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Zimbabwe’s veteran President Robert Mugabe, accused of allowing attacks on his political opponents, appealed on Thursday to his supporters not to engage in violence in next year’s elections. In a keynote address at his Zanu-PF conference in the capital, Harare, he also urged the party to remain united in the countdown to elections.
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/ 13 December 2007
Kenya’s First Lady, Lucy Kibaki, on Wednesday slapped an official who confused her name with that of a woman who has been reported as being the president’s second wife, a report said. Lucy Muthoni Kibaki slapped an undersecretary in the Office of the President during a presidential awards ceremony, independent NTV reported.
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/ 13 December 2007
Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua was to have his first meeting with United States President George Bush in Washington on Thursday, after US criticism of his election but admissions that Nigeria’s oil is important. They ”will discuss electoral reform and related issues, energy and the situation in the Niger Delta,” Bush’s spokesperson said.
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/ 13 December 2007
At least 13 Somalis died on Thursday, including 11 in almost simultaneous mortar blasts, as Mogadishu’s civilian population continued to bear the brunt of relentless fighting. ”The explosion cut people into pieces and splashed blood on the market stalls. We’re not sure where the mortar came from,” said a witness.
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/ 13 December 2007
Two Algerians, aged 30 and 64, carried out Tuesday’s twin car-bomb attacks in Algiers that killed scores of people, the Algerian daily Liberte reported on Thursday. According to official figures, at least 31 people were killed in the bombings, including five foreigners.
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/ 13 December 2007
Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla has until January 15 to file her submissions with the Ginwala commission of inquiry into National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli. According to the rules and timeframes for the inquiry, Pikoli has until January 31 to do the same.
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The African National Congress (ANC) must make the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people a ”living reality” at its upcoming national conference. The Lesbian and Gay Equality Project and the Triangle Project will send an open manifesto demanding these rights to the ANC ahead of the conference.
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/ 13 December 2007
The African National Congress Women’s League’s decision to postpone its planned Thursday meeting with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has deprived the latter of an opportunity to explain its general secretary’s controversial gender remarks made at the weekend, Cosatu said on Thursday.
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/ 13 December 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called for effective sanction of government departments for failing to answer written parliamentary questions after 233 of its questions went unanswered this year. Thirteen percent (233) of the 1 690 written parliamentary questions posed by the party this year remained unanswered on Wednesday.
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/ 13 December 2007
Nationwide Airlines intends retrenching 27 support staff based at Lanseria Airport, the trade union Solidarity said on Thursday. ”Nineteen workers out of the 27 on the list have already been notified that their employment is to be terminated by January 14 2008,” said Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans.