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			<title><![CDATA[Zim Constitution inked into law while elections wait for date]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[President Robert Mugabe has signed Zimbabwe's new Constitution into law, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kenyan farmers reap the benefits of technology]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[DRC waits on funding for world's largest hydropower project]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The dream of harnessing the DRC's mighty Congo River has moved closer, and South Africa has pledged to buy half of the power it generates.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Malawi sells presidential jet]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nigeria's military takes back five rebel strongholds]]></title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Uganda police shut down newspaper, radio stations]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Police in Uganda's capital have shut down the country's leading independent newspaper after it published an incriminating letter about the president.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Paul Kagame: I asked America to kill Congo rebel leader with drone]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[Rwanda's president has denied backing accused Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, saying his challenge to a senior US official proves his innocence. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Life under Zim's 'mutilated rule of law']]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[As Zimbabwe approaches elections this year a human rights lawyer has vowed never to give up - even after her own arrest.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Zambia police arrest 31 students protesting over food subsidies]]></title>
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