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Côte d’Ivoire’s former rebel leader Guillaume Soro was on Monday to hold talks in the main city Abidjan with President Laurent Gbagbo, sources said. Soro was absent from last week’s first extraordinary session of the full council of ministers since the former rebels launched a boycott of government meetings in September.
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/ 12 January 2004
Former Parmalat chairperson Calisto Tanzi, being investigated for alleged fraud at the food giant, has implicated the head of a leading Italian bank in several acquisitions, a newspaper alleged on Monday. Tanzi had alleged that he paid too much for a company under pressure from Capitalia because he owed the bank money, the report said.
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/ 12 January 2004
A decision by the guardians of 72 HIV-positive children to sue Kenya’s government for alleged discrimination in public schools appears to have struck a nerve in the East African country. Aids organisations say this trend may be widespread, and they are calling on the government to take action in the matter.
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/ 12 January 2004
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress cannot claim to have a well-managed economy in place although economic fundamentals on a macro-level have improved, says opposition Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille, reacting in a statement to the weekend ruling party’s election campaign launch.
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/ 12 January 2004
The Democratic Alliance should be in control of KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape following this year’s elections, its leader said on Monday. DA leader Tony Leon said: "We are extremely competitive there and we are going to go for a win with our coalition partners."
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/ 12 January 2004
Andrew Lionel Phillips, facing charges relating to operating three alleged brothels in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, appeared in the city’s regional court on Monday. ”I have been singled out because the Asset Forfeiture Unit identified me as a source of sizeable assets,” Phillips said.
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/ 12 January 2004
Long before the first United States-bound travellers had their fingerprints scanned by the US Department of Homeland Security, farm workers in rural South Africa were using biometrics to clock in at work each morning. Workers on a grape farm near Upington now have their fingerprints scanned when they arrive and leave work each day.
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/ 12 January 2004
An outspoken Zimbabwean businessman and senior ruling-party lawmaker, Phillip Chiyangwa, arrested at the weekend for obstructing the course of justice in a fraud probe, is due to appear in court on Monday, police said. Chiyangwa was arrested during investigations into the ENG Capital asset management company.
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/ 12 January 2004
Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court number one was packed on Monday for the appearance of a 15-year-old and two co-accused appear in connection with the vicious gang-rape and murder of a Cape Town Aids activist. Luyanda Zono (18) and Ncedile Ntumbukana (20) and the juvenile were arrested in connection with the murder in December of Lorna Mlofana.
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/ 12 January 2004
A bird flu outbreak that has sickened nearly 600Â 000 chickens in Vietnam is suspected of being linked to the deaths of 10 children and an adult in Hanoi, the World Health Organisation said on Monday. Viruses in both the chickens and the people appear to be similar — but further testing is being done.