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/ 21 November 2005
Gender equality is ”taking root” in African leadership, Pan African Parliament (PAP) president Gertrude Mongella said in Midrand on Monday. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s election as President of Liberia shows ”the equality of women and men in organs of power is taking root on this continent”, Mongella said on the first day of the PAP’s fourth ordinary session.
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/ 21 November 2005
Kenyans voted peacefully on Monday in a constitutional referendum amid fears of violence after a bitterly contested campaign for the first major change to the country’s charter since independence. Long lines were seen at polling stations as up to 11,6-million voters queued to cast ballots on the draft.
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/ 21 November 2005
A Tanzanian man drank himself to death over the weekend after gulping down nearly a litre of vodka in an unofficial contest at a bar in the capital, police and witnesses said on Sunday. Witnesses said the man, in his 30s, and two other diehards began the fatal competition late on Friday.
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/ 21 November 2005
The cast and crew of the Czech reality show <i>VyVoleni (The Selected)</i> were cleared from the Prague villa used for filming before dawn on Sunday by about 40 security guards and dogs sent in by the site landowner over a rent disagreement, broadcaster TV Prima announced.
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/ 21 November 2005
A Nigerian state governor who had been charged in Britain with handling more than -million in stolen government funds has skipped bail and returned home, where he enjoys immunity from prosecution, officials said on Monday. The escape will prove an embarrassment both for Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo and for Britain.
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/ 21 November 2005
Egyptian forces shot dead on Monday a Bedouin leader in the Sinai peninsula who was wanted over his suspected involvement in a string of deadly bombings in the area, the interior ministry said. Egyptian forces had been hunting Salem Khadr al-Shnub for months over his alleged role in several deadly bombings.
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/ 21 November 2005
Minutes after Rob Matthews heard his daughter’s killer wanted a retrial, the ransom he paid was returned to him, Independent Online reported on Monday. It said a cheque for R50 000 was handed over to Matthews by advocate Camilla Botes of the Johannesburg asset-forfeiture unit on Friday.
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/ 21 November 2005
The Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa (ABC) has formally adopted new rules on the way publishers report on their circulation figures. ”The ABC will now report audited circulation data on a quarterly basis,” it said on Monday. The new rules will apply to circulation data for the first quarter of 2006.
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/ 21 November 2005
The opposition Democratic Alliance party has urged the government not to use Zimbabwean flying instructors to train South African Air Force (SAAF) pilots. DA defence spokesperson Rafeek Shah questioned if Zimbabwean Air Force instructors have sufficient knowledge of, or experience with, SAAF aircraft.
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/ 21 November 2005
At least 85% of South Africans in need of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) had still not received them by mid-2005, a United Nations report revealed on Monday. The report said the South African Aids crisis shows no signs of abating. Preventing infection and providing ARVs is key to halting the death spiral from Aids on the continent.