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The Sudanese government has failed to implement fully commitments to improve the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday in the first 30-day assessment of the conflict in that region. Annan’s report was submitted to the UN Security Council for discussion on Thursday.
War of words delays Darfur deal
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/ 1 September 2004
The Democratic Alliance has welcomed the appointment of Silas Ramaite as the new acting National Director of Public Prosecutions, saying he has a tough crime-busting profile. Ramaite was formerly deputy to Bulelani Ngcuka, who vacated the national director post on Tuesday.
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/ 1 September 2004
Unjustified complaints about delays in the approval process of the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development made former Western Cape environmental director Ingrid Coetzee feel like she was being blackmailed, she told the Bellville Regional Court on Wednesday where she was under cross-examination for a second day.
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/ 1 September 2004
Three people were killed and 34 others, many of them children attending the first day of school, injured when a man set fire to explosive materials inside a minibus in central China on Wednesday, state media said. The man committed suicide after carrying out the attack, the Xinhua news agency said.
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/ 1 September 2004
Forty-one members of a Zimbabwean civil liberties group, the National Constitutional Alliance, were arrested in Harare on Wednesday, alliance head Lovemore Madhuku said. He said the arrests occurred during a protest against the Zimbabwe NGO Bill, a new law that seeks to ban foreign funding for human-rights organisations.
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/ 1 September 2004
Gunmen with explosives strapped around their waists took more than 200 people hostage at a school in the south of the Russian Federation near war-torn Chechnya on Wednesday and threatened to blow up the building if the security forces moved in. It is Russia’s fourth terror attack within a week.
At least 10 die in Moscow suicide blast
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/ 1 September 2004
Libyans on Wednesday marked the 35th anniversary of Moammar Gadaffi’s seizure of power, with the familiar posters of their mercurial leader, who has shed his long-held pariah status, adorning city streets. On Tuesday evening, their leader delivered one of his set-piece speeches, relayed live by state media.
Gadaffi wants journalists freed
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/ 1 September 2004
The Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi on Wednesday added his voice to growing calls from the Arab world for the immediate release of the two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq. Colonel Gadaffi said kidnapping foreigners in Iraq amounted to ”terrorism” and that kidnappings were especially reprehensible when they involved ”hostages from countries that stood against the war in Iraq”.
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/ 1 September 2004
National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete, speaking to the Cape Town Press Club on Wednesday, said the amount owed to Parliament through the irregular use of parliamentary travel vouchers has risen to R17-million. Previous figures provided by Parliament amounted to between R13-million and R14-million.
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/ 1 September 2004
Pharmacists on the Cape Peninsula closed shop on Wednesday following threats of arrest from customers angry that they are not charging prices laid down by law, following last week’s reintroduction of medicine-pricing regulations, a pharmacist said. ”We will stay closed until we get leave to appeal,” said one pharmacist.