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Hundreds of businesses around Zimbabwe were readying Friday to open their doors to sell goods in foreign currency as the country's own currency accelerated in its crash towards oblivion.
The central bank Thursday granted special licences to 570 retail and wholesale businesses, oil companies and service stations to charge in hard currency, in the latest attempt... |
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Eight foreign oil workers abducted by Niger
Delta militants were freed several hours later, a Nigerian military
spokesman said Sunday. The eight were released overnight
Saturday, the spokesman was quoted by the BBC as saying, but he
disputed allegations that a ransom was paid. There was no
official confirmation given as to the...
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Johannesburg - Nelson Mandela, South Africa's national hero and anti-Apartheid fighter, has a dispute with his own family.
Johannesburg's The Sunday Times reported Sunday on its front page about
a 'bitter' feud which is dividing the family of the Nobel Peace Prize
laureate. The dispute even led his ex-wife...
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The red carpet was rolled out at a hotel in Zimbabwe's capital Harare Monday ahead of the signing, scheduled for later, by President Robert Mugabe and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai of a key agreement on talks.The city's Rainbow Towers Hotel was the neutral venue chosen for the signing ceremony,...
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 Former South African President Nelson Mandela, symbol of the anti-apartheid movement, is celebrating his 90th birthday. He planned to spend his birthday on Friday quietly with his family. However, according to BBC, celebrations in Qunu, his homeland village located in the southeast of the country, have increased rapidly. In the honor of...
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South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe
Mapisa-Nqakula on Thursday vowed strong action, including deportation,
against African migrants displaced by a wave of xenophobic attacks in
May following a riot at a refugee camp outside Johannesburg.
'The time has come to put our authority in place,' the minister said in
an interview...
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The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said
Thursday he will seek to prosecute rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur
region just as he is prosecuting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur's ethnic
conflict. Moreno-Ocampo said the International Criminal Court
(ICC) based at The...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit
said Thursday that justice in Sudan would be achieved through
'political settlement that would aim at stopping the fight and uniting
Sudan.' Abul Gheit made his comments during a press
conference after his joint meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh
Mohammad al-Sabah who has...
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Gunmen attacked a houseboat in Rivers State in
the Niger Delta Wednesday killing a naval rating and a civilian crew
member, the army said. Spokesman for special troops deployed
in the region to provide security for oil workers and facilities,
Lieutenant-Colonel Sagir Musa, said about 30 militants attacked the
boat, after which...
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The UN Security Council condemned on Wednesday
'in the strongest terms' the killing of seven peacekeepers in northern
Darfur, calling the attack 'pre-meditated, deliberate and intended to
inflict casualties.' The ambush and attack on July 8 against
the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was the most
severe since the...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has
emphatically denied reports he expressed concern over moves to issue an
international arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Beshir for
genocide in Darfur. Reports on Sudanese radio that he had
expressed great concern over the application by International Criminal
Court (ICC) prosecutor...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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