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18 October 2012

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Haiti wants to join the African Union 

Partisan stats: Of red-state moochers and blue state makers 

Romney’s elusive tax plan (funny)

Zuma’s failed presidency and South Africa’s labor unrest

Mo Ibrahim Prize goes unclaimed, again

Kenya might be seeing the origins of insurgency (More details on this soon)

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Posted By: Ken Opalo Category: africa Tags: African Union, american politics, binders full of women, cape town, counterinsurgency, Haiti, insurgency, Jacob Zuma, Johannesburg, Kenya, Mitt Romney, mo ibrahim index, Mo Ibrahim Prize, moochers and makers, Pretoria, red states and blue states, romney's tax plan, south africa

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