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/ 31 January 2004
Chinese President Hu Jintao will unveil Beijing’s new policy towards Africa in a speech to parliament in Gabon, where he is due to arrive on Sunday on the second leg of a three-nation tour of the continent. ”We have entered a new era, the 21st century, and Chinese leaders have changed,” said Chinese ambassador Fan Zhenshui.
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/ 31 January 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Friday said the European Union should not target his government, arguing that his embattled country was more democratic than the majority of African nations. Mugabe made the remarks after meeting the outgoing French ambassador to Harare, Didier Ferrand, weeks ahead of the proposed renewal of sanctions by the European Union.
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/ 31 January 2004
He arrived laughing and joking. Just over two hours later Armin Meiwes, the self-confessed German cannibal who killed and ate another man, left a stunned courtroom scarcely able to believe his luck. ”The famous lust for murder was not there. The killing was very unpleasant for Meiwes,” the judge said.
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/ 31 January 2004
George Bush finally conceded on Friday night that there may be a problem over Iraq’s missing weapons of mass destruction when he said he wanted to know why there were discrepancies between pre-war intelligence and the negligible material investigators had found on the ground.
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/ 31 January 2004
The thin air and rugged terrain of Kenya’s highlands may have been the perfect breeding ground for a succession of world-beating athletes, but the east African country has become the victim of a ”brawn drain” to countries with fatter chequebooks.
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/ 31 January 2004
South African soccer coach Styles Phumo criticised the referee on Saturday after his side’s 4-0 defeat by Nigeria in an African cup of Nations Group D match in Monestir. Nigeria opened the scoring in the fourth minute through Joseph Yobo, before captain Jay Jay Okocha added a second with a controversial penalty in the 63rd minute.
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/ 31 January 2004
Osaze Odemwingie scored twice on Saturday to lead Nigeria to a 4-0 win over South Africa and maintain their chances to qualify for the African Cup of Nations quarterfinals. South Africa lacked any edge in attack and never looked close to pulling off an upset.
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/ 30 January 2004
The Inkatha Freedom Party, which shares the provincial government in KwaZulu-Natal with the ruling African National Congress, said on Friday it was sorry about an incident in which South African President Thabo Mbeki’s motorcade was hindered by a number of its supporters.
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/ 30 January 2004
The Boeremag’s plans to take over the country included destroying the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) building in Johannesburg by blowing it up, the Pretoria High Court heard on Friday. Police spy Johan Smit testified that targets identified as part of a coup plan included the SABC, Radio Jacaranda and Radio Pretoria.
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/ 30 January 2004
European Union antitrust officials cleared the ,5-billion merger of South Africa’s AngloGold with Ghana’s Ashanti Goldfields on Friday, a deal that will create one of the world’s top gold producers.