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		<title>Speculators Behind Incoming Global Surge in Food Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2010/05/daily-kos-speculators-behind-incoming-global-surge-in-food-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 16:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food colonializm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2008 I wrote two little noticed diaries about speculative buying that helped to drive food prices higher (here  and here), and surprise, surprise, our friends from Goldman Sachs are well represented in this mix of global finance companies.

Two years later, the world food market is still seriously exposed to speculators artificially driving up prices and worsening the risks of malnutrition, and according to one of the world's leading agricultural researchers, Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (von Brown was one of the first to write about flawed regulatory regimes in banking and finance driving up food prices) an even bigger food crisis is looming, exacerbated as well by climate change. A visit to his site is well worth your time as he speaks eloquently about food and water.]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates of the Horn</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/05/pirates-of-the-horn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 16:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamushm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of piracy has made a sensational comeback in popular culture and world politics in the last several years. Hollywood has cashed in millions of dollars popularizing the old mischief. I have attended enough pirate themed children birthday parties to start to consider pirates lovable rascals.]]></description>
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		<title>Shoot the Messenger</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/05/shoot-the-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mamushm</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[africa's problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 12, 2009, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released a report showing that same air cargo companies transporting humanitarian aids to Africa also funneled arms into the same volatile parts of the continent.  The research is performed by two British nationals with former ties to governmental and non-governmental organizations. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Torture Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/05/the-torture-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 02:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dpleck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethiopia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["They cut off my clothes with some kind of doctor's scalpel. I was totally naked ... They took the scalpel to my right chest. It was only a small cut. Maybe an inch. Then they cut my left chest. One of them took my penis in his hand and began to make cuts. He did it once, and they stood still for maybe a minute, watching my reaction. I was in agony, crying, trying desperately to suppress myself, but I was screaming ... They must have done this 20 to 30 times in maybe two hours. There was blood all over. They cut all over my private parts. One of them said it would be better just to cut it off, as I would only breed terrorists. This was repeated many times over the next 15 months ... "]]></description>
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		<title>A cabbie that I do not wish upon you&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/04/a-cabbie-that-i-do-not-wish-upon-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/04/a-cabbie-that-i-do-not-wish-upon-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mali]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was not the first day that my alarm clock failed to go off. But today was the first day that I almost missed my own meeting because my alarm clock failed to wake me up. Better late than never I supposed. So I caught a taxi cab – a ten fold increase in fare as compared to the bus – and opened the laptop to prepare. I noticed that the cabbie was a Hornist and avoided eye contact so as to escape the inevitable back and forth on establishing identity, politics and a long discussion on the miseries of the migrant life. I don’t know if this is just me, but saying where you are from has become a task that requires great mental agility these days. And I think this is particularly true for those of us from the Horn.]]></description>
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		<title>Who caused the economic collapse?</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2009/02/who-caused-the-economic-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A politically conservative co-worker recently assured me that immigrants caused the current economic mess by taking out mortgages that they could not afford. Thankfully a liberal one retorted that there was no way for immigrants to have known that their jobs would be gone, and many of them deported. It was time to breathe a sign of relief. Immigrants may be stupid but they are certainly not schemers and criminals. But the nagging feeling remained. Both the conservative and liberal essentially agreed that immigrants, along with a few other poor natives, were responsible for this mess – albeit for different reasons. So off I went to gather economic ammunition to argue my point of view and defend immigrants.]]></description>
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		<title>On Horn Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.wafrika.com/2008/06/on-horn-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wafrika.com/2008/06/on-horn-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amang</dc:creator>
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