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/ 28 February 2007
Lord’s Resistance Army rebels will not renew a truce with the Ugandan government set to expire on Wednesday, raising fears of a new chapter in the brutal 20-year war in northern Uganda. They have refused to resume talks unless another venue outside Sudan is found, a request Kampala rejects as a time-wasting tactic.
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/ 28 February 2007
South African diversified transport and logistics group Imperial increased first-half headline earnings per share by 21% and said on Wednesday it saw good full-year earnings growth. The group also said chief executive officer Bill Lynch will leave on November 1 and that the board is now looking for a new CEO.
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/ 28 February 2007
The United Nations drug control watchdog is hindering efforts to fight the global HIV/Aids pandemic and the agency should be reviewed. Stephen Lewis, a former UN special envoy for Aids in Africa, accused the International Narcotics Control Board of enforcing drug policies that ignore public health.
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/ 28 February 2007
In May, Algeria will inaugurate a reserve around a small oasis in the south-west where plants and animals will be protected in the service of a broader goal. Hopes are that the Taghit National Park will help stop the advance of the Sahara Desert, which already stretches across almost all of this North African country.
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/ 28 February 2007
Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has secured re-election by winning more than half of votes cast in Sunday’s poll, government sources said on Tuesday, but the main opposition said it would contest the result. Opponents had already accused Wade’s camp of jumping the gun in claiming a first-round victory.
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/ 28 February 2007
Retief Goosen and Ernie Els on Wednesday forecast a big future for golf in Asia, with more top players and leading events coming to the region and a champion waiting in the wings. The two players are in Phuket for the Johnnie Walker Classic this week.
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/ 28 February 2007
Aids-ravaged Malawi launched a two-day national debate on Wednesday on whether to adopt male circumcision in a bid to reduce the levels of HIV infection in the south-east African country. Around 14% of Malawi’s population of 12-million is infected with HIV, according to official figures.
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/ 28 February 2007
International currency fluctuations contributed to the New Zealand Rugby Union’s NZ,8-million (,4-million) loss in 2006, chief executive Chris Moller said on Wednesday. The result, better than its budgeted loss of NZ,2-million, compared with a NZ,7-million profit in 2005.
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/ 28 February 2007
There was no evidence linking African National Congress heavyweight Saki Macozoma to any foreign intelligence agency, said the inspector general of the National Intelligence Agency, Zolile Ngcakani. Ngcakani was testifying in the Hatfield Community Court on Tuesday where former spy boss Billy Masetlha was appearing.
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/ 28 February 2007
A last hope of justice over one of the most painful episodes in the racial history of the United States was apparently lost on Tuesday when a Mississippi grand jury refused to issue an indictment for the killing of Emmett Till, the teenager whose murder 50 years ago galvanised the civil rights movement.