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						 <title>Progress Towards a Food-Secure Africa</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI - A growing number of African countries are making significant progress towards eradicating extreme hunger and poverty. Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Africa are some of the countries that have made tremendous...]]></description>
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						 <title>We must create a more dynamic civic space in Africa, say Governance Groups</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[&quot;Democracy and positive economic change requires a vibrant civil society and African citizens taking a stand&quot;, said Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association, who opened discussions at a conference about the...]]></description>
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						 <title>Shun greed, one-man rule: Khama</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[Botswana's President, Ian Khama, recently called on fellow African leaders to put their citizens' interests ahead of their personal and political...]]></description>
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						 <title>Africa: Time to Fight to Open Space for Civil Society</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[&quot;Democracy and positive economic change require a vibrant civil society and African citizens taking a stand,&quot; said Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Assembly and Association, who opened discussions at the Protecting Democracy -...]]></description>
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						 <title>Protecting Democracy Conference</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[Faced with greater social and economic insecurity, governments in Africa and indeed worldwide are increasingly seeing the convening and mobilising power of civil society organisations as a threat to their power - and responding with a mixture of...]]></description>
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						 <title>2011 Drivers of Change Award Winners Announced</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[During a celebration at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg this evening, the winners of the 2011 Southern Africa Drivers of Change awards were...]]></description>
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						 <title>High Level Dialogue Will Discuss How to Make Regional Integration Work for the Poor in Southern Africa</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[Can the current architecture of regional integration in southern Africa work to overcome poverty in the region?  If not, what should the way forward be? Those are the key questions to be addressed at a high level dialogue on regional integration in...]]></description>
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						 <title>President Ian Khama to give keynote address at 2011 Drivers of Change and Investing in the Future awards</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[On 3 November 2011, the Southern Africa Trust and the Mail &amp; Guardian newspaper will host the annual Investing in the Future and Drivers of Change awards gala dinner at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South...]]></description>
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						 <title>Cross-border customs violations a concern - Morris</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[Gaborone: Law enforcement agencies at national, regional and international levels have been called upon to jointly deal with ever-increasing cross-border customs violations in the region. Speaking during the official opening of the 10th Regional...]]></description>
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						 <title>Southern Africa Civil Society Leadership Development Initiative Launched</title>
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						 <description><![CDATA[The launch of a regional Leadership for Change initiative in Mauritius on Friday, 30 September 2011, marked the beginning of a process to build the leadership capability of civil society leaders in the southern Africa region to engage meaningfully...]]></description>
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