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/ 12 October 2006
The Sudanese government must be convinced to accept the deployment of a United Nations force in its war-torn western region of Darfur, South Africa said on Thursday. ”All efforts must continue to be made to try to convince the government of Sudan that it is in the interests of everybody that we blue-hat the African Union forces,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said.
An HIV-positive woman who sparked a storm when she laid a charge of rape against former deputy president Jacob Zuma has left South Africa after his acquittal, a daily said on Thursday. The 31-year-old Aids activist boarded an overseas flight late on Wednesday, reported the The Star newspaper.