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Burundi’s two Hutu rebel movements are engaged in clashes near the capital of the tiny Central African country. The army confirmed that the National Liberation Forces prevailed in the fighting over the Forces for the Defense of Democracy, the first between the two rebel groups since 1996.
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National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is to sue both City Press and former transport minister Mac Maharaj over allegations that he had spied for the apartheid government.
Maharaj backs Ngcuka spy claim
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South Africa on Monday noted with grave concern the resignation of Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas and called on Israel and the international community to refrain from driving wedges between the Palestinian president and the prime minister.
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Assuming the world’s least-developed countries will be able to come up with the resources to pay for and conserve fragile ecosystems is not sensible. This is the opinion of Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Valli Moosa, who spoke at a briefing ahead of the opening of the fifth World Parks Congress.
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Mpumalanga Premier Ndaweni Mahlangu needs to substantiate his allegations against the media, the National Press Club in Pretoria said on Monday in reaction to a Sunday newspaper advertisement in which Mahlangu lambasted the media.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=20141">’Freedom of the press is a licence to kill'</a>
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South Africa is not being overwhelmed by crime as some would have it, and the police are winning the battle against the ”evildoers”, says Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula. He has rejected suggestions a ”culture of crime” had taken hold in some areas, making them ”ungovernable”.
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Cresting river waters menaced a swath of northern China on Monday, threatening to send more people fleeing from the worst flooding in 20 years, which authorities say has already forced a half-million evacuations.
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Reverend Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Archbishop of Cape Town, broke ranks with fellow African and developing-world archbishops on Sunday to denounce their arrogance and intolerance over homosexuality, the issue that threatens to split the worldwide Anglican communion.
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United Nations inspectors have concluded that Iran has used nuclear materials to test uranium enrichment machinery despite Tehran’s repeated declarations to the contrary. This fuels suspicions that Iran is far advanced in a clandestine nuclear bomb project.
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French anti-globalisation activist Jose Bove has said he supports the agricultural subsidies doled out in wealthy Western countries, saying states had the right to protect their farmers, but insisted poor nations still needed protection from European and United States exports.