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/ 20 September 2005
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday it is sending 100 000 malaria treatments to Niger, concerned that malnutrition in the sub-Saharan country could worsen the child death rate from the disease. ”Even under ordinary conditions in Niger, 50% of all deaths among children are from malaria,” the WHO said.
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/ 20 September 2005
Good news travels fast in the Williams household, with debutant Venus hyped up about this week’s China Open after glowing reports on the event from her 2004 defending champion sister Serena. ”It’s become a legend in our house, it’s hard to separate myth from reality about this tournament,” said treble Wimbledon winner Venus.
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/ 20 September 2005
Eviction raids on two buildings in Hillbrow on Tuesday were merely punishing the poorest of the poor and not addressing their need for housing, a member of the Wits Law School said. Stuart Wilson from the university’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies said people living in ”bad” buildings had a constitutional right to have their housing needs addressed by the state.
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/ 20 September 2005
The Zimbabwe government is considering amending the Constitution to allow presidential and parliamentary elections to take place at the same time. Presidential elections are due in 2008, while parliamentary elections are only due in 2010, but Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party was contemplating changing the country’s laws to make the two polls coincide.
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/ 20 September 2005
The Ugandan army is as guilty as the brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in abusing civilians devastated by nearly two decades of conflict in northern Uganda, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report. ”Soldiers in Uganda’s national army have raped, beaten, arbitrarily detained and killed civilians in camps,” said HRW.
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/ 20 September 2005
Lions have killed 20 people and 750 head of livestock in southern Ethiopia, local administrators said on Tuesday. The lions, which mauled their prey in daylight attacks while herdsmen were grazing their stock, have forced more than 1 000 to flee Soro district, about 370km south of the capital Addis Ababa.
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/ 20 September 2005
Listed hotel and gaming group Sun International and its Free State-based black economic empowerment partner, Mangaung Sun, are on track to open their new R240-million Windmill Casino and Entertainment Centre complex in Bloemfontein at the end of September, Sun International said on Tuesday.
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/ 20 September 2005
After moving to an all-time high in early trade, the JSE declined on Tuesday due to the stronger rand, the firm oil price and jitters about the next direction in the market, brokers said. By 12.35pm, the all-share index was down 0,1% at 16 457,16, having reached a record 16 472,83 in opening trade.
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/ 20 September 2005
Two years after Tiger Woods and Ernie Els staged an unresolved, tension-packed twilight play-off duel in South Africa, someone might finally take sole possession of the Presidents Cup. The sixth edition of the biennial golf showdown between United States and International 12-man squads begins in Gainesville, Virginia, on Thursday.
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/ 20 September 2005
Residents at two Hillbrow buildings, where up to 25 people have been squatting in one room, tossed blankets and other possessions out of windows as the Red Ants moved in with eviction orders on Tuesday morning. Inspector Kriban Naidoo said the evictions were happening after an early-morning raid on the buildings.