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/ 12 January 2003
Villagers of northeast Congo told UN investigators of cannibalism and large-scale rape and looting by rebels there, the UN representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said on Saturday.
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/ 12 January 2003
England’s controversial cricket World Cup match in Zimbabwe next month looked set to be cancelled on Saturday because of growing political violence by supporters of Robert Mugabe’s regime and worsening food riots.
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/ 11 January 2003
Assault charges have been laid by relatives of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela as well as the owner of an upmarket restaurant in Melrose following a fight at the venue last Sunday night.
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/ 11 January 2003
South African labour minister, Membathisi Mdladlana, said in Zimbabwe on Friday that this country had a lot to learn from President Robert Mugabe’s programme of land reform. The political opposition has denounced his remarks as ”chilling”.
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/ 11 January 2003
British prime minister, Tony Blair, issued a defiant response to Israel yesterday by pushing ahead with his plan for a Middle East peace conference next Tuesday, even though it has been reduced to a skeleton of the original proposal.
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/ 11 January 2003
Health minister Manto Tshabala-Msimang expressed South Africa’s commitment to strengthen relations with Iraq during a visit to the Arab country, her department said in a statement on Friday.
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/ 11 January 2003
Transatlantic differences over Iraq threatened to set back America’s timeline for an invasion yesterday when the European Union (EU) warned the US that there could be no war against Saddam Hussein without clear proof that he holds banned weapons.
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/ 11 January 2003
I feel a great opportunity was missed with the announcement and awarding late last year of various state medals and honours. When considered against the formidable array of achievements which has marked nearly nine years of ANC sovereignty, the list of honoured recipients was very limited.
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/ 11 January 2003
Concerned by the terrorist attacks in Kenya six weeks ago, cricket’s world governing body is sending a delegation to Nairobi to inspect security arrangements for next month’s World Cup matches.
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/ 11 January 2003
The trucks rolled into Chilonga with men, equipment and a sense of occasion: the government was bringing water to the people. It had been quite a wait, decades or centuries, depending on whether you counted from pre-colonial times, but at least the job was to be done properly.