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/ 12 January 2007
The Guardian expose? highlights corrupt payments to Saudi authorities.
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/ 12 January 2007
Countries across the continent are headhunting the last remaining white commercial farmers in Zimbabwe, the majority of whom are contemplating packing their bags in search of more secure pastures. Five countries in the region have expressed an interest in welcoming farmers from Zimbabwe.
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/ 12 January 2007
Nearly 15 years ago the United States sent troops to Somalia to ”restore order”. Their landing was a spectacle orchestrated for the cameras. Somalia was then more divided than it is today, split up into small turfs ruled mostly by bandit warlords, writes Charles Onyango-Obbo, managing editor at the Nation Media Group in Nairobi.
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/ 12 January 2007
Imagine standing on a rubber raft and sticking a really long straw into a pond in hopes of sipping a soft drink buried on the bottom. That is what drilling for oil is like on the new frontier, kilometres under the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. The challenge is immediately clear as you step off a helicopter on to the Noble Amos Runner, a 29Â 000-tonne rig floating 280km south of New Orleans.
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/ 12 January 2007
In France the group’s prospective leader has been barred from teaching at his university and is awaiting a court verdict for questioning the Nazis’ mass murder of Europe’s Jews. His Bulgarian colleague brags that his country has the ”prettiest Gypsies” and says he knows where to buy 12-year-old Gypsy brides for ”up to â,¬5 000 euros”.
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/ 12 January 2007
David Polovin, chairperson of the Green Point Common Association, and his committee represent probably the wealthiest ratepayers in Cape Town. Polovin and his 10-member volunteer committee took on the City of Cape Town, provincial government and the national government in an attempt to stop them from building a stadium for the 2010 Soccer World Cup on the Green Point Common.
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/ 12 January 2007
The Democratic Alliance’s Eastern Cape leader, Athol Trollip, has entered the lists as the first formal contender for Tony Leon’s crown. And at a media conference in Cape Town recently to announce his candidacy, Trollip was careful to steer a course between the party’s liberal and conservative wings.
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/ 12 January 2007
On a day of two inaugurations separated by 2 100km, a late flight and an ideological time warp, it was apt for one of the new presidents to quote Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez, was sworn in for a third consecutive term at a ceremony on Wednesday morning in the capital, Caracas, and several hours later, in Managua, Daniel Ortega was sworn in as President of Nicaragua.
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/ 12 January 2007
The Mail & Guardian‘s Stephanie Wolters speaks to Richard Cornwell, senior research fellow of the African Security Analysis Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, about the evolving crisis in Somalia.
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/ 12 January 2007
The former United States president Jimmy Carter was facing a revolt from some of his own supporters on Thursday after 14 members of the advisory board of his human rights organisation resigned in protest at his view on Israel and the Palestinians.