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/ 11 November 2005

Zim police free hardship protesters

Zimbabwean authorities on Friday freed more than 100 protesters, including top labour leaders, arrested in the capital on Tuesday for demonstrating against economic hardships and shortages in the country. ”They are being released now,” lawyer Alec Muchadehama said in a telephone interview.

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/ 11 November 2005

ANC ‘saddened’ by Yengeni’s situation

The African National Congress noted ”with pain” the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal on Friday of an appeal by politician Tony Yengeni against a fraud conviction and four-year sentence. The party will continue giving Yengeni moral and political support, it added. The African Christian Democratic Party said Yengeni should be thankful his sentence was not increased.

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/ 11 November 2005

Baxter: ‘I have not quit’

Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter on Friday described a report that he had ”quit” as coach of the South African national soccer team as a ”complete fabrication”. A newspaper report proclaimed he had already ”quit” his position and would make an official announcement to this effect immediately after the Nelson Mandela Cup game on Saturday.

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/ 11 November 2005

Police break up protest by quake refugees

Pakistani police using canes and rifle butts broke up a march on Friday by earthquake survivors protesting what they said were orders to evict them from a makeshift refugee camp. Police denied they were forcing people to leave. Meanwhile, international lenders estimated the economic cost of the quake at more than -billion.

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/ 11 November 2005

US, Sudanese officials discuss peace efforts

A senior United States envoy and Sudan’s vice-president discussed their efforts to bring peace to troubled Darfur on Friday. Also on Friday, the US moved to cement ties with the autonomous government of southern Sudan by opening a consulate in the south. The consulate is to be housed for the time being in a Red Cross compound.

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/ 11 November 2005

Zim customs seizes war veterans’ poppies

A war veterans’ organisation said on Friday that customs officials in Zimbabwe impounded thousands of red paper poppies sent from Britain for ceremonies commemorating the end of World War I. Red poppies are traditionally worn in the lapel in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday, the closest Sunday to November 11.