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Residents of Zimbabwe's best-known township harbour no illusions about next month's elections, with many too busy struggling to survive to ponder what's at stake. The mood in Chitungwiza, a sprawling and dingy township that is home to nearly two million people, is a mixture of apathy, disgust and hopelessness ahead of the parliamentary polls.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a four-day visit to South Africa on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian groups denounced as a retreat from the struggle for equality embraced by President Thabo Mbeki's government. Olmert is the most senior Israeli official to visit South Africa since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
Hopes for a break to the fighting in Liberia's besieged capital were on the rise on Thursday as a west African military team assessed the situation for the proposed deployment of peacekeepers, due to be discussed at a meeting of regional leaders in Ghana.
Three vulture species in South Asia face imminent extinction due to a powerful drug that makes livestock carcasses fatal for the scavenging birds, ornithologists at a world conference on birds said. The threatened species include the white-rumped vulture, the slender-billed vulture and the Indian vulture.
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Residents of Zimbabwe's best-known township harbour no illusions about next month's elections, with many too busy struggling to survive to ponder what's at stake. The mood in Chitungwiza, a sprawling and dingy township that is home to nearly two million people, is a mixture of apathy, disgust and hopelessness ahead of the parliamentary polls.
Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a four-day visit to South Africa on Wednesday that pro-Palestinian groups denounced as a retreat from the struggle for equality embraced by President Thabo Mbeki's government. Olmert is the most senior Israeli official to visit South Africa since the end of apartheid a decade ago.
Hopes for a break to the fighting in Liberia's besieged capital were on the rise on Thursday as a west African military team assessed the situation for the proposed deployment of peacekeepers, due to be discussed at a meeting of regional leaders in Ghana.
