<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - af</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/af</link><description>Newsvine - af</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:18:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 04:37:44 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Judges to hear case of Senegal ex-ruler's son</title>
<description><![CDATA[A special prosecutor says a panel of judges will take up the case against the son of Senegal's former president.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17781333-judges-to-hear-case-of-senegal-ex-rulers-son</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17781333-judges-to-hear-case-of-senegal-ex-rulers-son</guid><category>senegal</category><category>ex</category><category>president</category><category>son</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Nigeria reporters face criminal charges for story</title>
<description><![CDATA[Prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against two journalists at a Nigerian newspaper over a story they published on alleged plans by the nation's presidency to disrupt opposition parties. The charges are a sign of growing government pressure on the media.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Gambrell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jon Gambrell]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17779369-nigeria-reporters-face-criminal-charges-for-story</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17779369-nigeria-reporters-face-criminal-charges-for-story</guid><category>nigeria</category><category>journalists</category><category>detained</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Somalia: Female genital mutilation down</title>
<description><![CDATA[Attitudes in Somalia toward a practice that critics decry as torture may be changing, as new data released by the U.N. children's agency on Tuesday showed that female genital mutilation among children in northern Somalia is on the decline.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Straziuso]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jason Straziuso]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17778782-somalia-female-genital-mutilation-down</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17778782-somalia-female-genital-mutilation-down</guid><category>somalia</category><category>child</category><category>health</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Iran's president visits uranium-rich Niger</title>
<description><![CDATA[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited the uranium-rich West African nation of Niger on Tuesday, although officials discounted that the mineral was the reason for his visit.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dalatou Mamane]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Dalatou Mamane]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17776802-irans-president-visits-uranium-rich-niger</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17776802-irans-president-visits-uranium-rich-niger</guid><category>iran</category><category>president</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>mahmoud-ahmadinejad</category><category>niger</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Official: 17 gold miners dead in Ghana accident</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities say 17 people are dead after an accident at a gold mine in central Ghana.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17776497-official-17-gold-miners-dead-in-ghana-accident</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/16/17776497-official-17-gold-miners-dead-in-ghana-accident</guid><category>deaths</category><category>mine</category><category>world-news</category><category>ghana</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:08:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Kenya Supreme Court: Election was not perfect</title>
<description><![CDATA[Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday said the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the result did not prove President Uhuru Kenyatta was illegally elected.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Odula]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Tom Odula]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17777739-kenya-supreme-court-election-was-not-perfect</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17777739-kenya-supreme-court-election-was-not-perfect</guid><category>election</category><category>kenya</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>uhuru-kenyatta</category><category>kenya-supreme-court</category><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:37:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a0536a4e-45e7-407a-8f07-d2d11cd4f376.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="252" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=a0536a4e-45e7-407a-8f07-d2d11cd4f376.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 file photo, an officer of the prisons service helps to carry ballot boxes for stacking after their results were tallied, at a vote tallying center in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's Supreme Court, who announced its ruling in late March but on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 released its 113-page written decision, says the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the result did not prove President Uhuru Kenyatta was illegally elected. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f8a70145-1acf-425b-9f05-0c943cfaf9e3.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="266" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=f8a70145-1acf-425b-9f05-0c943cfaf9e3.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta gestures to the crowd after his inauguration in Kasarani, near Nairobi in Kenya Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Uhuru Kenyatta, 51, the son of Kenya's first president, was sworn in as Kenya's fourth president Tuesday in a stadium filled with tens of thousands of Kenyans and a dozen African leaders, becoming the second sitting African president to face charges at the International Criminal Court, over allegations he helped orchestrate the vicious tribe-on-tribe violence that marred Kenya's previous 2007 presidential election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cbe7ec50-274a-42b6-b7af-22a1a3a46198.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="268" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cbe7ec50-274a-42b6-b7af-22a1a3a46198.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, an electoral worker at the call center of the the National Tallying Center reads a newspaper with a headline referring to problems in the vote counting and tallying process, in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's Supreme Court, who announced its ruling in late March but on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 released its 113-page written decision, says the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the result did not prove President Uhuru Kenyatta was illegally elected. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2ec219f1-f983-42d4-b587-1ce1a588bd47.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="256" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2ec219f1-f983-42d4-b587-1ce1a588bd47.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, a young girl runs past pro-peace graffiti written during the post-election violence of the previous election in 2007 and a poster of presidential candidate Raila Odinga, center-right, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya's Supreme Court, who announced its ruling in late March but on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 released its 113-page written decision, says the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the result did not prove President Uhuru Kenyatta was illegally elected. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=43b7a2b7-ddd7-4661-8394-acfacfc9b324.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=43b7a2b7-ddd7-4661-8394-acfacfc9b324.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, March 6, 2013 file photo, an electoral worker engages in a part of the tally verification process at the National Tallying Center in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 6, 2013. Kenya's Supreme Court, who announced its ruling in late March but on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 released its 113-page written decision, says the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the result did not prove President Uhuru Kenyatta was illegally elected. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Liberian president appoints new chief justice</title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says Francis Korkpor will be the country's new chief justice.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17763683-liberian-president-appoints-new-chief-justice</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17763683-liberian-president-appoints-new-chief-justice</guid><category>liberia</category><category>justice</category><category>world-news</category><category>ellen-johnson-sirleaf</category><category>chief-justice</category><category>af</category><category>francis-korkpor</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Official: 1 student killed in Togo demonstration</title>
<description><![CDATA[A union official in the tiny West African nation of Togo says one student is dead and another wounded at a demonstration seeking better working conditions for teachers.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17759967-official-1-student-killed-in-togo-demonstration</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/15/17759967-official-1-student-killed-in-togo-demonstration</guid><category>schools</category><category>togo</category><category>closed</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>west-africa</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:38:51 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Hundreds arrested in Nigeria immigrant raids</title>
<description><![CDATA[The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigeria's largest city, some with bruises around their faces and cuts on their arms.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Gambrell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jon Gambrell]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17760232-hundreds-arrested-in-nigeria-immigrant-raids</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17760232-hundreds-arrested-in-nigeria-immigrant-raids</guid><category>immigration</category><category>arrests</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>nigeria-immigration</category><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=58066079-da93-4d9e-b357-65595e5aff0c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=58066079-da93-4d9e-b357-65595e5aff0c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Friday, April. 12, 2013 Yushau Ibrahim, stands outside his shop with an injured arm  after security force raided and stole nearly $10,000  at Katangua market in Lagos, Nigeria. The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigerias largest city, some with bruises around their faces and defensive wounds to their arms. The immigrant labor that makes Katangua Market in Lagos thrum along each day between piles of secondhand clothes and down narrow dirt alleyways remains in fear after a series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days. Immigrant workers here and elsewhere, those largely from neighboring Niger to the north, find themselves targeted by security agencies anxious about a growing Islamic extremist insurgency in Nigeria that could spread southward. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8da2c852-4880-4c4e-977c-e8f0064d6bcd.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=8da2c852-4880-4c4e-977c-e8f0064d6bcd.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Friday, April. 12, 2013 women walk past people buying second hand clothes at Katangua market in Lagos, Nigeria. The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigerias largest city, some with bruises around their faces and defensive wounds to their arms. The immigrant labor that makes Katangua Market in Lagos thrum along each day between piles of secondhand clothes and down narrow dirt alleyways remains in fear after a series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days. Immigrant workers here and elsewhere, those largely from neighboring Niger to the north, find themselves targeted by security agencies anxious about a growing Islamic extremist insurgency in Nigeria that could spread southward. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b8d8d49c-5214-4ac2-bc21-23401a6e9fbd.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b8d8d49c-5214-4ac2-bc21-23401a6e9fbd.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photograph taken Friday, April 12, 2013, a man waves goodbye to a minibus carrying Nigeriens back to the north from Katangua Market in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian authorities are launching new immigration raids in the country as it faces threats from Islamic extremists. However, some say the raids are unfairly targeting poor immigrants. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6ac6ba60-82d2-492c-9d54-45effe27e16b.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6ac6ba60-82d2-492c-9d54-45effe27e16b.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Friday, April. 12, 2013. Muslim men sell second hand clothes  at Katangua market in Lagos, Nigeria. The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigerias largest city, some with bruises around their faces and defensive wounds to their arms. The immigrant labor that makes Katangua Market in Lagos thrum along each day between piles of secondhand clothes and down narrow dirt alleyways remains in fear after a series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days. Immigrant workers here and elsewhere, those largely from neighboring Niger to the north, find themselves targeted by security agencies anxious about a growing Islamic extremist insurgency in Nigeria that could spread southward. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=879f525d-5734-4aa3-89b4-50ae5bfe8405.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=879f525d-5734-4aa3-89b4-50ae5bfe8405.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Friday, April. 12, 2013. Nigeriens, citizens wait to board a commercial bus at Katangua market in Lagos, Nigeria. The buses crammed full of young men leave each afternoon from this busy market in Nigerias largest city, some with bruises around their faces and defensive wounds to their arms. The immigrant labor that makes Katangua Market in Lagos thrum along each day between piles of secondhand clothes and down narrow dirt alleyways remains in fear after a series of raids by Nigerian authorities in recent days. Immigrant workers here and elsewhere, those largely from neighboring Niger to the north, find themselves targeted by security agencies anxious about a growing Islamic extremist insurgency in Nigeria that could spread southward. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7126efad-66e9-4dfc-8c33-61c9b6f8ea73.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7126efad-66e9-4dfc-8c33-61c9b6f8ea73.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photograph taken Friday, April 12, 2013, a Nigerien young man injured in an immigration raid shows his wounds at Katangua Market in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian authorities are launching new immigration raids in the country as it faces threats from Islamic extremists. However, some say the raids are unfairly targeting poor immigrants. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d9c0a408-0c2e-4e42-ae65-70b9108060c6.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d9c0a408-0c2e-4e42-ae65-70b9108060c6.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photograph taken Friday, April 12, 2013, a young man shows his injuries after an immigration raid at Katangua Market in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerian authorities are launching new immigration raids in the country as it faces threats from Islamic extremists. However, some say the raids are unfairly targeting poor immigrants. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Guinea: Opposition to protest election date</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Guinean opposition on Sunday called for a march to protest President Alpha Conde's announcement that elections will be held on June 30.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[BOUBACAR DIALLO   ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[BOUBACAR DIALLO   ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17748401-guinea-opposition-to-protest-election-date</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17748401-guinea-opposition-to-protest-election-date</guid><category>election</category><category>world-news</category><category>guinea</category><category>af</category><category>alpha-conde</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Somalia leader: Foreigners aided attack on court</title>
<description><![CDATA[Somalia's prime minister said Monday that several experienced foreign fighters took part in the most serious Islamic extremist attack on Mogadishu in years, while other officials indicated the explosive devices were more advanced than normal, a possible indication of greater involvement by al-Qaida.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abdi Guled]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Abdi Guled]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17745396-somalia-leader-foreigners-aided-attack-on-court</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/14/17745396-somalia-leader-foreigners-aided-attack-on-court</guid><category>courthouse</category><category>somalia</category><category>attack</category><category>supreme-court</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:26:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7e5c7c8e-9dfc-4a27-a0ce-fb86b96eb87a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="325" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7e5c7c8e-9dfc-4a27-a0ce-fb86b96eb87a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="98" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Somali soldiers carry a wounded civilian from the entrance of Mogadishus court complex after being injured during a siege by militants in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said..(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b21ab93b-9b6c-4f96-975d-1aeaadb12335.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=b21ab93b-9b6c-4f96-975d-1aeaadb12335.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Somali soldiers carry a wounded civilian at the entrance of Mogadishus court complex after being injured during a siege by militants in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said..(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0faf3a87-5f62-4e86-b5a9-d9a477323bd0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=0faf3a87-5f62-4e86-b5a9-d9a477323bd0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Somali soldiers stand over dead civilians lying at the entrance of Mogadishus court complex after being killed during a siege by militants in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=98d3cc47-dfcd-497c-beb8-692531f60806.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="457" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=98d3cc47-dfcd-497c-beb8-692531f60806.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="137" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Somali soldier stands over a wounded civilian lying at the entrance of Mogadishus court complex after being injured during a siege by militants in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6c75a074-20f4-460d-b304-40b48ef7e639.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6c75a074-20f4-460d-b304-40b48ef7e639.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Survivors are helped to escape from a window at Mogadishus court complex in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=808f3098-9d5b-4b36-8cad-cbfa452c1b9d.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=808f3098-9d5b-4b36-8cad-cbfa452c1b9d.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Somali soldier passes near a destroyed home next to Mogadishus court complex in Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5b887911-8e8f-41ec-b96b-25835393ad33.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5b887911-8e8f-41ec-b96b-25835393ad33.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Somali soldiers look at the wreckage of the car that detonated the bomb near the entrance of Mogadishus court complex, Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April,14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=89562c06-728f-4fd9-8fbd-fe4528bfe567.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=89562c06-728f-4fd9-8fbd-fe4528bfe567.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A Somali soldier walks near a destroyed car near the entrance of Mogadishus court complex, Mogadishu, Somalia, Sunday, April 14, 2013. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=037c9dc6-923b-46ba-8a17-18e85227a107.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="394" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=037c9dc6-923b-46ba-8a17-18e85227a107.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="156" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Map locates Mogadishu, Somalia&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Congo: 12 army officers to be charged with rapes</title>
<description><![CDATA[A dozen senior officers in the Congolese army have been arrested for responsibility for mass rapes committed by several army units in eastern Congo in November 2012, Congolese Justice Minister Wivine Mumba told The Associated Press Saturday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Gouby]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Melanie Gouby]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17736036-congo-12-army-officers-to-be-charged-with-rapes</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17736036-congo-12-army-officers-to-be-charged-with-rapes</guid><category>congo</category><category>rape</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>associated-press-saturday</category><category>wivine-mumba</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:57:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Guinea: Ex-leader Dadis Camara comes for burial</title>
<description><![CDATA[Exiled former coup leader Moussa Dadis Camara arrived in Guinea Saturday in the southern town of Nzerekore to attend the funeral of his mother, Guinean officials confirmed.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[BOUBACAR DIALLO   ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[BOUBACAR DIALLO   ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17734652-guinea-ex-leader-dadis-camara-comes-for-burial</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17734652-guinea-ex-leader-dadis-camara-comes-for-burial</guid><category>world-news</category><category>guinea</category><category>af</category><category>camara</category><category>moussa-dadis-camara</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:04:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>AP PHOTOS: Nigeria's forgotten railroad history</title>
<description><![CDATA[Train horns now sound again across Nigeria's lush south and the encroaching desert of its north, but the history of the nation's 100-year-old railroad still sits rusting away.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jon Gambrell]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jon Gambrell]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17733503-ap-photos-nigerias-forgotten-railroad-history</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/13/17733503-ap-photos-nigerias-forgotten-railroad-history</guid><category>nigeria</category><category>railroad</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:07:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=41ab2c30-ce0e-44f6-8239-4f942280612a.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=41ab2c30-ce0e-44f6-8239-4f942280612a.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Historian John Godwin walks between two abandoned train cars in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The Nigerian Railway Corp., while recently restarting service from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, still has relics from the past littering the grounds of its headquarters in Lagos. Historians hope to preserve some of these old locomotives and train cars for future generations to see. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5d2aedc8-8652-4218-8082-6053a10bee49.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=5d2aedc8-8652-4218-8082-6053a10bee49.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A man walks past an abandoned steam locomotive in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The Nigerian Railway Corp., while recently restarting service from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, still has relics from the past littering the grounds of its headquarters in Lagos. Historians hope to preserve some of these old locomotives and train cars for future generations to see. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=78c3c9db-eace-4de6-b977-2b013efe5744.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=78c3c9db-eace-4de6-b977-2b013efe5744.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Two men look at an abandoned railroad car once used by top Nigerian government officials in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The Nigerian Railway Corp., while recently restarting service from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, still has relics from the past littering the grounds of its headquarters in Lagos. Historians hope to preserve some of these old locomotives and train cars for future generations to see. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=26d94dac-c6a7-4449-8a18-5aa40444a78f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=26d94dac-c6a7-4449-8a18-5aa40444a78f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A locomotive passes by a train yard in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The Nigerian Railway Corp., while recently restarting service from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, still has relics from the past littering the grounds of its headquarters in Lagos. Historians hope to preserve some of these old locomotives and train cars for future generations to see. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3b763c70-847a-4a35-bec0-3e4ea604acf0.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=3b763c70-847a-4a35-bec0-3e4ea604acf0.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;An engineer stands near a sign comparing the human body to a train engine in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, April 14, 2013. The Nigerian Railway Corp., while recently restarting service from Lagos to the northern city of Kano, still has relics from the past littering the grounds of its headquarters in Lagos. Historians hope to preserve some of these old locomotives and train cars for future generations to see. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Malian military helicopter crash kills 5</title>
<description><![CDATA[Officials say five Malian soldiers including a senior officer are dead after a combat helicopter crash in central Mali.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17723606-malian-military-helicopter-crash-kills-5</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17723606-malian-military-helicopter-crash-kills-5</guid><category>crash</category><category>military</category><category>world-news</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:28:26 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>US team using Twitter, Facebook to fight militants</title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. official who oversees American efforts to counter al-Qaida and other militants in the online battlefield keeps a quote on his desk from a "Most Wanted" jihadi from America's South. The Alabama native wrote that "the war of narratives has become even more important than the war of navies, napalm and knives."]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jason Straziuso]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Jason Straziuso]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17720870-us-team-using-twitter-facebook-to-fight-militants</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17720870-us-team-using-twitter-facebook-to-fight-militants</guid><category>technology</category><category>us</category><category>digital</category><category>battlefield</category><category>af</category><category>digital-outreach-team</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:03:25 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=69f4d716-d85c-47ff-b9d3-4d7936a1af5c.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=69f4d716-d85c-47ff-b9d3-4d7936a1af5c.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, 27, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, addresses a press conference of the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu's Afgoye district in Somalia. A 50-member group of U.S. government workers comprised of Americans and foreign nationals called the Digital Outreach Team is countering extremist propaganda on sites like Twitter and Facebook, with the top official on the team, Alberto Fernandez, saying the goal is to contest space that had previously been ceded to extremists. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cae74b64-e0b0-433f-b27c-b32caf113ddc.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="265" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cae74b64-e0b0-433f-b27c-b32caf113ddc.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, 27, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, right, and deputy leader of al-Shabab Sheik Mukhtar Abu Mansur Robow, left, sit under a banner which reads &quot;Allah is Great&quot; during a news conference of the militant group at a farm in southern Mogadishu's Afgoye district in Somalia. A 50-member group of U.S. government workers comprised of Americans and foreign nationals called the Digital Outreach Team is countering extremist propaganda on sites like Twitter and Facebook, with the top official on the team, Alberto Fernandez, saying the goal is to contest space that had previously been ceded to extremists. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Small plane with US pilot missing off West Africa</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. diplomats asked for help Friday in the search for an American pilot in a small turboprop aircraft that went missing Sunday in a storm off the coast of West Africa.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Yves Laurent Goma]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Yves Laurent Goma]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17718057-small-plane-with-us-pilot-missing-off-west-africa</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/12/17718057-small-plane-with-us-pilot-missing-off-west-africa</guid><category>plane</category><category>world-news</category><category>gabon</category><category>west-africa</category><category>af</category><category>missing-plane</category><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:41:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Canadian convicted of terror ties in Mauritania</title>
<description><![CDATA[A young Canadian man who headed to North Africa to study the Quran is now serving two years in a Mauritanian prison after authorities say he was recruited to train at an al-Qaida camp in northern Mali, an official said Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ahmed Mohamed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Ahmed Mohamed]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708306-canadian-convicted-of-terror-ties-in-mauritania</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17708306-canadian-convicted-of-terror-ties-in-mauritania</guid><category>al-qaida</category><category>qaida</category><category>canadian</category><category>world-news</category><category>north-africa</category><category>mauritania</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:04:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mali mayor accused of drug trafficking arrested</title>
<description><![CDATA[Authorities have arrested a mayor in northeastern Mali on drug trafficking charges three years after a plane full of cocaine landed near his town, officials said Thursday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17707147-mali-mayor-accused-of-drug-trafficking-arrested</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17707147-mali-mayor-accused-of-drug-trafficking-arrested</guid><category>drug</category><category>arrest</category><category>world-news</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>EU mission trains troops in Mali</title>
<description><![CDATA[In preparation for a drawdown of French troops from Mali, a European Union team started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this West African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Baba Ahmed]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17706132-eu-mission-trains-troops-in-mali</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17706132-eu-mission-trains-troops-in-mali</guid><category>eu</category><category>training</category><category>european-union</category><category>west-african</category><category>world-news</category><category>mali</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:02:17 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d2449e42-251c-4da1-a238-7c02897cb0c8.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="279" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=d2449e42-251c-4da1-a238-7c02897cb0c8.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Monday, April 8, 2013, Malian soldiers practice shooting techniques, during a European Union training session in the village of Koulikoro, 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, Mali. In preparation for the final pullout of French troops from Mali, a European Union team has started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this west African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2b6271a8-b1a1-41bf-8805-3aaf25509304.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=2b6271a8-b1a1-41bf-8805-3aaf25509304.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Monday, April 8, 2013, a Swedish instructor watches as Malian soldiers practice arming their weapons, during a European Union training session in the village of Koulikoro, 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, Mali. In preparation for the final pullout of French troops from Mali, a European Union team has started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this west African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cacbefbc-7631-46a5-af53-5a4db9294627.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="280" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cacbefbc-7631-46a5-af53-5a4db9294627.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="84" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Monday, April 8, 2013, a Swedish instructor explains the steps for firing a weapon, during a European Union training session in the village of Koulikoro, 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, Mali. In preparation for the final pullout of French troops from Mali, a European Union team has started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this west African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7dc69d1a-96b2-4abb-84ba-9d641740eb84.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="300" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=7dc69d1a-96b2-4abb-84ba-9d641740eb84.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="90" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this photo taken Monday, April 8, 2013, a Swedish instructor looks on as Malian soldiers practice shooting techniques, during a European Union training session in the village of Koulikoro, 60 kilometers (37 miles) outside Bamako, Mali. In preparation for the final pullout of French troops from Mali, a European Union team has started training Malian soldiers for battle against jihadists who overran much of this west African country before they were pushed back by a French military intervention. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Report: Sudan is supporting rebels in South Sudan</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sudan has supplied weapons and ammunition to rebels fighting neighboring South Sudan's government, says a report from the Small Arms Survey, an independent Swiss research group.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlton Doki]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Charlton Doki]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705606-report-sudan-is-supporting-rebels-in-south-sudan</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17705606-report-sudan-is-supporting-rebels-in-south-sudan</guid><category>sudan</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>south-sudan</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:05:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=03879d7d-143a-4a05-b8b0-0fd59acfeb42.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="257" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=03879d7d-143a-4a05-b8b0-0fd59acfeb42.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, left, and South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, right, shake hands at a joint press conference in Juba, South Sudan Friday, April 12, 2013. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011, and South Sudan's president says he and al-Bashir have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c3a844f5-d299-4791-a65c-92e003a60795.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="254" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=c3a844f5-d299-4791-a65c-92e003a60795.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, center-left, and South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, center, listen to South Sudan's national anthem after al-Bashir arrived in Juba, South Sudan, on Friday, April 12, 2013.  Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir traveled to South Sudan on Friday for the first time since the south peacefully broke away from Sudan in 2011, and South Sudan's president says he and al-Bashir have agreed to a resumption of oil exports and border trade. (AP Photo/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Students in Togo march to support their teachers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Over 20,000 school children from primary, secondary and high schools marched on Thursday in the capital of Togo in support of teachers who are on strike to seek better working conditions.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Blame Ekoue]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Blame Ekoue]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17703512-students-in-togo-march-to-support-their-teachers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/11/17703512-students-in-togo-march-to-support-their-teachers</guid><category>student</category><category>togo</category><category>protest</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:49:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Malawian government harshly criticizes Madonna</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Malawi government issued an angry attack on the pop diva Madonna Wednesday, alleging expected to be granted VIP treatment during her controversial tour to this southern African country last week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raphael Tenthani]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Raphael Tenthani]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691328-malawian-government-harshly-criticizes-madonna</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691328-malawian-government-harshly-criticizes-madonna</guid><category>madonna</category><category>malawi</category><category>bc</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:12:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=35fbf497-d99b-4bd8-b1dc-8876a3cb99ad.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=35fbf497-d99b-4bd8-b1dc-8876a3cb99ad.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This image released by Liz Rosenberg Media shows singer Madonna visiting school children in Chorwe, Malawi on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Madonnas foundation, Raising Malawi, has built ten schools in partnership with BuildOn which are currently educating over 4,000 students per year. (AP Photo/Liz Rosenberg Media)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6bd6a5b8-6eed-43cf-bef5-a0e260d33a49.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="283" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=6bd6a5b8-6eed-43cf-bef5-a0e260d33a49.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="85" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;US performer Madonna, centre, tours the Mphandura orpahange near Lilongwe, Malawi, Friday April 5, 2013.  Madonna, is spending her fourth day in the southern African country from where she adopted two children David Banda, right and Mercy James, left. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=118e8305-0727-48b8-87ea-f2ff192b8c77.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="293" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=118e8305-0727-48b8-87ea-f2ff192b8c77.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="88" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;US performer Madonna tours the Mphandura orpahange near Lilongwe, Malawi Friday April 5, 2013.  Madonna, is spending her fourth day in the southern African country from where she adopted two children David Banda, second from left and Mercy James, third from left. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cf7742ad-cb0a-4b27-bd3c-6528b6b21a9f.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="270" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=cf7742ad-cb0a-4b27-bd3c-6528b6b21a9f.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="81" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;US performer Madonna greets volunteers at the Mphandura orpahange near Lilongwe, Malawi Friday April 5, 2013.  Madonna, is spending her fourth day in the southern African country from where she adopted two children. (AP Photo/Thoko Chikondi)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Ivory Coast president can rule by decree</title>
<description><![CDATA[An Ivory Coast legislative official said Wednesday that lawmakers had given President Alassane Ouattara the authority to rule by decree on social and economic issues for 2013.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691272-ivory-coast-president-can-rule-by-decree</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17691272-ivory-coast-president-can-rule-by-decree</guid><category>ivory-coast</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>ouattara</category><category>alassane-ouattara</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:07:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Violence in central Nigeria villages kills 10</title>
<description><![CDATA[Leaders in two villages in central Nigeria say at least 10 people have been killed in attacks between the Christians and Muslims living there.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687742-violence-in-central-nigeria-villages-kills-10</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687742-violence-in-central-nigeria-villages-kills-10</guid><category>nigeria</category><category>violence</category><category>world-news</category><category>af</category><category>international-religious-freedom</category><category>boko-haram</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:40:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>