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/ 14 January 2003
Police rejected reports on Tuesday that it was investigating large-scale gun-running to Iraq by a Finnish fugitive extradited to his home country last month
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/ 14 January 2003
Environmental and community groups are vehemently opposing plans for a toll road running through the wetland areas of False Bay and the south-eastern Cape Flats. The proposed road affects fragile ecosystems with a rich bird, insect, reptile and plant life including a number of endangered species.
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/ 14 January 2003
Preliminary figures from the latest vulnerability assessment indicate that the number of people facing hunger in the tiny kingdom of Swaziland has risen significantly.
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/ 14 January 2003
A three-day consultative meeting that brought together Liberia’s 18 registered political and other pro-democracy groups have recommended, among other things, that in the absence of a national census a thorough voters registration be conducted in the presence of political party representatives.
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/ 14 January 2003
Members of Parliament serving on the key national assembly finance portfolio committee, chaired by African National Congress MP Barbara Hogan, will be returning from their annual Christmas and constituency leave to start committee work next week — some three weeks before the formal opening of parliament.
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/ 14 January 2003
Malaysia’s government remained tightlipped on Tuesday over reports that it had offered asylum to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe if he reliquishes power.
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/ 14 January 2003
Some time in the next two weeks, European scientists hope to launch a spaceship the size of a delivery van and lob it across more than 4-billion miles of space to rendezvous 10 years from now with a dark lump of rock and ice the size of a city block.
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/ 14 January 2003
All sectors of the region’s economy could jointly gain from a free trade agreement to be negotiated between the United States and the Southern African Customs Union, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
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/ 14 January 2003
The UN Refugee agency this week in a letter urged the Ivorian government, among other things, to stop recruiting refugees into the ranks of loyalist forces.
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/ 14 January 2003
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday made his first public reaction to British press reports of alleged plans to force him out of office, under a scheme involving his close political aides.
Mugabe comments hurt rand