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/ 24 January 2007
Yusif Agoub is proud of the fleshy Masgouf fish from the river Euphrates swimming in a tiled pool in his kitchen and the rough Iraqi bread baking in the wood-fired oven. It feels like Baghdad but the carp are imported from Syria and this is one of the best restaurants in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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/ 24 January 2007
Unlisted South African retailer Shoprite on Wednesday announced that Brait, acting through Maxshell 107 Investments, has increased the offer to Shoprite minority shareholders to R28 per share. In terms of the revised offer, Shoprite shareholders will receive one New Retail Class B share valued at R28 for every Shoprite share held.
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/ 24 January 2007
Andriy Shevchenko and Frank Lampard each scored twice as Chelsea routed Wycombe 4-0 for a place in the final of the English League Cup on Tuesday. Shevchenko hadn’t scored in his 10 previous appearances for Chelsea, and has reportedly fallen out with manager Jose Mourinho, partly because of his friendship with owner Roman Abramovich.
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/ 24 January 2007
A domestic Sudanese passenger plane has been hijacked after leaving Khartoum by an unknown gunman who diverted the plane to Chad’s capital, Ndjamena, an airline official said on Wednesday. ”There are 103 people on board,” said Ahmed Salih, commercial manager of the Air West airline that operates the Boeing 737 plane.
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/ 24 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s High Court in Harare has postponed hearing Mail & Guardian chief executive Trevor Ncube’s case against the withdrawal of his Zimbabwean citizenship. The Zimbabwean government claims Ncube — who publishes the Standard and the Zimbabwe Independent in that country — is not a Zimbabwean citizen.
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/ 24 January 2007
South Africa is facing a severe shortage of networking skills, amounting to an estimated shortage of 70 500 last year and swelling to 113 900 skilled people by 2009, an IT company director said on Wednesday. Peter Denny, a director of black-empowered IT training company IT Intellect, said a survey has pointed out some "alarming shortages in the networking field".
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/ 24 January 2007
South Africa said on Wednesday it had asked the United Nations to delay placing two South Africans on its list of suspects linked to al-Qaeda. Foreign ministry spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said the request amounted to an objection by the South African government.
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/ 24 January 2007
Food-aid programmes need to be overhauled to strengthen the long-term campaign against world hunger, the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday. Emergency aid has saved millions of lives, but such help provided over longer periods might destabilise markets, the UN said in a report.
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/ 24 January 2007
Activists outraged by the impending hanging of a 21-year-old Nigerian man for drug trafficking planned a hunger strike in protest against the execution, they said on Wednesday. Chee Siok Chin and lawyer M Ravi, both Singaporeans, said their demonstration will start at 7am on Thursday at the city-state’s Speakers’ Corner.
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/ 24 January 2007
Zimbabwe’s state-run electricity provider is battling a serious financial crunch and a widening supply shortfall which has let to increasing power cuts. The acting chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electicity Supply Authority Christopher Chetsanga said the utility had run up a Z-billion debt which he blamed on low tariffs.