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/ 11 September 2007
Angolan police still violate human rights ranging from brutal slum clearance to torture, with no investigation or disciplinary action, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. The report finds that the abuse of power and failure to bring perpetrators of these violations to justice goes on unhindered.
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/ 11 September 2007
Zimbabwe’s main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on Tuesday accused President Robert Mugabe’s government of bribing traditional chiefs by giving them brand-new vehicles ahead of elections due next year. Thirty-eight chiefs were given the open-backed vans on Monday at a ceremony in the capital.
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/ 11 September 2007
Magistrate Dreyer van der Merwe on Tuesday denied an application from former spy boss Billy Masetlha’s defence team for his recusal from the case at the Hatfield Community Court in Pretoria. ”The facts presented by the defence are not substantiated to merit a recusal,” the magistrate said after deliberating over the application for about two hours.
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/ 11 September 2007
Norway will reduce its direct aid to Ethiopia by about one-third after Addis Ababa expelled six Norwegian diplomats, Development Aid Minister Erik Solheim said on Tuesday, though he said it was for purely logistical reasons. ”We want to have a good relationship with Ethiopia,” Solheim told foreign correspondents in Oslo.
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/ 11 September 2007
The editor of an Egyptian daily is to face trial accused of damaging the ”public interest” by publishing rumours on President Hosni Mubarak’s health, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday. Ibrahim Eissa, the outspoken editor of al-Destur, is to appear in court on October 1.
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/ 11 September 2007
Three people were injured and 22 striking refuse workers were arrested for intimidation and public disturbance in Pretoria on Tuesday, the City of Tshwane said. Member of the mayoral committee Gabriel Thwala said the workers were throwing rubbish into the streets and were intimidating non-striking workers, of whom three were injured.
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/ 11 September 2007
Ongoing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region threatens to undermine planned peace talks between Khartoum and rebel groups, a British minister said as he flew into the war-torn area on Tuesday. British Foreign Office Minister for Africa Mark Malloch Brown made the remarks a day after rebels said government aircraft had bombed a rebel-held Darfur town.
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/ 11 September 2007
State-owned broadcast signal distributor Sentech is protesting that it simply does not have enough money to do its job properly. Writing in the company’s annual report, chairperson Colin Hickling points out that it has been proved impossible to roll out a national broadband radio network until extra funds are received from the government.
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/ 11 September 2007
Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden praised as a ”champion” one of the September 11 hijackers in a new video released on Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of the devastating attacks on the United States. He also called on Muslim youths to join a ”caravan” of martyrs, in the second al-Qaeda video in just five days featuring the Western world’s most wanted man.
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/ 11 September 2007
Demand for skilled South Africans is soaring in the United Kingdom, which is experiencing a major skills shortage, a UK recruitment agency said on Tuesday. "Demand for South African professionals is soaring in the UK because London’s top financial-services industry experiences a massive skills shortage," said Nabila Sadiq of the Joslin Rowe Temporaries agency.