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/ 31 January 2007
The Zimbabwean government’s Media and Information Commission (MIC) is refusing to renew the licence of one of the country’s biggest business newspapers, the <i>Financial Gazette</i>, demanding the paper first disclose its owners. Newspapers cannot publish unless they have a licence from the MIC.
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/ 31 January 2007
Zimbabwe university lecturers went on strike earlier this week, and teachers’ unions say their members are on a "go-slow" and will abandon classes altogether from next Monday to press for better pay and working conditions. The university lecturers join a long list of state workers who have been boycotting work.
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/ 31 January 2007
Senior European policy-makers are increasingly worried that the United States administration will resort to air strikes against Iran to try to destroy its suspect nuclear programme. As transatlantic friction over how to deal with the Iranian impasse intensifies, there are fears in European capitals that the nuclear crisis could come to a head this year.
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/ 31 January 2007
State television showed Fidel Castro for the first time in three months on Tuesday and the ailing Cuban leader said he was still in the fight to recover from surgery that forced him to relinquish power last July. Castro (80) looked stronger than he had in a previous video, but still frail, in the images from a two-hour meeting on Monday with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.
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/ 31 January 2007
Hundreds of South African soldiers have been accused of killing, torturing and assaulting the very people they are supposed to protect — and taxpayers might have to fork out almost a billion rands in civil claims, a Johannesburg daily newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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/ 31 January 2007
A yawning gulf between the stern doctrines preached by Pope Benedict and the advice offered by ordinary Roman Catholic priests has been exposed by an Italian magazine which dispatched reporters to 24 churches around Italy where, in the confessional, they sought rulings on various moral dilemmas.
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/ 31 January 2007
Most children in Zambia eat a meal at least once or twice daily. But despite a full stomach, many lack the nutrients essential for their physical and mental development. The Zambian government is fighting this "hidden hunger" by fortifying maize meal, the staple food, with life-saving vitamins and minerals.
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/ 31 January 2007
The world took a giant step towards eliminating impunity for human rights abuses when the International Criminal Court opened its first official hearing, in November, in a case against a Congolese militia leader. Africa’s own efforts to hold senior government officials and rebel leaders accountable also marked new milestones last year.
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/ 31 January 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Continuing his charm offensive to reassure businessmen and the investment community that his ascent to the leadership of the ruling party signifies no threat to the economy, Jacob Zuma on Thursday faced the bulls, bears and stags of the Johannesburg Securities Exchange. He spoke at a luncheon organised by Jayendra Naidoo, chairperson of Macquarie First South.
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/ 31 January 2007
The hosts of SAfm’s breakfast news show <i>AM Live<o> have resigned. John Perlman told <i>eMedia</i> that he will leave at the end of February and that he had no future plans yet. His colleague, Nikiwe Bikitsha, will also leave the public broadcaster to work for Cable News Broadcasting Corporation Africa.