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/ 27 November 2006
Historical injustices that have resulted in landlessness among Kenyans have been the focus of recent public discussions on a land policy — the first to be drawn up in the East African country. Previously, Kenya has had no clearly defined laws on how to manage land, leading to a breakdown in land administration. Disparities in land ownership, tenure insecurity and squatting have occurred, often resulting in conflict.
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/ 27 November 2006
Africa is full of bad stories that started well and good stories that started badly. Mauritania is developing into one of the latter. Voters waited patiently and peacefully in long lines to cast their ballots in the country’s parliamentary and provincial elections, recently. They look set to do so again in presidential elections that are scheduled for March, ending military rule and completing the process of bringing democracy to this arid, sparsely populated country in north-west Africa.
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/ 27 November 2006
With humanitarian groups sounding the alarm about the violence in eastern Chad near Sudan, the Chadian government has sent troops south to neighbouring Central African Republic to battle rebels there who, it said, are being backed by Sudan. Chad is already contributing troops to a regional peacekeeping force in CAR but the prime minister said last week that he wants to send more.
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/ 27 November 2006
It was, in retrospect, an age of soft-hat innocence. At the start of their deployment to Helmand last year, British soldiers acted like preening contestants in a military popularity contest. Paratroopers spurned helmets in favour of berets, learned pidgin Pashto and armed themselves with friendly smiles.
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/ 27 November 2006
And there I stood: eyes downcast, in all my crimson shame. As my eyes welled with the pools of my disgrace, and the tips of my (well-covered) ears burned, I felt myself transported to the cobbled streets of … Salem, Massachussets — and I could almost get a whiff of the smoke as the tinders licked at my (hosed) feet. My crime was read out: guilty of immodest dress unbefitting a woman of The Faith.
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/ 27 November 2006
It was midnight at the Charlooe Drinks Bar and business was flagging. Dozens of prostitutes, some barely 12, were hovering outside the main avenue of Castelo dos Sonhos (the Castle of Dreams), an isolated town in the northern state of Para that, until recently, was at the centre of Brazil’s illegal logging trade.
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/ 26 November 2006
India were outplayed by South Africa in every department, coach Greg Chappell said on Sunday, after his team suffered their second comprehensive defeat by South Africa in the MTN one-day international series. After a disastrous start, South Africa set India the daunting target of 275 for victory.
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/ 26 November 2006
A fire at Cape Town International Airport on Sunday morning delayed some flights but caused no injuries, the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) said. The fire started in the kitchen of News Café in the international terminal at 8.15am, said Acsa spokesperson Deidre Hendricks.
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/ 26 November 2006
A senior official of the Department of Social Development was caught driving at 228kph on the N1 highway near Kliprivier, Johannesburg metro police said on Sunday. The male official, in his 50s, was the fastest-travelling motorist in Johannesburg to be caught by police to date, a police spokesperson said.
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/ 26 November 2006
Tony Leon will step down as leader of the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in May, he told reporters in Johannesburg on Sunday. He said 13 years in office is ”the absolute upper limit of effective leadership”. Leon will, however, remain an MP and continue writing a book he has been commissioned to publish.