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		<title>Jose Cendon and Collin Freeman Released</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/464</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jose Cendon and Collin Freeman were freed today against ransom and are on their way to Nairobi. The photographer and writer team were reporting on piracy in Somalia when ...]]></description>
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		<title>ALERT: Somali Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Canadian and Australian Journalists</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/421</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Amanda Lindhout

While I was in Afghanistan last summer I met a young, budding photojournalist named Amanda Lindhout.  She was kidnapped this past August in Somalia along with her ...]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for Something Completely Different II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in ...]]></description>
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		<title>EUFOR in the Chadian Theatre</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/406</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

by Anne Holmes

When the sun comes up in eastern Chad, the dawn of a new day brings with it a host of daunting challenges. Soon the temperatures will rise ...]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on the Darfur Refugee Crisis</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/403</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 13:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Camp Iridimi, Eastern Chad

I spent a month wandering around eastern Chad, along the border with Sudan, where some 250,000 Darfuris fled a genocidal conflict to settle in massive refugee ...]]></description>
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		<title>Burning the Master&#8217;s House</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/395</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Kenyan Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voices of Kenya]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Onyango Oketch

Now let the blame game begin. Schools in Kenya are going up in flames, together with the ideologies they espouse. We might say nothing new in these. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Firefight in Abeche</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/394</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

by Anne Holmes
In Abeche now, the day was very calm. After checking with various people about the security situation, we took a drive up north to Biltine to have ...]]></description>
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		<title>Chad Day 1</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/392</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Arrival in N’djamena, Chad June 17, 2008.
Things are calm in the capital after a series of rebel attacks in the east destabilized regular proceedings and raised the alert levels ...]]></description>
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		<title>New Multimedia Slideshow</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/387</link>
		<comments>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/387#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have been keeping up with my regular posts, thanks for stopping in. I will be taking a break from my reporting on Kenya and ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya Rocked by Mungiki Surprise Attacks</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/385</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cities of Nairobi, Nakuru, Naivasha, Nyieri and Eldoret were all affected by yesterday's Mungiki demonstrations. A day after President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga named the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Pulling the Railway Line</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/382</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A young man hacks at bolts holding the railway line together in Kibera slums. © Anne Holmes

Residents of Nairobi's Kibera slum continued to pull up the railway line late ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tensions Rise in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/377</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stalled negotiations over the naming of cabinet ministers by Prime Minister Designate Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki under the power-sharing deal struck in late February of this year, ...]]></description>
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		<title>US Foreign Policy and the Kenya Peace Deal</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/373</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anne Holmes

Before Kofi Annan enters the history books with merits on a job well done in Kenya, before you buy into the propaganda of American goodwill in this ...]]></description>
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		<title>ALERT: Demos Rock Downtown Nairobi</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/372</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large mob of several hundred people poured into the streets of downtown Nairobi today in support of jailed mungiki leader Maina Njenga. Clashes with police ensued.

UPDATE: Several hundred ...]]></description>
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		<title>ALERT: US Bombs Kenya Somali Border</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/369</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REPORT: One AC-130 bomber flew over the Somali-Kenyan border yesterday Sunday March 2, 2008, in an airstrike upon the Somali town of Dhoble, killing 6 and injuring 20 according ...]]></description>
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