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/ 31 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, San Francisco | Sunday TWO party-pooping California researchers have found that the familiar tingle on the tongue caused by the fizzy drink revellers love to guzzle as they toast the New Year is no pleasure at all. In fact, the fizz of champagne can be downright painful. ”The tingle you get from a […]
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/ 31 December 2000
A seven-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sister, who were kidnapped from their mother’s house in the Karos district in Upington a week ago, have been found dead. The pair, Mariette and Estevan Olyn, were taken from their home last Friday by a man their mother apparently knew. Their bodies were found in a deserted house […]
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/ 30 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Saturday US officials and authorities in the states of Ohio and Kentucky have mounted a massive search for a Cameroonian teenager who mysteriously disappeared last week near the end of a bizarre odyssey to be reunited with his mother. “We have no idea whatsoever where he is or what happened to […]
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/ 29 December 2000
NIGERIA’S President Olusegun Obasanjo has admitted that governing Africa’s most populous country has been rough. The elected civilian Obasanjo came to power in May last year, ending more than 15 years of military rule. This week the retired general and a former military ruler himself told reporters governance had not been easy. “God is in […]
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/ 29 December 2000
THE population of Malawi, one of the world’s poorest countries, rose 2% a year over the last decade to 9.9 million people, just over half them women, the National Statistical Office said this week. The impoverished southeast African nation’s once-a-decade census said more than four-fifths of Malawians live in rural areas and just 2% of […]
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/ 29 December 2000
ANOTHER four people have died of cholera in South Africa, bringing to 50 the death toll since the outbreak of the epidemic in mid-August, health officials said this week. A total of 9 824 cases of cholera, including 264 at the weekend, have been diagnosed in KwaZulu. The latest victims were two girls aged six […]
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/ 29 December 2000
FORMER senior Malawian cabinet minister Brown Mpinganjira, sacked last month by President Bakili Muluzi, has been arrested on corruption charges after allegedly authorising payments to “ghost contractors” when he was education minister several years ago. Mpinganjira, 50, was widely tipped to succeed Muluzi as leader of the governing United Democratic Front (UDF), but was abruptly […]
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/ 29 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Luanda | Thursday THE Angolan government has vehemently denied that the country’s official diamond trader has been buying gems from the rebel Unita movement, which is at war with the regime. A Portuguese daily claimed that the Angola Selling Corporation (ASCORP) has been trafficking in diamonds bought from traders supporting the rebels. “It […]
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/ 29 December 2000
ABOUt 30 people are feared dead after a bus plunged into the River Nile in central Uganda. Police said the bus was travelling from the northwestern district of Arua to Kampala when the accident happened. A rescue team, including several divers, was flown to the scene. Most of the passengers were residents of Kampala returning […]
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/ 28 December 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kiev | Thursday UKRANIAN authorities have refused to comment on the sale of a pontoon bridge which is at the centre of a major corruption scandal involving the president of the island nation of Madagascar. Senior Madagascan MP Jean-Eugene Voninahitsy was this week jailed for 11 months after he claimed that President Didier […]