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One of two rebel movements engaged in peace talks with Sudan’s government, mediated by the African Union, said on Wednesday the negotiations over the Darfur region have collapsed and could be suspended for weeks. The AU-mediated talks in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, are a bid to end the conflict that erupted in west Sudan in 2003.
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Public-sector unions threatened on Wednesday to increase their pay demand to 12% if the government withdraws its R28-billion package. "The minister wants to open Pandora’s box. Labour can also play this game," the Congress of South African Trade Unions said.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=122224">Unions expect 800 000 to march</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=122182">Cosatu throws weight behind strike</a>
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/ 15 September 2004
Cinemagoers in the Iranian capital were given their first glimpse of Fahrenheit 9/11 this week, but appeared to also enjoy the rare chance to watch an American movie more than its assault on their regime’s arch foe George Bush. On Tuesday night the film was sold out and the theatre packed with close to 380 people, most of them young.
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/ 15 September 2004
Zambians could be forgiven for pleading "Constitution fatigue". The Constitution that was drawn up for their country at independence in 1964 has been replaced three times in the past 40 years. Now, yet another Constitution is up for debate — something that has pitted the government against civil society.
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/ 15 September 2004
Eritrea has expelled British Broadcasting Corporation reporter Jonah Fisher from the northeast African country with no explanation given, Fisher told AFP on Saturday. Last week, the Eritrean government ”cancelled my press accreditation and soon after they gave me three days to leave the country,” explained Fisher over the phone in Nairobi, where he is presently staying.
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Nigeria is to receive -million loan from the World Bank for the provision of water in rural areas, an official statement said on Wednesday. A finance ministry statement said the agreement for the loan was signed in Abuja between Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Water Resources Minister Mukhtar Shagari and officials of the bank.
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/ 15 September 2004
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to keep a peacekeeping force along the Eritrean-Ethiopian border for six more months until March 15 2005. The 4 200-strong force monitors a 25km buffer zone along the 1 000km border separating the two armies.
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/ 15 September 2004
Elma Garcia laughed in resignation as she held the cold-water tap from her sink — the only thing left from her bathroom in one of few populated areas near the westernmost tip of Cuba that Hurricane Ivan grazed on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. ”We thought that when it was all over there would be nothing left,” Garcia said.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa on Wednesday touched its best level since early June 2002 ahead of Thursday’s September equity futures. At 12h00, the all share and all share industrial indices were 0,40% and 0,47% firmer respectively. At 12h00, the all share and all share industrial indices were 0,40% and 0,47% firmer respectively. Financials were up 0,17% and the banks index was 0,18% higher.
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With paper bills so rancid even lepers hate to touch them, French-speaking West Africa gets down to serious money-laundering on Wednesday: a massive, eight-country campaign to retire more than one billion dollars’ worth of decaying currency seen as much as vectors of disease as units of exchange.