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/ 24 November 2003
Hundreds of families who were driven out of their homes by recent fighting in the Galgudud region of the central Somalia are said to be living in ”destitute” conditions. Local elders said the exodus was due to heavy fighting two weeks ago between the Darod subclan of the Marehan and the Dir subclan of Fiqi Mahmud.
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/ 24 November 2003
The eldest son of Zaire’s late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko has returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo after six years in exile, an airport official said in Kinshasa on Monday. Manda Mobutu recently made known his intention to repatriate his father’s remains from Morocco.
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/ 24 November 2003
Eurythmics singer Dave Stewart — who arrived in Cape Town on Monday to prepare for the 46664 Aids Awareness Concert — on Monday described the gaps between the rich and the poor in South Africa as a ”vision of hell”. However, Stewart did express great admiration for the country’s greatest leader, Nelson Mandela.
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/ 24 November 2003
Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye reshuffled his Cabinet on Sunday to incorporate the country’s largest rebel faction, the Conseil National pour la Defense de la Democratie-Forces Nationales pour la Defense de la Democratie, led by Pierre Nkurunziza. Ndayizeye named Nkurunziza as Minister of State for Good Governance.
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/ 24 November 2003
Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has been urged to help break the deadlock in the stalled Ethiopia-Eritrea peace process, diplomats said on Monday. The Libyan leader could help overcome the current impasse between the two countries, according to diplomatic sources close to the peace process.
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/ 24 November 2003
The Church of England in South Africa (Cesa) on Sunday disassociated itself from any action to accept homosexuality as a valid expression of human sexuality. Cesa presiding bishop Frank Retief said the Bible’s plain teaching is that the homosexual lifestyle is contrary to God’s design.
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/ 24 November 2003
A provincial official faced probing cross-examination on Monday on why he complied with a superior’s instruction to draft an approval of the proposal for the Roodefontein development when he himself felt it should be rejected.
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/ 24 November 2003
President Thabo Mbeki and his deputy, Jacob Zuma, are predictably first and second on the African National Congress’s provisional list of national candidates for next year’s general elections, released on Monday. The national and provincial lists were adopted by the ANC’s national list conference at the weekend.
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/ 24 November 2003
Thirty-two mainly Asian and African foreign students died on Monday in a fire that ripped through a university hostel in Moscow. Another 139 were hospitalised, of which 50 were in a critical condition, medical sources were quoted as saying by NTV television.
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/ 24 November 2003
Mo Shaik on Monday warned Advocate Marumo Moerane, National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka’s counsel, that his persistent questioning at the Hefer commission hearings had forced Mac Maharaj to reveal a name that has now been linked to the arrest of intelligence expert Bheki Jacobs.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=23957">Advocate Josiah Boale to testify</a>