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/ 2 November 2007
The publisher of a Senegalese private daily, Le Courrier, has been arrested and his paper shut down by police for yet unclear reasons, the paper’s editor said on Friday. Pape Amadou Gaye was picked up from his office on Thursday evening by officers of the six criminal investigation division.
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/ 2 November 2007
Tanzanian officials were on Friday meeting to decide the fate of a proposed chemical plant on a remote lake that environmentalists say threatens the world’s most important breeding site for the lesser flamingo. The leaders of conservation groups in 23 African countries have signed a petition opposing the plan.
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/ 2 November 2007
Two prominent rebels fighting for autonomy in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta have traded insults in a public dispute that has exposed deep divisions before peace talks with the government. The row between the two militia leaders is apparently over money, weapons and strategy, but analysts say it is a power struggle that will strengthen the government’s hand.
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/ 2 November 2007
Oil prices resumed their climb on Friday after a decline in the previous session prompted new buying amid expectations that crude futures would continue to test new records because of tight supplies. Light, sweet crude for December delivery rose by 41 cents to ,90 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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/ 2 November 2007
A chapter in Sharks rugby closed on Thursday evening as the team bid farewell to two players who have served with distinction. John Smit and Butch James are taking up contracts to play in France and England respectively, and on Thursday evening were honoured for their contributions to rugby in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 2 November 2007
A bomb that was attached to a cash-in-transit vehicle in Durban was defused by the police’s bomb squad on Friday afternoon, police said. Spokesperson Superintendent Vincent Mdunge confirmed the incident at a shopping mall in Durban’s Montclair suburb, but said details were sketchy.
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/ 2 November 2007
There will be no cover-up in the alleged spy scandal involving the surveillance of Cape Town councillors, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille vowed on Friday. ”Let me be clear. There will be no cover-up in this matter. If anyone in the city or the DA has broken any law, the police must lay a charge and we will deal with it head-on,” she said.
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/ 2 November 2007
One hundred and fifty people were treated for diarrhoea in the Nkangala area in Delmas since the outbreak last week, Mpumalanga provincial minister of health and social services Sipho Lubisi said on Friday. ”A hundred and fifty cases have been reported to outpatient facilities for treatment. At this point in time, no deaths linked to diarrhoea have been reported.”
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/ 2 November 2007
Margaret Legum, best known for her call to sanction apartheid South Africa, died in Cape Town at the age of 74 on Thursday. She died of complications arising from a cancer-related operation. She leaves behind two sisters, three daughters, five granddaughters and one grandson.
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/ 2 November 2007
A court challenge to Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s new abalone restrictions has been postponed for a month. Legal teams of the South African Abalone Industry Association and the state gathered at the Cape High Court on Friday morning for what was expected to be an application for an urgent interdict against the restrictions.