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/ 15 February 2006
Glorification of terrorism will become a crime in the United Kingdom now that Parliament has backed Prime Minister Tony Blair’s version of a key part of a new anti-terror law prompted by the July bombings in London. Blair said banning glorification of terrorism is essential in order to crack down on radical Islamists.
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/ 15 February 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel believes he has found a use for the luckless Bafana Bafana — clearing rubble on building sites ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, with no pay. And they should be joined, he suggested to the National Assembly in his Budget speech on Wednesday, by the Proteas cricket team.
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/ 15 February 2006
Liberian politicians who fled into exile as a bitter war raged in the West African country are set to dominate the country’s first post-war Cabinet, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s appointments have shown. Of the 19 ministers Johnson-Sirleaf has already named, only six lived in Liberia before last year’s watershed elections.
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/ 15 February 2006
Hundreds of villagers in southern Zambia have slaughtered their chickens and goats in the wake of false reports of the presence of the deadly bird flu having reached the country, news reports said on Wednesday. It was not clear who was responsible for the false reports, according to local media.
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/ 15 February 2006
The worst drought to hit Somalia in a decade could soon begin claiming lives in the Horn of Africa nation, the international Red Cross warned on Wednesday. ”People aren’t dying of hunger today in Somalia, but that could change fast,” said Pascal Hundt, who heads the International Committee of the Red Cross mission there.
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/ 15 February 2006
Nigeria banned domestic poultry in its political capital, Abuja, on Wednesday as it redoubled efforts to contain Africa’s first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu. Information Minister Frank Nweke said authorities were ”going around to pick up the birds and poultry that are being kept in residential homes”.
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/ 15 February 2006
Denel chief executive Shaun Liebenberg on Wednesday denied reports that the arms manufacturer was planning to sack seven out of 10 employees — this after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) claimed the company intended sacking 7 000 of its 10 000 employees.
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/ 15 February 2006
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) heard on Wednesday that Auditor General Shauket Fakie had not wilfully breached a high court order forcing him to hand over documents relating to the government’s multibillion-rand arms deal. Fakie is appealing a court order that found him, among others, in contempt of court.
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Seven political parties in the strife-torn Merafong municipality on the West Rand signed an election code of conduct on Wednesday, committing themselves to a free and fair election. The signing ceremony took place at the Merafong municipal offices in Carletonville.