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/ 4 February 2003
By day Lazoghly Square, in Cairo, is a fume-filled circus of honking taxis and frustrated drivers. By night, the heavily guarded entrance to the Ministry of the Interior is one of the most feared addresses in Egypt. Here detainees are routinely tortured.
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/ 4 February 2003
Two Bills, more than five years in the making, have finally been released by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to ensure the conservation, sustainable use and fair sharing of benefits arising from South Africa’s natural heritage.
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/ 4 February 2003
Zimbabwe’s governing Zanu-PF party, upbeat that its charm offensive is starting to bear fruit, has told its combative ministers to tone down anti-Western rhetoric. French leader Jacques Chirac broke ranks with the rest of Europe to invite President Robert Mugabe to a summit in Paris later this month.
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/ 3 February 2003
Heeding an appeal from President Thabo Mbeki, African leaders agreed on Monday to set up a peace and security council with the power to intervene in the continent’s myriad conflicts.
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/ 3 February 2003
Shares in Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms equipment maker, dropped sharply today after the company issued a gloomy outlook as it reported weaker than expected fourth-quarter profits.
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/ 3 February 2003
There were some members of the ANC who feared a working-class political takeover of the country, according to the party’s chief strategist Joel Netshitenzhe. He was speaking at the Joe Slovo Memorial Seminar, organised by the SACP in Johannesburg.
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/ 3 February 2003
Dramatic new finds at the Cradle of Humankind at Sterkfontein near Krugersdorp might change well- established ideas about human evolution, says one of the most prominent palaeoanthropologists. A team has been laboriously excavating the Little Foot skeleton since 1997.
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/ 3 February 2003
Excavating in the dark Silberberg Grotto at Sterkfontein, millimetre by millimetre, year after year, to expose, identify and analyse the fragile bones of the ancient Little Foot skeleton embedded in the concrete-hard breccia is daunting work.