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		<title>A light shining through darkness</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (22nd January, 2019) More than 25 million people are refugees, forced to flee their homelands by conflict, drought or disaster. For all the hysterical [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why a historic African peace deal is good news for Europe</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (13th July, 2018) Earlier this week a mechanic in Ethiopia telephoned his mother. Such a simple event, yet it symbolised astonishing moves taking place in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Winds of change blowing across Africa</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (19th February, 2018) Nelson Mandela and Jacob Zuma share some things in common. Both were key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle with the African [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The backlash over Mugabe was hypocrisy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2017 12:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (24th October, 2017) Robert Mugabe has held Zimbabwe in his vice-like grip for 37 years while his obnoxious one-party regime stole elections, crushed rivals, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We train forces who kidnapped Ethiopia&#8217;s &#8216;Mandela&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (10th April, 2016) Britain is giving more than a million pounds to train Ethiopia’s security forces – even though the country’s repressive [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Diplomatic impotence &#8211; or disregard for human rights</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (26th October, 2015) The visit of Xi Jinping was deemed a success on both sides. Our royal family ensured China’s president was pampered with immense [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Obama in Africa is right to emphasise trade over aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 11:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by CapX (28th July, 2015) It is always easy to snipe at a state leader’s foreign tour, and Barack Obama’s trip to Africa was no exception. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (25th January, 2015) An explosive row has erupted between diplomats and Ministers over their reluctance to help a British man on death [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Should Band Aid be resurrected?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Observer (16th November, 2014) The Observer debate with Tim Ingham (Editor, Music Week) IB: Absolutely not. The only good thing is to learn the toe-curling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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