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		<title>Developing energy-saving lights and solar lights to improve standard of living in Malawi’s cities and rural areas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Stevenson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The lights are back on? Lets celebrate!” It’s become the common expression for us after moving to Malawi a couple of weeks ago. There are times where my fellow jhr co-workers and I are left to sit in the dark for hours in our Lilongwe home. Moving to Malawi has conditioned us to adapt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fueling up without queuing up: Thoughts on the future of social media in Malawi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paula Millar</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[IYIP Educational Officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three years of living with chronic petrol shortages, most Malawians have developed strategies for fueling up without queuing up. While befriending gas attendants for information on tanker arrivals will cost you a couple hundred kwacha, those buying on the black market continue to pay nearly triple the going rate. Across the country, the prospect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel hunting in Malawi</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/fuel-hunting-in-malawi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/fuel-hunting-in-malawi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nlex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Internships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IYIP Educational Officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[increase]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[prices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“There is fuel in Monkey Bay!” a text message reads. A game of telephone quickly transpires. “Get there quick! No queues! Will be out soon!” Filling up in Malawi has become increasingly difficult and expensive. This week’s five-day drought is said to be the worse since the fuel crisis in 2009, forcing drivers to queue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Experts Debate Need for &#8220;African Spring&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/political-experts-debate-need-for-african-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/political-experts-debate-need-for-african-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Vandecasteyen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Internships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IYIP Educational Officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A panel of experts on African politics squared off with students, teachers, civil servants, activists and politicians in a debate hosted by the BBC in Accra on Friday. The panel consisted of Ghanaian economist and author Dr. George Ayittey, Ugandan activist Anne Mugashi, South African political activist Kuseni Dlamini, and fellow Dr. Michael Whyte Kpessa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community Radio Puts Local News First</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/community-radio-puts-local-news-first/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/community-radio-puts-local-news-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dvanderlinde</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[By Country]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people of Port Loko, Sierra Leone used to get news about their town from radio stations in the capital even though they had their own community radio station. In November 2011, I left my home in Freetown to teach a workshop at Radio Bankasoka, a community radio station in Port Loko, which is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freetown workers protest after six months without salaries</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/freetown-workers-protest-after-six-months-without-salaries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/freetown-workers-protest-after-six-months-without-salaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica McDiarmid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Story by: Jessica McDiarmid &#038; Poindexter Sama Annie Kargbo has spent the last 18 years sweeping the streets of Freetown, earning up to 100,000 Leones (about $22) per month. She used that to buy items to sell, which made her a little more money; enough, at least, to keep her grandson in school and some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malawian human rights activists risk their lives for free speech</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/malawian-human-rights-activists-risk-their-lives-for-free-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/malawian-human-rights-activists-risk-their-lives-for-free-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desiree Buitenbos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IYIP Rights Media Internships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Internships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on your perspective, Rev. Macdonald Sembereka is either a valiant hero or an impenitent villain. To some, he is a human rights defender – an unwavering activist who speaks candidly about civil and political issues in the country. To others, he is a loudmouth dissenter of President Bingu Mutharika. The latter view of Sembereka [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fulani children of Accra</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/the-fulani-children-of-accra/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/the-fulani-children-of-accra/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Migneault</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adeeza is 15 years old. Her family traveled to Accra about two months ago from Niger. Her mother tells her she should not speak with me and my colleague but she goes on telling her story. They left their village&#8211; where she says they lived comfortably&#8211; at six o&#8217;clock in the morning one day and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“It’s God’s will” isn&#8217;t good enough</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-god%e2%80%99s-will%e2%80%9d-isnt-good-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-god%e2%80%99s-will%e2%80%9d-isnt-good-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karissa Gall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The electricity had been out for 24 hours where I was staying in Namiwawa, Blantyre, either due to the heavy seasonal rains or the theft of the oil out of the area transformer tower. It was Sunday morning and still raining heavily when I set out on the 45 minute walk to town where there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are they now?</title>
		<link>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/where-are-they-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jhr.ca/blog/2012/01/where-are-they-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sdouglas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a westerner, the amount of a JHR fellowship in Sierra Leone is about equivalent to a phone bill. For a Salone journalist, it can and does open doors to bright new futures ... for both themselves and their communities. Read on...]]></description>
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