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/ 1 January 2005

Kate Moss in Cape Town

Supermodel Kate Moss — whose career was severely dented after news reports claimed she was a regular user of cocaine — is in Cape Town, media reports said on Friday. But the slinky model didn’t appear to be the world’s happiest catwalk queen as she verbally attacked photograhers who approached her for a picture at a hotel in the city on Wednesday.

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/ 31 December 2004

Truce pledge could end Ugandan insurgency

The Ugandan government and the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army have pledged a truce, raising hopes of an end to one of Africa’s most vicious conflicts. Negotiators are expected to sign a ceasefire which is to pave the way for talks to end an 18-year insurgency that has cost thousands of lives and devastated the north of the country.

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/ 31 December 2004

The stench of mass graves

It is almost impossible to escape the stench of decomposing bodies in Banda Aceh. It has enveloped the city on the northern tip of Sumatra like a sticky slime, carried on the wind to even the few places that survived last Sunday’s devastating earthquake and tsunamis.