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/ 23 January 2001
2001 is likely to be a watershed year for President Thabo Mbeki and his government to rebuild negative foreign perceptions of South Africa?s economy, with the ANC?s defensive political style contributing strongly to poor foreign direct investment (FDI) figures. This is the view of independent think-tank Business Map, which says bold measures are needed to […]
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/ 23 January 2001
A RADIO operator for the UN refugee agency in the West African state of Guinea has been freed in neighbouring Liberia, 47 days after he was abducted by gunmen. Joseph Loua, a 51-year-old father of five, was seized December 6 as his home town of Guekedou was overrun by rebels in a border area packed […]
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/ 23 January 2001
THE latest round of military talks on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute has been postponed because of a disagreement on troop redeployment, say pro-Ethiopian sources. No new date has been set for a meeting of the Military Coordination Commission (MCC). – Reuters
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/ 23 January 2001
THE government of Ivory Coast has resigned after a cabinet meeting in a move that will allow those ministers who recently won election to parliament to vote for a president when parliament meets on Monday for the first time since it was dissolved after a coup in December 1999. Prime Minister Affi N’Guessan offered his […]
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/ 23 January 2001
UNITED Nations Security Council members have refused to delay an expert panel’s report on the exploitation of diamonds, gold and other resources in the Congo until June, insisting it be produced in March. Diplomats said Ba-N’Daw, the former Ivory Coast minister and senior World Bank official who chairs the five-member expert panel, was criticised at […]
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/ 22 January 2001
There’s nothing tame about Lars von Trier. Even his car is brazenly penile and his latest movie is a harrowing musical. Danny Leigh meets the madman of European cinema.
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/ 22 January 2001
Still playing in the minor key of last year’s <i>Sweet and Lowdown</i>, Woody Allen has neatly tossed together the good-hearted comedy that is <i>Small Time Crooks</i>. He plays a rather dim-witted criminal whose cunning masterplans are surpassed by his wife’s skill at making cookies – and life takes a whole new turn into nouveaux riches.
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/ 22 January 2001
THE South African Air Force has stepped in to help a young black woman achieve her dream of flying a Boeing 747 one day. Asnath Matsobane, 21, of Rosenkrans village in the Northern Province, needs to clock up 400 flight hours if she wants to fly large passenger planes, but she ran out of money […]
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/ 22 January 2001
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kampala | Monday BETWEEN 150 and 250 people died – some beheaded and burned alive – in clashes last week in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bunia, humanitarian sources there said Monday, considerably raising a previous toll. Earlier reports said 59 people had died on Friday in clashes arising […]