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            <title>SADC/APC statement on xenophobia </title>
            <link>http://www.sadc.int</link>
            <description>Joint statement of SADC / APC southern region population and development officials on xenophobia:</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2023 10:58:42 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>SA plans new poverty hearings</title>
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            <description>Cape Town: Civil society groups and the SA Human Rights Commission are planning to hold poverty hearings throughout the country, Archbishop Njogonkulu Ndungane said on Wednesday.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:14:28 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>SADC, COMESA urged to rationalize membership </title>
            <link>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/06/content_8322181.htm</link>
            <description>Lusaka: The 14th Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Southern Africa has asked the countries in the region to take bold steps to rationalize their membership in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), according to Zambia Daily Mail on Friday.</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:51:10 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>SADC executive secretary concerned over instability in region </title>
            <link>http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200806090039.html</link>
            <description>Luanda: The prevailing situation of instability in some member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in particular the wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa worries the regional bloc, according to its executive secretary, Tomás Salomão.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:47:20 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Zimbabwe crisis likely to delay SADC integration </title>
            <link>http://allafrica.com/stories/200806061014.html</link>
            <description>Harare: Economic integration has been the ultimate goal of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) states for many years.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:42:09 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>About 142 xenophobic cases before SA courts</title>
            <link>http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=341088&amp;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/</link>
            <description>Johannesburg:  About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Tuesday.</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:30:46 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Putting the tourist dollar in the pockets of the poor</title>
            <link>http://www.irinnews.org</link>
            <description>Maputo:  Time is one of the few commodities that duty manager Susana Diniz, 28, does not have much of as she attends to a stream of guests booking into the 158-room Holiday Inn hotel in Mozambique's capital, Maputo.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:20:53 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>In a crackdown, Zimbabwe curbs many aid groups</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/world/africa/04zimbabwe.html?_r=1&amp;th=&amp;oref=slogin&amp;emc=th&amp;pagewanted=print</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:13:54 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Southern African nations ponder scrapping visas</title>
            <link>http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=341000&amp;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/</link>
            <description>Lusaka:  Top government officials in Southern Africa began meeting on Monday to find ways of addressing trade barriers, such as scrapping visa requirements, which are said to hinder regional integration.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:11:42 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Malawi to evacuate 3,000 citizens from South Africa</title>
            <link>http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hO57K_hN2l0hwJIAZ-p8fZwa9lZA</link>
            <description>Blantyre: Malawi will evacuate 3,000 citizens displaced by anti-foreigner violence in South Africa, a government official said Monday, as the first busload of returning people arrived in Blantyre.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:03:54 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Mbeki: Committee of Intelligence and Security Service of Africa </title>
            <link>http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/19048</link>
            <description>Cape Town:  In his opening address to this Fifth ordinary Session of CISSA Conference, our Minister for Intelligence Services, Ronnie Kasrils, referred to our shared legacy as bequeathed to us by the African liberation giants of the 20th Century.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:02:03 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>China's big push into Africa worries the small island of Mauritius </title>
            <link>http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=13208186</link>
            <description>Terre Rouge: Sitting under a pair of mango trees and sipping coconut water, Toolsy Poorun, 87, said he thought he would live in Terre Rouge forever. But then Chinese investment came to this part of Mauritius.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:57:14 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Erwin defends SA's electricity exports</title>
            <link>http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleId=339208&amp;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/</link>
            <description>Johannesburg:  Demands from various quarters that South Africa stop its electricity exports to neighbouring countries amounted to &quot;economic xenophobia&quot;, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Wednesday.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:27:58 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Poisoned fruits of an uneven regional economy </title>
            <link>http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A765977</link>
            <description>Johannesburg:  The recent pictures of xenophobic violence in Alexandra bring to mind the near-civil war that raged there before 1994.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:42:04 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>IBSA ministerial communique</title>
            <link>http://www.dfa.gov.za/docs/2008/ibsa0512.html</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 10:10:29 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>More policy freedom or belt-tightening? </title>
            <link>http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/</link>
            <description>New York:  Rather than &quot;graduating&quot; from the much-criticized economic reform programmes promoted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a number of African countries are opting to sign on to an extended version.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:57:03 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Harvad Voice</title>
            <link>http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A764705</link>
            <description>Johannesburg: Not long after the government first announced the accelerated and shared growth initiative (Asgi-SA) more than two years ago, it commissioned a team of economists,</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:47:32 +0200</pubDate>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 09:45:42 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Cross-border fuel lifeline cut </title>
            <link>http://allafrica.com/stories/200805071012.html</link>
            <description>Bulawayo: In the latest blow to Zimbabwe's wounded economy, the Botswana government has banned the export of bulk fuel to the neighbouring country.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:32:14 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Mozambique: Almost 50% of rural citizens have access to clean water </title>
            <link>http://allafrica.com/stories/200805071082.html</link>
            <description>Maputo: The number of people in the Mozambican countryside with access to clean drinking water rose by over 20 per cent between 2004 and 2007, according to the Minister of Public Works, Felicio Zacarias. </description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:22:16 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>ZEC has lost control of the Zimbabwe polls: PAP</title>
            <link>http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/southern_africa/0,2172,169054,00.html</link>
            <description>Midrand: The Pan African Parliament (PAP) says the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission (ZEC) has lost control of the election process in that country.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:16:48 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>SADC ministers fine-tune gender protocol</title>
            <link>http://allafrica.com/stories/200805060786.html</link>
            <description>Windhoek:  After three days of intense discussions and perfecting the draft document of the SADC protocol on Gender and Development,</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:39:32 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>AU seeks common line on Zimbabwe  </title>
            <link>http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/world.aspx?ID=BD4A761653</link>
            <description>Harare: African Union (AU) foreign ministers held an emergency meeting on Zimbabwe in Tanzania yesterday, as church and opposition groups in the country said at least eight more people had been killed and scores beaten or threatened in post-election violence.</description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:31:15 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Mbeki team in top-level Zimbabwe poll talks </title>
            <link>http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A761779</link>
            <description>Johannesburg: A top-level delegation led by Local Government Minister Sydney Mufamadi met President Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) this week</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:26:33 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Weighing the odds in Zimbabwe run-off gamble</title>
            <link>http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/opinion.aspx?ID=BD4A760880</link>
            <description>Harare: Zimbabwe's electoral authorities have finally announced presidential election results more than a month after voting, declaring no outright winner </description>
            <author>SARPN news</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 11:05:50 +0200</pubDate>
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