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/ 20 November 2006
African aviation will have to invest billions in order to reach international security standards, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Monday. Speaking at the 17th International Federation of Air Traffic Controllers Association, Radebe said: ”African aviation forms a small percentage of overall international activities, yet represents a high level of accidents at international level.”
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/ 20 November 2006
A group of thieves with an eye for fashion pillaged through a clothing warehouse in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, over the weekend, robbing Sneakers International of more than R1-million worth of clothing and shoes. The thieves disabled the alarm system on the roof and entered the warehouse on Saturday night at about 10.30pm.
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/ 20 November 2006
A task team will be set up to investigate the management at Pretoria’s C-Max prison, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Monday. Balfour spoke to the South African Broadcasting Corporation after a Mozambican national, Annanias Mathe (29), escaped from the country’s most secure prison on Saturday night.
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/ 20 November 2006
Somalia has replaced Sudan as the ”epicentre of jihadism” in East Africa since the rise of a powerful Islamist movement, according to an author who has just finished a book on the Horn of Africa nation. ”The most potent expression of jihadism in the region has occurred in stateless Somalia,” says Gregory Alonso Pirio.
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/ 20 November 2006
Zimbabwe submitted its first human rights report in eight years to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, ZimOnline reported on Monday. It said the document apparently entailed a vehement denial of human rights violations. Zimbabwe had, since 1998, failed to comply with a charter requiring members to submit yearly human rights reports.
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/ 20 November 2006
South Africa’s Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya has stuck by his call for a basic income grant in South Africa but he declined to attach a monthly figure that would apply. Asked at a briefing whether he was personally thinking of a R100-a-month grant across the board, he joked that the media wanted to crucify him.
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/ 20 November 2006
An Iranian man set a neighbour’s luxury car ablaze to stop him from throwing parties and entertaining poorly veiled women, a newspaper reported on Monday. "Every night, my neighbour had parties and invited badly veiled women … I burned his car to teach him a lesson," said the 24-year-old arsonist, identified only as Soheil, according to the <i>Etemad-Melli</i> newspaper.
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/ 20 November 2006
Investigators have uncovered a plot to bomb a passenger plane in Germany this year using explosives that were to have been hidden in luggage, the federal prosecutor’s office said on Monday. "During the summer, several suspects made contact with an individual who had access to the security restricted zone of an airport," a statement said.
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/ 20 November 2006
The Iraqi tribunal that sentenced ousted president Saddam Hussein to death for crimes against humanity has forwarded its ruling to the appeal court, the first procedural step in the appeal process. "Thirty-four boxes containing the ruling and all documents related to the trial were delivered yesterday [Sunday] to the appeal court," an Iraqi official close to the court said on condition of anonymity.
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/ 20 November 2006
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi accused the West on Sunday of trying to grab Sudan’s oil wealth with its plan to send United Nations troops to Darfur and urged Khartoum to reject them. The United Nations and the African Union have been pressing Sudan to accept a UN-led peacekeeping force in Darfur to halt three years of violence that has killed tens of thousands.