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Former Ghanaian president Jerry Rawlings was to testify on Thursday before a national reconciliation commission investigating human rights abuses during his 19-year regime in the west African state.
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/ 12 February 2004
Nearly 200 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence in a remote part of southwestern Ethiopia. A government statement said 196 people were killed and 25 injured in clashes between the Anuaks and other ethnic groups in the Dima district of Gambella state.
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<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>The Democratic Alliance on Thursday accused the government of using drought aid to buy the votes of farm workers. "The ANC [African National Congress] government’s ‘drought assistance’ to farm workers who still receive salaries and haven’t lost their jobs amounts to buying votes," a DA agriculture spokesperson said.
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Limpopo police appealed on Thursday for any direct relatives of sacked worker Nelson Shisane, the man who was allegedly thrown to lions in a labour dispute, to come forward to help them with DNA tests to identify him.
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The Aids virus is spreading in the main cities and towns of the Republic of Congo, with a higher average rate of HIV-positive people among women than among men, according to a survey published on Thursday. The survey shows that the national average rate of infection is 4,2% among people aged 15 to 49.
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An aide to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Thursday that Israel would likely decide not to send a legal team to defend the construction of its West Bank separation barrier at hearings on the issue at the International Court of Justice in The Hague later this month.
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South Korea’s Food and Drug Administration on Thursday banned cheeky Valentine’s Day chocolates shaped like genitals or couples making love, and in India, Hindu nationalists who claim they are fighting against Western cultural influence have threatened to shave young lovers’ heads and beat them if they exchange Valentine’s Day cards and gifts.
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Seventeen people were badly injured on Thursday when about 7 000 people turned up to apply for 500 jobs at Durban’s new marine theme park, police said. Another 52 job seekers suffered minor injuries. Some of the job seekers, gathered at Durban’s International Convention Centre, were crushed against a steel fence.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was marginally positive in noon trade on Thursday, with a higher gold price and stronger world markets offsetting the negative effect of a stronger rand. The rand was quoted at R6,72 per dollar from R6,89 when the JSE closed on Wednesday.
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New HIV tests for pregnant women may prove crucial to the lives of five unborn babies whose mothers where unaware that they had the virus.