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/ 24 February 2004
The United Nations Congo mission is investigating reports of a series of massacres of about 100 civilians and seven soldiers by Mayi-Mayi fighters in southeast Congo, a UN spokesperson said on Tuesday. The killings allegedly were carried out since January at the town of Kitenge in Katanga province.
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/ 24 February 2004
The National Treasury on Monday repeated its warning to those who claim tax against car allowances to stop using its ”deemed” expense schedule as a means of reducing their tax obligations. Treasury tax director Martin Grote said the schedule was a ”huge vehicle for people to actually reduce their tax payment”.
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/ 24 February 2004
Haiti’s rebel leader said on Tuesday he is seeking to re-establish the army that was disbanded after ousting President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991. With the rebels threatening to attack the capital of Port-au-Prince, the United States has tried to broker a last-ditch peace plan that does not require Aristide to resign.
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/ 24 February 2004
A boycott of the vaccine for polio spread to two more northern Nigerian Islamic states on Tuesday, United Nations Children’s Fund officials said, hampering a massive drive to immunise 63-million children in 10 African nations against a polio outbreak.
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/ 24 February 2004
The South African Council of Churches has written an urgent letter to the presidency requesting President Thabo Mbeki send a delegation to Harare to help restore talks between Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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/ 24 February 2004
United Nations Special Envoy Lloyd Axworthy expressed disappointment on Monday after failing to visit Eritrea at the start of his peacekeeping mission. He described Eritrea as the ”missing voice” in his efforts to overcome the stalled three-year peace process between it and neighbouring Ethiopia.
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/ 24 February 2004
The world’s largest diamond producer, De Beers, is involved with talks with the United States Justice Department to settle charges of price fixing levelled against it nearly 50 years ago and return to the US market, The Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday.
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/ 24 February 2004
A powerful earthquake measuring more than six points on the Richter scale struck northern Morocco overnight on Tuesday, killing at least 300 people. Local rescue workers and medical staff said several hundred people were injured. The death toll was expected to rise throughout the day, the Interior Ministry said.
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The Freedom Front Plus and Cape People’s Congress have agreed on a cooperation strategy for the April 14 general election, the two parties announced on Tuesday. The leaders of the two parties said their aim is to prevent the African National Congress gaining a two-thirds majority in the election.
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/ 24 February 2004
Initially they stood at the back of the gathering, arms folded, but looking confident — smiling, jesting with one another. The ration dealers of rural Rajasthan — or, at least, of one small part of this giant Indian state. But this was a day of reckoning; soon they were to be called to account, shaken off their smug perches.