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/ 24 January 2008
Two welders were critically injured when the tank in which they were working exploded in Pietermaritzburg, paramedics said. Netcare 911 said two men were taken to the city’s St Anne’s Hospital. Police spokesperson Inspector Joey Jeevan confirmed the explosion but could not immediately provide any details.
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/ 24 January 2008
Malawi is to probe claims that Indian-made manual irrigation pumps used by the country’s poor farmers kill their sexual desire at night, a senior government official said on Thursday. ”We are going to do a thorough study to determine the problem,” said the irrigation officer, who identified himself as S Maweru.
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/ 24 January 2008
Lili, Demi and Mek, three female antelopes born in a Czech zoo, will soon be set free in Swaziland under a programme to reintroduce endangered species to their African homeland. Swaziland’s last living example of the roan antelope was killed in a trap almost half-a-century ago in 1961.
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/ 24 January 2008
With a tracing programme managed by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Kenya Red Cross Society, the hopes of Kenya’s displaced who are missing a relative are not lost. The system is often as simple as lending lost relatives a cellphone to call family.
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/ 24 January 2008
The top United Nations Children’s Fund official for West and Central Africa, Esther Guluma, has been touring Liberia this week to urge its adults to abandon practices that raise the child mortality rate. ”Malnutrition is the underlined cause for child deaths,” Guluma said in the central town of Gbarnga.
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/ 24 January 2008
Why, in God’s name, do the Scorpions need to be dissolved into the South African Police Service?
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/ 24 January 2008
Zambia’s Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the deportation of a British writer who described President Levy Mwanawasa as a ”fool”, saying the punishment sought was ”disproportionate” to the offence. The full Bench of the court said Roy Clarke should be allowed to stay in Zambia.
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/ 24 January 2008
African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary Chief Whip Isaac Mogase was on Wednesday removed from his position by the party’s new leadership. Briefing reporters after the party’s caucus met at Parliament, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Mogase would be replaced by ANC MP Nathi Mthethwa.
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/ 24 January 2008
The United States and other countries must not demonise sovereign wealth funds as they come to the aid of troubled United States banks, some of the world’s biggest state-run investors said on Thursday. A top US official denied the United States feared government-run investment funds, many of them based in Asia, the Gulf and Russia.
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/ 24 January 2008
Biofuels made from plants and waste will prove an increasingly efficient and cheap substitute for oil in many areas over the coming five years, industry analysts said. As long as crude sells at prices towards $100 per barrel, there will be strong demand for cheaper biofuels.