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		<title>Aid cuts did not cause ebola</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Spectator (3rd June, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How the old clothes you give to charity shops or dump in donation bins end up in putrefying heaps on the shoreline of West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (23rd March, 2026)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gen Z protests show older generations have failed them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i Paper (13th October, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Starmer should tell the truth about foreign aid</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (9th March, 2025) Sir Keir Starmer has had a good few days, displaying adroitness as he sought to navigate an upended global order in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MrBeast&#8217;s faux philanthropy fuels the aid illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (4th October, 2024) Jimmy Donaldson dropped out of a community college near his home in North Carolina at the age of 18 to crack one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa shows democracy in action</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (17th June, 2024) It is 30 years since the citizens of South Africa  defied doom-mongers with a largely peaceful transition from apartheid to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sunak&#8217;s demeaning promotion of a bloodstained despot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (24th April, 2024) The wily Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has shown great skill at fooling gullible Western politicians into supporting his dictatorship, whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Guards at Harry&#8217;s Africa charity face new killing and torture allegations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2024 15:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (17th March, 2024) An African conservation charity of which Prince Harry is a director is facing further accusations of human rights abuses [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The scandal of &#8216;green colonialism&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 10:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (5th February, 2024) The scenery of lush tropical rainforest was stunning but the stories of atrocities were disturbing. One mother told me of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Harry urged to quit Africa role</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 13:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (29th January, 2024) Prince Harry is being urged to quit a conservation charity he helps to run after a probe by The Mail [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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