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		<title>&#8220;Africa&#8217;s Turn&#8221; for Economic Growth May Continue Amid Global Economic Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the G-8 pledged $20 billion to fight increasingly widespread hunger in Africa. Next week, USAID will begin emergency food assistance to 2.8 million people in Zimbabwe. But at least one economist is cautiously optimistic about Africa’s ability to maintain the modest but steady economic progress it achieved before the global economic downturn.

When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Crisis in a Globalized World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Our world today is so interconnected that the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. has led to a global financial crisis on a scale not seen since the Great Depression. Here's a round-up of how the countries around the world are dealing with the economic meltdown.

Europe

The 15-country eurozone is officially in recession [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: The World&#8217;s Most Complex Borders: Botswana/Zimbabwe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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Start date: 2003
Length: 300 miles
Official purpose: Prevention of foot-and-mouth disease

One of the last African countries under white rule, Rhodesia was a British colony until 1970 and was led by the white-minority government of Ian Smith through the 1970s. In 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and its leader, Robert Mugabe, won elections after years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CIA: The World Factbook
 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/rs.html
The CIA World Factbook provides viewers with an excellent resource for discovering basic facts about any country in the world. It is especially useful for investigating statistics on a variety of topics.

USAID
 http://www.usaid.gov/
USAID is a government-funded initiative, which seeks to further America's foreign policy interests by promoting democracy and free trade [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

Along the border between unstable and destitute Zimbabwe, and relatively calm and prosperous Botswana, a 300-mile, 8-foot high electric fence is being erected. Every night, Botswana's armed soldiers try to stop border jumpers from climbing over or cutting through the fence in their desperate search for employment and food. "Border Jumpers" takes us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: Strengthening African Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[





Zimbabwean women and infants at the Centre for Illegal Immigration in Botswana.

Photo by: Peter Hutchens/Still Life Projects



How does prosperous Botswana secure its borders and accommodate the influx of tens of thousands fleeing hunger, unemployment, and political repression in neighboring Zimbabwe? 

By Robert I. Rotberg

Africa has long been saddled with poor, even malevolent, leadership: predatory kleptocrats, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: Photo Essay: Life in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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		<title>Border Jumpers: Timeline: Southern Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>diana cofresi</dc:creator>
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1830s
Ndebele people flee South Africa and move north into an area that becomes known as Matebeleland (present-day Zimbabwe) where the Shona people have already been living for centuries.


1867
European gold prospectors arrive in Botswana and mining begins.


1885
The British proclaim a protectorate over Botswana and call it Bechuanaland.


1889
Explorer Cecil John Rhodes of the British South Africa Company [...]]]></description>
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