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/ 24 September 2004
Algeria has a growing number of women forced to live on the streets, often with small children to support. In the capital, Algiers, runaways, divorcees and women kicked out of their homes by their families rummage through garbage for food and cardboard for shelter. ”The dark point in Algerian legislation is the ‘family code’,” explains a senior journalist with the independent Algerian newspaper, El Watan.
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/ 24 September 2004
Egypt is pressing ahead with ”very progressive” ideas for reform, but changing the way the president is elected is not one of them, at least for the time being, a spokesperson for the governing party said this week. President Hosni Mubarak’s fourth six-year term ends in October next year and opposition groups are pressing for a free election and a choice of candidates.
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/ 24 September 2004
A Turkish construction firm joined the growing list of companies to halt operations in Iraq last week in order to win the release of 10 of its staff held hostage by militants. Since militant groups began seizing foreigners in Iraq six months ago, they have made a significant impact on the operation of the United States-led military coalition. Many lives have been saved in Iraq by yielding to captors’ demands.
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/ 24 September 2004
Despite a broad commitment to combating the spread of HIV/Aids on the continent, African governments spend far too little of their own funds on intervention programmes, a new study has found. With the exception of South Africa, most relied, to a large extent, on donor funding. A review of national budgets showed that strategic plans to tackle the virus were ”poorly costed and budgeted”.
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/ 24 September 2004
Natalie du Toit spearheaded South Africa to its ninth Athens Paralympic gold medal with a world record 2min 29,98sec in the 200m individual medley on Thursday night, adding to the world record gold by Nicholas Newman in the javelin at the Olympic Stadium earlier in the day.
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/ 24 September 2004
Wayne Ferreira got the South African Davis Cup team off to a winning start in their Euro/Africa Zone Group I Davis Cup tie against Greece at the Groenkloof Tennis Stadium on Friday when he scored a fighting 6-3 5-7 7-5 6-2 victory over Vasilis Mazarakis.
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/ 24 September 2004
Top South African side Santos are hoping for their second Confederation Cup Group B victory when they meet Cotonsport in Cameroon on Saturday. Supersport United have pledged to cause an upset by beating Tunisian giants Esperance for their African Champions League match.
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/ 24 September 2004
CEO of the United Cricket Board, Gerald Majola, says the South Africa team will tour India in November, notwithstanding the current uncertainty surrounding the Delhi Police’s reported investigation into alleged match fixing. ”At this stage the tour we proceed as scheduled,” said Majola.
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/ 24 September 2004
If United States President George W Bush were running for re-election on the basis of his stewardship of the US economy alone, he would already be packing his bags. To be blunt, by recent standards, the economy’s performance has been dismal. Some of that grimness has not been Bush’s fault — he took office in the backwash of a calamitous financial bubble. But little that the Bush team has done since has been effective or sensible in policy terms.
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/ 24 September 2004
Silver Stars have warned Ajax Cape Town to brace themselves for yet another embarrassing defeat in less than a week when they meet at Newlands Stadium on Saturday. This comes after Ajax were handed a 6-0 humiliating defeat by Orlando Pirates at Ellis Park Stadium on Wednesday.