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/ 7 February 2008
United Nations goodwill ambassador and Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie visited Iraq on a humanitarian mission on Thursday and met top officials to demand help for people displaced by the war. "There are over two million displaced people and there never seems to be a real coherent plan to help them," she said.
Television, DVDs and computer games — that’s entertainment in war-torn Baghdad. That’s, if you’re lucky. Even the simple pleasure of sharing dinner with friends and relatives has fallen victim to fear of sectarian death squads and, more recently, by a strictly enforced 8pm to 6am curfew.
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/ 5 December 2006
Twenty-five years after it was born, in response to some of the worst oppression of the former apartheid regime, Johannesburg’s Market Theatre remains an alternative artistic voice in South Africa, writes Bryan Pearson.