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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s Election: What Uhuru Kenyatta&#8217;s Victory Means for Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uhuru Kenyatta, wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, won election Saturday as Kenya’s new President. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission announced that Kenya&#8217;s richest man — the current Deputy Prime Minister, former Finance Minister and the son of Kenya&#8217;s first President Jomo Kenyatta — won 50.07% of the vote, just marginally more than was needed to avoid a second-round runoff. Kenyatta&#8217;s running mate William Ruto, a second of the four Kenyans indicted by the ICC, is slated to become Deputy President. Turnout was a high 86%. With the margin of victory so thin, and the count plagued by days of delays and hundreds of thousands of spoiled ballots, Kenyatta&#8217;s main rival, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, has already said he would fight it in court. If the result withstands Odinga&#8217;s challenge, a win for Kenyatta would represent the most stunning articulation to date of a renewed mood of self-assertion in Africa. Half a century ago, Africa echoed with the sound of anticolonial liberation. Today, 10 years of dramatic and sustained economic growth and a growing political maturity coinciding with the economic meltdown in the West and political dysfunction in Washington and Europe have granted Africa&#8217;s leaders the authority and means to once again challenge Western intervention on the continent, whether it comes in the form of foreign diplomatic pressure, foreign aid, foreign rights monitors or even foreign correspondents. In his victory speech, Kenyatta said, &#8220;Today, we celebrate the triumph of democracy, the triumph of peace, the triumph of nationhood. Despite the misgivings of many in the world, we demonstrated a level of political maturity that surpassed expectations. That is the real victory today. A victory for our nation. A victory that demonstrates to all that Kenya has finally come of age. That this, indeed, is Kenya’s moment.&#8221; He also pledged to work together with his political opponents with &#8220;friendship and cooperation.&#8221; &#8220;Kenya needs us to work together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Kenya needs us to move on.&#8221; In a pointed warning to the international community, he added:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=73881&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius&#8217; Bail Hearing: On Third Day, Lead Detective Pulled Off the Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to imagine a story more bizarre than that of Oscar Pistorius, the Olympic sprinter with no legs who shot his model girlfriend dead on Valentine&#8217;s Day only to be charged with premeditated murder by a police officer who, it turned out Thursday, is himself facing imminent trial on seven counts of attempted murder? As Pistorius&#8217; application for bail entered its fourth day at Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Thursday, South African Police Service National Commissioner Mangwashi Phiyega confirmed that the lead police investigator, Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha, would face his own trial in May with two other officers. The allegation against the three is that two years ago, while driving a police car, they opened fire on a minibus taxi loaded with passengers. (Botha has been pulled off the case and replaced by Lieut. General Vinesh Moonoo.) In court, Pistorius counsel Barry Roux made no direct mention of the new development. But referring to Botha&#8217;s evidence on Wednesday — when the officer admitted a series of errors, misunderstandings and weaknesses in his case before conceding his evidence did not contradict Pistorius&#8217; account that he shot Reeva Steenkamp by mistake, thinking she was a burglar — Roux said: &#8220;The poor quality of the evidence offered by investigative officer Botha exposed the disastrous shortcomings of the state&#8217;s case.&#8221; Pistorius is a double amputee who has competed in both the Olympics and the Paralympics on distinctive thin carbon-fiber running protheses and became a global star at the 2012 London Games. On Tuesday, the 26-year-old said he and Steenkamp, 29, went to bed on Feb. 13 soon after 10 p.m. after a quiet dinner at his home in Pretoria. At around 3 a.m., Pistorius said he woke, fetched a fan from his balcony, then heard a noise from the bathroom when he stepped back into the bedroom. Reaching for a 9-mm pistol he kept under his bed, he called out to the intruder, then shot four times through the door. Inside, Steenkamp was shot in the head, hip and elbow. She died shortly afterward.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70369&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pistorius Case: Do Police Claims Fit the Story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar Pistorius&#8217; lawyer on Wednesday tore into the lead South African detective accusing the Olympic and Paralympic sprinter of the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, forcing him to admit he found no inconsistencies between the evidence and Pistorius&#8217; account of how he accidentally shot model Reeva Steenkamp after mistaking her for a burglar. The police &#8220;take every piece of evidence and try to extract the most possibly negative connotation and present it to the court,&#8221; Pistorius&#8217; defense lawyer Barry Roux told the court. Later Roux repeatedly asked National Prosecuting Authority investigating officer Detective Warrant Officer Hilton Botha whether he found anything at the scene inconsistent with the version of events presented by Pistorius in court on Tuesday. Botha said he had not. Pistorius, a double amputee nicknamed the Blade Runner for his distinctive thin carbon-fiber running protheses — and who became one of the stars of the 2012 London Olympics — was arrested early on the morning of Valentine&#8217;s Day, Feb. 14. The hearing at Pretoria Magistrate Court, now in its third day, is nominally to decide whether to grant him bail. But as both sides set out their case for whether Pistorius is a flight risk and a danger to the public, the case has become, in effect, a trial in itself. On Tuesday, Pistorius set out his version of the killing, admitting to shooting Steenkamp through a toilet door but saying he thought she was a burglar. And on Wednesday, state prosecutors responded, calling lead detective Hilton Botha to set out the case for premeditated murder, the most serious murder charge in South African law. On Tuesday, Pistorius, 26, said he and Steenkamp, 29, went to bed soon after 10 p.m. after a quiet dinner together at his home in the South African capital. At around 3 a.m., Pistorius said he woke up to fetch a fan from his balcony, and when he stepped back into the bedroom, he heard a noise from the bathroom. Keenly aware of South Africa’s epidemic violent crime, he said he reached for a 9-mm pistol<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70085&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: How the Fall of Oscar Pistorius Is a Tragic Opportunity for South African Unity</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/20/the-fall-of-oscar-pistorius-a-tragic-opportunity-for-south-african-unity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than any other nation, South Africa articulates its dreams through sport. As the country teetered on the edge of civil war with the end of apartheid in 1994, Nelson Mandela adopted the Afrikaners’ game, rugby, and South Africa’s home triumph in the 1995 World Cup held the nation together. In 2010, Mandela’s successors in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) government chose a faultless soccer World Cup to deliver the message that Africa was no longer the hopeless continent but a waking giant of capability and opportunity. Until this month, the latest incarnation of South African hope was Oscar Pistorius, a man with no legs who triumphed in the sport he should rightly never even have taken up: running. (PHOTOS: Oscar Pistorius on and off the Track) Perhaps it is because the crushing of hope is the cruelest of experiences that South Africa is so dazed by Pistorius’ arrest for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a model, in the early hours of Valentine’s Day. South Africans, to judge by their newspapers, can think of little else. The week that followed 26-year-old Pistorius’ arrest has been a big one. President Jacob Zuma delivered his annual state of the nation address to Parliament. Mamphela Ramphele, the former partner of antiapartheid hero Steve Biko, founded a new political party. Thirteen people were injured when security guards fired plastic bullets at rioters at a platinum mine in Rustenburg, the latest in the industrial violence that has throttled South Africa’s economy since the police shot dead 34 striking miners at nearby Marikana last August. None of these events warranted more than the briefest mentions next to Pistorius’ arrest. But there is also an unusual quality to the introspection that Pistorius’ fall has prompted. Nearly two decades after apartheid, many South Africans still interpret any big event through a racial prism. Some have attempted to do the same with Pistorius’ arrest. Racist whites commenting on news websites blame the (black) ANC for Pistorius’ arrest since, the racists say, it was their incompetent (that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69844&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius Tells Court How He Shot Girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/19/oscar-pistorius-tells-court-how-he-shot-girlfriend-reeva-steenkamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was buried at her hometown on South Africa&#8217;s south coast Tuesday, Oscar Pistorius wept uncontrollably in court as his lawyer, Barry Roux, read out his account of how he shot and killed her. Rejecting the prosecution charge of premeditated murder, Pistorius stated in an affidavit at the Pretoria Magistrates Court: &#8220;I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premeditated murder, as I had no intention to kill my girlfriend. Nothing can be further from the truth. I deny the allegation in the strongest terms.&#8221; Pistorius, the 26-year-old Olympian and Paralympian sprinter, one of the stars of the London Olympics and nicknamed the Blade Runner for his carbon-fiber prosthetics, then described the hours before the shooting at his house in Pretoria on Feb. 14. The couple had planned to go out separately with different friends but Steenkamp, 30, called to ask if the two might spend a quiet evening at home. Steenkamp gave Pistorius a Valentine&#8217;s Day present and asked him to save it for the next day. By 10 p.m., the couple were in their bedroom. &#8220;She was doing her yoga exercises and I was in bed watching television,&#8221; Pistorius&#8217; statement read. &#8220;My prosthetic legs were off. We were deeply in love and I could not be happier. I know she felt the same way. After Reeva finished her yoga exercises she got into bed and we both fell asleep.&#8221; Pistorius added he was &#8220;acutely aware&#8221; of South Africa&#8217;s violent crime. &#8220;I have received death threats before. I have also been a victim of violence and of burglaries before. For that reason I kept my firearm, a 9-mm Parabellum, underneath my bed when I [go] to bed at night.&#8221; (MORE: Details Emerge of Girlfriend Murder Case Against Oscar Pistorius) He continued: &#8220;During the early morning hours of 14 February 2013, I woke up, went onto the balcony to bring the fan in and closed the sliding doors, the blinds and the curtains. I heard a noise in the bathroom and realized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69835&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Details Emerge of Girlfriend Murder Case Against &#8216;Blade Runner&#8217; Oscar Pistorius</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/15/details-emerge-of-girlfriend-murder-case-against-blade-runner-oscar-pistorius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Feb. 15, 2013 at 8:00 a.m. EST South African prosecutors on Friday formally charged &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; Oscar Pistorius with shooting and killing his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in the early hours of Valentine&#8217;s Day. At Pretoria Magistrates Court, prosecutors told chief magistrate Desmond Nair they would argue that Pistorius committed &#8220;premeditated murder&#8221; on Feb. 14 at his home in the South African capital. In the dock, Pistorius, dressed in a dark gray suit and blue shirt, cried silently, bent over and buried his head in his hands when he was formally charged with one count of murder. From behind, his father Henke, brother Carl and sister Aimee leaned forward to try to comfort him. Pistorius was, in the words of his defense lawyer, in an &#8220;extremely traumatized state of mind.&#8221; Nair postponed the defense&#8217;s application for bail until Tuesday. Pistorius will be held in police custody until then. (PHOTOS: Oscar Pistorius On and Off the Track) Police have said that Steenkamp was shot in the head and the hand. Local media reports suggested Friday that the police had been called to Pistorius&#8217; home at the Silver Woods secure housing estate in Pretoria just past midnight after neighbors reported hearing a loud argument. They were then called back a second time two hours later, around 3:00 a.m., after the shooting. The Afrikaans newspaper Die Beeld reported Steenkamp had been shot four times through a bathroom door and had been hit in the hand, the pelvis, the chest and the head. On Thursday a police spokeswoman discounted initial media reports that Pistorius shot Steenkamp accidentally, thinking she was an intruder, and added that officers were investigating &#8220;previous allegations of a domestic nature&#8221; at Pistorius&#8217; home. (MORE: What to Know About Oscar Pistorius&#8217; Girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp) Pistorius&#8217; family and his management released a statement Friday calling into question the charge that he murdered Steenkamp. Issued from London, the statement read, &#8220;The alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms,&#8221; and noted that Pistorius &#8220;would like to send his deepest sympathies to the family of Reeva.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=69220&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Crisis in Mali: Will French Air Strikes Stop the Islamist Advance?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/11/the-crisis-in-mali-will-french-intervention-stop-the-islamist-advance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After ignoring it for the best part of a year, the world has suddenly woken up to the crisis in Mali — and its considered response seems to be: panic. On Jan. 9, the Islamist forces that captured northern Mali last year resumed their advance south and the next day took a small town about 700 km from the capital, Bamako. It&#8217;s not known whether the Islamists were attempting to go all the way to Bamako and take the entire country. Until now, they seem to have been content to retain the north, where most of the Malian elements in their ranks are from. But the reaction to the limited Islamist push has been dramatic. Mali&#8217;s government begged France to intervene. The Beninese chairman of the African Union demanded that NATO act. Even the Canadian Prime Minister urged international action. In response, the U.N. Security Council held an emergency session Jan. 10 to pass a resolution calling for the &#8220;swift deployment&#8221; of an international intervention force. Then on Jan. 11 French French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius confirmed reports from the ground that France had carried out at least one air strike against the Islamists, though he gave no details. Earlier in the day, eyewitness reports from the ground indicated a limited number of European soldiers, perhaps 50 men in all, had arrived in the area. The intervention came just as President François Hollande announced that French troops had joined Mali’s routed army in a counteroffensive against Islamist militias. Diplomats privately confirmed that the campaign also involved troops from Senegal and Nigeria. “French armed forces this afternoon provided support to Malian troops to fight against these terrorist elements,” Hollande said, noting the French intervention would last “as long as necessary” — and adding that the move was also made to protect 6,000 French citizens in the West African country. “The terrorists should know that France will always be there when what’s at stake is &#8230; the right of a people [those of Mali] &#8230; to live in freedom and democracy.” (MORE: Mali’s Crisis: Is the Plan for Western Intervention<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=63353&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carry On Regardless in South Africa, as ANC Re-elects Zuma</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/12/18/more-of-the-same-in-south-africa-as-anc-re-elects-zuma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a normal democracy, a crushing victory at the polls by the incumbent generally means an overwhelming popular desire for more of the same. Tuesday&#8217;s triumph by South African President Jacob Zuma in a contest to lead the African National Congress (ANC) reveals something quite different: how removed Africa’s most famous liberation movement now is from the people it would represent. With the ANC&#8217;s two-thirds electoral majority — a legacy of its glorious, revolutionary past under Nelson Mandela — Zuma&#8217;s re-election to the presidency of the party all but guarantees him re-election as national President, keeping him in power until 2019, when he would be 77. But to confuse his popularity among the 4,000 party delegates assembled at Mangaung, a township on the outskirts of Bloemfontein where the party conference was held, with wider popular support would be a mistake. (MORE: As South Africa Reels from Mine Shooting, Social Inequality Threatens to Undo the Post-Apartheid &#8216;Miracle&#8217;) Zuma came to power in 2009 under a cloud. For years he had faced charges of corruption, racketeering, money laundering and fraud, only for them to be dropped weeks before he took power. Today he faces another scandal: the state spending of what the South African press say is $28 million on security upgrades at his private residence in his home province of Kwazulu-Natal. Those allegations — and hundreds of other accusations of corruption and criminality against ANC ministers and councillors — fixate the media. But it is the ANC&#8217;s failure to lift its natural constituency — the half of the country, according to the government&#8217;s own figures, that 18 years after the end of apartheid still live below the poverty line — which this year stirred violent and angry mass protests against it. The state&#8217;s brutal opposition to those demonstrations, which included police shooting dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine at Marikana in the north of the country in August, was both shocking in the manner it evoked the violence of apartheid and underscored the distance that now exists between South Africa&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=60259&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Peacekeeping Downward: The U.N. Debacle in Eastern Congo</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/26/defining-peacekeeping-downward-the-u-n-debacle-in-eastern-congo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Hatcher / Goma and Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 9 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, one of the few tanks belonging to the M23 rebels of eastern Congo fired a single round into the international airport on the outskirts of Goma, the second biggest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The townspeople, who looked up to see the first of 1,000 or so guerrillas marching on the city, began walking and running toward the city center, carrying their children and anything else they could. After a short while they were overtaken — by two large trucks packed with foreign soldiers from the U.N. peacekeeping force for Congo, Monusco. Mandated to protect Congo’s civilians, with 19,000 men in uniform and costing $1.4 billion a year, the world’s biggest and most expensive peacekeeping operation was literally leaving its charges in its dust. Later in the day Monusco, far better armed and more numerous than the rebels, simply stood and watched as the M23 — easterners who oppose the central government in Kinshasa — took Goma almost without firing a shot. France called Monusco&#8217;s conduct “absurd.” The Congolese were less forgiving. Across the east of the country, angry mobs surrounded U.N. positions, threw stones at aid workers and burned U.N. compounds. Asked what they thought of Monusco, a group of young men standing by the shore of Lake Kivu in Goma cried out in unison: “Useless.” Amani Muchumu, 18, had a message for the peacekeepers. “You could not defend us,” he declared. “You are dismissed.” (PHOTOS: Congo’s Crisis: Rebels Launch Offensive in Country’s East) Monusco’s dismal performance this past week caps a wretched 12 years for the force that, by dint of its size and costliness, was meant to fly the flag for all 16 U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world. Since it was set up in November 1999, the then MONUC (renamed Monusco in 2010) has proved extraordinarily inept. Rarely has it engaged the various militias that hold eastern Congo in their murderous sway. Just as awkwardly, bound by the terms of its deployment to support the national government, it has found itself<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56045&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congo&#8217;s Eastern Rebels Seize Goma: Will Rwanda Then Take Over?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/20/congos-eastern-rebels-seize-goma-will-rwanda-then-takeover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I spent a few days with the M23 rebels of eastern Congo in August, they were clear that their April mutiny against the Congolese army and seizure of territory along the Rwandan and Ugandan borders was essentially a form of blackmail. The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its President Joseph Kabila were weak and corrupt, they said, and constantly tried to cheat, steal from or even kill men from the east — who, like most of the M23, were former rebels integrated into the national army after a similar rebellion in the east in 2009. The mutineers were hardly angels themselves, with a string of human-rights violations to their names, including the recruitment of children, use of rape and sometimes execution of civilians. But they maintained they didn&#8217;t necessarily want to take the strategic eastern cities of Goma or Bukavu and certainly didn&#8217;t want to advance on the capital, Kinshasa; rather they wanted the government to honor the integration deal it agreed to on March 23, 2009, and since it hadn&#8217;t — withholding salaries, integrating soldiers at lower ranks, even continuing to kill a few easterners — the rebels were trying to force it to by taking territory. (PHOTOS: M23 Rebels in Congo’s East Capture Key City) I asked: What if Kinshasa still refused to come up with the goods? They&#8217;d take Goma, a base for one of the world&#8217;s largest U.N. peacekeeping and aid operations, to up their bargaining position and press their point. &#8220;Taking Goma would not be a battle,&#8221; said Major Emille Shabani, who had defected from the Congolese army to the rebels a few days before. &#8220;The government soldiers are tired and they know no one will look after their families if they die.&#8221; That&#8217;s the broad scenario that appeared to have played out Tuesday as M23 rebels rolled into Goma unopposed by government forces, who fled precisely as the rebels predicted, and peacekeepers from Monusco, the Congo U.N. force, who simply watched. Though there had been some sporadic fighting on the outskirts<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=55419&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Rwandan President Paul Kagame</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/qa-rwandan-president-paul-kagame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a crisis over an army rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which the United Nations has accused Rwanda of supporting, Rwandan President Paul Kagame allowed TIME unprecedented access into his working and daily life. Africa bureau chief Alex Perry interviewed Kagame four times over five days, at his office in Kigali, at home with his family and at a regional summit on the DRC in Kampala, for a total of seven hours. Excerpts: TIME: I’m not here to portray you as a saint but I wonder how you assess the recent press coverage, calling you a despot and a dictator? Kagame: I don’t want to be a saint. I don’t even attempt to be. It wouldn’t make any sense. It would divert me from my responsibilities. Concentrating on being a saint would end with me doing nothing that I was supposed to. But reading the newspapers, watching the television, it has been really ridiculous. It has no sense of justice, fairness or logic. They are talking about the situation in Congo. But they are never talking about Congo; they are talking about Rwanda. Which betrays everything about their intention: not to pay attention to the problems of Congo, not to solve these problems, but to abuse and kick Rwanda. We have the U.N. now engaged for 10 years. They have thousands of soldiers in the DRC [Democratic Republic of Congo]. The whole mission consumes $1.2 billion a year. But where are we after 10 years? How have you made not even a dent in Congo’s problems? The origin of the problem is linked to Rwanda – the FDLR [Democratic Liberation Forces for Rwanda] and genocidaires who live in the Congo and have been there now for 18 years. Have we come anywhere close to resolving that problem? Or should we just sit back and say that just by the mere presence of the international community and the UN, everything has been addressed? These are enlightened people, people who always tell the world how well<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=44872&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa Massacre: Miners Charged over Colleagues&#8217; Deaths</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/30/south-africa-massacre-miners-charged-over-colleagues-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Aug. 31, 2012 at 8:10 a.m. EST The decision late Thursday by South Africa’s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot dead by the police, as recorded by numerous television crews — marks a bizarre new low in a bloody scandal that threatens to strip the country&#8217;s postapartheid state of what remains of its moral authority. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesman Frank Lesenyego announced “34 counts of murder have been laid against the 270 accused” over the shooting dead by armed police of 34 fellow miners at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in northern South Africa on Aug. 16. The miners, also accused of the attempted murder of 78 fellow miners who were injured, were charged under a law dating back to 1956 known as “common purpose,” said Lesenyego, in which members of a crowd present when a crime is committed can be prosecuted for incitement. In other words: the state says the miners provoked the police to kill them. (PHOTOS: The Bloody Scenes at Marikana) The law was used as a catchall by South Africa&#8217;s white supremacist apartheid regime to convict black antiapartheid leaders for, say, leading a march or demonstration where some crime was committed. The 34 dead miners were among 3,000 mineworkers who had walked out in the second week of August in a protest over pay which then rapidly deteriorated into a violent turf war between two rival unions. Their shooting by the police wielding machine guns had already evoked comparisons to the brutality of apartheid, in which the police shooting of demonstrators was a well-worn tactic of the regime. That only made the prosecutor&#8217;s additional application of an apartheid-era law even more shocking. Renegade youth leader Julius Malema, expelled from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) this year, called it &#8220;madness.&#8221; He continued: &#8220;The policemen who killed those people are not in custody, not even one of them.&#8221; In a statement, the Congress of South African<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=42846&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Strongman Who May Be Missed: Meles Zenawi, 1955-2012</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/21/the-strongman-who-may-be-missed-meles-zenawi-1955-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meles Zenawi always said he didn’t intend to die in office. Speaking to TIME as long ago as 2007, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was talking about moving on: “I have been around for quite a long time,” he said. “Time to start thinking about doing new things.” In the event, Meles did not do anything else but stayed through another election in 2010 – rigged, said the U.S., E.U and human rights groups – in which his Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and its allies won 545 of the 547 seats in parliament and 1,903 of the 1,904 on nine regional councils. The result was not surprising but was at least less bloody than the previous poll in 2005 when Ethiopian security services shot dead 200 protesters – more like 1,000, said the opposition – who were demonstrating against the ERPDF’s victory in the streets of the capital Addis Ababa. Meles’s version of events was that the opposition, having lost a free and fair vote, were trying to win power by other means. “We felt we had to clamp down,” he said. “In the process, many people died. Many of our friends feel we overreacted. We feel we did not.” Still, though rights groups, opposition politicos and journalists he persecuted are understandably loathe to admit it, there was more to Meles Zenawi than a stereotypical African strongman. In the 1980s, Ethiopia was synonymous with famine and Live Aid, and a global symbol of African hopelessness. Under Meles, hunger still returned to Ethiopia every year (though that seemed partly a product of foreign provision of free emergency food aid, which saves lives in the short term but ruins commercial farmers in the longer term). But Meles’s regime ensured less and less of Ethiopia’s 85 million population was affected. Child malnutrition has fallen by more than a third since 2000. One of the most effective public health programs in the developing world also saw rates of malaria and child mortality halve between 2005-2011. Meles scored well too on that other answer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=41417&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s Police Open Fire on Striking Miners: The Video</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/08/16/south-africas-police-open-fire-on-striking-miners-the-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Aug. 17, 2012 at 7:40 a.m. EST South African police opened fire on a crowd of striking miners on Thursday, killing 34 people and leaving a field strewn with bodies in a massacre that instantly revived memories of the brutality of apartheid. At a press conference Friday, the South African Police Service claimed its officers had been under attack by a group of miners armed with machetes, spears and clubs when they opened fire with automatic weapons into a crowd a few meters away. They added that 78 strikers had been injured and 259 arrested. Regardless of whether the police were provoked, the shooting of demonstrators automatically invoked memories of massacres of protesters carried out by South African forces under apartheid, which ended in 1994. Calling for the suspension of all police officers involved pending charges of murder and/or culpable homicide, the independent think-tank, the South African Institute for Race Relations, said television reports clearly showed &#8220;that policemen randomly shot into the crowd with rifles and handguns. There is also evidence of their continuing to shoot after a number of bodies can be seen dropping and others turning to run.&#8221; Referring to the security services&#8217; notorious killing of 69 anti-apartheid protesters in March 1960, it added: &#8220;This is reminiscent of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. What happened at Lonmin is completely unacceptable.&#8221; While not agreeing, the country&#8217;s political leadership expressed horror at the police action. Mac Maharaj, spokesman for South African President Jacob Zuma, said the head of state was &#8220;in shock that an industrial dispute has degenerated to such a point, to such a tragic loss of lives.&#8221; In a later statement, Zuma added: &#8220;We believe there is enough space in our democratic order for any dispute to be resolved through dialogue without any breaches of the law or violence.&#8221; Lonmin chairman Roger Phillimore said in a written statement: &#8220;We deeply regret the further loss of life in what is clearly a public order rather than labor-relations-associated matter.&#8221; (PHOTOS: In South Africa, Police Fire on Striking Mine Workers) Lonmin, the world&#8217;s third largest producer of platinum, shut down its<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=40649&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Countering al-Shabab: How the War on Terrorism Is Being Fought in East Africa</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/03/countering-al-shabab-how-the-war-on-terror-is-being-fought-in-east-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attack by suspected Islamist militants on two churches in eastern Kenya on Sunday, in which the assailants killed 17 people and wounded 60 more, is more bloody confirmation of the emergence of African terrorist groups. A group of seven masked men threw grenades into the Catholic Church and African Inland Church in Garissa, close to the Somali border, then opened fire with assault rifles. Though no group has claimed responsibility, it is the latest incident after a series of attacks carried out by Islamist militants across Kenya that have killed close to 60 people. The episodes began after Kenya invaded Somalia last September in pursuit of the Somali guerrilla group al-Shabab. For years Western terrorist hunters have war-gamed a scenario whereby al-Qaeda, pressed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, tries to establish a new staging ground in the Sahara and the Sahel, the band of lawless desert and scrub running east to west across Africa. According to the theory, al-Qaeda would likely try to extend its franchise to three indigenous African groups: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in Algeria, Mali and Niger; Boko Haram in northern Nigeria; and al-Shabab in Somalia. Theory is now becoming reality. After gestating for years, all three groups now present a real threat. Formerly a mostly criminal enterprise kidnapping foreigners for million-dollar ransoms, in the past year AQIM strengthened its arsenal with weapons smuggled out of the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya, then piggybacked on a Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali so effectively that it and its fellow Islamists now control a de facto new state. (In a move similar to the Afghan Taliban&#8217;s demolition of Buddhist statues, some of the militants have now set about destroying “idolatrous&#8221; Sufi shrines in the ancient city of Timbuktu.) In Nigeria, most of Boko Haram’s attacks have a local focus — the security forces, state institutions, churches — but a faction has emerged with bigger ambitions, as it demonstrated with a suicide car-bomb attack on Aug. 26 last year on the U.N.’s headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, which killed 24<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33483&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishful Spring Thinking or the Beginning of the End for al-Bashir?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/25/sudan-wishful-spring-thinking-or-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-bashir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bunker hidden by camouflage from Sudanese bombers roaming overhead at a secret rebel base in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan, Major General Izzat Kuku outlined the plan to overthrow Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his Islamist government in Khartoum. The acting battle commander of the Nuba rebels said his fighters would link up with insurgent comrades from two other southern Sudanese states, Darfur and Blue Nile, that likewise accuse Khartoum of autocracy, religious hate and genocide. The united rebel force — called the Sudan Revolutionary Front — would then march on Khartoum. That advance would be the signal for opposition forces inside Khartoum to stage a popular uprising against the government. And al-Bashir would fall. The rebels were acting, said Izzat, because after 23 years of al-Bashir&#8217;s rule they had learned that they could not count on the international community. Despite an International Criminal Court indictment for war crimes against al-Bashir for his murderous campaign in Darfur and the provocation that his National Congress Party sheltered Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s, the world had failed to remove, reform or sufficiently restrict the Sudanese regime. But even if the rebels were alone, added Izzat, &#8220;we are confident. We all want the same thing: to change the regime in Khartoum.” That was in April. Some parts of the plan were already being enacted. The Nuba rebels had notched up a string of advances. They had also linked up with fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) from Darfur. And a few days after Izzat spoke, JEM teamed up with Khartoum&#8217;s old enemy, the government of South Sudan, to invade Sudan and briefly capture the oil field of Heglig. But elsewhere, Izzat&#8217;s vision seemed far-fetched. The rebels in Blue Nile state, far from advancing, were being pushed into the hills by a scorched-earth campaign by Khartoum&#8217;s forces. Even more unlikely sounding were Izzat&#8217;s hopes for an uprising in Khartoum. Sporadic antiregime protests erupted in the Sudanese capital early last year as popular revolution swept North<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=32501&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bitter Divide Remains in Ivory Coast a Year After Civil War</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/11/bitter-divide-remains-in-ivory-coast-a-year-after-civil-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The killing of seven U.N. peacekeepers, eight villagers and an unspecified number of soldiers in western Ivory Coast highlights how, a year after this small West African country was plunged into a brief, bloody civil war, a violent power struggle still divides it. The attack occurred on Friday near the villages of Tai and Para on the Liberian border. It is the latest and most lethal in a series of assaults in the same area in the past year in which close to 60 people have died.  There is almost no doubt that the attacks are being carried out by forces loyal to the government of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo. Last week, Human Rights Watch published a detailed report on those forces and accused Liberia of refusing to take action against well-armed militia commanders and hundreds of fighters hiding in jungle camps on its side of the border. The rebels had committed war crimes in the months of violence that followed the contested November 2010 election — which Gbagbo refused to hold for five years, then lost to his rival Alassane Ouattara, and then tried to nullify — and are now perpetrating more by conscripting Liberian children and attacking civilians in cross-border raids, Human Rights Watch says. (MORE: A Year After the War, Promise and Peril in Ivory Coast) “For well over a year, the Liberian government has had its head in the sand in responding to the flood of war criminals who crossed into the country at the end of the Ivorian crisis,” said Matt Wells, the group&#8217;s West Africa researcher. “Rather than uphold its responsibility to prosecute or extradite those involved in international crimes, Liberian authorities have stood by as many of these same people recruit child soldiers and carry out deadly cross-border attacks.” Liberia is not the only country being accused of inaction. Gbagbo, physically dragged from power in April 2011 by an aggressive U.N. assault on his hideout in the business capital, Abidjan, is now awaiting trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Court<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=29742&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch from Somalia: War, but a Glimmer of Hope</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/07/dispatch-from-somalia-war-but-a-glimmer-of-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We drive west out of Mogadishu, Somalia, in a convoy of three African Union armored personnel carriers, mounted with three heavy machine guns. No building seems untouched by bullet holes; many have collapsed, thorn trees growing through their ruins, their stone guts spilling out into the street. On all sides, in the rubble and on open patches of ground, are domed brushwood-and-rag shelters in which 200,000 refugees have lived since fleeing to the city during last year&#8217;s famine. One yellow wedding-cake villa leans crazily backward, its back wall crumpled underneath it, a radio mast on its roof pointing off to the side. &#8220;Al-Shabab destroyed it,&#8221; says Ugandan army Colonel Paddy Ankunda. &#8220;It belonged to a supporter of the government.&#8221; A few minutes later we reach a checkpoint manned by a militia allied to that government, known as the Transitional Federal Government (TFG). A minibus approaches and, sensing the militiamen will want a bribe to let him pass, the driver makes to keep going. A militiaman opens fire with his AK-47 and shoots a female passenger in the leg. After a brief delay, the minibus is allowed to take the woman to a hospital. &#8220;Terrible,&#8221; says Ankunda, looking on. &#8220;They just know how to shoot, that&#8217;s all. They don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re supposed to protect people.&#8221; (PHOTOS: Somalia&#8217;s Catastrophic Famine) If this were anywhere else, our trip would be a tour of a failed state and a humanitarian disaster. But in Somalia, what we&#8217;re seeing is progress. A few months ago, our drive would have been impossible: the west of the city was plagued with guerrilla attacks by fighters from the al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab. Our destination, Afgoye, a town 30 km southwest of the city, was unreachable even two weeks ago: formerly an al-Shabab stronghold, Ugandan and Burundian troops from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) fought their way into the town in pitched battles at the end of May, killing 60 al-Shabab fighters. Their advance has been matched by gains by Ethiopian troops farther west, around the city of Baidoa, and to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=29409&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: Over-Exposing the President</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/05/23/south-africa-over-exposing-the-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get one thing clear. Is &#8216;The Spear,&#8217; a picture by the South African artist Brett Murray representing South African President Jacob Zuma in heroic revolutionary pose — with his penis hanging out — good art? No. The pose is striking. But the black, red and yellow coloring is derivative, borrowed not only from the Soviets but also a thousand other, better current works — not least a 2008 TIME cover by Shepard Fairey of President Barack Obama. And the organ is incongruous: exposed in inept fashion and gratuitously painted. But the more worthless the art, you might have thought, the less Zuma would need to worry about it. Not so, apparently. This terrible painting is now the focus of a controversy that has scandalized all South Africa. Why? Because Zuma has demanded it be taken down by the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, which exhibited it, along with pictures of it on the website of the City Press newspaper. His ruling African National Congress (ANC) has even filed a case in the High Court to that effect. In an affidavit served on the paper, Zuma &#8211; who, as not a single reporter has failed to point out, has four wives and more than 20 children &#8211; added: &#8220;The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womanizer and one with no respect. It is an undignified depiction of my personality and seeks to create doubt about my personality in the eyes of fellow citizens, family and children.&#8221; In a further development on Tuesday, two Zuma supporters &#8211; one white, one black &#8211; walked into the Goodman Gallery and smeared paint all over The Spear, &#8220;ruining&#8221; it, before being tackled and led away by a security guard. Meanwhile a second group of painters have unveiled their own picture of five naked white figures &#8211; among them opposition leader Helen Zille and murdered far right leader Eugene Terreblanche &#8211; being inspected by a black official with a clipboard, a take on a notorious photograph from the early years<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=27437&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Capture of a Kony Lieutenant Isn&#8217;t a Big Deal</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/05/14/why-the-capture-of-a-kony-lieutenant-isnt-a-big-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a journalist, Special Operations are problematic. They work in secret and tend to consider the press, at best, an annoyance and, at worst, a hindrance and a danger. In January, TIME photographer Dominic Nahr and I visited Obo, the town in southeastern Central African Republic (CAR) where 30 U.S. special forces soldiers hunting Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony have built a grass-walled base. The Americans made their disdain clear. One peered over the base fence, told us we weren&#8217;t welcome and to contact a press officer in Uganda. When we tried to interview staff at an Italian NGO working in Obo, and then the Ugandan army, it became clear the U.S. soldiers had requested they also tell us nothing. Then a former British diplomat to CAR who was living and working with the Americans as a local liaison tried to sneak photographs of us by pretending to take memento snapshots of his employers next to a large tree and shooting pictures of us over their shoulders. It was galling, but it was also routine. In 11 years of covering war, the only time I&#8217;ve had a conversation of substance with a U.S. Special Forces soldier was in northern Afghanistan in 2001 when I accidentally found myself hiding on a rooftop with a group of US and British Special Operations bomb spotters calling in air strikes 100 yards away and my immediate neighbor discovered I lived in Hong Kong. The guy really knew a lot about Wanchai&#8217;s strip clubs. (PHOTOS: On the ground, safe from #Kony?) So, call me a cynic and a spoiler, but I can&#8217;t help wonder about the sudden access the press are getting to the manhunt for Kony. Could it be that U.S. Special Operations and their Ugandan counterparts are wondering whether, six months into an operation in which barely a shot has been fired, they need to head off some awkward questions about results with the kind of positive press that a rare, on-the-ground look at a Special Operation in action might be expected to generate?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=26331&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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