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		<title>Get the data: Somalia’s hidden war</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 22nd, 2012 &#124; by Drones Team &#124; The Bureau of Investigative Journalism US and UK covert operations in Somalia The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is the lead agency in the covert ‘war on terror’ in Somalia, although the CIA also has a strong regional presence. The US has been carrying out extensive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairreporters.net&amp;blog=25136683&amp;post=1264&amp;subd=fairreporters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Axe falls on Africa’s big spending despots</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stef Terblanche, BBQ &#8212; Neither popular uprisings nor the increased spreading of democracy’s sweet appeal across Africa have managed to completely rid the continent of all its &#8216;Big Man&#8217; rulers – the bully autocrats and dictators who rule with iron fists while looting and plundering their way to fabulous wealth. But at last it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairreporters.net&amp;blog=25136683&amp;post=1258&amp;subd=fairreporters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African media groups oppose UNESCO-Obiang Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UNESCO-Obiang Nguema Mbasogo International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences would recognize scientists for improving the quality of human life. President Obiang, on the other hand, is best known as the leader of one of the most corrupt, oppressive, and undemocratic countries in the world.  Read below this open letter to Members of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairreporters.net&amp;blog=25136683&amp;post=1240&amp;subd=fairreporters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The battle for Mali’s north</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bram Posthumus in Dakar &#8211; Since January 17th this year, the north of Mali is at war.  It started as an attack of armed Tuaregs on a Malian army barracks in Ménaka, near the border with Niger and has spread across all of Mali’s three desert regions: Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao.  The war zone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairreporters.net&amp;blog=25136683&amp;post=1236&amp;subd=fairreporters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ivory Coast and the problem of chocolate</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sustainable and fair,&#8221; is the label in the supermarket on chocolate, peanut butter, coffee and tea.  Dutch consumers prefer &#8220;sustainable&#8221; sprinkles, because thanks to our buying behavior, as we know, poor farmers in the Third World can develop their farms and send their children to school.  But as so often, reality is not so simple. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairreporters.net&amp;blog=25136683&amp;post=1228&amp;subd=fairreporters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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