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/ 14 February 2004
Armed militias continue to violate human rights and international humanitarian law, despite the progress being made to end Liberia’s 14-year conflict, a human rights lawyer says. "The rebels are engaged in a new wave of violence, extorting, abducting and harassing the civilians," he said.
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/ 14 February 2004
The gatekeeper to the town of St Marc wears a black balaclava with full military fatigues and carries his rifle as high as the Caribbean midday sun. Behind him is a town emptied by fear — a place where people whisper in the darkness of their own homes with the curtains drawn against the crackle of gunfire.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=31192">Food and medical crisis looms</a>
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/ 14 February 2004
Drama in the pole-vault cast a pall over the second Absa series meeting in Potchefstroom on Friday night when Stellenbosch athlete Fanie Jacobs was rushed to hospital after injuring his lower back in dangerous competition conditions. ”We have been warning about something like this happening,” said Africa record-holder Okkert Brits after the event was cancelled.
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/ 14 February 2004
Nobody was more surprised than Dean van Staden to find himself in the lead midway through the Telkom PGA Championship at the Woodhill Country Club on Friday. The 39-year-old ERPM golfer fired a seven-under-par 65 on Friday for a 12-under 134 total after the second round of the tournament.
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/ 13 February 2004
Mel Gibson’s new controversial film The Passion of Christ has come under attack from Jewish leaders in the United States, who claim it will fan anti-Semitism in the way it presents the role of Jews in the death of Christ. Duncan Campbell reports from Los Angeles.
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/ 13 February 2004
It was once celebrated as a rare African success story — an example of what committed leadership can do. Education for all was the policy Zimbabwean authorities pursued diligently for much of the first decade since independence from Britain in 1980. But then it all started to go wrong.
Zimbabwe loses its brains
‘Zimbabwe doesn’t give us a thing’
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/ 13 February 2004
Yfm DJ Shonisani "Shabba" Muleya remembered Khabzela on Friday when he underwent an HIV/Aids test in front of a television crew and journalists. The event was not as rosy as it may sound. Before the test Shabba looked very unsettled. He moved around with a cellphone glued to his ear, and avoided questions.
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/ 13 February 2004
The World Bank has offered Vietnam a -million loan to help its poultry industry recover from the devastating bird-flu crisis, bank officials said on Friday. ”We have discussed it internally and have mobilised resources to that amount, should the Vietnamese government accept it,” said a World Bank representative in Vietnam.
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/ 13 February 2004
A British journalist who incurred the wrath of the Zambian government for allegedly insulting President Levy Mwanawasa, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting police officers, a spokesperson for his newspaper said on Friday.
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/ 13 February 2004
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has sought deployment of 350 UN law enforcement personnel to Côte d’Ivoire. The recommendation to deploy the police, lawyers and prison conditions experts was part of a report to the Security Council in response to requests for the creation of a peacekeeping force.