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		<title>&#8216;Off the Charts&#8217;: 133k Somalia Famine Child Deaths</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/02/off-the-charts-133k-somalia-famine-child-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jason Straziuso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NAIROBI, Kenya) — A ban on food aid decision by extremist Islamic militants and a &#8220;normalization of crisis&#8221; that numbed international donors to unfolding disaster made south-central Somalia the most dangerous place in the world to be a child in 2011. The first in-depth study of famine deaths in Somalia in 2011 was released Thursday, and it estimates that 133,000 children under age 5 died, with child death rates approaching 20 percent in some communities. That&#8217;s 133,000 under-5 child deaths out of an estimated 6.5 million people in south-central Somalia. That compares to 65,000 under-5 deaths that occurred in all other industrial countries in the world combined during the same period, a population of 990 million, said Chris Hillbruner, a senior food security adviser at FEWS NET, a U.S.-sponsored famine warning agency. &#8220;The scale of the child mortality is really off the charts,&#8221; Hillbruner said in a telephone interview from Washington. FEWS NET was one of two food security agencies that sponsored the study. The other was the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit &#8211; Somalia. The two agencies had warned the world as early as fall 2010 that failed rains in Somalia meant a hunger crisis was approaching. &#8220;The world was too slow to respond to stark warnings of drought, exacerbated by conflict in Somalia, and people paid with their lives. These deaths could and should have been prevented,&#8221; said Senait Gebregziabher, the Somalia director for the aid group Oxfam. The new study put the total number of famine deaths at nearly 260,000. The Associated Press first reported the death toll on Monday, based on officials who had been briefed on the report. In March 2011 some 13,000 people died from famine, the study found. In May and June 30,000 people died each month — at least half of them children. The U.N.&#8217;s formal declaration of famine didn&#8217;t happen until July. (MORE: World Hunger) Why was there such a slow humanitarian response? One reason Hillbruner indicated was the feeling that Somalis are always suffering. &#8220;I think that one of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84895&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Report: 260,000 Died in Somali Famine</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/29/report-260000-died-in-somali-famine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Jason Straziuso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NAIROBI, Kenya) — The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press. The aid community believes that tens of thousands of people died needlessly because the international community was slow to respond to early signs of approaching hunger in East Africa in late 2010 and early 2011. The toll was also exacerbated by extremist militants from al-Shabab who banned food aid deliveries to the areas of south-central Somalia that they controlled. Those same militants have also made the task of figuring out an accurate death toll extremely difficult. (PHOTOS: Somalia in Transition) A Western official briefed on the new report — the most authoritative to date — told AP that it says 260,000 people died, and that half the victims were 5 and under. Two other international officials briefed on the report confirmed that the toll was in the quarter-million range. All three insisted they not be identified because they were not authorized to share the report&#8217;s contents before it is officially released. The report is being made public Thursday by FEWSNET, a famine early warning system funded by the U.S. government&#8217;s aid arm USAID, and by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit &#8211; Somalia, which is funded by the U.S. and Britain. A previous estimate by the U.K. government said between 50,000 and 100,000 people died in the famine. The new report used research conducted by specialists experienced in estimating death tolls in emergencies and disasters. Those researchers relied on food and mortality data compiled by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit. Because of the imprecise nature of the data available, the toll remains only an estimate. When asked about the report, Somalia Health Minister Maryan Qasim Ahmed said she didn&#8217;t want to comment until she read it because of questions she had about the accuracy of the figures. Sikander Khan, the head of UNICEF in Somalia,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84327&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>French Family&#8217;s Cameroon Kidnapping Stokes Fears of a Pan-African Islamist War</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/20/french-familys-cameroon-kidnapping-stokes-fears-of-a-pan-african-islamist-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Feb. 21, 2013, at 6 a.m. EST France began holding its breath Feb. 21 amid unconfirmed news that a French family of seven kidnapped two days earlier in northern Cameroon by suspected Islamist extremists had been recovered unharmed. Confusion surrounding the accounts heightened when a French Cabinet minister on Thursday confirmed, then backed away from swirling reports that the vacationing family &#8212; including four children &#8212; had been found in what French media described as an abandoned cabin in northern Nigeria, about 60 miles (95 km) from the Cameroon border region where the abduction occurred. Around the same time, a member of Cameroon&#8217;s government denied the reports before the French Foreign Affairs Ministry also distanced itself from what it termed unsubstantiated &#8220;rumor.&#8221; Still, hopes linger in France that officials may yet be able confirm the end to what might turn out to be a bungled or aborted snatch &#8212; a yearning born of considerable concern. On Feb. 20, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told TV station France 2 the crime was believed to be the work of the notoriously violent Nigerian radical group Boko Haram. Le Drian speculated the kidnapping of the family marked Boko Haram&#8217;s long record of  “terror giving way to horror” as the group “begins kidnapping children.” But even if the happy news of the hostage recovery is confirmed &#8212; and allegations of Boko Haram&#8217;s involvement reviewed &#8212; the kidnapping raises fears of renewed aggression against French and other Western targets as the ongoing push against Islamist fighters in Africa continues. During his television appearance Wednesday, Le Drian dismissed suggestions that the family’s seizure was directly linked to France’s military intervention against Islamist fighters in Mali — where a new major offensive on Feb. 19 led to the deaths 20 militants as well as that of a second French soldier in the monthlong campaign. But despite Le Drian&#8217;s assurances that the Mali operation wasn&#8217;t directly responsible for the abduction, French security officials say the kidnapping is just the kind of aggression they feared from revenge-bent radicals in Africa<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70074&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Charcoal May Endanger Somalia&#8217;s Best Hope for Peace</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/27/why-charcoal-may-endanger-somalias-best-hope-for-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tristan McConnell / Kismayo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a Monday afternoon in October, in a warehouse in the southern Somali port of Kismayo, I attended a meeting on the future of Somalia. On one side: 20 Somali traders sitting on grass mats and wearing sandals, sarong-like wraps, short-sleeved shirts and embroidered scarves. On the other, in plastic chairs: officers from the Kenyan and Somali armies and the allied militia Ras Kamboni Brigades, who, fighting under the banner of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), ousted the al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab from southern Somalia’s biggest city a few weeks earlier. AMISOM&#8217;s offensive against al-Shabab, kicking them out of the capital Mogadishu in August last year and then capturing Kismayo, were a body blow to the Islamists and represent the best chance for peace in Somalia since the collapse of the last central government in 1991. But in Kismayo, as I discovered, as the only Western journalist to enter the city, the joy of victory had quickly soured. At stake at the October meeting, I was told, was nothing less than peace in southern Somalia, and possibly the whole country. And the key? A giant pile of burnt, dead wood. Great progress has been made in Somalia over the past 15 months. Al-Shabab has suffered a series of military setbacks, a new Somali President has been chosen, a slimline government has been formed, famine has abated and Mogadishu is enjoying a newfound optimism after decades of destruction. The turnaround seems dramatic and it is, given 21 years of war and famine. But the truth is that while those tragedies gave the world an impression of a failed state without hope, for many Somalis, the enduring reality of daily life during the fighting — and at the heart of many of Somalia’s conflicts — was always business. Camel trading, mango growing, mobile telecoms and, of course, arms dealing all thrived in the war years. And few businesses were as big or profitable, or as tough, as charcoal. (PHOTOS: Somalia in Transition) The charcoal business grew exponentially under al-Shabab. While the group<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56592&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">image: Somali youths pull donkey-drawn water carts past sacks of charcoal by the roadside as a convoy of the African Union Mission in Somalia soldiers of the Kenyan Contingent makes its way through the city of Kismayo, Oct. 2, 2012.</media:title>
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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>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>Must-Reads from Around the World: April 6, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warring Words - Der Spiegel reports on the raging controversy surrounding German Nobel laureate Günter Grass&#8217;s new poem, which is sharply critical of Israel. The poet has taken to the airwaves to defend himself, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined the fray Thursday. &#8220;Günter Grass&#8217; shameful moral equivalence between Israel and Iran, a regime that denies the Holocaust and threatens to annihilate Israel, says little about Israel and much about Mr. Grass,&#8221; read a statement released by his office. Unintended Consequences - Global Post writes from Abyan Province in southern Yemen, where Al Qaeda’s ranks have swelled in the last year and at least five cities are now controlled by the terrorist group, causing the American and Yemeni governments to respond with a stealth bombing campaign. &#8220;&#8230;Some think the military assault might be aiding the terror group more than hurting it, sowing sympathy for the militants and anger toward the Americans,&#8221; concludes the website. Headstrong Leader - Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the Prime Minister of Somalia who was present at this week&#8217;s deadly bombing in Mogadishu, pens a first person account of the tragedy and why terrorism won&#8217;t disrupt his country&#8217;s turn for the better on Foreign Policy&#8216;s website. Under the headline &#8220;We&#8217;re Winning This Fight,&#8221; he writes: &#8220;The next four months represent the greatest opportunity we have had for a settlement in Somalia since the collapse of the state in 1991.&#8221;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=23433&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 22, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[War Crimes &#8211; The Global Mail details more damning evidence of Sri Lankan army atrocities at the 2009 end of the civil war, highlighting the murder of a Tamil Tigers colonel. &#8220;Of the mass of available evidence, the most compelling trail is that of Colonel Ramesh. His death provides a crack of light that illuminates the deaths of thousands of others, and the motives of the probable perpetrators,&#8221; it says. In Charge &#8211; Ahead of this year&#8217;s leadership transition, the South China Morning Post reports the Communist Party has stepped up an ideological campaign to control the People&#8217;s Liberation Army &#8211; using articles in the People&#8217;s Liberation Army Daily and party mouthpiece, the People&#8217;s Daily. The PLA is not the only target; the AP says lawyers will also now be asked to swear allegiance to the party. Geo-politics &#8211; Foreign Affairs examines the rising regional rivalry between Turkey and Iran. &#8220;The Arab Spring created an ideological contest between Ankara and Tehran, and the former seems to be winning. Among other thing, this falling-out undercuts fears that the Justice and Development Party would pull Turkey irrevocably to the East,&#8221; says a summary of Turkish journalist Mustafa Akyol&#8217;s article. Shifting Power &#8211; Just weeks before presidential elections, the Los Angeles Times reports a group of soldiers, going by the name of National Committee for the Establishment of Democracy (CNRDR), seized control of the presidential palace in Mali Thursday. In a televised statement a spokesman for the group, identified as Lt. Amadou Konare, promised to return control of the government to a democratically elected resident &#8220;as soon as national unity and territorial integrity are established.&#8221;  The New York Times explains Mali was considered one of the least likely countries in West Africa to experience a coup attempt. It is unclear how far the reach of the CNRDR extends beyond the presidential palace and state television station. Coming Home &#8211; A British women held hostage in Somalia for more than six months was freed Wednesday. The Telegraph reveals Judith Tebbutt was unaware of her husband&#8217;s death until<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=22037&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 13, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shattered Calm  — An Afghan government delegation came under fire by Taliban militants in the early hours of Tuesday as they visited the village where a U.S. soldier is accused of killing 16 civilians. The Washington Post reports that the group, which included two brothers of President Hamid Karzai and senior defence officials, was unharmed although one Afghan solider assigned to protect the delegation was killed in the attack. The shooting and subsequent protests raises questions of whether the U.S. should accelerate the withdrawal of troops; The New York Times examines the exit strategy and TIME&#8217;s Mark Thompson delves into the U.S. role in Afghanistan. Routing Trade — The Times of India reports on New Delhi&#8217;s renewed push for a long-stalled transportation network through Iran into Central Asia. The International North-South Corridor would connect ports on India&#8217;s west coast to Iran and then overland to Russia, cutting current journey times via the Suez Canal from up to 60 days down to 30. India could build the Iranian infrastructure to avoid U.S.-imposed sanctions on buying Iranian oil, &#8220;which serves economic and strategic interests of all states concerned,&#8221; the newspaper notes. Special Relationship — The Washington Post features an opinion article Tuesday co-authored by U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron as the British leader visits Washington to discuss ending the war in Afghanistan and other bilateral issues. &#8220;Put simply, we count on each other and the world counts on our alliance,&#8221; the pair write, concluding: &#8220;&#8230;we still believe that there is hardly anything we cannot do.&#8221; Election Fallout — The Christian Science Monitor looks at how this year&#8217;s U.S. Presidential race will impact foreign policy &#8211; and potentially provide the Taliban and Iran with increased leverage. &#8220;So while America’s adversaries may not be able to actually pull key strings to choose America’s next president, the penchant of American politicians for politicizing American foreign policy ends up giving enemies – and friends – the tools they need to manipulate the US,&#8221; it argues. Changing Tides? — A new poll shows French President Nicolas Sarkozy defeating challenger François Hollande in first-round<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=21262&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: March 5th, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Putin — Unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin won a third term as Russia&#8217;s president Sunday. In an op-ed following the election, Russian language opposition newspaper Kommersant urges those disappointed by the re-elction of Putin the appreciate the lessons of the past two years of political protest. &#8220;Over the past 24 months, Russian society has matured to such an extent that it may only be years from now that we’re really able to appreciate the scope of the changes,&#8221; the editor writes. Wukan Elex — CNN reports on the weekend&#8217;s unprecedented grassroots democracy exercise in the Chinese fishing village — and the end of a deputy chief bid by Xue Jianwan, whose father&#8217;s December death in custody sparked protests that ultimately led to the vote. &#8220;[She] gave up her short-lived political career after family pressure proved even harder to overcome than official intimidation,&#8221; it says. Fighting Famine — Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, writes about the human suffering in the Horn of Africa after making &#8220;a long walk with Daasanach nomads in northern Kenya, well inside the disaster zone, to see what it was like to move, as most famine victims do, on foot, through a landscape of chronic hunger,&#8221; in Foreign Policy&#8216;s feature article &#8216;The Last Famine.&#8217; Checkpoint Raid — The New York Times reports on a brash raid in the Anbar province of Iraq in the early hours of Monday. Gunman, dressed as SWAT, attacked the homes of police officers and sprayed checkpoints with bullets leaving more than 26 dead. Government spokesman Mohammed Fathi, told reporters the attackers claimed to have warrants for the arrest of the slain. Diplomatic Conversations — The Atlantic&#8217;s Jeffery Goldberg sat down with Barack Obama for a lengthy discussion on Israel and Iran.The president reveals his belief in a diplomatic solution to Iran&#8217;s nuclear program and a sometimes difficult relationship with the Israeli prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) over the weekend, saying there has been &#8220;too much loose talk of war.&#8221; He is scheduled to meet with Netanyahu later Monday. Dynasty —<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=20336&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: February 24, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting Failure &#8211; Foreign Policy&#8216;s Douglas Wissing posts a damning indictment of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan amid continuing violence over the burning of copies of the Koran. &#8220;This wave of protest is just the latest example of how the United States has botched its attempt to win &#8220;hearts and minds&#8221; in Afghanistan, and another indicator that its war effort is heading toward failure,&#8221; he writes. Friends of Syria &#8211; Representatives from the U.S., Europe and Arab countries have convened in Tunisia to back an ultimatum for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  The &#8220;Friends of Syria&#8221; conference seeks to declare a cease-fire and allow much-needed humanitarian aid into the ravaged country. Russia and China, crucial allies of the Syrian leader, will not be in attendance. The Guardian is live-blogging the day&#8217;s events. Democracy Test &#8211; South Africa-based News24 reports on former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo&#8217;s meetings with Senegalese opposition leaders, including pop star and former presidential aspirant Youssou N&#8217;Dour, to seek a solution to weeks of deadly clashes in Senegal ahead of a presidential election Sunday. See TIME&#8217;s latest reporting on the political crisis here. Neo-Nazi Crimes - Der Spiegel details the surprisingly dull lives of members of a German far-right terror cell uncovered in November 2011 after more than a decade of killings, bombings and robberies.&#8221;They kept cats, played computer games and even went on vacation several times together,&#8221; the weekly magazine reports of the now-jailed Beate Zschäpe and his dead cohorts Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt. Focus on Somalia - The Wall Street Journal reports on a renewed focus on ending decades-long conflict in the East African nation following the London Conference on Somalia Thursday. Ridding the nation of terror is a key focus, with world leaders agreeing to provide greater support to African Union troops, increase humanitarian aid and assist in building a stable government. Thursday also saw air strikes that killed at least six people in southern Somalia.The BBC reports that Somali Prime Minster Abdiweli Mohammed Ali called for air strikes in the al-Shabab held region. No one has claimed responsibility<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=19501&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: February 16, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jobless Woes—Unemployment in the U.K. rose by 48,000 to 2.67 million in the three months to December, official figures show. The BBC reports that while this is the smallest increase in over a year, the country’s unemployment rate hit a 17-year-high of 8.4 percent. Putting a spotlight on the female workforce, The Guardian notes that women accounted for two-thirds of the increase in unemployment and 531,700 women now claim unemployment benefits – the highest level since 1995. Up in Flames —More than 300 inmates were killed in a prison fire in central Honduras, officials said Wednesday. The fire was one of the worst tragedies of its kind in decades in Latin America and focused renewed attention on the often poor conditions of prisons in the region. Honduran prisons are notorious for overcrowding and violence, the New York Times reports, a problem exacerbated as drug gangs have overrun the nation and set up staging grounds to move cocaine from South America to the United States. TIME&#8217;s Tim Padgett calls on Central America&#8217;s elites to shoulder some responsibility and take action. Al-Qaeda&#8217;s Merger - Last week&#8217;s announcement of a merger between al-Qaeda and al-Shabab, a Somali terrorist group, mostly fell on deaf ears. Foreign Policy&#8216;s J.M. Berger has a re-work that grabs attention: &#8220;Dozens of Americans join al-Qaeda.&#8221; Al-Shabab apparently has the most success recruiting Americans, with some 40 American members, along with dozens more working in support roles on U.S. soil. Berger points out, disturbingly, that al-Qaeda is now in its best position to carry out attacks in the U.S. than at any time in the past 10 years. Heartland Charms - The China Daily reports that Vice President Xi Jinping &#8220;charmed&#8221; residents of Muscatine, Iowa, on Wednesday. It was Xi&#8217;s second visit to the Iowa farm town, 27 years after he first came on an agricultural exchange. Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Trudy Rubin wonders if there is more to his visit then winning over America&#8217;s heartland. Could China&#8217;s presumed next president learn a thing or two about how rural American towns govern themselves? Fatal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=17703&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads from Around the World: Feb. 3, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Shabaab Splintering &#8211; Foreign Affairs investigates the splintering of the al-Qaeda-linked militant group, al Shabaab, in Somalia and its potential fallout for the West. &#8220;In a sense, with the gains made in recent months, there are now two al Shabaabs, and if Washington and the U.N. ignore that, it will be at the cost of another decade of chaos, anguish, and death,&#8221; write Bronwyn Bruton and J. Peter Pham, of the Ansari Africa Center at the Atlantic Council. A Star is Born - The Atlantic looks at Israel&#8217;s newest &#8220;political star&#8221; Yair Lapid &#8211; a journalist-turned-politician. Of particular interest to Zvika Krieger, of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace and a fellow at the Truman National Security Project, is Lapid&#8217;s position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jerusalem, &#8220;on which he has remained largely silent since announcing his political ambitions.&#8221; Support for Iran - Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People&#8217;s Daily sets out the country&#8217;s Iran policy in an op-ed: opposition to any nuclear weapons program &#8211; but also to any sanctions and confrontation &#8211; alongside a call for a return to negotiations. &#8220;China&#8217;s clear stance shows its responsible attitude, respect for justice, adherence to peace, and opposition to war,&#8221; concludes the writer, Zhong Sheng. Crime and Punishment - The New York Times examines the relationship between modern Japanese society and the yakuza. Formerly accepted as a fact of life, the yakuza now face pressure from  government regulations and criminalization. Huhne In Hot Water &#8211; Britain&#8217;s Energy Secretary Chris Huhne resigned Friday morning in light of the director of public prosecutions declaring that Huhne faces a criminal charge of perverting the course of justice over speeding points allegations. The now former Liberal Democrat Cabinet member said the decision to charge him was &#8220;deeply regrettable&#8221;, adding: &#8220;I am innocent of these charges and I intend to fight this in the courts.&#8221; Reform Woes - Staying in the U.K., and a bill to reform Britain&#8217;s National Health Service received another blow as the Royal College of General Practitioners became the latest group to call<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=16762&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads from Around the World: Jan. 31, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China Backs Twitter &#8212; Amid the furor over Twitter agreeing to country-specific censorship, Reuters runs through the (actually not so bad) reality of the microblog&#8217;s proposals. However, TIME&#8217;s Sam Gustin notes that their plans have received warm backing from the Global Times, China&#8217;s Communist Party tabloid &#8211; possibly not the kind of endorsement Twitter was seeking. India&#8217;s Latest Goal &#8212; The Times of India covers the big money spent at the first player auction for the country&#8217;s inaugural football (soccer) league, starting next month. The new competition, centered on Bengal state, is modeled on cricket&#8217;s highly successful Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament, while the Hindu writes it also draws on the MLS in the U.S. Serious in Somalia &#8212; The Guardian reports from Mogadishu on how confidence is slowly returning to the Somali capital but aid is still scarce and al-Shabaab reign&#8217;s over much of the country remains intact. Meanwhile, the BBC says militants have banned the International Committee of the Red Cross from operating in those parts of the country it controls. Tunisian Transition &#8212; The New York Times examines the complexities facing Tunisia as the country attempts to strike a balance between religion and democracy. The transition from authoritarian secularism to the more Islamist Ennahda Party forces the nation to confront the complexities of combining a variety of peoples and beliefs. And Tunisian Jews reject calls from the Israeli government to leave, despite a rise in threats. Looted Libya &#8212; A collection of items looted from the compound of Libya’s former leader Moammar Gaddafi, such as immobilized weaponry and photographs of the fallen have become a makeshift museum in Misrata. Located between mangled apartment buildings, the site has become a destination of reflection for many Libyans. “The museum symbolizes strength and persistence,” a vistor tells the Washington Post. Misrata’s “museum” joins planned exhibits in the capital of Tripoli and a war museum in Benghazi. Unhealthy Debate? &#8212; Britain’s Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is facing an uphill battle to garner support for his health reforms. In a joint statement<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=16321&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mogadishu Bombing Delivers a Slap to Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Karon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truck bomb attack that killed more than 100 people in Mogadishu on Tuesday was a not entirely unfamiliar horror for the residents of a city locked in a permanent state of fratricidal warfare for two decades, but it highlighted the scale of a foreign policy challenge recently accepted by the government of Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had surprised many observers with the priority focus of his speech at the U.N. General Assembly last month. Here was a leader in the eye of an escalating diplomatic storm with Israel; a critic of and key challenger to U.S. strategy on Iran; and a growing influence among the newly free (and would-be free) peoples of the Arab world &#8212; and all he wanted to talk about, in his first five minutes at the podium, was Somalia. Nobody talks about Somalia anymore. And that was Erdogan&#8217;s point. He called it a &#8220;disgrace for the international community&#8221; that the imminent threat of starvation to 3.7 million Somalis gets so little global attention. And he sought to lead by example, having using the occasion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in August to become the first non-African leader in decades to visit the long-suffering Somali capital, arriving with $115 million in famine aid and promises of more, just a week after the Islamist Shebab gunmen pulled out of the city. Erdogan&#8217;s intention had been to highlight Somalia&#8217;s plight, and to underscore the aid effort being undertaken by Turkish government and civil society groups, key among the Muslim activist charity known by its Turkish acronym IHH &#8212; which had sent the vessel Marvi Marmara in a flotilla to break Israel&#8217;s siege of Gaza, prompting the deadly raid last summer that has resulted in a decisive breakdown in Turkey-Israel relations. But the Islamist gunmen of the Shebab are threatened by international efforts to rehabilitate Somalia, and have created a security environment that has imperiled major aid efforts to address the growing famine. As if the decision to visit Mogadishu didn&#8217;t present enough of a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=10428&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Famine in Somalia: How Do You Feed Four Million Hungry People?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Everett Rosenfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 13 million in the Horn of Africa seek food assistance, aid workers are facing unique political and logistical challenges in helping an estimated 3.7 Somalis facing the threat of malnutrition and starvation. While international organizations such as UNICEF and UNHCR, the U.N.&#8217;s refugee agency, work with local governments to provide aid in Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti, Somalia — large tracts of which are lawless, ruled over by warlords and Islamist factions — presents difficulties for distribution and for adequately reaching those in need. Challiss McDonough, the World Food Programme&#8217;s senior spokesperson for east, central and southern Africa, said that her U.N.-affiliated organization will need to take charge of feeding 11.6 million people in the region after the worst drought in decades devastated at least five countries. In Mogadishu alone, the WFP feeds over 300,000 people each day, but many of the areas in the southern part of the country may never be reachable for aid workers as the Islamist group Al-Shabaab has largely barred humanitarian efforts for the past year and a half. &#8220;We are seeing that there are windows of opportunity to return to areas that have been inaccessible to us,&#8221; McDonough told TIME. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a patchy situation on the ground, and such a complex place with clan dynamics that the assistance opportunities will vary from place to place.&#8221; Anti-Western sentiment doesn&#8217;t simply threaten aid distribution in Al-Shabaab controlled areas, but in the capital Mogadishu as well. The WFP has had to adjust its standard program of providing month-long rations in favor of daily soup kitchen-style &#8220;wet feeding centers,&#8221; McDonough said. &#8221;Sometimes it would be dangerous for people to take food home: someone may try to steal it, or they may even be punished for getting it.&#8221; But with these feeding centers and more specialized &#8220;targeted supplementary feeding&#8221; centers (which provide nutrition supplements intended for malnourished children and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers) the WFP is able to reach much of the needy. The first food delivery since the U.N. declared an official Somalian famine arrived by airlift on July 27.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=7874&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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