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    <title>&quot;The popular uprisings in the Arab world perhaps constitute the most important internet-led and facilitated change&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2011-04-13T14:25:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this interview Manuel Castells discusses the role of ICTs in the Arab Spring uprisings.]]></description>
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    <title>PBS Independent Lens: T-Shirt Travels</title>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This website for a documentary about how donated clothing has destroyed local textile industries in Africa has a nice infographic. The Salvation Army profits off selling donated clothing to Africa.]]></description>
<dc:subject>Africa economics clothing globalization</dc:subject>
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    <title>Sokwanele: Mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-28T19:51:28+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's about time I posted this mashup showing some of the dirty tricks used to suppress the vote in Zimbabwe.]]></description>
<dc:subject>elections googlemaps mashup Africa neato</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If stopping genocide in Africa really was on the agenda, why the focus on Sudan with 200,000 to 400,000 dead rather than Congo with five million dead?" The author argues it's because Sudan sits on oil.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[FP interviews Intel chair Craig Barrett, who reveals insights about the digital divide and OLPC.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Inveneo.org, which does telecom development work in Africa is collecting new and used USB flash drives for use in their training programs.]]></description>
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    <title>BBC News: From weapons of war to great coffee</title>
    <dc:date>2006-11-02T00:30:37+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Azmeraw Zeleke fashions coffee machines from artillery shells left over from Ethiopia's civil war.]]></description>
<dc:subject>ethiopia coffee Africa sustainability DIY neato</dc:subject>
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    <title>A bitter fight brewing: Ethiopia and Starbucks clash over coffee</title>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Starbucks and the government of Ethiopia are clashing over US trademarks of Ethiopian coffee varietals.]]></description>
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    <title>NYTimes: African Languages Grow as a Presence on Wikipedia</title>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This news is a little stale, but it's nice to see The Gray Lady address this issue.]]></description>
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    <title>Ethan Zuckerman: Unpacking the DRC election results</title>
    <dc:date>2006-08-21T17:26:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=951</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The incumbent Kabila got 44% of the vote, forcing a runoff and leading to violence between political factions.]]></description>
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    <title>The Salon: DRC: Elections: Update 6</title>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This insightful wrap-up of Sunday's elections in the DRC by native blogger includes discussion of irregularities. And no one seems to know who won yet.]]></description>
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    <title>Some background on the likely forthcoming conflict in Somalia</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-28T22:00:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=910</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ethan Zuckerman describes the post-colonial history of Somalia both before and after the US intervention in 1992.]]></description>
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    <title>Elections and a great deal of hope</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-28T16:40:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2006/07/elections_and_a_great_deal_of_hope.html</link>
    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This overview of Sunday's elections in the DRC emphasizes the social impact of the militias that fought in Congo's civil wars and how victims and militia members living side-by-side has created tension in the nation.]]></description>
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    <title>Foreign Policy: Congo’s Implausible Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2006-07-27T22:47:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>McChris</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Analysis of the upcoming elections in the DRC, the first since it gained independence in 1960 and two devastating wars in the 1990s.]]></description>
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