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/ 21 January 2003
Widespread and systematic sexual violence during a decade of war in Sierra Leone was committed on a far larger scale than the highly visible amputations for which the country became notorious, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).
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/ 21 January 2003
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Camp David summit with United States President George W Bush at the end of the month could be the last time they look each other in the eye before plunging their alliance into a new war with Iraq. The UN weapons inspectors will just have presented their report.
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/ 21 January 2003
Five Southern African states could soon be dominated by the United States’s business interests. Free trade talks start next month between the US and the Southern African Customs Union trade bloc of South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia.
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/ 21 January 2003
Flagrant violations of the government’s school admissions policy continued to plague parents and their children this week as schools in five provinces opened, according to education bodies now monitoring the admissions process.
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/ 21 January 2003
Thousands of South Africans are hitting the runways to foreign destinations that have become inexhaustible asylums for people in search of their own economic success stories. However, rather than an unabated continuation of the brain drain, this could have positive repercussions for the country.
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/ 21 January 2003
Police in Malawi arrested a radio journalist yesterday for broadcasting an interview with a man who claimed to have been attacked by a vampire.
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/ 21 January 2003
HIV/Aids was expected to slash 12-million off South Africa’s population growth by 2015, the University of South Africa’s Bureau of Market Research (BMR) said on Monday.
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/ 21 January 2003
The British government yesterday committed a huge military force to a possible war against Iraq in the clearest signal yet that it believes the US is preparing to call time on the UN weapons inspectors’ mission and launch an invasion of the country.
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/ 21 January 2003
Zimbabweans are now the world’s gloomiest people, finds an end-of-year survey by the Gallup International Association. And – surprise, surprise – they are getting more apprehensive about what lies ahead. 72% of Zimbabweans surveyed believe 2003 will be worse than 2002.
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/ 21 January 2003
As the war of words hotted up between the board of investment banking group Corpcapital and former director Nic Frangos over the circumstances surrounding the latter’s resignation, Frangos said on Monday night he would give his "fullest cooperation" to any independent third-party inquiry called by shareholders.