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            <title><![CDATA[Dutch police offer €2 million reward for tips leading to arrest of drug lord Jos Leijdekkers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Two million euros - almost 22 million Swedish kronor - will be paid to anyone who helps Dutch police find notorious drug lord Jos Leijdekkers.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:10:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ebola cases in Congo-Kinshasa top 7,000 as virus spreads to new province]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Congo-Kinshasa has now exceeded 7,000. At the same time, the virus has spread to a new province in the country, Reuters reports.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:06:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ECOWAS backs $25 billion West Africa gas pipeline to Morocco]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The West African Economic and Monetary Union (ECOWAS) has reached an agreement with Sierra Leone on a gas pipeline from sources in Nigeria, Senegal and Mauritania to Morocco. The pipeline, with a capacity of 30 billion cubic meters, will bring West African gas closer to the European market.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:18:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[WHO Ebola crisis meeting as death toll rises]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is “deeply concerned” about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 136 deaths in the country are linked to the unusual variant of the virus.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:21:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Suspicious tanker Flora 1 allowed to leave Sweden]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The tanker that was boarded on Friday, suspected, among other things, of environmental crimes, has been allowed to leave Sweden, the Coast Guard said in a press release. The suspicions of crime cannot be confirmed, and Cameroon has confirmed that the ship is listed in its maritime register.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:02:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Two suspects after new ship boarding off Ystad]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard boarded a vessel off the coast of Ystad on Good Friday morning. The vessel is believed to have caused an oil spill and is suspected of belonging to the Russian shadow fleet. Two crew members are suspected of crimes.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:16:57 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nigerian airstrikes after coup attempt in Benin]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Benin's President Patrice Talon assures that the situation is under control after an attempted coup. At the same time, Nigeria has carried out airstrikes in Benin, and the West African Cooperation Organization Ecowas announces that soldiers from neighboring countries are being deployed.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:57:11 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia opens new embassies in Africa]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Russia is to open seven embassies in Africa in the coming years, reports the Russian state news agency Tass.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:46:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Global protest against Trump's sanctions]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The International Criminal Court (ICC) condemns the USA's decision to impose sanctions on the court and promises to continue providing "justice and hope" around the world. The sanctions are condemned by 79 of ICC's member countries, including Sweden.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:57:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Couple of leaders withdraw from West African cooperation]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have formally left Ecowas, announces the West African cooperation organization. This means that a year-long persuasion campaign has gone to waste.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Investigator: Not seen anything like it since the Nazis]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of Syrians are believed to have been executed, tortured or starved to death in Assad's regime's notorious prisons. For the relatives, the wait for answers is unbearable. The work of excavating Syria's dead has only just begun.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:06:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[11-year-old rescued – drifted alone in the Mediterranean]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[An 11-year-old girl has been found floating in the Mediterranean Sea off the Italian island of Lampedusa, and is believed to be the only survivor after a boat with migrants capsized.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:21:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pioneering Ballerina Dead]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Sep 2024 01:32:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sierra Leone bans child marriage]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone's parliament has approved a new law that prohibits child marriage.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:54:10 GMT</pubDate>
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