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/ 3 February 2009
African leaders on Tuesday discussed ways to ride out the global economic downturn.
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/ 22 January 2009
The countdown to Africa’s first Soccer World Cup hits the 500-day mark next Tuesday, but you’d hardly know it from walking the streets.
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/ 15 November 2008
Hundreds of people paid their last respects on Saturday to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.
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/ 7 November 2008
Southern African leaders will pile pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition chief Morgan Tsvangirai at a summit on Sunday.
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/ 23 December 2005
Few will actually admit to seeing a ghost themselves, but everyone has heard about them on the once-idyllic Thai island of Phi Phi, still rebuilding after the tsunami killed 700 people. Many Thais say they believe the souls of the nearly 5 400 people who were killed in the tsunami continued to haunt the Andaman coast long after the debris had been cleared away and reconstruction began.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s supporters plan protests around the world to mark her 60th birthday on Sunday, demonstrating outside Myanmar’s embassies in a dozen countries to demand her release from two years’ house arrest. Suu Kyi will only be able to hear of the protests on her short-wave radio, one of the few links she has with the outside world.
If imitation is flattery, Miss Universe contestants should feel properly buttered-up in Thailand, where people find occasions year-round to award a crown and a sash to queens who sometimes break the mould. Or the moulding, as was the case when parts of the stage knocked loose during a sports-themed dance sequence at the Miss Jumbo Queen pageant for women 80kg and over.
May is normally a month of plenty in Zimbabwe, as farmers harvest their crops ahead of the austral winter.
ZIMBABWEAN police brutally broke up a protest on Tuesday in Harare by about 200 people demanding the government adopt a more democratic constitution