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Two Kenyan ministers resigned on Monday over claims that they had looted millions of pounds from the Treasury in two separate corruption scandals that have shaken the government of President Mwai Kibaki and angered foreign donors. The twin departures follow the resignation of the finance minister two weeks ago.
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/ 14 February 2006
A top Zimbabwean judge has said it is not the duty of the judiciary to spring anyone into political office, in what virtually amounts to a rebuke against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai who has petitioned the courts to nullify President Robert Mugabe’s 2002 re-election victory.
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/ 14 February 2006
Iran started testing its nuclear fuel equipment on Monday, called off talks with Russia on a compromise in its nuclear dispute with the West and threatened to abandon the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The barrage of defiant signals suggested that the Tehran regime was gambling on confrontation with the West.
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/ 14 February 2006
The daughter of Orlando Pirates football club chairperson Irvin Khoza has died of Aids-related complications at a Pretoria hospital, a spokesperson said on Monday. Dominic Ntsele said Zodwa Khoza (30), who was also the club’s brand manager, died of what doctors described as multiple organ failure at the Louis Pasteur hospital.
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/ 14 February 2006
Not long after disclosing that its French fries contain more trans fat than thought, McDonald’s has admitted wheat and dairy ingredients are used to flavour the popular menu item in the United States — an acknowledgment it did not previously make. The substances can cause allergic or other medical reactions in some consumers.
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/ 14 February 2006
The daughter of Orlando Pirates football club chairperson Irvin Khoza has died of Aids-related complications at a Pretoria hospital, a spokesperson said on Monday. Dominic Ntsele said Zodwa Khoza (30), who was also the club’s brand manager, died of what doctors described as multiple organ failure at the Louis Pasteur hospital.
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/ 14 February 2006
South Africa’s relationship with Britain is strong, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in Soweto on Monday. ”I want to see it even stronger still,” said Blair, who came to South Africa to attend last weekend’s Progressive Governance Summit. Blair paid a courtesy call on former president Nelson Mandela and visited the Apartheid Museum.
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/ 14 February 2006
The bridge on the R26 over the Caledon River near Wepener was under water on Monday due to heavy rainfall in the eastern Free State and Lesotho, police said. Meanwhile, police on Monday called in sniffer dogs in the search for the body of a 55-year-old woman who drowned on a farm near Bethulie at the weekend.
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/ 14 February 2006
The People’s Budget campaign — made up of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South African Council of Churches and the South African NGO Coalition — called on Monday for this year’s Budget to focus more on service delivery and development.
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/ 14 February 2006
Monitoring human rights abuses around the world can be dangerous, with data collectors, reporters and community members at constant risk of discovery. The Martus project pits the best of the open-source software world against abusers to create a safe and secure environment in which human rights activists can record and store data.