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            <title>North Korea: Aggression at Sea</title>
            <description>27 January 2010: North Korea’s artillery fire near the disputed Northern Limit Line has once again put the regime in the spotlight. Daniel Pinkston, Crisis Group’s North East Asia Deputy Project Director, comments on the political and military implications of North Korea’s most recent military demonstration.</description>
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            <itunes:subtitle>27 January 2010: North Korea’s artillery fire near the disputed Northern Limit Line has once again put the regime in the spotlight.</itunes:subtitle>
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            <title>Countering Insecurity in South Sudan</title>
            <description>19 January 2010 : Zachary Vertin, Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa Analyst, talks about rising ethnic violence in South Sudan, the role of the UN in Sudan and the enormous challenges the country faces this year.</description>
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            <itunes:subtitle>19 January 2010 : Zachary Vertin, Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa Analyst, talks about rising ethnic violence in South Sudan.</itunes:subtitle>
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            <title>Guinée après la tentative d’assassinat contre Camara</title>
            <description>8 janvier 2010 : Le 3 décembre 2009, Dadis Camara, le dirigeant de la junte guinéenne, était grièvement blessé par une balle d’un de ses officiers. L’incident révèle l’ampleur des divisions qui traversent l’appareil militaire et le potentiel de nouvelles violences. Richard Moncrieff, Directeur du projet Afrique de l’ouest de l’International Crisis Group analyse la situation en Guinée et les perspectives pour le pays. </description>
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            <title>CrisisWatch No77: 4 January 2010</title>
            <description>4 January 2010: This month's issue features an analysis by Richard Moncrieff, Crisis Group’s West Africa Project Director, of the events in Guinea since the shooting of junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara on 3 December 2009. The CrisisWatch Podcast looks at the highlights from this month's CrisisWatch, Crisis Group's monthly bulletin summarising some 70 conflicts or potential conflict situations around the world. </description>
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            <title>Handing Back Responsibility to Timor-Leste’s Police</title>
            <description>3 December 2009: Jim Della-Giacoma, Crisis Group’s South East Asia Project Director, discusses the role of the UN police in Timor-Leste. He argues that the UN and the Timorese government must move quickly to hammer out a detailed framework for future cooperation for the police under local command.</description>
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            <title>Afghanistan's Post-election Challenges</title>
            <description>25 November 2009: Candace Rondeaux, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst in Kabul, talks about the challenges Afghanistan and the international community face and how to improve security and accountability in the country in the aftermath of Hamid Karzai’s fraudulent re-election</description>
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            <description>2 November 2009: Markus Schultze-Kraft, Crisis Group’s Latin America Program Director, discusses the main goals of the Hugo Chávez government, the current state of fundamental rights in Venezuela and the country's foreign relations.</description>
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            <description>2 de noviembre 2009: Markus Schultze-Kraft, Director del Programa Latino América, habla sobre las principales metas del gobierno de Hugo Chávez, el estado de las libertades fundamentales en Venezuela y las relaciones internacionales del país.</description>
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            <title>North Korea: Getting Back to Talks?</title>
            <description>22 October 2009: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-Il says his country will only return to multilateral talks on the nuclear weapons program if it first establishes successful bilateral negotiations with the U.S. Daniel Pinkston, Crisis Group’s North East Asia Deputy Project Director, takes a look at the chances of a breakthrough. </description>
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            <title>CrisisWatch No74: 1 October 2009</title>
            <description>1 October 2009: This month's issue features an interview with Richard Moncrieff, Crisis Group’s West Africa Project Director, about the massacre in Guinea. The CrisisWatch Podcast looks at the highlights from this month's CrisisWatch, Crisis Group's monthly bulletin summarising some 70 conflicts or potential conflict situations around the world.</description>
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            <description>2 Octobre 2009: Le 28 septembre à Conakry, les forces de l’ordre ont ouvert le feu sur des manifestants, tuant au moins 157 personnes et en blessant plus de 1000. Elles sont également accusées d’avoir commis des attaques sexuelles sur des manifestants et des passants. Richard Moncrieff, Directeur du projet Afrique de l’International Crisis Group discute de la situation en Guinée et de ses conséquences régionales. </description>
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            <itunes:subtitle>2 Octobre 2009: Le 28 septembre à Conakry, les forces de l’ordre ont ouvert le feu sur des manifestants, tuant au moins 157 personnes et en blessant plus de 1000.</itunes:subtitle>
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            <title>Massacre in Guinea</title>
            <description>2 October 2009: On 28 September, security forces in Conakry opened fire, killing at least 157 protesters, wounding over 1,000 and reportedly committing brutal sexual attacks on demonstrators and bystanders. Richard Moncrieff, Crisis Group’s West Africa Project Director, talks about what is going on in Guinea now and what these events could mean for the whole West African region with Kimberly Abbott, Crisis Group Communications Director for North America. </description>
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            <itunes:subtitle>2 October 2009: On 28 September, security forces in Conakry opened fire, killing at least 157 protesters.</itunes:subtitle>
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            <title>Islamist militancy in Pakistan’s FATA</title>
            <description>30 September 2009: The residents of FATA, Pakistan’s federal administered tribal areas, are caught in a cycle of violence between heavy military force and militancy. Shehryar Fazli, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst, talks about FATA and the sharp rise in Islamist violence in this region.</description>
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            <itunes:subtitle>30 September 2009: The residents of FATA, Pakistan’s federal administered tribal areas, are caught in a cycle of violence between heavy military force and militancy.</itunes:subtitle>
            <itunes:summary>30 September 2009: The residents of FATA, Pakistan’s federal administered tribal areas, are caught in a cycle of violence between heavy military force and militancy. Shehryar Fazli, Crisis Group’s Senior Analyst, talks about FATA and the sharp rise in Islamist violence in this region.</itunes:summary>
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            <title>Nagorno-Karabakh: Getting to a Breakthrough</title>
            <description>30 September 2009: Lawrence Sheets, Crisis Group’s Caucasus Project Director, talks about the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, and about the possibility of a breakthrough in the political stalemate between Armenia and Azerbaijan. </description>
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            <title>Bosnia: A Test of Political Maturity in Mostar</title>
            <description>9 September 2009: Marco Prelec, Crisis Group’s Balkans Project Director, discusses the problems of Mostar’s political system based on consensus and how it has led to a deadlock that has paralysed its government for over ten months. </description>
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            <title>CrisisWatch No73: 1 September 2009</title>
            <description>1 September 2009: The CrisisWatch Podcast looks at the highlights from this month's CrisisWatch, Crisis Group's monthly bulletin summarising some 70 conflicts or potential conflict situations around the world. This month's issue features a closer look at the improved diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia and an interview with Crisis Group's Turkey/Cyprus Project Director Hugh Pope, based in Istanbul.</description>
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            <itunes:duration>6:08</itunes:duration>
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            <description>On 17 July 2009, suicide bombers attacked two hotels in central Jakarta, killing nine and injuring more than 50 in the first successful terrorist attacks in Indonesia for almost four years. Sidney Jones, Crisis Group Senior Adviser for the Asia Program, discusses the implications of the attacks.</description>
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            <description>Rhoderick Chalmers, Crisis Group's Deputy Project Director for South Asia, talks about how recent political upheaval in Nepal, with the Maoists leaving government and the army integration issue still unresolved, threatens the country's fragile peace process.</description>
            <link>http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6182&amp;l=1</link>
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            <itunes:subtitle>Rhoderick Chalmers, Deputy Project Director for South Asia, talks about how recent political upheaval in Nepal, with the Maoists leaving government and the army integration issue still unresolved, threatens the country's fragile peace process.</itunes:subtitle>
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            <description>Candace Rondeaux, Crisis Group’s new Senior Analyst for Afghanistan, talks about the challenges facing the country leading up to the 20 August presidential and provincial polls, and the chances for peace and stability going forward.</description>
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            <title>Afghanistan Retrospective: Five years in Kabul: 5 August 2009</title>
            <description>Joanna Nathan, Crisis Group’s outgoing Senior Analyst in Kabul, reflects on her experiences working in Afghanistan over the past five years. She chronicles the changes she's seen in the country since arriving in 2005, and talks about how the situation on the ground has deteriorated in part because of the absence of a national strategy to counter the insurgency, and a lack of coordination between the international community and the Afghan government.</description>
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            <title>CrisisWatch No72: 1 August 2009</title>
            <description>1 September 2009: The CrisisWatch Podcast looks at the highlights from this month's CrisisWatch, Crisis Group's monthly bulletin summarising some 70 conflicts or potential conflict situations around the world. This month's issue features a closer look at the improved diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia and an interview with Crisis Group's Turkey/Cyprus Project Director Hugh Pope, based in Istanbul.</description>
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            <itunes:duration>6:08</itunes:duration>
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            <description>Hundreds have died and thousands have fled from their homes in the northern town of Maiduguri during four days of intense fighting in Northern Nigeria. Richard Moncrieff, Crisis Group’s West Africa Project Director, talks with Kimberly Abbott, Crisis Group’s Communications Director USA, about where this new scale of violence comes from and what it could mean for the whole West African region. </description>
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            <title>Comprehensive Strategy to Disarm the FDLR in Congo: 14 July 2009</title>
            <description>Guillaume Lacaille, Crisis Group’s senior analyst for the Central Africa program, talks about the Democratic Republic of Congo and its joint efforts with Rwanda to dismantle the rebel FDLR, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.</description>
            <link>http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6182&amp;l=1</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:18:45 +0200</pubDate>
            <itunes:subtitle>Guillaume Lacaille, Crisis Group’s senior analyst for the Central Africa Project, talks about the Democratic Republic of Congo and its joint efforts with Rwanda to dismantle the rebel FDLR, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.</itunes:subtitle>
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            <itunes:duration>4:03</itunes:duration>
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            <title>Une stratégie globale pour désarmer les FDLR au Congo: 14 July 2009</title>
            <description>Guillaume Lacaille, analyste sénior du Projet Afrique Centrale de Crisis Group, nous parle de la République démocratique du Congo et de ses efforts en collaboration avec le Rwanda pour démanteler les rebelles des FDLR, les Forces démocratiques pour la libération du Rwanda.</description>
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            <title>Internally Displaced Persons in Pakistan: 7 July 2009</title>
            <description>Samina Ahmed, Crisis Group’s South Asia Project Director, talks about the current displacement crisis in Pakistan's northwest and the dangerous aid gap that extremists are using to their advantage.</description>
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            <itunes:duration>3:25</itunes:duration>
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            <description>Fouad Hikmat, Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa Project Director, comments on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan and the challenges the country faces before the elections in February 2010.</description>
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            <itunes:duration>4:33</itunes:duration>
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