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/ 12 February 2007
A 79-year-old American missionary and her daughter, the wife of a United States diplomat, are cut down by automatic gunfire on the edge of town. A top Kenyan HIV scientist and two other people, one on crutches, are killed when teenage gunmen indiscriminately spray vehicles on a highway with AK-47 fire. Baghdad? Mogadishu? No, Nairobi, capital of East Africa’s richest economy.
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/ 12 February 2007
A few minutes into Blood Diamond, the Hollywood film starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the action switches from the bloody civil war in Sierra Leone to a G8 summit in Antwerp, where a senior United States state department official tells representatives from governments: ”According to a devastating report by Global Witness, diamonds are being used to fund the conflict.”
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/ 12 February 2007
The United States flew nearly -billion in shrink-wrapped bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent. The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US Congressional committee.
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/ 12 February 2007
I know I’m going to despise myself for the following statement, but it’s something I feel strongly about, so here goes. I envy men. Yuck! What a horrible thing to say. I feel my Mum should be shoving a Bird’s Eye chilli into my mouth the way she did when she caught any of her children swearing in English or Hindi.
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/ 12 February 2007
Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira will have gained a better idea of what lies in store for him with Bafana Bafana after holding his first training camp with the national team last week. After a fruitful four days with the players, the Brazilian singled out ball possession and finishing as his two major areas of concern.
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/ 11 February 2007
Quiet diplomacy is not the appropriate response from responsible citizens, writes Ferial Haffajee. ”What First National Bank’s detractors appear to be saying is this: we know that government is very touchy on crime, so business should just keep ploughing in the bucks and practising quiet diplomacy.”
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/ 11 February 2007
Long-time Mail & Guardian columnist Robert Kirby died in Cape Town on Friday night following a long illness. A significant satirist especially in the 1970s, Kirby also worked as a broadcaster, television columnist, playwright and novelist. He became famous in South Africa for his sharp wit and fearless satire.
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/ 11 February 2007
South Africa needed just 65 minutes and 14 overs as they demolished Pakistan by 10 wickets in the fourth MTN one-day international at Newlands on Sunday. After winning the toss and sending Pakistan in to bat, the Proteas put on a superb bowling display to bowl Pakistan out for the paltry total of 107 in the 46th over of the innings.
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/ 11 February 2007
Park Ji-Sung kept Manchester United on course for the English Premiership title as his goal set up the leaders’ 2-0 win against Charlton on Saturday. Didier Drogba ensured Chelsea kept the pressure on United as he scored twice in the win against Middlesbrough.
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/ 11 February 2007
A suicide bomber slammed an explosives-laden van into a police station in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 25 more, officials said. Lieutenant Colonel Hur Baz of the police in Ad-Dawr said that 12 people were killed outright when the blast devastated the local police department.