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		<title>NINE DRAGONS HEATING UP THE SOUTH CHINA SEA</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/11/south-china-sea-scarborough-shoal-china-philippines-conflict-exploratio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the increase in tensions around the disputed Scarborough Shoal lead to conflict or economic compromise? Diplomatic tensions between the Philippines and China continue to escalate this week over waterways and islets in the contested South China Sea following the April 2012, standoff between a Philippines Naval vessel and Chinese fishing vessels in the area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ALGERIAN ELECTIONS: DO VOTERS EVEN CARE?</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/10/the-algerian-elections-do-voters-even-care/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/10/the-algerian-elections-do-voters-even-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josephine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Algeria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamist]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the political rhetoric, the ramped up security and threats of a landslide victory from Islamist-based parties, one key factor is missing from the Algerian parliamentary elections: Algerian voter enthusiasm. Despite the so-called Green Algeria Alliance, Algeria’s main Islamist coalition, already claiming triumph, analysts and Algerians alike have long predicted a low voter turnout in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STOKING THE FLAMES OF WAR: HOW SUDANESE LEADERS ARE DRIVING THEIR COUNTRIES OFF A CLIFF</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/05/stoking-the-flames-of-war-how-sudanese-leaders-are-driving-their-countries-off-a-cliff/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/05/stoking-the-flames-of-war-how-sudanese-leaders-are-driving-their-countries-off-a-cliff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 19:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josephine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Activity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Sudan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[East Africa is bracing itself for yet another large-scale conflict as leaders from Sudan and the world’s newest country, South Sudan, continue to stoke the flames of war. Whilst the international community appears defeated in its efforts to calm the rising tensions, the two Sudan’s are on the verge of further bloodshed, starvation, as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT TO ‘UNDER MINE’ OWN INDUSTRY WITH EXPORT TAX</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/02/indonesia-mining-coal-export-tax-fuel-subsidies/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/05/02/indonesia-mining-coal-export-tax-fuel-subsidies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining Sector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NEW LEGISLATION FOR MINING SECTOR LIKELY TO HAVE REPERCUSSIONS TO OPERATORS IN INDONESIA In a move which will likely have a huge impact on the mining sector in Indonesia, on 27 April 2012, Jakarta announced that from June 2012, coal exports would be subjected to a 25% export tax, which will be further increased to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUGO CHAVEZ&#8217;S HEALTH AND VENEZUELA&#8217;S FUTURE</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/25/hugo-chavez-health-venezuela-future-cancer-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/25/hugo-chavez-health-venezuela-future-cancer-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“REPORTS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED” On 23 April 2012, a phone call from President Hugo Chávez was broadcast live on Venezuelan State Television, putting to an end, at least temporarily, the rampant speculation which had suggested that whilst seeking treatment in Cuba, he may have succumbed to the ravages of the cancer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHO WILL TRIUMPH IN EGYPTIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS?</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/24/egyptian-presidential-elections-scaf-abumoussa-abdulfoutoh-morsi/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/24/egyptian-presidential-elections-scaf-abumoussa-abdulfoutoh-morsi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Desmond</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 24 April,  Egypt’s ruling military rulers the Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) finally and begrudgingly approved a law barring top officials from Hosni Mubarak’s era running for president, following an about-turn on a policy which only three days earlier resulted in Egypt’s Constitutional Court rejecting SCAF request to rule that Mubarak officials at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ARCTIC OIL: THE GOLD RUSH IS ON</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/19/arctic-oil-the-gold-rush-is-on-exxon-rosneft-hydrocarbons/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/19/arctic-oil-the-gold-rush-is-on-exxon-rosneft-hydrocarbons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Spoons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil Exploration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the revelation on 18 April 2012, that US oil major ExxonMobil and Russian oil behemoth Rosneft are planning a joint offshore exploration in both the Arctic and the Black Sea, with investments which could potentially cost an eye watering US$500 billion, it appears a recent announcement by Russian President &#8211; elect Vladimir Putin that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATIONALISATION OF YPF: IS KIRCHNER THE NEW CHAVEZ?</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/18/nationalisation-of-ypf-is-kirchner-the-new-chave/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/18/nationalisation-of-ypf-is-kirchner-the-new-chave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charlie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Argentina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nationalisation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Admittedly Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has never had a reputation for economic prudence, however, even by the standards of a populist who has raided the country’s pension pot, stripped the Central Bank of independence while simultaneously decimating its reserves, and pulled inflation figures out of a hat, the decision, announced on 16 April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NOT IF, BUT WHEN? BUSINESSES AND CYBER SECURITY</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/04/not-if-but-when-businesses-and-cyber-security/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/04/not-if-but-when-businesses-and-cyber-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lou</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cyber Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hacking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s not a question of if or when companies will face an attack, but how they&#8217;re going to defend against it&#8221; was a key statement at this year&#8217;s RSA conference on Information Security and Cryptography, indicating that businesses now operate in an environment where digital attacks are inevitable, regardless of size or industry. Cyber security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UGANDA FACES UPHILL BATTLE IN FIGHT AGAINST CHINESE-MADE COUNTERFEITS</title>
		<link>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/02/uganda-faces-uphill-battle-in-fight-against-chinese-made-counterfeits/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.inkerman.com/index.php/2012/04/02/uganda-faces-uphill-battle-in-fight-against-chinese-made-counterfeits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josephine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organised Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Counterfeit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although a lot of media attention has been centered on Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group which has been blamed for kidnapping children and forcing them to become soldiers, another problem has been brewing in Uganda which has the potential to severely damage its economy: the bombardment [...]]]></description>
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