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/ 26 October 2007
Darfur’s two main rebel groups will not attend United Nations-African Union mediated peace talks in Libya, their leaders said on Friday, dashing any chance of a peace deal to end four-and-a-half years of conflict. ”We decided not to go,” said Justice and Equality Movement chief negotiator Ahmed Tugod Lissan.
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/ 26 October 2007
The Mozambican government set itself a new five-year target on Friday to remove all the landmines that still litter the country, 15 years after its long-running civil war. Luis Mondlane, a senior official in the national demining institute, said the government would need about -million to fund a new programme to get rid of all unexploded ordnance by 2012.
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/ 26 October 2007
War cries and traditional music fused with American funk, R&B and jazz to fuel a 1960s golden age in Ethiopian music. Robin Denselow reports on a riotous revival.
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/ 26 October 2007
The sitting of the KwaZulu-Natal (KZ) government in Vryheid earlier this week, which was aimed at ”taking parliament to the people”, was a scandal, said Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Friday. ”It is scandalous for parliamentarians to hold a glitzy imbizo [meeting] to tell the electorate what a fabulous job they are doing,” he said.
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/ 26 October 2007
Scratching poems on cell floors, or making ink from the brick powder, Burmese writers continue writing despite imprisonment and censorship. Aida Edemariam reports.
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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.