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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; Congo</title>
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		<title>Democracy in the Rough: Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/democracy-in-the-rough/introduction/956/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About the Film

WIDE ANGLE is on the ground as the Democratic Republic of Congo holds its first elections in 45 years -- an election supported by more than $450 million from the United Nations. The stakes are high in Congo, a nation rich in timber, diamonds, and coltan -- a substance essential for small electronics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Verdict Delivered In Burma, Taliban Attack Thwarted In Kuwait</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is sentenced to three years of hard labor for violating the terms of her house arrest, sparking global outcry. Her sentence is commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months.

The toll from Typhoon Morakot continues to rise as huge mudslides bury a rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing Heaven&#8217;s Border: Video: Refugee Escape Stories from Around the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every refugee has a story. Fleeing wars, repressive governments, ethnic and religious persecution, they make often epic journeys, risking their lives to start anew. Last year alone, nearly 14 million people from around the world became refugees. More than 60,000 settled in the United States.

Below are the stories of nine refugees. They've fled the war [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: 60 Killed in Baghdad; 50,000 Trapped in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/world-links/4654/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/world-links/4654/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucy kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hutu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many as 50,000 people are trapped in fighting in northeastern Sri Lanka.

Taliban militants, occupying Buner in northwestern Pakistan, are withdrawing to their stronghold in the Swat Valley.

Over sixty people are killed in a suicide bomb attack at a shrine in western Baghdad.

Five children are killed and hundreds of homes burned by Hutu rebels in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. Approves Program to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/blog/un-approves-program-to-reduce-emissions-from-deforestation/4407/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the U.N. announced it would spend $18 million in five pilot countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation while supporting local populations. The project -- known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) -- will be launched in Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania and Vietnam in advance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Trial for International Criminal Court</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/first-trial-for-international-criminal-court/4144/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/first-trial-for-international-criminal-court/4144/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Kennedy

Ten years after the Rome Treaty was signed to establish the International Criminal Court, the ICC brought its first case to trial in The Hague. Thomas Lubanga faces six charges of recruiting and using hundreds of child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2002 and 2003.

The case is a litmus test for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;African of the Year&#8221; Helps Congolese Rape Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist who treats rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was named "African of the Year" by the Nigerian Daily Trust newspaper earlier this week. Dr. Mukwege is also one of the winners of the 2008 United Nation's Human Rights Prize and the Olof Palme prize for outstanding achievement in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army Calls for Truce</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/lords-resistance-army-calls-for-truce/4070/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lucy kennedy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks, the Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been attacking villages, raping women, abducting children, and leaving hundreds of people dead in north-eastern DR Congo.

But over the weekend LRA spokesman David Matsanga delivered a letter to U.N. mediator Joachim Chissano calling for a truce.

After 20 years of conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anthony Gambino on the Crisis in Congo</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/anthony-gambino-on-the-crisis-in-congo/3505/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucy Kennedy
In late September this year The New York Times reported positive news from Eastern Congo, a volcanic region of great natural beauty, where ethnic violence has been commonplace for over a decade: tourists were trickling back to the area. But a little over a month later, the rebel leader Laurent Nkunda advanced on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peruvian Water Supply in Peril</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/uncategorized/peru/3484/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As hurricane season winds down in the U.S., the rainy season in Peru is just picking up. In addition to the usual fears of floods and landslides, residents in and around the capital of Lima are now concerned that heavy rains could weaken man-made receptacles of mining waste, called “tailing ponds” and lead to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Rough: Book Excerpt: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/democracy-in-the-rough/book-excerpt-in-the-footsteps-of-mr-kurtz/1133/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To what extent can Congo's current problems be traced back to the legacy of Mobutu Sese Seko's rule? Africa correspondent Michela Wrong offers some insight in this introduction to her book about the rise and fall of the man also known as The Leopard.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MR. KURTZ
Michela Wrong
 Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Rough: Photo Essay: The Troubled Heart of Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/democracy-in-the-rough/photo-essay-the-troubled-heart-of-africa/1157/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<title>Democracy in the Rough: Essay: Building a Congolese State Where There Was None</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/democracy-in-the-rough/essay-building-a-congolese-state-where-there-was-none/1136/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jason Stearns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
By Jason Stearns and Michela Wrong

Jason Stearns is a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. He offers this analysis of the election and the challenges facing the incoming government. This article is based on the authors' previous commentary in the FINANCIAL TIMES. Michela Wrong spent six years covering the African continent for Reuters, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy in the Rough: Filmmaker Notes: Fred de Sam Lazaro</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/democracy-in-the-rough/filmmaker-notes-fred-de-sam-lazaro/1135/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nikki See]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Adair]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Producer Fred de Sam Lazaro discusses the production of "Democracy in the Rough."

Nowhere is Africa's curse of riches more vividly on display than the Democratic Republic of Congo. Amid their own grinding poverty, Congolese see foreigners living very well and, with the recent exception of U.N. troops and relief workers, foreigners here have always been [...]]]></description>
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