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/ 6 February 2003
Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo on Wednesday met with President John Kufuor of neighbouring Ghana, who urged him to implement a peace deal brokered by Paris to end a ruinous five-month war in Ivory Coast, diplomatic sources said.
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/ 6 February 2003
A Nigerian university has expelled 432 students for allegedly impersonating or using forged documents to gain admission, a university official said on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2003
The Asset Forfeiture Unit confirmed on Wednesday it has requested the New National Party hold in trust a R300 000 donation linked to the controversial Roodefontein golf estate development.
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/ 6 February 2003
A tornado that tore through remote villages in the central Democratic Republic of the Congo killed 164 people, destroyed homes and ruined crops, the country’s top health official said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 February 2003
EU ambassadors struck an agreement ”in principle” Wednesday to extend sanctions against Zimbabwe, but the deal still has to be finalised at a new meeting next week, diplomats said.
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/ 6 February 2003
A man accused of defrauding the development agency of the African kingdom of Swaziland has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiring to cheat two American banks.
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/ 6 February 2003
One of two former police dog handlers who has pleaded not guilty to charges of needlessly setting their animals on three illegal immigrants in 1998, is to take the stand in his own defence in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday.
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/ 6 February 2003
Nokia Corp. unveiled its N-Gage on Wednesday and said the company’s foray into handheld gaming marks a new path for the world’s largest mobile phone maker.
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/ 6 February 2003
Negotiations aimed at improving opportunities for international trade cannot succeed unless nations also tackle the abuse of rules on goods that are dumped in foreign markets, a group of 15 nations said on Wednesday.
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/ 6 February 2003
Zimbabwe promises to provide a classic case study on whether economic necessity forces political change during the course of 2003, according to a leading Zimbabwean academic.