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/ 13 December 2003
I never knew of ICTs issues until I trained with the Highway Africa", says a smiling Ansbert Ngurumo holding tightly onto his prize. The trophy was presented to him at a Global Knowledge (GKP)/Panos Special Awards Night ceremony at a parallel event to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
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/ 13 December 2003
The Swiss government has pledged one million Swiss francs each to Mali, Mozambique and Senegal in efforts to upgrade their Community Multimedia Centres (CMC).
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/ 13 December 2003
Africa coordinator of the Youth Caucus Titi Akinsanmi has managed to get the voice of African youth reflected in the youth paragraph of the draft WSIS Declaration of Principles. A Nigerian working in South Africa, Akinsanmi grew up in abject poverty, but has ambitious plans for her future.
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/ 13 December 2003
The Zambian and Swazi governments have echoed the Swiss government’s call to World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) participants to abide by the commitments contained in the Declaration of Principles and the Plan of Action.
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/ 12 December 2003
Eighteen black-clad assailants and one Ivorian soldier were killed in overnight gunbattles in the heart of the main Côte d’Ivoire city of Abidjan, Defence Minister Rene Amani said on Friday. Attacks in three areas around the city have cast a pall on efforts to end a 14-month political and military crisis in the country.
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/ 12 December 2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Ahmed Qorei are expected to meet next week, amid fears of renewed violence as seven religious Jews were wounded on Friday in a Palestinian attack at a West Bank holy site. ”I believe that the meeting will take place within days,” Qorei said in a media interview.
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/ 12 December 2003
Thailand on Friday carried out its first executions by lethal injection after abolishing the firing squad, putting to death three drug traffickers and a murderer at the notorious Bang Kwang jail. However, London-based rights group Amnesty International condemned Friday’s executions.
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/ 12 December 2003
If Peter Tebainea had wanted a quick response, he chose the wrong way to get his message across. He was a court clerk on the Pacific island of Butaritari when he stuffed a plea for help in a bottle and threw it into the sea. More than three years and several thousand kilometres later, the bottle finally turned up in southern Spain.
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/ 12 December 2003
Rights groups in Kenya have criticised the government’s decision to introduce an anti-terror law to tackle terrorism. The groups say the proposed Bill has been imposed on Kenya by the United States government as a result of two terror attacks witnessed by the country in the past five years.
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/ 12 December 2003
The Johannesburg High Court sentenced road rage murderer Owen Kröeger to 12 years on Friday, leaving the family of the victim dissatisfied at the jail term. The wife of Morare Matekane sobbed hysterically after Kröeger was sentenced, and had his bail extended to next year.