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/ 28 November 2003
War-weary Liberians reacted angrily on Friday after former fighters in the country’s back-to-back civil wars quit a disarmament meeting, and warned them not to hamper the return of peace after 14 years of bloodshed. The fighters accused interim leader Gyude Bryant of appointing government ministers without their input.
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/ 28 November 2003
Former president Nelson Mandela has called on the world to fight Aids with a stronger resolve than was used to defeat apartheid. Speaking from Robben Island on Friday, the president emeritus told journalists that Africa and the world had fought a noble struggle against apartheid.
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/ 28 November 2003
Conservative blacks in the United States are objecting to recent comparisons between gay marriages and the 1960s civil rights movement, which fought segregation against blacks, arguing that sexual orientation is a choice. A Massachusetts court ruled last week that gay couples have the right to marry in that state.
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/ 28 November 2003
Villagers and a government boat crew pulled out more victims on Friday from a ferry disaster that has already proven one of Africa’s deadliest, with many of the 182 bodies recovered so far buried in thick forests surrounding the Congo River lake where they drowned.
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/ 28 November 2003
Former <i>City Press</i> editor Vusi Mona switched from accuser to accused on Friday before the Hefer commission. Advocate Marumo Moerane, counsel for National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka, told Mona he was "a disgrace to the journalistic profession".
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/ 28 November 2003
The Mac and Mo School for Deflecting Attention from One’s Alleged Misdemeanours has found an equally fly-by-night, but worthy, competitor. Dr Gomolemo Mokae, chairperson of the National Arts Council (NAC), is at the centre of allegations and counter-allegations, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 28 November 2003
Two of the country’s foremost media personalities squared off at a Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa tribunal on Friday. <i>Mail & Guardian</i> columnist Robert Kirby had lodged a complaint against SABC broadcaster Jeremy Maggs, following remarks made by Maggs on air in September.
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/ 28 November 2003
Britain’s security and intelligence agencies have been on a heightened state of alert for several weeks, fearing that al-Qaeda was planning an attack in this country. Suspicions that the threat was growing preceded President George Bush’s visit to London and the suicide bombings in Istanbul this month, which were aimed, for the first time, at British interests abroad.
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/ 28 November 2003
Ariel Sharon has gone back on a personal commitment to George Bush to dismantle illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank by saying he would allow some to remain for security reasons.
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/ 28 November 2003
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe said on Friday that the Southern African country is prepared to give up its membership to the Commonwealth if it is not treated as an equal. He also suggested he was still waiting for an invitation to next week’s Commonwealth Heads of Governments summit in Abuja, Nigeria.