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/ 26 October 2007
Torrential rain overnight killed nine people and caused many homes to collapse in Kinshasa, a government spokesperson in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Toussaint Tshilombo Send, said on Friday. All the waterways in the east of Kinshasa, a city of more than six million, burst their banks and flooded crop plantations.
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/ 26 October 2007
Armed militants attacked an offshore oil platform operated by Italy’s ENI in south Nigeria early on Friday and seized seven foreign workers and one Nigerian, industrial and diplomatic sources said. The ENI group that owns the facility of its Agip subsidiary earlier stated that six workers had been seized in the attack.
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/ 26 October 2007
The value of micro stories about South Africa is how they flesh out a macro story of South Africa under apartheid, says Devarakshanam Govinden.
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/ 26 October 2007
MOVIE OF THE WEEK:Shaun de Waal reviews Paul Haggis’s latest offering, <i>In the Valley of Elah</i>.
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/ 26 October 2007
The cusp between Anglo and French music is the testing ground for chanson, writes Philip Sweeney.
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/ 26 October 2007
Jane Rosenthal reviews Clive Algar’s <i>Journeys to the End of the World</i> and Kelly Fletcher reviews Kathy Reichs’s <i>Bones to Ashes</i>.
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/ 26 October 2007
Warren Foster reports on the South Project workshops that took place in Johannesburg recently.
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/ 26 October 2007
The fifth man arrested for the murder of historian David Rattray was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday morning. Zwelihle Mtshali (21) pleaded guilty to one count of murder and one count of attempted robbery with aggravating circumstances.
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/ 26 October 2007
Michael Winterbottom juggles films, works with tiny crews and loves the latest technology. Andrew Pulver heads to Genoa to watch the fastest director in town.
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/ 26 October 2007
Israeli troops killed six Palestinian gunmen on Friday in some of the heaviest fighting for weeks in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and militant sources said. Two Israeli troops were wounded, the army said, as three separate raids were mounted into the territory, backed by air strikes. Seven Palestinian militants and three civilians were wounded, hospital staff said.