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		<title>The End</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/the-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After four years living in Nairobi and reporting across Africa I&#8217;ve headed home to England. This blog, in hibernation for quite a while, will now be permanently put out of its misery. You can still follow me on Twitter and, &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/the-end/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=705&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Move along, nothing to see&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/move-along-nothing-to-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly maintaining two blogs is beyond me. Let&#8217;s face it, one was always a bit of a struggle. Until the World Cup is out the way I&#8217;ll be focusing my blogging on the Africa United website. Normal service will be &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/move-along-nothing-to-see/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=702&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This won&#8217;t make a difference</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/this-wont-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s electoral commission has just launched a new hi-tech voter registration system. Every would-be voter will have their fingerprint scanned and a digital photograph taken. Supposedly this will prevent voter fraud. Two things: One. The problems last time had little &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/this-wont-make-a-difference/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=694&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No to Al Shabaab&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/no-to-al-shabaab-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Shabaab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hip-hop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[somalia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Somalia&#8217;s government continues to warn Al Shabaab that they are about to launch a &#8220;major offensive&#8221;, the Somali hip-hop collective, Waayaha Cusub, has unveiled a more musical attack. Apparently it&#8217;s getting a lot of airplay in Somalia. Waayaha Cusub, &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/no-to-al-shabaab-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=689&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Big Man politics</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/lessons-in-big-man-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Mullin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Mullin spent two years as the UK&#8217;s Minister for Africa, a role that wasn&#8217;t quite as important as it sounds. Any decision worth making was carried out by Mullin&#8217;s superiors but he managed to travel a fair bit across &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/lessons-in-big-man-politics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=680&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Geldof: &#8220;arrogant&#8230; pompous&#8230; smug&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/bob-geldof-arrogant-pompous-smug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[band aid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC/Band Aid row rumbles on. Rageh Omaar yesterday took the opportunity to write a fascinating and timely piece about the inevitable politicisation of aid that happens in all conflicts. It&#8217;s worth reading in full, but here is the crucial point: &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/bob-geldof-arrogant-pompous-smug/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=674&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring Africa</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/ignoring-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denis Rouvre]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were several incredible photos from Africa in this year&#8217;s World Press Photo awards, from Denis Rouvre&#8217;s portraits of Senegalese wrestlers to Malick Sidibe&#8217;s wonderful fashion series for the New York Times magazine. It was, as Glenna Gordon pointed out &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/ignoring-africa/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=667&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No comment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a politician at the centre of a scandal tells you he or she doesn&#8217;t want to comment on a story, reporters in Britain tend to write so-and-so &#8220;refused to comment&#8221;. African papers have a different style. Julius Malema, the &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/no-comment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=660&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Britain want a real pilot?</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/does-britain-want-a-real-pilot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time last year an unpopular Labour party leader with questionable personal skills was hoping to pull off a surprise election win. This was his pitch: “When a plane has to be landed in a storm, you don’t ask if &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/does-britain-want-a-real-pilot/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=656&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Monocle guide to plotting a successful coup</title>
		<link>http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/the-monocle-guide-to-plotting-a-successful-coup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevebloomfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thursday’s coup in Niger is the fifth successful putsch in Africa since 2008, after a decade in which military takeovers had become less common. The African Union, which was founded in 2002, forbade coup leaders from becoming members. “Coups went &#8230; <a href="http://thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/the-monocle-guide-to-plotting-a-successful-coup/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thingsseenandheard.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5153208&amp;post=650&amp;subd=thingsseenandheard&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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