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/ 19 January 2005
Trade unions are gearing up for a march in Pretoria on Thursday to protest staff shortages in prisons. Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union president Zizamele Cebekhulu said the Department of Correctional Services has thus far failed to address the issues of prisoner overcrowding and staff shortages.
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/ 19 January 2005
The United Nations has warned that nearly two thirds of the population of Eritrea, 2,3-million people, will need food aid this year, news reports said on Wednesday. The tiny Horn of Africa country is facing severe food shortages in 2005, following several successive droughts in the main grain-producing areas of the country.
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/ 19 January 2005
The United Nations’s World Food Programme said on Wednesday it would feed in coming months more than a half million people in northern Burundi, where famine has claimed about 100 lives since November. The operation is aimed at tens of thousands of families in the Kirundo and Muyinga provinces where harvests were poor last year.
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/ 19 January 2005
The construction of a road network for southern Sudan will be crucial to rebuilding a region that, after two decades of civil war, has virtually none at all. Most of those that do exist are usable only in the dry season and all are unpaved and in desperate need of repair.
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/ 19 January 2005
Ten people were killed in a string of suicide car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday that targeted the Australian embassy and Iraqi security forces. The attacks anoccurred on the eve of a major Muslim holiday, Eid al-Adha, with Iraqi insurgents determined to taint the January 30 polls with bloodshed.
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/ 19 January 2005
Mining magnate Roger Kebble’s fraud case was struck from the roll of the Johannesburg Regional Court on Wednesday. According to the charge sheet, Kebble faced 62 counts of fraud relating to allegedly inflated invoices issued to Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD), on which DRD paid Skilled Labour Brokers. The excess money of about R7-million was allegedly in Kebble’s account.
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/ 19 January 2005
Images of British soldiers described as shocking and appalling that allegedly show the abuse of Iraqi prisoners were shown to a court martial in Germany on Tuesday as the long-awaited case of three members of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers got under way.
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/ 19 January 2005
United States film star Leonardo DiCaprio revealed in a German women’s magazine that he hopes one day to find a woman who is ”at least half as good” as his mother. In the interview appearing in the Frau im Spiegel magazine, the 30-year-old actor says he puts a lot of importance on such qualities as friendship and humour in a relationship.
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/ 19 January 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was a red deluge in noon trade on Wednesday as the profit-taking seen over the previous two days continued. A recovery in the rand to R6 per dollar added to the negative picture and decliners outnumbered advancers on the all-share index by about five to one.
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/ 19 January 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel, Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa and South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni will lead a high-level delegation to the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, sources confirmed on Wednesday.