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	<title>Future Atlas &#187; Africa</title>
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		<title>Beyond Af-Pak and Yem-Som</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/06/beyond-af-pak-and-yem-som/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/06/beyond-af-pak-and-yem-som/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigeria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yemen has now joined the list of prominent theaters in the battle against Islamist extremism.  This is no surprise to anyone who had noted its place in governance rankings.
Where next?  Here&#8217;s the basic list: the 20 least-stable countries in the world, with those in play in that battle in red, and others with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Locking In World&#8217;s Agricultural Land</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/23/locking-in-worlds-agricultural-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/23/locking-in-worlds-agricultural-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The WaPo reported today on a trend that could have impacts from African stability to the global food supply: companies and governments from developing nations are leasing or buying large swaths of agricultural land, especially in Africa, but also in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
The WaPo article focuses on Ethiopia, which uses only about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Years Till Another Sudanese Disaster?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/15/two-years-till-another-sudanese-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/15/two-years-till-another-sudanese-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-determination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>

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		<title>Leave Somalia to the Islamists?</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/10/leave-somalia-to-the-islamists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/10/leave-somalia-to-the-islamists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In last week&#8217;s Newsweek, Andrew Bast argued that outsiders might be well-served by standing aside as the Islamist Al-Shabab group attempts to seize control of more of the country.
Bast writes that:

&#8220;The Islamist group is far from monolithic, and could well splinter without a foreign enemy to rally against.&#8221;  Foreign military intervention provides that rallying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Stability: The Hunger Factor</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/nigerian-stability-the-hunger-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/07/nigerian-stability-the-hunger-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports another ominous factor for the stability of Nigeria. 
David Hecht writes that Nigeria &#8220;cannot feed its 140 million people, and relatively minor reductions in rainfall could set off a regional food catastrophe, experts say.&#8221;  Increased rainfall variability &#8212; which is a likely outcome of climate change &#8212; could cause this.
&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dyschronicity: Hunting Witches in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/21/dyschronicity-hunting-witches-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2009/03/21/dyschronicity-hunting-witches-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dyschronicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>

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		<title>Radicals gain in Somalia</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/28/radicals-gain-in-somalia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/28/radicals-gain-in-somalia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports on the gains of the Islamist rebels in Somalia &#8212; and on unintended (but not unanticipated) consequences:
The scenario now unfolding in Somalia is the one a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion nearly two years ago had been intended to thwart: a takeover by radical Islamists.  At the time, Ethiopian forces ousted a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates in a multipolar world</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/21/pirates-in-a-multipolar-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/21/pirates-in-a-multipolar-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Somali pirates have managed to invoke the multipolar 21st century:

The European Union is sending a force of 20 warships to patrol around the Horn of Africa, including countries such as Spain and Sweden, an unusual display of military power by the organization.
China is also sending three warships, a striking extension of its global reach. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>West Africa: drugs threaten stability</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/10/west-africa-drugs-threaten-stability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2008/08/10/west-africa-drugs-threaten-stability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>

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		<title>South Africa: the Zuma challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/31/south-africa-the-zuma-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.futureatlas.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/31/south-africa-the-zuma-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Future Atlas</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Future Atlas noted more than a year ago, Jacob Zuma presents challenges to the future of South Africa.
Accused of corruption and even rape in the past, he is now closer to power, having been elected head of the African National Congress (ANC), the only party currently able to win national elections.
New corruption charges may [...]]]></description>
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