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		<title>Nigeria Makes US Terror-nation List</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nigeria-rejected.JPG" alt="nigeria rejected" title="nigeria rejected" width="330" height="174" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3769" /><br/>Nigeria is included in the U.S list of "countries of interest". Somali, Libya, Algeria, and Sudan are the other African nations on the terror watch list. "Traveling with a Nigerian passport was bad enough already but now its definitely going to be more interesting...."]]></description>
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		<title>Carnegie Corporation Commits $30 Million to Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that it will invest approximately $30 million over three years in an initiative designed to strengthen sub-Saharan Africa's next generation of educators and university leaders.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Grow a Body Part</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regenerative medicine technology could blunt the effects of aging, end organ transplant shortages and make organ rejection a thing of the past. Lab-grown bladders have already been transplanted into patients in the United States.]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria Becoming &#8216;Worthless, Irrelevant to US &#8211; Ex-American Envoys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking at the Achebe Colloquium on Nigerian elections held at Brown University, Providence, Ambassadors Princeton Lyman, Walter Carrington and John Campbell in different words, clearly warning that Nigeria's glorious days in global estimation and the feeling of its invulnerability is now being progressively diminished.]]></description>
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		<title>If Tiger Woods was African</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misi Coker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's no big deal to the Tiger Wood's story, and this maybe because I come from a society where extra-marital affairs is common, and polygamy is practiced. It is not uncommon to hear of 'loose' married African having girlfriends 'on the side'.]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Minutes with Laurence Fishburne</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.africanloft.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Fishburne-in-Armored-thumb.JPG" alt="Fishburne in Armored thumb" title="Fishburne in Armored thumb" width="230" height="137" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3580" /><br/>Laurence Fishburne has built a successful film career that spans three decades and talks to AfricanLoft about his latest heist drama "Armored".]]></description>
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		<title>American Ex-legislator gets 13 years for Bribery</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former Louisiana congressman who famously stashed cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands in bribes in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.
The sentence handed down in suburban Washington was far less than the nearly 30 years prosecutors had sought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moroccan Woman gets $1Million Opus Prize Award for Helping Unwed Mothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aïcha Ech Channa, the founder of an organization in Morocco that provides services to unmarried women with children has been awarded a $1 million from the University of St. Thomas and the Opus Prize Foundation]]></description>
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		<title>Justice of Peace Refuses to Marry Interracial Couple</title>
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		<comments>http://www.africanloft.com/justice-of-peace-refuses-to-marry-interracial-couple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misi Coker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it a justice of the peace legally obligated to serve ALL the public?  A justice of peace, who has served for 34 years, in Tangipahoa Parish in the southeastern part of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, did not think so.
Keith Bardwell, justice of peace, refused to issue a marriage license earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.
Nobel observers were shocked by the unexpected choice so early in the Obama presidency, which began less than [...]]]></description>
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