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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, at which Mugabe will... |
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South Africa's ruling African National
Congress on Monday accused the state of persecuting party leader Jacob
Zuma by charging him with corruption and demanded that the case be
dropped.
Speaking outside the High Court in the southern city of
Pietermaritzburg, where hundreds of Zuma supporters demonstrated ahead
of a key hearing in...
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A report on prostitution in South Africa's
tourist capital of Cape Town released Thursday recommending lifting a
ban on sex work. The report by the Pretoria-based Institute
for Security Studies, entitled Selling Sex in Cape Town surveyed 164
sex workers out of around 1,200 in the city. 'While sex
workers are often subject to...
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Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
was canvassing for support for his bid to lead the country Thursday as
the European Union sounded the alarm over ongoing political violence in
the southern African country. Tsvangirai was in the West
African state of Senegal to meet with President Abdoulaye Wade, who has
advocated in...
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The UN Security Council Thursday extended the
joint peacekeeping mission to Sudan for one year, while at the same
time rejecting demands by Libya and South Africa to defer the arrest
warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. Prolonged by
lengthy diplomatic wrangling, the council's 15 members agreed with a
large majority to...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe downplayed
the suspension of talks between his party and the opposition on a unity
government, echoing South African President Mbeki in assuring the
negotiations were going 'well.' 'We are still negotiating and
want success... Some areas are debatable but we debate. It is not easy
but I hear...
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The UN Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to terminate the
mission of military observers at a disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The 15-nation council decided to entirely withdraw the mission,
which since last year had begun relocating their personnel out of a
temporary security zone after Eritrea increasingly...
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Despite South African President Thabo Mbeki's
assessment that the stalled talks between Zimbabwe's political parties
taking place in Pretoria were going 'very well' there were signs
Tuesday that the current impasse could drag on. In a
characteristically positive assessment of the situation, Mbeki, the
regional mediator in...
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South African President Thabo Mbeki was due to
meet Wednesday with his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe and the
leader of a breakaway faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change after meeting Tuesday with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a bid
to restart stalled talks. Mbeki's spokesman Mukoni
Ratshitanga confirmed...
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on
Wednesday said he was committed to a speedy conclusion of stalled unity
talks between his Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC). 'Speaking for Zanu-PF and myself we
are committed and want to see the speedy and successful conclusion of
the talks so that we can...
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Hundreds of African refugees and asylum seekers who were displaced by a spate of xenophobic violence in South Africa in May were evicted Monday by police from the roadside camp they have occupied for days in protest over their treatment.
The group of around 415 mostly Congolese, Burundians and Ethiopians,
among them large numbers...
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 90th Birthday Of Nelson Mandela
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...
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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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