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    <title><![CDATA[Federated States of Micronesia]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A profile of one of the world's most frequently colonized and loosely assembled nation-states.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[<strong>Hadani Ditmars</strong> finds a battered and divided country where young people strive for a progressive future.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2011-11-21T05:38:00-07:00</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Gambia]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A profile of Africa's smallest and most densely populated country.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Facts, figures and ratings in our latest country profile.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Until the beginning of this year, the West African nation seemed like an island of calm in a troubled region. Then everything changed...]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Corruption runs deep in Congo]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Burma’s people have a rich variety of traditional costumes, corresponding to their dozens of ethnic groups, but their plainer costumes are red and green. Red is the colour for the robes of around 400,000 monks, many of whom file through the streets every morning, lining up from the smallest to the tallest, collecting rice doled out by generous households. The monks are also supported by brigades of roadside volunteers who harangue passing travellers through megaphones, rattling buckets to collect funds for their local monasteries.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Rwanda after the genocide, in our Country Profile series]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A profile of the troubled Caribbean nation.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[South Asia's giant, from the Country Profile series in our New Internationalist magazine. ]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2011-06-10T00:46:10-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[A country profile.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2011-05-04T09:00:12-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[A profile of the Pacific island state.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[A profile of the West African state]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Standing beside the extraordinary Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca – the world’s second-largest religious building, built jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean between 1986 and 1993 – it is easy to conceive of Morocco as a country on the edge. On the edge of Africa, kissing Europe’s southern lip; on the edge of the Arab world, valued by successive White House administrations for its readiness to accept Israel’s existence.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[Thanks to Barack Obama and a piece of mobile technology, Kenya's reputation is now based on more than just safari parks, as <b>Geoffrey Kamadi</b> explains.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-12-08T02:15:22-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[There is an old Georgian drinking custom that catches the flavour of this small Caucasus mountain republic rather nicely. It is part of the tradition of the Georgian table known as Supra. As the glasses are filled, each participant (largely but not always men) must stand and give an extended and flowery toast. Glasses must then be drained. Not only does this lead to the expected drunkenness but also to a larger-than-life sense of this land of poets and pirates. ]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-17T01:39:41-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[On a small hill beside a lake in central China, an illegal firecrackers factory has just been set up. Village women work in small rooms assembling fuses and filling coils by hand: they are paid two yuan (26 cents) an hour. Most of their husbands are migrant workers far away: farming does not earn enough to pay the heavy taxes imposed by corrupt officials.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[IF the former Soviet Central Asian republics suffered from inferiority complexes during the years of Russian cultural hegemony, their brash leaders have gone to the opposite extreme since independence in 1991. Chief among them is Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov, whose bizarre personality cult makes him possibly the only world leader alongside whom North Korea's President Kim Jong Il appears modest.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-04T13:20:13-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Just a few hundred metres offshore from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, stands one of the world's busiest tourist resorts. Hotels, a golf course, casinos and even a reconstructed medieval French cloister are incongruously scattered on its 277 hectares. It used to be called Hog Island, a scrubby wasteland named after the semi-wild pigs that foraged around its interior. Its makeover came in 1962 when the US entrepreneur Huntingdon Hartford II persuaded the Government to change its name to Paradise Island and built a bridge, unleashing a torrent of tourism-related investment. More recently, South African billionaire Sol Kerzner has invested in the strikingly pink Atlantis Resort and Casino; reclusive residents have included Howard Hughes and the Shah of Iran.]]></description>
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    <description><![CDATA[On 23 February this year the Egyptian Government renewed the State of Emergency which has been in place since the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in September 1981. The same thing happens routinely every three years. Routinely, too, the prime minister assures the nation that, as present incumbent Atef Ubayd put it this year, emergency law ‘will not be used against freedom of expression but to ensure the safety of citizens’. Almost as routinely, what passes for the opposition in this sham of a democracy once again planned to challenge the renewal of emergency law, only for their campaign to fall flat on its face.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-04T12:32:20-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[It is five years since the downfall of Suharto, who had held Indonesia in the grip of a military dictatorship for 33 years following a bloody coup and clampdown that cost an estimated 700,000 lives. Suharto was finally swept from power by a grassroots movement calling for reformasi. Political prisoners were released, trade-union rights were restored, restrictions on freedom of assembly and the press were removed; political parties emerged to contest the first democratic general elections in 44 years.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-04T11:52:18-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[‘Peace is not just something that you sign on paper: it needs to be built,’ is a frequent comment by Guatemalan human-rights activists. Although it is nearly seven years since peace accords were signed, officially ending 36 years of armed conflict, life is not much improved for most Guatemalans.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-04T11:14:11-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[1 June was Day of the Dinosaur in Togo - a red-letter day for that dwindling band of dictators who have held sway over a country for decades but a very bad day for African democracy. On that date Gnassingbé Eyadéma duly recorded his third crushing victory in an 'open' presidential election, having changed the constitution to allow himself to stand for another term only two years after swearing that he would stand down.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2010-11-04T10:22:57-07:00</dc:date>
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    <description><![CDATA[Like all the little monarchies scattered along the coast of the Gulf, Kuwait used to be a sleepy little backwater, getting by on pearl fishing and trade. Like all the others, it was founded by a tribal chieftain in the 18th century, paid tribute to the Ottoman Empire but was paid little attention by it, and came eventually under the umbrella of British imperial protection in the late 19th century. By the time of independence in June 1961 (some 10 years before its Gulf counterparts) Kuwait had begun to exploit its oil reserves, the mainstay of its economy. In very marked contrast to the other Gulf statelets, however, in August 1990 Kuwait effectively ceased to exist.]]></description>
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