - the Food and Agriculture Organization’s Agricola Medal - came on November, awarded in honor of Mutharika “substantial contribution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria Plans Centralized Database to Boost Local e-Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nigeria plans to commission a central database for its 774 Local Government Areas, a move that will boost  the national e-government initiative. 
As ComputerWorld Africa reports, the plan is &#8220;an initial step in building a common electronic platform to drive e-government services such as electronic tax collection, national passport procurement and utility payments.&#8221; 
&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burundi Woman Wins $1 Million Opus Foundation Humanitarian Prize</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/burundi-woman-wins-1-million-opus-foundation-humanitarian-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/marguerite-_maggy_-barankitse-winner-of-opus-award-africanloft-home-300x224.jpg" alt="Marguerite \&#34;Maggy\&#34; Barankitse pictured with one of the orphaned children in her care" title="marguerite-_maggy_-barankitse-winner-of-opus-award-africanloft-home" width="300" height="224" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2619" /><br />Seattle University and the Opus Prize Foundation awarded the $1 million Opus Prize to Marguerite "Maggy" Barankitse for her 15 years of work providing safe havens to 30,000 child victims of ethnic strife in Burundi, Central Africa.]]></description>
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		<title>Ushahidi - Africa&#8217;s Crisis Information Gathering Software goes Mainstream</title>
		<link>http://www.africanloft.com/ushahidi-africas-crisis-information-gathering-software-goes-mainstream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CareTaker</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ushahidi is the latest effort to &#8220;crowd-source&#8221; news gathering on unfolding crises in remote areas via e-mail and mobile phones&#8221;, writes Forbes magazine, the latest mainstream media to profile the African-designed, award-winning software that has now gone open-source. 
The creation of Ushahidi - a interpreted in Swahili as &#8220;testimony&#8221; or &#8220;witness&#8221; - was spurred by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro-democracy Campaign - Nigerian Nobel Laureate Soyinka Honoured</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omotaylor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pen Power has for a while been decried by some as “more talk, less action”. In so many blog sites there has been debates drawn, articles written, even competitions organised to encourage writers to speak up and decry the evils in our societies. But to some, these are not effective enough tools for change.
In a [...]]]></description>
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