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/ 27 January 2006

AU delays tough decisions

Of all the African leaders celebrating the successful negotiation of their new-look union’s toughest diplomatic hurdle, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe was the most joyful.This is hardly surprising, since his peers in the 53-nation African Union have once again let him off the hook.

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/ 27 January 2006

Cloaks, daggers … and rocks

The story of the British diplomats caught using a transceiver hidden inside a rock in Moscow as their dead-letter drop would not, in itself, make a novel. What we know is only the tip of the iceberg; the novel is the rest of the iceberg. Who were the diplomats collecting information from?

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/ 27 January 2006

BEE scorecards now available online

Small business owners can stop fretting over the costs of compliance with complex codes of black economic empowerment thanks to an innovative Web-based scorecard solution. Dijon de Jager, a qualified chartered accountant, launched Mpower Ratings in 2004 in an attempt to cater for small, medium and micro-enterprises.

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/ 27 January 2006

Football unites Côte d’Ivoire

Before the teargas canisters and burnt tires had all been cleared away, government supporters were embracing their opponents on the streets of Abidjan. For one afternoon at least, a passion even stronger than politics had taken over: football.
On Tuesday, fans of the Elephants filled street bars, to cheer the national team to victory in the African Nations Cup.

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/ 27 January 2006

Singletons cry foul

Singletons in the United Kingdom complain of bias in the workplace with pressure to attend after-hours dos and work weekends, a survey revealed this week. Most single people are happy being single but many feel picked on at work, left out of couple-dominated social occasions and penalised financially.