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/ 27 October 2006
Those involved in the fight against HIV and Aids have to work together, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Friday. ”We have to make sure that our energy is dedicated to the fight against HIV and Aids and not against each other,” she told a Civil Society Coalition HIV-Aids congress in Johannesburg.
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/ 27 October 2006
The use of a form of torture known as waterboarding to gain information is a ”no-brainer”, the United State Vice-President, Dick Cheney, has told a radio interviewer. Cheney implied that the technique — a form of simulated drowning — was used on the alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
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/ 27 October 2006
The Cape Town city council has given mayor Helen Zille a mandate to declare an intergovernmental dispute if necessary in her battle with Western Cape local government minister Richard Dyantyi. The mandate takes the council a step closer to a court challenge to Dyantyi’s plan to strip Zille of her executive powers.
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/ 27 October 2006
The government’s taxi-recapitalisation programme in its current form should be scrapped, taxi owners and drivers demanded in Pretoria on Friday, where thousands marched to the Union Buildings. Traffic was also disrupted in Johannesburg and Cape Town, with reports of roads blocked off and stonings of vehicles.
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/ 27 October 2006
Thousands of foreign troops in Somalia could lead to ”an all out war” between Somalia’s transitional government and an Islamic group that controls much of the country, according to a confidential United Nations report obtained by the Associated Press.
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/ 27 October 2006
The trial of a white security expert in Zimbabwe charged with illegally possessing weapons has failed to take off, a lawyer said on Friday. Defence lawyer Trust Maanda told the media that state prosecutors on Thursday applied to amend the charges against Michael Hitschmann before proceeding to trial.
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/ 27 October 2006
Tourist arrivals to often-shunned Zimbabwe are up by 45% so far this year and there are high hopes the once-booming industry’s decline is now over, the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief was quoted as saying on Friday. The first nine months of 2006 saw a 45% rise with 1Â 596Â 364 tourists in Zimbabwe compared with 1Â 104Â 368 in the same period in 2005.
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/ 27 October 2006
Prosecution witnesses in the coup-plot trial of Ethiopian opposition figures testified on Friday that the accused sought to foment an armed rebellion after disputed elections last year. They told a court that leaders of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy encouraged them to take up arms against the government.
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/ 27 October 2006
Iranian scientists have begun feeding gas into a second cascade of centrifuges to enrich uranium, defying United Nations threats of sanctions over Iran’s nuclear programme, the ISNA news agency reported on Friday. The news brought firm reactions from the United States and France, two of the powers pushing for sanctions.
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/ 27 October 2006
Peace talks to end northern Uganda’s brutal, two-decade war have snagged as the government and Lord’s Resistance Army rebels bicker over revisions to a landmark truce, officials said on Friday. Despite optimistic claims of a breakthrough in a deadlock, the rebels said they had not yet agreed on the renewal of the late August truce.