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/ 18 February 2004
Just about everything about Nigeria’s mushrooming movie industry is huge, apart from its latest generation of stars; a team of dwarf actors whose small statures belie their towering ambitions.
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/ 18 February 2004
The media play a major part in constructing the meaning of 2004 as ”10 years of freedom”. They take what in many respects is an arbitrary figure, and canonise the period into a decimalised sacred cow of intrinsic significance. If media representation of the occasion is a given, the forms this takes are not. Thus, the 10-year motif invites comparisons — but with what?
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/ 18 February 2004
President Joaquim Chissano appointed Mozambique’s first woman prime minister on Tuesday to replace fellow independence war veteran Pascoal Mocumbi, who is leaving to take up the top position in an international health body. The new prime minister is Planning and Finance Minister Luisa Diogo, who will retain that portfolio, state radio reported.
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/ 18 February 2004
Shares in listed South African banking group Nedcor tumbled on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) on Wednesday morning on speculation that the group was to announce a rights offer, possibly as big as five billion rand, when it releases its final results on Monday.
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/ 18 February 2004
Papa Wemba, the Congolese music star accused of involvement in an illegal immigration scam, was questioned in Belgium on Tuesday after his arrest and extradition from France, officials said.
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/ 18 February 2004
A new dirty tricks campaign to embarrass the Democratic frontrunner, John Kerry, backfired ignominiously on Tuesday when it emerged that a widely circulated photograph of a protest against the Vietnam War was a crude forgery.
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/ 18 February 2004
The United States has tacitly approved Ariel Sharon’s plan for ”unilateral disengagement” from the Palestinians but set a series of conditions, including a refusal to let Israel formally annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
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/ 18 February 2004
The Haitian president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was under increasing pressure to seek a political settlement to the escalating violence in Haiti, after he called for international help to stave off civil war and a humanitarian disaster.
Aristide calls for help
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/ 18 February 2004
He was, it seemed, the perfect spy — discreet, dedicated, experienced. In the glowing words of his 2002 service report, ”X’s constant engagement and sense of initiative allow him to obtain consistently excellent results, to the great satisfaction of his superiors”.
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/ 18 February 2004
Thousands of Rwandans accused of participating in genocide have been offered a ”final chance” to be released from prison if they confess their guilt and ask for forgiveness before a deadline next month.