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			<title><![CDATA[Nearly 30,000 Angolans expelled from DR Congo require assistance]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/280768</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Suzuki awarded 'Alternative Nobel' by Right Livelihood Foundation]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/280441</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Undercover investigation exposes gorilla poaching]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279269</link>
		<enclosure url="http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/1/2/5/7/i/1/1/9/p-small/gorilla.jpg" length="5885" type="image/jpeg"></enclosure>			<description><![CDATA[An undercover investigation carried out by Endangered Species International has found up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo.]]></description>			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:12:03 -0400</pubDate>		<guid><![CDATA[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/279269]]></guid>
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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[Hillary Clinton Snaps at Congo Student's Question]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/277365</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[Homophobia and its impact on AIDS rates in Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/276254</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Attack In Congo By Hutu Militia Leaves 90 Dead]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/272621</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Oil-rich Uganda faces massive land-wars and population explosion]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/271506</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[US Navy divers search for black box in croc-infested African lake]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270026</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[AIDS+TB infected soldiers lethal and mutinous, warns psychiatrist]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/268734</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Terrorist alert at Kenyan airports, borders]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267477</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Congo, militiamen lay down arms, seek repatriation]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266552</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[UNICEF Welcomes Release of 85 Children from Armed Forces]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266538</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thousands flee from Congolese ethnic-cleansing campaigns]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266458</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Former Congo War Lord Pleads Not Guilty]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265927</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thomas Lubanga is a former Congolese rebel leader who  has pleaded not guilty to charges of using child soldiers to fight bloody ethnic battles.]]></description>			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:08:43 -0500</pubDate>		<guid><![CDATA[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265927]]></guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[30% drop in diamond prices predicted]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265206</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[UN: 9.1 Million People Internally Displaced Central, East Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264725</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ebola kills nine, infects 33 in central Congo]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263988</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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