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/ 30 January 2003

Kinshasa to probe cannibalism claims

Authorities in the DRC capital, Kinshasa, have opened a judicial inquiry into massacres and cannibalism alleged to have been perpetrated by Jean-Pierre Bemba’s Mouvement de liberation du Congo and its ally, the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie-National of Roger Lumbala, in the northeastern DRC.

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/ 30 January 2003

India limbers up for space race

It is more than thirty years since the American astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt wandered around the surface of the moon, scooped up several large chunks of rock and flew home. Since their last epic Apollo mission in December 1972, no one has been back.

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/ 30 January 2003

Nailing Y could be tricky

Nail’s reported plan to buy 24% of Gauteng youth radio station Yfm could force it to jump through a few hoops – and still not get what it wants. Union Alliance Media, which has gone into liquidation, previously held between 25% and 26% of the station.