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		<title>When good people kill.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 100 metres away from the trenches, dug five feet into the reddish brown earth, my comrade and I – a man who I still can’t call a friend even though I have no one who understands me better – continue to walk, each carrying about fifteen pounds of artillery. We hear faint noises, whimpering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=108&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EU embraces Eritrea in search for Horn peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 17:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters Friday, May 4, 2007; 1:12 PM BRUSSELS (Reuters) &#8211; The European Commission embraced Eritrea&#8217;s government on Friday in the search for a comprehensive solution to a range of conflicts across the Horn of Africa, from Darfur to Somalia. European Union Development Commissioner Louis Michel gave a warm welcome to President Isaias Afwerki despite accusations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=107&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IEEE Spectrum Radio &#8211; IT &amp; Nigeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 16:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Goldstein Senior Associate Editor, IEEE* Spectrum IEEE Spectrum Radio What does it take to build a computer lab in sub-Saharan Africa? IEEE Spectrum&#8217;s Harry Goldstein travelled to Nigeria to investigate the use of recently installed fiber-optic cables, but ended up spearheading the construction of a computing center for students at the Federal University of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=106&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa Calling: the wireless revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 15:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa Calling By Victor W.A. Mbarika and Irene Mbarika This is a great article for anyone interested in the African wireless revolution or digital divide issues. One of my most time consuming hobbies is reading about technology; especially technological development in Africa. So here&#8217;s one of my favourite articles, (also posted on my blog: www.afrorise.wordpress.com). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=104&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (UK)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got the following via email: This year marks the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in England. I thought you would be interested in learning what&#8217;s happening in order to pause and remember. Between 1400s and 1800s, close to 12 million Africans were forcibly removed from Africa, and in the most inhuman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=102&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the politics of happiness</title>
		<link>http://afrorise.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/the-politics-of-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past year I have considered what this power relation is between the self, and the happy self. Is the happy-self a memory or figment of one&#8217;s imagination? If so, then the proverb by Ingrid Bergman, &#8220;Happiness is good health and bad memory&#8221; is pretty apt. What I semi-understand is that there is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=101&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In no other country on earth is my story even possible”</title>
		<link>http://afrorise.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/in-no-other-country-on-earth-is-my-story-even-possible%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am having a great time reading Barack Obama&#8217;s &#8220;The Audacity of Hope&#8221;. I love that title. Here&#8217;s a great article from Times Online about the launch of Obama&#8217;s presidency campaign.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=100&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UNISA opens new regional centre in Ethiopia</title>
		<link>http://afrorise.wordpress.com/2007/01/28/unisa-to-open-a-new-regional-centre-in-ethiopia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the University of South Africa (UNISA) launched a new learning centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian news highlighted the features of UNISA in Addis and also aired parts of Meles Zenawi&#8217;s speech at the launch. He said: &#8220;Ethiopians must always remember and appreciate that for one Ethiopian to attend one South African has foregone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=99&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What a leader!?!</title>
		<link>http://afrorise.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/what-a-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might hate him, you might love him. You might be clear or confused. You might recognize him, you might not. You might care or not care. But in any case, all you can really say is: what a leader. Imagine you had the opportunity to go on internationally broadcasted news and say what you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=95&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How it all started&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://afrorise.wordpress.com/2007/01/17/84/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How it all started, this two-hour fascination with creative marriage proposals, was with an email sent by my friend. She was telling us to vote for Essence Magazine’s video wedding proposals contest. The lucky couple wins a free honeymoon to South Africa. So please do vote if you can. Then I was looking at music videos on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=afrorise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=616848&amp;post=84&amp;subd=afrorise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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