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/ 15 September 2004
Nigeria is to receive -million loan from the World Bank for the provision of water in rural areas, an official statement said on Wednesday. A finance ministry statement said the agreement for the loan was signed in Abuja between Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Water Resources Minister Mukhtar Shagari and officials of the bank.
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/ 15 September 2004
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to keep a peacekeeping force along the Eritrean-Ethiopian border for six more months until March 15 2005. The 4 200-strong force monitors a 25km buffer zone along the 1 000km border separating the two armies.
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/ 15 September 2004
Elma Garcia laughed in resignation as she held the cold-water tap from her sink — the only thing left from her bathroom in one of few populated areas near the westernmost tip of Cuba that Hurricane Ivan grazed on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. ”We thought that when it was all over there would be nothing left,” Garcia said.
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/ 15 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa on Wednesday touched its best level since early June 2002 ahead of Thursday’s September equity futures. At 12h00, the all share and all share industrial indices were 0,40% and 0,47% firmer respectively. At 12h00, the all share and all share industrial indices were 0,40% and 0,47% firmer respectively. Financials were up 0,17% and the banks index was 0,18% higher.
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/ 15 September 2004
With paper bills so rancid even lepers hate to touch them, French-speaking West Africa gets down to serious money-laundering on Wednesday: a massive, eight-country campaign to retire more than one billion dollars’ worth of decaying currency seen as much as vectors of disease as units of exchange.
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/ 15 September 2004
A hemp growing project which offers hope to small farmers in the poverty stricken Eastern Cape could be derailed because hemp is still an illegal substance. Department of Health rules which lump hemp together with dagga could scupper plans for the effective mass production and marketing of the fibrous plant.
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/ 15 September 2004
Five Palestinian militants were killed on Wednesday during a gunbattle after Israeli forces launched a pre-dawn raid in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, security sources said. The victims, four of whom were members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, were shot dead after troops had encircled a house in the Old City area.
Sharon hints that Arafat may be killed
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/ 15 September 2004
The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recaptured the town of Minova in the eastern province of Sud Kivu from a dissident general, a military spokesperson said on Tuesday. ”The soldiers of General Laurent Nkunda retreated northwards to Goma and Masisi” in neighbouring Nord Kivu province, said army spokesperson Lieutenant Kasanda wa Kasanda.
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/ 15 September 2004
The Pharmaceutical Society of SA (PSSA) has welcomed the pharmacy council’s intention to provide clear guidelines about service fees. ”The PSSA is relieved to know that pharmacists are going to be given clear guidance by their statutory body as to what a legal but fair charge would be,” said president Siddiq Tayob in a statement on Wednesday.
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/ 15 September 2004
South African trade union Solidarity has received notice from gold mining group Harmony that the group plans to shut down its Welkom 1, Elands and Merriespruit shafts. Large-scale dismissals are also planned at the Bambanani mine, Solidarity added. Trade unions, including Solidarity and the National Union of Mineworkers, have 30 days in which to respond to the planned dismissals.