<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Africa</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/africa?nav=rss_world/africa</link><description>Africa</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PARIS  --  Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Zimbabwe, AIDS Still Means Death]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2441-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2441-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Politics and poverty are depriving Africans in rural areas of relief, even as new drugs stem the disease across the continent.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy Tempered by a Wish for a Third World Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2101-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church drew mixed reaction across Latin America and Africa. Political and church leaders issued warm statements of congratulations, but many people also said they felt a tinge of disappointment that the new pontiff did not come from the Third World.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan and Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nigeria's Rainmaker Is Eyed at Vatican]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59514-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59514-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ONITSHA, Nigeria  --  The legend of Cardinal Francis Arinze, a contender to become the first pope from Africa in 1,500 years, stems from a moment of crisis in Nigeria's Catholic heartland. It was the early 1970s, and the government had ordered all European and American priests  --  most of the Catholic leadership at the time  --  out of the country.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Official Ties Sudan Aid to Darfur]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44629-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44629-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  OSLO, April 11  --  In a new drive to resolve the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, the Bush administration plans to pledge financial support for the accord that ended Sudan's long-running civil war in January. As a condition of that aid, however, it will request evidence that the Khartoum government is responding to international pressure on Darfur, Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick said Monday.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pakistani Charged With Export Of Devices With Nuclear Uses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38757-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38757-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  A Pakistani businessman illegally exported devices from the United States that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons, the government alleged yesterday.]]></description><author> Lara Jakes Jordan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In South Africa, 'Pro-Life' Has  Different Meaning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38440-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38440-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Catholic AIDS workers facing an epidemic in Africa are arguing against the traditional papal ban on condoms.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apartheid and Cinema Verity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18959-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18959-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's tough to reconcile the truth with "In My Country's" handling of it.]]></description><author> Lynne Duke</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catholics Crowd Churches to Pray, Celebrate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19886-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19886-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Anxious Catholics packed churches around the world Friday for special masses, lit candles, held vigils and prayed for Pope John Paul II as he lay near death in his Vatican City apartment.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Bow to WTO, India Targets Drug Copying]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61757-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61757-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW DELHI, March 23  --  India's parliament gave final approval Wednesday to legislation barring drugmakers from producing low-cost versions of patented medicines from the United States and elsewhere. Public health groups condemned the move, saying it would restrict the supply of anti-HIV drugs in Africa and other developing regions.]]></description><author> John Lancaster</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Name for S. African Capital]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30457-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30457-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Monday, when the metropolitan council voted to replace the capital's name with an African one, Tshwane, the change brought a feeling of mild vindication to Moses Skhosana.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyoto Credits System Seen as Debit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28191-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28191-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sajida Khan, who has fought for years to close an apartheid-era dumpsite that she says has sickened many people in her predominantly brown and black community outside Durban, South Africa, was dismayed to learn recently that she faces a surprising new obstacle: the Kyoto global warming treaty.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Portraits of Anywhere but Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56487-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56487-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the wonder world of cinema, South Africa's landscape has doubled as an oil-rich California coastline and a spring break beach in Florida.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Togo Faces Arms Embargo, Travel Ban on Its Leaders]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38452-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38452-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LOME, Togo, Feb. 19 -- West African countries imposed sanctions on Togo Saturday, piling pressure on the country's new leader as thousands of protesters took to the streets to demand he step down.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pneumonic Plague Seen in Congo Outbreak]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36428-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36428-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Feb. 18 -- At least 61 miners in eastern Congo have died and hundreds have become ill from what appears to be the largest outbreak in 80 years of a highly virulent, airborne version of plague, international health officials reported Friday.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Resolution Calls for U.N. Peacekeeping Mission in Sudan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24464-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24464-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United States circulated a draft U.N. resolution Monday calling for a large peacekeeping force in southern Sudan but dodged the question of what kind of court should try accused war criminals in Darfur.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mass Protests Against Togo's President Turn Violent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19794-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19794-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LOME, Togo, Feb. 12 -- Thousands of people opposing Togo's army-installed president burned tires and threw jagged pieces of metal at police Saturday during a second day of demonstrations in the capital of this West African country.]]></description><author> Bryan Mealer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kenyans Lose an Advocate On Graft]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19790-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19790-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Feb. 12 -- Kenya's new government awarded a $34 million contract to a foreign firm for a new passport and visa system to prevent attacks such as the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. But in what became known as the "Anglo-Leasing scandal," top members of the president's office were accused last year of pocketing the money.]]></description><author> Emily Wax</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rwanda's Tormenters Emerge From the Forest to Haunt Congo]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12141-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12141-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A decade after the genocide in Rwanda, as many as 15,000 Hutu guerrillas are still hiding in the dense forests of eastern Congo, according to U.N. peacekeepers.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Togo's Dynastic Transition, An Echo of Yesterday's Africa]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6128-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_world/africa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6128-2005Feb7.html?nav=rss_world/africa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:19:37 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Gnassingbe Eyadema seized power in Togo in 1967, it was the era of the Big Man in Africa. Like many leaders of his generation, Eyadema ruthlessly crushed opposition forces, nurtured a cult of personality, then clung to power decade after decade, growing rich as his tiny West African nation stayed poor.]]></description><author> Craig Timberg</author></item></channel></rss>
