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/ 6 December 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki met his Côte d’Ivoire counterpart Laurent Gbagbo and other high-ranking officials on Monday as he wrapped up a four-day peace-making trip. Meanwhile, a key figure in Côte d’Ivoire’s struggling peace process resigned as the United Nations’s special envoy to the country.
Mbeki seen as ‘guarantee of peace’
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/ 21 November 2004
When their trademark black cars rolled up at British socialite Mark Thatcher’s gates in Cape Town a few months ago, the members of South Africa’s elite Scorpions unit knew they were netting their biggest catch to date. But the Scorpions have also been ruffling feathers in many other quarters of South Africa.
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/ 17 November 2004
Namibia’s president-in-waiting Hifikepunye Pohamba says expropriations of white farms are ”going to happen” in his Southern African country but has pledged to ”talk, talk, talk” to make them as painless as possible. In an interview with AFP, Pohamba portrayed himself as a man of dialogue who is sensitive to the impact that land reform can have on people’s lives in this country of 1,82-million people.
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/ 12 November 2004
Tucked between Fidel Castro Street and Robert Mugabe Avenue in Namibia’s capital of Windhoek lies Sam Nujoma Drive, named after the southern African country’s outgoing president and independence hero. He may be stepping down in four months after a third term as Namibia’s founding president, but there is little doubt that Sam Nujoma will continue to wield power in the arid southern African country.
African governments will work with big business to launch projects that will shore up the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) continental economic rescue plan, Mozambique’s President Joaquim Chissano said on Tuesday at the opening of a three-day World Economic Forum for Africa conference.
The hamlet where Nelson Mandela spent his boyhood may have attracted big businesses keen to link up to South Africa’s most famous name but it still faces huge social and economic problems that bedevil thousands of villages in the country.
Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, will spend his third week during a private visit to Africa building fences and planting trees at a rural orphanage in the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho, a royal spokesperson said on Wednesday.
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/ 14 December 2003
A new no-frills budget airline, poised to make its debut within the next two months, is setting the scene for an all-out price war on South Africa’s overworked routes. Airline infant 1Time will compete head-to-head with the country’s only current low-budget operator, kulula.com.
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/ 20 October 2003
Swaziland was poised on Monday to release the results of parliamentary elections held at the weekend, which pro-democracy groups had urged voters in the tiny southern African country, the continent’s last absolute monarchy, to boycott. ”All the results are in and voting is officially over for now,” said election information officer John Mkhonta.
It’s 11pm on a Saturday night in downtown Monrovia and at the African Palace nightclub, revellers are getting down to some serious partying.