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/ 22 January 2004
Liberia’s interim leader warned the country’s main rebel movement on Wednesday not to let its husband-wife leadership split grow into violence, saying United Nations forces would respond. ”Jungle justice” would not be allowed to take hold in Liberia, Gyude Bryant, chairman of the internationally brokered power-sharing government, declared.
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/ 22 January 2004
The proposed acquisition of media group New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) by the Tiso consortium comes before the Competition Tribunal next Wednesday, January 28. The rationale for selling Nail’s shares is that its shares have traded below its net asset value.
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/ 22 January 2004
The South African Broadcasting Corporation on Wednesday refused to meet with the Democratic Alliance to discuss its election coverage policy. The request — which the SABC learnt about through the media — was ”irregular, unacceptable, and an attempt to interfere with its editorial independence”.
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/ 22 January 2004
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa on Wednesday delivered a 16-page judgement to bring down the curtain on a war of words between two national media personalities, precipitated by the Darrel Bristow-Bovey plagiarism claims.
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/ 22 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, on trial for plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday said the political consultant he had hired to help promote his party introduced the concepts of ”elimination” and a ”military coup” during a meeting.
Elderly farmer killed in Zimbabwe
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/ 22 January 2004
North Korea could be producing nuclear weapons at the rate of eight to 13 a year in the next year or two, the International Institute of Strategic Studies predicted on Wednesday.
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/ 22 January 2004
Bare bones will be the only exposed human body parts on show when the first exhibition of contemporary British art opens in Iran next month. Although the exhibition takes British art in the 20th century — from Henry Moore to Damien Hirst — as its theme, the British Council has selected the works with scrupulous care for Iranian sensitivities.
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/ 22 January 2004
A white farmer has been killed in Zimbabwe, the first in almost 18 months, the predominantly white Commercial Farmers Union said on Wednesday. The body of Peter Sivertsen, believed to be in his 70s, was found ”mutilated … in a hole in the ground” by a neighbour in the central town of Kwekwe.
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/ 22 January 2004
Ariel Sharon has been left one step away from corruption charges and being forced from office by the indictment of a businessman on Wednesday for allegedly paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Israeli prime minister’s family for political favours.
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/ 22 January 2004
Zimbabwe’s destruction and descent towards starvation and madness continues, helped almost singlehandedly by the South African government which clearly has little or no morals any more, writes Ian Fraser. Read the AP report entitled "Zimbabwe cruelty extends to domestic animals", and Cathy Buckle’s latest letter called "Little begging girl".