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/ 16 January 2003
Two international legal fact-finding missions were meeting Swaziland’s justice minister Chief Mawene Simelane on Thursday morning at the start of their enquiries into the state of the country’s justice system.
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/ 16 January 2003
The commercial banana has such a narrow genetic base that within a decade the plant could be wiped out by two fungal diseases that are rampaging through Central America, Africa and Asia, the New Scientist says.
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/ 16 January 2003
Thousands more males age 16 and older from Indonesia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Bangladesh will be required to register with US immigration authorities in the latest expansion of a post-September 11 program that has drawn strenuous protest.
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/ 16 January 2003
A protest on Thursday in the Burundi capital against the presence of South African troops in the country was broken up by security forces, who said the demonstrators were members of a banned paramilitary group.
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/ 16 January 2003
South Africa’s economy is expected to remain growing at around the 3% level achieved over the last two years, according to Craig B Pheiffer, Chief Investment Strategist at Sasfin Frankel Pollak Securities (SFN).
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/ 16 January 2003
Production of Zimbabwe’s key foreign currency earner, tobacco, is expected to decline by around half against the quantity produced last year, according to a crop report released on Thursday.
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/ 16 January 2003
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as Monuc, confirmed on Wednesday that rebel groups in the northeast of the country had been engaging in acts of cannibalism.
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/ 16 January 2003
Ruling African National Congress deputy secretary-general Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele today slammed ”self- appointed” politicians who were resisting resettlement of people in overcrowded urban areas.
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/ 16 January 2003
Aides to Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe last month sent a retired white army officer to discuss plans with the head of the country’s Movement for Democratic Change opposition party to edge the long-time leader from power.
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/ 16 January 2003
After a nearly three month manhunt, Zambian police finally caught up with a former top Cabinet minister wanted on charges of stealing millions of dollars from government coffers, officials said on Wednesday.