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                                <title><![CDATA[ 'Turkish citizenship and cash to Africa': Police urged to investigate woman's claims against Anwar, Farhash ]]></title>
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                                <description><![CDATA[ Whistleblower Albert Tei questions the prime minister and his former aide for not taking legal action against Sofia Rini Buyong. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Export curbs fail to arrest India's booming rice shipments, sources say ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ A two-year drought has decimated crops and livestock across Horn of Africa nations, while the price of food imports has soared because of the war in Ukraine. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ French parliament grinds to a halt after MP yells 'Go back to Africa' ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 01:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ The far right argues that MP Gregoire de Fournas was not aiming the words at the MP who asked the question, Carlos Martens Bilongo, but at migrants stranded on an NGO boat. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Ethiopia warring parties agree to cease hostilities ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 01:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Rotavirus childhood vaccine shortage hits four African countries ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ WHO estimates that up to 200,000 children die each year of the highly contagious infection, which is the leading cause globally of severe, dehydrating gastroenteritis in children under the age of five. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Ghana confirms first outbreak of highly infectious Marburg virus ]]></title>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Ukraine president says Africa ‘hostage’ in war with Russia ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:36:34 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ African countries are acutely affected by the growing crisis, which has sent prices of grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertiliser soaring. ]]></description>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ Famine looms in Horn of Africa after four seasons of poor rains, agencies say ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 00:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                                <title><![CDATA[ South Africa says it may be entering fifth Covid wave ]]></title>
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                                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2022 09:02:26 GMT</pubDate>
                                <description><![CDATA[ Health Minister Joe Phaahla says that although hospitalisations are picking up there is no dramatic change in admissions to intensive care units or deaths. ]]></description>
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