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		<title>Aid charities miss the point with call for free Covid jabs</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (10th December, 2020) Amid the joy at seeing the first elderly Britons inoculated against Covid-19, a group called the People’s Vaccine Alliance popped up [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Africa’s catastrophic Covid response</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (11th September, 2020) As Covid-19 began to sweep across the planet earlier this year, the warnings about the disease&#8217;s impact on Africa were terrifying. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beat perfect until the end</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (4th May, 2020) Last Thursday I received an email from Audrey Gbaguidi, a singer whom I have known for almost a decade. She [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Coronavirus will expose Africa&#8217;s tyrants</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (9th April, 2020) When Muhammadu Buhari was elected president of Nigeria in 2015 — amid a wave of disgust towards the corruption that plagues his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Can Zuckerberg control his monster?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by UnHerd (19th November, 2018) It seems incredible Facebook is only 14 years old. The firm’s penetration of the planet, since it was created by some Harvard [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>It&#8217;s not the Maybolt&#8217;s dance moves that are the true horror of her African trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 17:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (2nd September, 2018) Theresa May’s robotic dancing made some people laugh. But the Maybot was not the biggest joke about the Prime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>As our narrative on Africa shrinks, the continent rises</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (15th January, 2018) For a brief moment Donald Trump sounded presidential on Friday as he signed a proclamation to mark the public holiday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Chimps for chumps: inside the cruel world of ape smuggling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2018 10:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (14th January, 2018) The crate flown in from Istanbul was filled with exotic creatures for collectors: tantalus and patas monkeys, golden and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (30th December, 2017) Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon (Head of Zeus) I came to this book with enthusiasm. The author [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Every horror imaginable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Spectator (3rd June, 2017) A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with My Daughter from Boko Haram by Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann (Little, Brown); [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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