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Leaders of Côte d’Ivoire were to meet on Tuesday with President Blaise Compaore of neighbouring Burkina Faso to fine-tune details of a peace deal brokered by him. Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and his Prime Minister Guillaume Soro will travel to Burkina Faso to discuss and sign supplemetary sections to the peace accords.
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/ 27 November 2007
Africa’s biggest media group Naspers’ half year core headline earnings rose 32% to R1,75-billion. Naspers said core headline earnings per share came in at 506 cents, compared to 455 cents in the previous period. The firm warned that consumer spending would continue to slow, placing pressure on advertising and circulation revenues.
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/ 27 November 2007
Four candidates have been shortlisted to coach the All Blacks but the real contest is expected to be between incumbent Graham Henry and Robbie Deans of the Canterbury Crusaders. The New Zealand Rugby Union said on Tuesday that Henry, Deans, Wellington Hurricanes’ Colin Cooper and Waikato Chiefs’ Ian Foster would be interviewed next week.
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/ 27 November 2007
Equity markets in the emerging world have weathered the subprime credit crunch in developed markets more easily than any previous market turmoil, and are expected to remain a sought-after investment destination — if not a safe haven — for many years to come, according to the head of equity research at Old Mutual Investment Group South Africa.
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/ 27 November 2007
People around the world are preparing for floods, droughts and other natural disasters in ways largely dictated by wealth and poverty as evidence of climate change mounts, a United Nations report said on Tuesday. Even if countries took steps to cut greenhouse gases, temperatures would continue to rise until 2050 due to accumulated carbon emissions.
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/ 27 November 2007
The keepers of Japan’s biggest lake have called on the public to join in one final push to eat the bluegill fish into extinction before it does the same to threatened native species. The bluegill’s destruction of indigenous freshwater fish, almost 50 years after it was touted as a vital source of protein for an undernourished population, is being treated as an ecological emergency.
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation has been awarded exclusive rights to provide the feed at the African National Congress conference in Polokwane in December to all other broadcasters. Five SABC cameras would be allowed in the plenary hall during open sessions and would be providing ”clean feeds” and unedited material.
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The African National Congress’s (ANC) Women’s League late on Monday nominated deputy leader Jacob Zuma as its candidate to head up the organisation, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. Their backing for Zuma for the top job comes after the ANC Youth League on Friday also nominated Zuma.
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/ 27 November 2007
Three British bankers whose extradition to the United States caused a political storm last year are on the brink of a plea agreement that could involve an admission of wrongdoing over an alleged -million fraud related to the collapse of Enron.
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/ 27 November 2007
He denounces it as the ”Great Satan”, but the overtures of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the United States seem to grow ever more extravagant. Having failed to win a response with a letter to President George Bush, Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year’s presidential election.