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/ 25 April 2001

EXPEL ?WHITE COLONISERS? – KADHAFI

LIBYAN leader Moamer Kadhafi and Namibian President Sam Nujoma met on Monday and stressed the “importance of African unity,” Libyan television reported. Nujoma, who arrived in Tripoli on Monday, discussed the setting up of pan-African institutions and bilateral relations with Colonel Kadhafi, one of the most ardent proponents of such ideas on the continent. The […]

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/ 25 April 2001

PAC CALLS FOR AMNESTY

THE Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) on Wednesday called on President Thabo Mbeki to declare amnesty for all former freedom fighters on Freedom Day. PAC deputy president Motsoko Pheko said a number of such prisoners were languishing in the prisons of the “new South Africa”. He accused the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of being biased in […]

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/ 25 April 2001

MENINGITIS KILLS 3_500 IN AFRICA

AN outbreak of meningitis that is sweeping across Africa has killed at least 3_500 people, the international Red Cross said on Wednesday. “From the Red Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, a total of 38_000 cases have been documented, but many more are likely to have gone unreported,” said the International Federation of Red Cross and […]

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/ 25 April 2001

LIBRARY, NOT JAIL FOR DOG KILLER

A MAN who pleaded guilty to skinning and beheading a dog was sentenced by a North Carolina court to three years probation and ordered to read the “Lassie” books. Jason Vincent Revels, 19, was charged with felony animal cruelty in the November death of his mother’s mixed pit bull. At a hearing on Monday, Revels […]

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/ 25 April 2001

CAPTAIN, CREW OF SUSPECTED SLAVE SHIP IN COURT

THE captain and crew of a vessel suspected of ferrying children destined for slavery appeared in a Benin court on Monday, judicial sources said in the capital Cotonou. The investigating magistrate in charge of a probe into the status of 43 minors aboard the ship heard Nigerian Lawrence Oghototuya and his crew, who had been […]

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/ 25 April 2001

Bias began at school in Rwandan – witness

EMMANUEL DEFOULOY, Brussels | Wednesday DECADES before the 1994 Rwandan genocide an anti-Tutsi apartheid created a mind-set in school children that Tutsis were a sub-human class, a middle-aged Tutsi woman in tears told a jury in an historic trial here this week. The system created both “consenting victims and potential executioners,” the woman, who escaped […]

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/ 25 April 2001

BERLIN HEART MAN DIES

A 61-year-old South African man who was fitted with an external artificial heart died on April 15 in Cape Town’s City Park Hospital, the facility disclosed on Monday. The man, who had asked not to be identified, was given the heart – a pump made from polyurethane with two ventricles – by a 10-member team […]

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/ 25 April 2001

BELGIANS ‘PLAY ROLE IN ANGOLAN ARMS TRAFFICKING’

BELGIAN military intelligence has uncovered an illegal diamond trafficking network between Antwerp’s huge diamond market and Angolan guerrillas using the gems to buy arms, the Belgian daily Le Soir said on Monday. Le Soir said a secret military report entitled “Diamond trafficking from Angola, Belgium’s role,” contends that certain Belgian diamond merchants are dealing directly […]

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/ 25 April 2001

Cape judge cracks after murder threat

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday JUDGE Nathan Erasmus, who is under constant police guard after receiving death threats when he sentenced two Pagad members to 11 life terms for murder, has collapsed from stress and is receiving medical treatment, the Cape Times reports. The judge was apparently told that it was not a question […]

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/ 25 April 2001

Ignorance, apathy mark Nigeria’s Aids plan

ABHIK KUMAR CHANDA, Abuja | Wednesday NIGERIA may be hosting Africa’s biggest Aids conference on Thursday but its track record in combating the pandemic is pathetic, HIV sufferers say, recounting horror stories of discrimination, apathy and ignorance. Even worse, they say, is the official response to the pandemic. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is home […]