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			<title><![CDATA[Dead monkey, elephant meat and reptile purses seized at LAX]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-20 15:55:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In what even U.S. Customs officials are describing as a &ldquo;weird&rdquo; week of sorts, border protection officers seized nearly half a pound of exotic meat, a dead primate and hundreds of handbags made with reptile skin coming in from Nigeria....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nigeria launches airstrikes against Islamist militants]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-17 10:24:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Security forces in Nigeria have launched airstrikes against encampments of the Islamist militia Boko Haram as part of a major military operation in the country's northeast, military officials said Friday. 

The airstrikes hit...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Africa loses benefit of billions of dollars annually, report says]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-10 12:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG -- Africa loses the benefit of billions of dollars each year through illegal tax evasion, money transfers and secretive business deals, more than all the money coming into the continent through aid and investment, according to a report...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nigeria officials disagree on death toll in recent fighting]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-22 16:57:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[KANO, Nigeria &mdash; Local government officials and a military spokesman in Nigeria agreed that security forces and Islamist militants had battled in recent days in the country's far northeast. But they offered widely varying accounts Monday of how...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dozens killed in gun battles in northern Nigeria]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-22 09:42:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Dozens of people, including many civilians, died in gun battles between Nigerian security forces and Islamist militants in recent days, according to Nigerian officials. 

However, reports of the number of casualties varied,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[French family freed after being held hostage in Nigeria]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-19 09:43:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A family of French tourists, including four children, held hostage by an Islamist militia in northern Nigeria has been freed, according the French and Cameroonian officials. 

Tanguy Moulin-Fournier, his wife Albane,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-17 19:15:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON&mdash; U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. 

In a decision welcomed...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chinua Achebe dies at 82; Nigerian writer]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-23 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa &mdash; When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time magazine called it "the best novel ever written...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, 82, dies]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-22 08:44:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa -- Acclaimed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote &ldquo;Things Fall Apart,&rdquo; died Friday after a brief illness. He was 82. 

Achebe, often called the father of African literature, was best known for &ldquo;Things Fall...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The world mourns author Chinua Achebe]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-22 13:19:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In Lagos and London and many other places, the world mourned the great African novelist Chinua Achebe, who died Thursday in Boston at 82. 

Achebe was best known to American readers for his novel &ldquo;Things Fall Apart.&rdquo; Published in London in...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chinua Achebe, author of 'Things Fall Apart,' dies at 82]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-22 07:35:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe has died. The 82-year-old was best known for his gorgeously written historical novel that served as an indictment of colonialism, "Things Fall Apart." Published in 1958, "Things Fall Apart" soon became an international...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Western governments say Nigerian extremists executed 7 hostages]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-03-10 13:46:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya -- Western governments Sunday reported that a violent Islamist militia in northern Nigeria had likely executed seven foreign hostages, deaths that the governments called barbaric and cold-blooded. 

The group, Ansaru, announced Saturday...]]></description>
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