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/ 12 January 2005
A comprehensive peace deal between the government of Sudan and the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army on January 9 capped a year of slow but steady progress in efforts to end the 21-year-old civil war in southern Sudan.
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/ 12 January 2005
There’s a lot of disinformation that is deliberately being spread around at the moment. Every whisper suggesting that the Asian tsunami was not natural, or was due to something other than an earthquake, is being systematically debunked quite thoroughly in the mass media. Ian Fraser offers up everything you need to know about the Asian tsunami — because if it’s online, it must be true.
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/ 12 January 2005
Plastic bottles could provide the cheapest and most practical way of preventing water-borne diseases in regions affected by the recent tsunami, say Swiss scientists. Solar water disinfection, or Sodis, relies on radiation and heat from the sun to kill most bacteria and viruses in the water
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/ 12 January 2005
The Northern Cape will immediately start applying its latest R26-million drought relief scheme, agriculture MEC Tina Joemat-Pettersson said on Wednesday. ”The funds would mainly be used for the purchasing of fodder, fodder transportation and drilling of boreholes to allow commercial and communal farmers to maintain their flock.”
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/ 12 January 2005
The president of soccer world governing body Fifa, Sepp Blatter, arrived in South Africa on Wednesday morning and said he is delighted to be involved in the first World Cup to be held in Africa. Blatter was met at Johannesburg International airport by South African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant and CEO Danny Jordaan.
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British Treasury chief Gordon Brown began a six-day visit to Africa on Wednesday by touring a school in what some say is the largest slum in Africa, to see the impact of Kenya’s free primary education policy on efforts to cut poverty. Brown plans to use his trip to Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and South Africa to step up his appeal for greater international commitment to tackling global poverty.
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/ 12 January 2005
A good curry laden with spices can do wonders in keeping a range of diseases including cancer at bay, according to internationally acclaimed researcher Prof Bharat Aggarwal. ”It is not only cancer, there are a number of other diseases … right now there are clinical trials going on in the University of California with curcumin for dementia [and] Alzheimer’s.”
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/ 12 January 2005
An original pirate banner and a treasure chest that belonged to Thomas Tew are the crown jewels of Pirate Soul, a new museum that opened recently in Key West and is dedicated to those hated brigands or heroes, depending on which point of view one prefers.
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African leaders on Tuesday gave South African President Thabo Mbeki more time to negotiate peace in Côte d’Ivoire, but his mediation initiative ran into trouble hours later when rebels boycotted a special Cabinet meeting on Tuesday night at which he was guest of honour. A rebel spokesperson accused Mbeki of ”betrayal”.
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/ 12 January 2005
The biggest name in Northern Hemisphere rugby, Jonny Wilkinson, is desperate to tour New Zealand with the British and Irish Lions and may not play in the Six Nations series, Lions coach Clive Woodward said in Auckland on Wednesday. Wilkinson suffered a new injury to his left knee over the weekend that is likely to keep him out of the game for up to six weeks.