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/ 28 October 2003
African leaders often fail to understand the role that their countries’ stock exchanges can play in funding economic development, and unwittingly implement policies which thwart the very prosperity they are trying to create.
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/ 28 October 2003
South Africa’s central maize and sunflower growing areas are extremely dry and as a result sales of sunflower and maize seed for the 2003/04 season are going poorly, Advata Africa Seeds marketing director Fanie le Roux said on Tuesday.
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/ 28 October 2003
Twenty companies are bidding for contracts to extract oil from nine new offshore oil blocs in the Nigeria-Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone, a Sao Tome official said on Monday.
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/ 28 October 2003
The United States embassy in Uganda has confirmed that it is offering military aid to the Ugandan defence ministry to help it fight the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in the north of the country.
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/ 28 October 2003
The United States embassy in Uganda has confirmed that it is offering military aid to the Ugandan defence ministry to help it fight the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in the north of the country.
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/ 28 October 2003
United States President George Bush has tried to stifle rising doubts on the occupation of Iraq by insisting yesterday’s bombings were a sign that life had improved under the US’s watch. Bush dismissed the notion that the rising violence could jeopardise efforts to rebuild Iraq, saying the bombings were the work of militants driven to desperation by US success.
Baghdad’s day of hell: 34 dead
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/ 28 October 2003
Ever since we were asked to throw away our aerosol cans in the 1980s the public has been bombarded with ominous warnings about the consequences of human-induced climate change. ”At a global level we know that the world is warmer now than it has been for the past 1 000 years”, said Bob Scholes, chief research fellow at the CSIR.
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/ 28 October 2003
The Chamber of Mines’ ten gold mining members are looking to clean up 38 sites, mainly in Gauteng and the Free State, that have been contaminated with radioactive material, with the process expected to be completed within six to seven months.
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/ 28 October 2003
More than 100 years after he left and 30 years after he died, Pablo Picasso has finally achieved his dream of having a museum dedicated to his work in his home city of Malaga, southern Spain.
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/ 28 October 2003
A combination of years of drought, strong autumn winds, wily arsonists, careless hunters, bark beetles and man’s desire to tame nature have led to much of southern California being engulfed in flames. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, hundreds of homes destroyed and 15 deaths reported.