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/ 8 January 2002

Afghan militia claim advance on Tora Bora

Kabul | Tuesday AFGHAN militia forces claimed to have made significant gains against Osama bin Laden’s embattled forces in the Tora Bora region of the country on Monday, as US Marines fanned out from their base near Kandahar to cut off the escape routes of fleeing al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Local commanders laying siege to […]

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/ 8 January 2002

150 HOMELESS AFTER RAINSTORM

MORE than 150 people were left homeless after a rainstorm in the small village of Frankfort near King Williams Town in the Eastern Cape on Sunday afternoon. e.tv news reported on Monday night that the storm lasted for half an hour, destroying 16 houses and leaving others with severe structural damage. Destitute residents were being […]

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/ 8 January 2002

$15 billion needed to rebuild Afghanistan

Islamabad | Tuesday THE World Bank has estimated that $15-billion will be needed over the next 10 years for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, a report said on Tuesday. Acting head of the World Bank, Abid Hassan, told a conference in Islamabad on Monday that health, agriculture and education sectors were the most important investment areas. […]

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/ 8 January 2002

MAN CHARGED WITH RAPING HIS GRANNY

POLICE at Kranskop in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands are looking for a 36-year-old man who allegedly raped his 72-year-old grandmother last week, policeman Captain Zethembe Chonco said on Monday. Chonco said the man was also on bail for another rape that allegedly occurred in Durban last year. His grandmother was at home and in bed around […]

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/ 8 January 2002

Mozambique saves food for a rainy day

Maputo | Tuesday AS forecasters warned of possible heavy rainfall, the government in Mozambique said it was pre-positioning food supplies as part of a 24-million-dollar program aimed at avoiding a repeat of the flooding disaster which killed some 700 people in 2000. The scheme, funded by both the government and foreign donors, will place basic […]

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/ 8 January 2002

Police unearth arms cache, arrest induna

Johannesburg | Tuesday POLICE in northern KwaZulu-Natal arrested two people, including an induna, and confiscated rifles and ammunition during an operation at Nqutu over the weekend, spokesman Inspector Sabelo Zwane said on Monday. Zwane said Sunday’s operation in Hlakazi followed a recent upsurge of violence between the Mabasa and Magubane clans. The induna, a leader […]

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/ 8 January 2002

US KEEP AN EYE ON THE TALIBAN

LEAFLETS featuring pictures of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and the license plate of one of his cars have been dropped from US planes over Afghanistan. The leaflets in Pashto and English were released Monday by the US Department of Defence. They feature a pair of angry clear eyes above a caption, which reads: ”We […]

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/ 8 January 2002

US BRING IN THE BIG GUNS

With its use of the 6 750-kilogram ”daisy cutter” bomb in Afghanistan, the United States has unleashed one of its most powerful weapons – billed as the world’s largest conventional bomb. The BLU-82 combines a watery mixture of ammonium nitrate and aluminium with air, then ignites the mist for a huge explosion that incinerates everything […]

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/ 8 January 2002

Unnamed SA cricket player takes a swipe at Sonn

Johannesburg | Tuesday A SOUTH African Test player has lashed out at Percy Sonn, president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa. The Cape Argus reported on Monday that the player, who refused to be named, claimed Sonn knew ”very little about cricket” and accused him of putting ”the skids under us”. The comments […]