Staff Reporter
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/ 13 October 2006

Monitors: Uganda rebels have violated truce

Ugandan rebels have violated a truce with the government by leaving an agreed assembly point, the head of an independent monitoring team said on Friday, in a blow to efforts to end one of Africa’s longest conflicts. ”We did not find them there … Because they were supposed to be there, it is automatically a violation,” Major General Wilson Deng Kuoirot told the media.

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/ 13 October 2006

Mbeki: Machel’s death remains unexplained

The question whether the apartheid regime was responsible for the death of former Mozambican president Samora Machel on October 19 1986 remains unanswered 20 years later, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki paid tribute to Machel, whose death in an aircraft crash at Mbuzini in Mpumalanga was mourned as much by the ANC as by Frelimo.

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/ 13 October 2006

e-Africa Commission to sign broadband protocol

The New Partnership for Africa’s Development e-Africa Commission — which falls under the African Union — will be hosting a ceremony in Cape Town on Monday for the signing of a protocol on the broadband ICT infrastructure network project — including the Eastern Africa sub-marine system, a statement from the Department of Communications said on Friday.