This year’s Dakar Rally has been cancelled over security concerns, in particular direct ”terrorist” threats to the race, organisers announced on Friday. The race had been due to start in Lisbon on Saturday but the murder of four French tourists in Mauritania on December 24 led to the French government advising against any travel to the country.
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/ 5 November 2007
The takeover bid of media company Johncom by Koni Media Holdings — belonging in part to President Thabo Mbeki’s political adviser Titus Mofolo — was met with strong opposition by the Democratic Alliance and the South African Communist Party on Monday.
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/ 29 October 2007
An Eritrean allegation that Ethiopia planned to invade the Red Sea state in early November was an absurd fabrication, an Ethiopian official said on Monday. Addis Ababa and Asmara have been locked in a bitter border dispute since a boundary commission awarded Eritrea the town of Badme, a flash point of the 1998 to 2000 border war.