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/ 27 September 2009
Cherie lands head-first at the base of a sand dune, her feet in the air but still strapped to the sandboard she is hoping to master to surf on dunes.
Leaders of Madagascar’s main political movements signed on Sunday a transition blueprint, ending months of crisis on the island nation.
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/ 19 February 2009
Organisers of the 2010 World Cup are tapping resources in the tourist magnet of the Kruger National Park.
Southern African leaders gather for a summit where Zimbabwe’s crisis features high on the agenda — but Morgan Tsvangirai may not attend.
SA and the EU hold their first-ever summit on Friday but divergent views on the political crisis in Zimbabwe have cast a pall over the event.
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/ 4 September 2005
Take one soup cube, pepper, salt and onions, not forgetting chunks of monkey, head included. Cook in a casserole and serve. At the restaurant Maman Marie Gibier in Libreville, the dish will set appreciative diners back 1 500 francs CFA (R17,40). ”I have been eating monkey since I was little,” said one diner.
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/ 21 December 2004
Residents of the village of Lengue-Lengue in northern Congo are waiting for the day gorillas will return to the Lossi wildlife sanctuary after being wiped out by the deadly Ebola fever. Ebola, an incurable haemorrhagic fever, has in three years wiped out 80% of Central Africa’s lowland gorillas living in the 320-square-kilometre sanctuary.