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/ 24 November 2004
Former anti-apartheid activist Valli Moosa of South Africa was elected the new president of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) on Wednesday. IUCN is deemed the world’s largest conservation network. Moosa, (47) born in Johannesburg, has served on the United Nations Environment Programme governing council, the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, and the South African Business Trust.
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/ 24 November 2004
South African agricultural group Afgri announced on Wednesday that the Agri Sizwe empowerment trust had acquired 26.77% of Afgri Operations for R502-million. Afgri shareholders will benefit by way of a R368-million special distribution of the proceeds in the form of 110.5 cents per share dividend.
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/ 24 November 2004
The Iranian, Egyptian and Syrian governments accused the Unied States on Tuesday of using excessive force to quell rebels in Iraq. The Syrian foreign minister, Farouk al-Sharaa, said at an international conference in Sharm el-Sheikh that although condemning terrorism, ”we cannot over-emphasise the need to refrain from shelling civilians, destroying cities and killing innocent people”.
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/ 24 November 2004
A lack of antiretroviral drugs is the biggest problem facing HIV/Aids programmes in Africa, says Robert Colebunders, a Belgian researcher.
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/ 24 November 2004
Countries in northwest Africa are hoping cooler winter weather will give them the time they need to wipe out swarms of young locusts while they are still too immature to breed, delegates at a Rome conference said. The locusts are the offspring of the wave that devastated African crops and grazing land this summer.
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/ 24 November 2004
Ok, if you ignored that injunction and are still reading, you’re clearly a contrarian character. You’ve decided to pay no heed to the mental health warning on this column. That may make you an exception among most readers. The reason is because the ”don’t read” message is redundant for the majority of your peers. The mere sight of the word Aids in a headline is sufficient turn-off. Even the political controversies, driving most Aids coverage, have become passé.
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/ 24 November 2004
England’s ill-starred cricket tour of Zimbabwe was mired in fresh controversy on Tuesday night after Robert Mugabe’s government banned nine media organisations including the BBC from covering the five scheduled matches, due to begin on Friday. Michael Vaughan, the England captain, condemned the decision. ”I think it is totally wrong and I am flabbergasted by the decision.”
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/ 24 November 2004
An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old. The official account claimed that Iman al-Hams was shot as she walked towards an army post with her schoolbag because soldiers feared she was carrying a bomb.
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/ 24 November 2004
Ukraine’s political crisis deepened on Tuesday night after three days of street protests and political drama threatened to cause a diplomatic rift between Russia and the United States. The opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, declared himself the winner of Sunday’s presidential run-off against the Kremlin-backed prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich, by swearing himself in after an emergency parliamentary session.