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		<title>Ousted Tunisian leader Ben Ali&#8217;s 34 cars and 48 yachts are seized</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2012/02/05/ousted-tunisian-leader-ben-alis-34-cars-and-48-yachts-are-seized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further evidence of the extent of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's wide-reaching financial empire has been revealed after police reportedly seized dozens of luxury items and company shares belonging to the ousted Tunisian leader.]]></description>
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		<title>Mujuru Inquest: I heard ‘gunfire’, Guard Tells Court</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2012/01/18/mujuru-inquest-i-heard-gunfire-guard-tells-court/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A security guard at the late Zimbabwean general, Solomon Mujuru’s property, Clement Runhare, said on Monday he heard what sounded like gunfire two hours before he was alerted that a fire had broken out at the general’s house.]]></description>
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		<title>Flying With Gems: AirZim Receives First Airbus Jet</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2012/01/18/flying-with-gems-air-zimbabwe-receives-first-airbus-jet-acquired-through-controversial-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tawanda Kanhema</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Air Zimbabwe today received the first of three Airbus jets acquired from the French aircraft giant through a controversial deal that opposition partners in the Zimbabwe government have sought to distance themselves from. The airline, which is currently struggling to pay its pilots and engineers, spend several hundred millions of dollars on the acquisition, aimed at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Democracies: New Hampshire to Zimbabwe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe has been in power since 1980. During the same period, Story Country, Iowa, has held nine caucuses and the U.S. has had five presidents. Writing for Channel 4 News, journalist Tawanda Kanhema tracks the US presidential caucuses alongside Zimbabwe's treacherous path to democracy. Read the full story on Channel 4 News.]]></description>
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		<title>US$4 Million Getaway for the Obamas</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2011/12/21/us4-million-getaway-for-the-obamas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s annual vacation in Hawaii this year is likely to be his most expensive ever - and the majority of it is being funded by the taxpayer.
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		<title>Herman Cain Wants to Be Defense Secretary, Hypothetically</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2011/12/15/herman-cain-wants-to-be-defense-secretary-hypothetically/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tawanda Kanhema</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herman Cain, the U.S. presidential candidate who did not know that China had nuclear weapons, has expressed "hypothetical" interest in serving as the country's Secretary for Defense. Cain, a ballistic mathematician, has an extensive background in the military, but his knowledge of the world outside of America's borders could easily fit on the back of a Godfather's Pizza napkin.
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		<title>Budding democrat or dictator? &#8211; The case of President Khama</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2011/12/12/budding-democrat-or-dictator-the-case-of-president-khama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When he entered politics, more than a decade ago, little was known about President Ian Khama except that he was the eldest son of Botswana’s founding president, Sir Seretse Khama, and also the commander of the Botswana Defence Force (BDF).]]></description>
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		<title>Two Men Claim the Presidency as DRC Vote Ends in Chaos</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2011/12/12/two-men-claim-the-presidency-as-drc-vote-ends-in-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Burnt-out tyres, broken glass and concrete blocks littered the neighbourhood's only tarmac road, and an armoured truck was parked outside the prison itself.
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		<title>Brazil Delays Uranium Enrichment Project to 2018</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2011/10/07/brazil-delays-uranium-enrichment-project-to-2018/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil has the sixth largest known uranium reserves: more than 300,000 tons, enough to keep 20 atomic power plants of electricity working for 60 years.
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		<title>Putin Promises &#8220;Evolutionary&#8221; Political Reforms: Can The Kremlin Weather a &#8220;Russian Spring&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://investigativezim.com/2011/10/06/as-americas-streets-erupt-putin-promises-evolutionary-political-reforms-in-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tawanda Kanhema</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This picture of mass movements of energetic and frustrated young people staging protests for several weeks and crippling economies in countries  that have some of the most seasoned militaries and advanced crowd control systems seems to have shaken the echelons of power in Russia. A sustained "Russian Spring" would place the Winter Palace under unseasonable pressure to implement more rapid political reforms. 
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