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/ 21 February 2001
THE European Union (EU) has placed a three-month ban on all beef imports from Swaziland following the kingdom’s failure to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. EU resident advisor Aloys Lorkeers said the ban would also allow European agricultural experts to monitor Swazi cattle herds for Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), popularly known as mad cow […]
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/ 21 February 2001
ANGOLAN Defence Minister Kundi Payama is to reveal in parliament details of illegal arms sales to the country in 1993-1994 from French companies. French judges are currently investigating Brenco France, the arms trading company whose president Pierre Falcone is in prison on possible charges of having organised shipments of arms to Angola worth $500m with […]
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/ 21 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENTS, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE leader of South Africa’s biggest trade union federation, Cosatu, says the South African government’s policy of “soft diplomacy” towards Zimbabwe has failed. “Just talking softly, saying please to President Robert Mugabe has not helped,” Cosatu (Congress of South African Trade Unions) secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi told the independent eTV […]
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/ 21 February 2001
AT least 12 African heads of state are expected to attend next week’s summit on the Burundi peace process in Tanzania’s northern town of Arusha. The summit is expected to settle outstanding issues in efforts to bring peace to Burundi after more than seven years of war, including the leadership of a transitional government and […]
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/ 21 February 2001
EGYPT is in the midst of a drive costing $2bn to revamp its old airports and build new ones as it anticipates millions more tourists in the next few years. When the current program is completed in about four years, Egypt will have a network of 26 modern airports, including seven new ones, with capacity […]
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/ 21 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, New York | Wednesday THE UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says it has found 163 child soldiers – some as young as nine years old – from the Democratic Republic of Congo in a political education camp for Congolese rebels in Uganda. The children, aged between nine and 17 and including three girls, were […]
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/ 21 February 2001
RWANDA has told the UN Security Council that its forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo will start pulling back on February 28. The promise came in a letter from Rwanda’s ambassador to the United Nations, Joseph Mutaboba, on the eve of a meeting between the council and all major warring parties to the war […]
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/ 20 February 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday ZIMBABWES main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, believes a presidential election will be called in his country in August as the government deteriorates into panic. Meanwhile, diplomatic relations between Britain and Zimbabwe deteriorated as the Foreign Office confirmed it had called in the Zimbabwean high commissioner over the expulsion and intimidation […]
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/ 20 February 2001
A 39-year-old Briton caught last week with a large amount of cannabis and cash in his truck while trying to leave Morocco was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison. Geoffrey Richard Cousins, a farmer living in Yvers, France, was arrested on February 12 in Tangier when a police search of his vehicle turned […]