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/ 30 September 2005
Southern Sudan’s new parliament sat for the first time on Friday in the southern capital of Juba to discuss the region’s post-war constitution, according to reports monitored in the Kenyan capital. The legislature is part of a peace deal signed by the Khartoum government and the former southern rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement .
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/ 30 September 2005
Côte d’Ivoire rebels holding the north of the country said on Friday they want a ”bold decision” from a West African regional summit in Nigeria to end the mandate of embattled President Laurent Gbagbo. They accused Gbagbo of failing to implement measures called for in the three-year-old, French-brokered peace deal.
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/ 30 September 2005
After years of bloody civil war, Algerians overwhelmingly voted in favour of a plan of national reconciliation that would give amnesty to thousands of suspected Islamic terrorists, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni announced on Friday. Nearly 80% of Algeria’s more than 18-million eligible voters went to the polls.
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/ 30 September 2005
Biritish Prime Minister Tony Blair today insisted Turkey’s future was in the European Union as British officials in Brussels worked to dispel a looming crisis over next week’s talks on its membership. In an interview with Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper, the prime minister said he would work hard to help Turkey realise its EU ambitions.
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/ 30 September 2005
Marketing company Proudly South African on Friday announced the appointment of Manana Moroka as its new CEO with effect from November 1. First launched in 2001, the campaign made progress by achieving a national awareness rate of 80% and is now recognised as one of the country’s top 50 brands, the company said.
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/ 30 September 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been released from prison after agreeing to testify in a federal probe on the outing of an undercover CIA agent, the newspaper announced. Miller, who spent 12 weeks in a prison near Washington, was set free after her source waived her pledge of confidentiality, the Times said on Thursday.
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/ 30 September 2005
South Africa recorded a deficit of R3,243-billion for its trade with non-Southern African Customs Union trading partners in August after a R1,017-billion deficit in July, according to the latest Customs and Excise figures released on Friday. "It’s not a great number at all and there are no massive imports to account for it either," said one economist.
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/ 30 September 2005
The clocks in the corridors of the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, where Benedict "Tso" Vilakazi is appearing on a rape charge, were not working this week. They have not for many years now. And it seems, as with the timepieces, time itself has stood still for Vilakazi. For the first time since he appeared on the soccer scene almost five years ago, Vilakazi finds himself a truly marked man.
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/ 30 September 2005
The Constitutional Court on Friday ordered that the controversial medicine-dispensing fee be reviewed within 60 days. In what it called a ”partial victory for both sides” it set aside a Supreme Court of Appeal judgement declaring the new medicine-pricing regulations invalid. It said there is no need to scrap the law, but that changes within the law are needed.
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/ 30 September 2005
Japanese carmaker Nissan on Friday unveiled a car of the future which only goes forward — with a cabin able to revolve 360°, eliminating the need to reverse. The three-seater electric concept car, nicknamed Pivo, will be put on display at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show to be held in Chiba, outside Tokyo, from October 22 to November 6, Nissan Motor Company said in a statement.