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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo warned of a possible genocide in the Darfur region on Tuesday, as cash-strapped African peacekeepers struggle to stem the violence in Sudan’s remote west. Nigeria is the largest troop-contributing nation to the African Union (AU) force in Darfur, which is caught in an international diplomatic tug-of-war over a United Nations takeover of the peacekeeping mission.
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/ 10 October 2006
A Pretoria businessman accused of dragging his dog behind his car has been fined R4Â 000 or three months in prison, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Tuesday. Oupa Seemo was convicted on Monday of animal cruelty. It was found he had tied his Jack Russell dog to the back of his car and dragged it for several kilometres.
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/ 10 October 2006
In-form opener Upul Tharanga’s second consecutive hundred guided Sri Lanka to a 144-run victory over Zimbabwe and a qualifiers’ slot in the main rounds of the Champions Trophy on Tuesday. The 21-year-old left-hander hit 13 fours and a six in his 130-ball 110 as Sri Lanka, opting to bat, made 285-7 in the day-night game to notch up their second straight win in the four-team qualifiers.
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/ 10 October 2006
The two former joint chief executives of LeisureNet went to ”great lengths” to cover up what the state claims is an unlawful kickback on a deal concluded by the company, the Cape High Court has been told. The submission was made by the prosecution team in heads of argument handed in on Tuesday as it began its closing submissions in the trial of Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Cape High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application to strike from the roll the case against an actuarial assistant accused of beating and stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death. Fred van der Vyver (24) is charged with the murder of Stellenbosch University student, Inge Lotz, who was allegedly beaten to death with a hammer and stabbed in March last year.
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/ 10 October 2006
The chief judge ejected Saddam Hussein and a co-defendant punched one of the guards and denounced prosecutors as pimps and traitors during the toppled Iraq leader’s genocide trial on Tuesday. The government criticised the United States-backed court after the chaotic scenes. Last month it sacked the previous presiding judge because it believed he was too soft with Saddam.
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/ 10 October 2006
Delegates at Free State public hearings on initiation schools on Tuesday called for special courts to be established to deal with transgressors of initiation customs. The call was made in a joint statement by the South African Human Rights Commission, the National House of Traditional Leaders and the Commission for the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) involvement in the new national lottery operator, Gidani, has come under fire from Independent Democrats (ID) chief whip Avril Harding in Parliament. In a member’s statement to the National Assembly, Harding said despite its strong objections to the lottery, Cosatu has emerged as one of the major shareholders in Gidani.
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/ 10 October 2006
Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was on Tuesday to start recording evidence on war-time atrocities committed over more than two decades of successive conflicts, its chairperson said. ”We will open our offices today [Tuesday] all over Liberia, and our workers will receive statements from the public,” Jerome Verdier, TRC head, said. Several hundred people have been trained to document evidence from both victims and perpetrators.
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/ 10 October 2006
South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs was scheduled to fly to New Delhi on Tuesday, hoping to put the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal behind him once and for all. Gibbs, accompanied by his lawyer, will meet police commissioner KK Paul to answer a series of questions about the match-fixing affair, which was unearthed in India in 2000.