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		<title>The Globe and Mail - Incwadi evela</title>
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		<description>Stephanie Nolen's Africa blog is called 'Incwadi evela' Africa,' which in isiZulu means 'Letters from Africa.'</description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A boy named Mamadou]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[There was something about Mamadou. I met a lot of lovely children while reporting on street kids trafficked from rural West Africa into begging networks in Dakar. It's the sort of story that requires a correspondent to have her journalistic calluses firmly in place when she sets out in the morning. I - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:44 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A sad and inspiring conversation near Dakar]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Near Dakar last week, I met a remarkable group of women working to try to convince their sons not to make the perilous trip to Europe as illegal immigrants. The first thing that was unusual about them was that they were all wearing the same dress &#8211; about 70 of them, all together, crammed into a - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<author><![CDATA[Stephanie Nolen]]></author>
        
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 09:53 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[For those of you contemplating a beach holiday in Sierra Leone]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Freetown, [amp]nbsp;May 2Let me preface this by saying two things.First, I love Freetown. I really, really love it. A few years back, I schemed madly to find a way to convince The Globe and Mail to put its new Africa bureau here. In the end, I gave up, for reasons that will become clear below. But this - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 2 May 2008 08:53 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Things people tried to sell me in a Freetown traffic jam]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Freetown, April 30[amp]nbsp;[amp]nbsp;

DVD player
Hand towels
Dress sox
Desk lamp
Bootleg latest season of Lost on DVD
Nail clippers
Calculator
Set of six drinking glasses
Collected video speeches of Osama Bin Laden &#8211; two disc set
Padlock
Tire iron
Palm-leaf fan
Car floor mats
Living - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:30 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A soldier named Tedious]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg, April 20
Reporting on Zimbabwe these past three weeks has meant an almost unbroken litany of grim news. But for a foreign journalist, there is one tiny source of levity amidst the heartbreak, and that is the Zimbabwean flare for names.
In the course of a single day, not long ago, I interviewed - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:45 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Zimbabweans world's fastest money counters, but can't count votes]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Johannesburg, April 17
Nineteen days after Zimbabwe's national elections, the government has yet to release the results of the presidential vote. And the excuse that they're not quite done with the counting has worn a little thin.
Because, of course, one byproduct of living in the world's highest inflation - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<author><![CDATA[Stephanie Nolen]]></author>
        
			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:17 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[$30-million for parking, $475-million for lunch]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[Harare, April 2
Covering the crisis in Zimbabwe is complicated in many ways[amp]nbsp;-- the phone network connects only one in every 10 dialed calls. The electricity keeps cutting out, and I'm on a perpetual hunt to find places to charge the gear. To keep gas in the car, one has to be on a constant - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 2 Apr 2008 03:59 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The cost of an election]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[HARARE, March 28
Now about that letter of accreditation &#8230; my application to cover this vote was rejected, as were those of 200 other foreign correspondents and news agencies based in Johannesburg.
It didn't come as a huge surprise: Zimbabwean journalist friends of mine (who are black) had told - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:02 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Landing in the impenetrable gloom of Harare]]></title>
      		
			<description><![CDATA[HARARE, March 28
I landed in Harare late last night, and fumbled my way off the plane &#8211; the once-bustling international airport was cloaked in gloom; only dull emergency lights glowed in the corridors. The dwindling electrical supply doesn't reach the airport anymore, apparently. 
I stood in - Follow link to read full post]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:11 EDT</pubDate>
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