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/ 31 December 2002
As Daniel arap Moi raised his ivory club to speak as Kenya’s president for the last time yesterday, a street-boy wriggled onto the dais beside him.
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/ 31 December 2002
Zimbabwe’s sole daily newspaper outside ruling party control on Tuesday failed to publish for the tenth successive day, following the departure of its award-winning founder-editor, Geoffrey Nyarota, in a management row many believe has deep political overtones.
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/ 31 December 2002
Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation, the world’s 12th largest bourse, said on Tuesday it aims to sign cooperation agreements with three foreign exchanges in 2003 to promote cross-border trading.
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/ 31 December 2002
The Reagan administration and its special Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, did little to stop Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction in the 1980s, even though they knew Saddam Hussein was using chemical weapons ”almost daily” against Iran, it was reported yesterday.
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/ 31 December 2002
The prospect of England boycotting their controversial World Cup cricket match in Zimbabwe grew last night as the government agreed to meet the England and Wales Cricket Board to discuss the implications of withdrawing from the fixture.
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/ 31 December 2002
The neurologist cursed and threw something into the rubbish bin. ”What’s gone wrong?” I asked nobody in particular. Her face popped up. ”Nothing is wrong,” she said happily. ”Why did you think something was wrong?” We smiled at each other, me and the angel.
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/ 30 December 2002
A loud crowd burst into the hall singing and chanting militant slogans just before Pan Africanist Congress deputy president Motsoko Pheko was about to deliver his address to the party congress in Umtata.
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/ 30 December 2002
Kenya was given its first new government since independence yesterday when the opposition leader Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner by a landslide of Friday’s general election.
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/ 30 December 2002
The cash-strapped Ethiopian government has called on its creditors to accept its multimillion dollar offer of partial compensation for the assets seized by the previous military regime.
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/ 30 December 2002
As armies mass again on the borders of Mesopotamia, film-makers are fighting to be first over the top with a movie about the original and most rapacious western imperialist of them all – Alexander the Great.