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Africa’s first outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu has spread to at least four farms, Nigerian officials said on Thursday, as the continent braced itself for a possible epidemic. Nigerian agriculture ministry spokesperson Tope Ajakaiye said tests on chicken carcasses had identified the H5N1 type of avian influenza.
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Judge Phineas Mojapelo may preside over the rape trial of Jacob Zuma next week, but the final announcement will only be made on Friday. An official in the Johannesburg High Court registrar’s office said on Thursday that Mojapelo would preside over the trial, but an official in Mojapelo’s chambers said he could not confirm this.
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South Africa on Thursday said it would reopen a probe into the death of Mozambique’s first president Samora Machel, who was killed in mysterious circumstances in a plane crash during the apartheid era. ”We will deploy some of the best resources we have, human and material, to get to the bottom of that matter,” said Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
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South Africa’s fish stocks are a focal point of the World Wide Fund for Nature in SA’s (WWF SA) agenda for this year. Rob Little, head of conservation, told a press conference the WWF SA believed it would get the government to declare Prince Edward Island a protected area.
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Rebecca Webb Carranza, who is credited with playing an important role in popularising the tortilla chip, has died at age 98. In the late 1940s, the Carranza family’s Los Angeles-based El Zarape Tortilla Factory began making tortillas by machine, but at first many of the corn and flour disks were misshapen and had to be thrown away.
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A probe into alleged hoax e-mails aimed at discrediting senior ruling party figures could be completed by the end of the month, Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said on Thursday. ”That is the hope and the expectation,” he told reporters at Parliament.
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Sectarian Muslim violence marred the holiest day of the Shi’ite calendar on Thursday, with 25 people killed and more than 100 injured by bombings and clashes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The violence erupted with a suspected suicide attack on Shi’ites in Hangu, northwestern Pakistan, as they celebrated Ashura.
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The mooted biodiesel plant that is to be the subject of a pre-feasibility study by South African petrochemicals group Sasol and the Central Energy Fund (CEF), could almost triple soyabean demand in South Africa. Sasol and the CEF said the plant would require more than 500 000 tonnes of soya beans to produce 100 000 tonnes of biodiesel per annum.
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After 64 days of travel, the Olympic torch has finally arrived in Turin to begin the countdown to Friday night’s lavish opening ceremony extravaganza for the 20th Winter Olympic Games when the cauldron will be lit. Over 10 000 torch-bearers have borne the torch on its 11 300 km odyssey from the lighting of the flame at Olympia in Greece.
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The sound of Muslims singing praises reverberated in Cape Town on Thursday, as an estimated 30 000 people marched in protest and called for a boycott of Danish products. It was the first mass South African response as worldwide condemnation of Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad gathered momentum.