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/ 22 January 2003
American intelligence officials were yesterday struggling to explain the failure of a dramatic operation to snare one of the main instigators of the Rwandan genocide which led to the death of their key informant, a Kenyan businessman vying for a -million bounty.
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/ 22 January 2003
Afghanistan’s most senior judge outlawed cable television yesterday saying it was against Islam, a decision reminiscent of the Taliban regime.
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/ 22 January 2003
Unless decisions are taken to fund humanitarian programmes, 12-million — or 20% — of southern Africa’s 60-million people may die prematurely of Aids, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.
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/ 22 January 2003
Organised labour in the health sector in KwaZulu-Natal has worked around the clock this week to prevent premature protest against a national government directive to the province to rescind salary increases awarded in 2001 to more than 49 000 employees.
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/ 22 January 2003
It’s a shame that Athele Wills didn’t have a better time during her holiday in the United States ("A world gone crazy", January 10). She could really have enjoyed herself if she had stopped obsessing about what she perceives as the US’s responsibility for starvation in Africa.
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/ 22 January 2003
Does AmeriCare? I ask, because President George W Bush was meant to visit four African countries this past week, including South Africa, but suddenly his diary became chocked-up with far more pressing matters than our distant, poor continent.
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/ 22 January 2003
A Russian source on Wednesday claimed to have information that the US plans to launch an attack on Iraq within the next month. The claim came as Germany confirmed that it would not back a UN resolution authorising war.
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/ 22 January 2003
The Black Caps will have enough time to adjust to South African conditions before the cricket World Cup, but their top order has to fire, Auckland coach Mark O’Donnell said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 January 2003
Senior New National Party members Peter Marais and David Malatsi will soon face their party’s wrath, after one publicly defied Marthinus van Schalkwyk and the other implicated the national leader in dubious funding.
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/ 22 January 2003
Security details in Zimbabwe for next month’s cricket World Cup will be examined by ICC officials who are travelling to the southern African country on Wednesday, the sport’s world governing body announced.