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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.
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/ 16 January 2003
The fraud and corruption trial of former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni and businessman Michael Woerfel was on Thursday postponed in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes Court to next month.
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/ 16 January 2003
The recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Botswana won’t easily spill over into South Africa’s Limpopo Province as the provincial agriculture department already has strict control measures along the border, provincial representative Phuti Seloba said in a statement.
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/ 16 January 2003
The food security situation in Zimbabwe has deteriorated in all parts of the country, according to the latest multi-agency vulnerability assessment conducted in December.
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/ 16 January 2003
United Nations officials in Angola on Wednesday said the reintegration of former child soldiers into civil society was underway despite the scale of the problem confronting the humanitarian community.
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/ 16 January 2003
Tony Blair’s Camp David summit with George Bush at the end of the month could be the last time they look each other in the eye before plunging their alliance into a new war with Iraq. It will be a tense scene.
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/ 16 January 2003
The Mpumalanga Parks Board denied on Wednesday afternoon that it would endanger the lives of eight lions at a predator sanctuary in the province by moving them to another location.
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/ 16 January 2003
The teenage half of a pair of marksmen accused in a string of killings in the suburbs of Washington can be tried as an adult, and will be liable for the death penalty, a judge ruled yesterday.
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/ 16 January 2003
Widespread and systematic sexual violence during a decade of war in Sierra Leone was committed on a far larger scale than the highly visible amputations for which the country became notorious, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.