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		<title>RSS Feed - Digital Journal News from Congo, The Democratic Republic of the</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Children in southern Congo face acute starvation]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/280481</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[UN Attack Helicopters Kill 7 Rebels In Congo]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279925</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[African Sickle-Cell Anemia Deaths Heighten By Vaccine Shortage]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279097</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[US Corporate Interests or Real African Development?]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/277541</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[AFRICOM, The Real Reason Behind Hillary Clinton’s Africa Tour]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/277471</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Clinton Congo outburst blamed on 'nervous' audience member]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/277475</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mosquito bites transmit malaria 'vaccine']]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/276677</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Spotlight on the Work of the American Refugee Committee]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/276300</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Homophobia and its impact on AIDS rates in Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/276254</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Want to Live Green and Be Happy?  Move to Costa Rica]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/275678</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[More Ebola deaths in Congo (video)]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266455</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Congo invites South African whites to farm for them]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266058</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Africa's soil erosion to be mapped digitally]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265173</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rebels Spread The 'Holiday Fear' Rather Than 'Cheer' In Uganda]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264226</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Christmas Massacre In Congo]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264179</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Architect Of 1994 Rwandan Massacre Sentenced To Life Behind Bars]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263680</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dutch labour party wants coltan ban to stop child-slavery in Congo]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263036</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Surgeon performs amputation surgery in Congo with help of text messaging]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262979</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Situation in North Kivu is 'Desperate' Humanitarian Agencies Say]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262023</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Congo Refugees Shun Camps, Risk Violence]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/261910</link>
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