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Ugandan chimpanzee Zakayo, the star attraction at the Uganda Wildlife Education Center (UWEC) near Kampala, is scheduled to cut a cake on Friday as he turns 44.
The ageing primate, who will share a birthday drink with well- wishers, was plucked from the wild in western Uganda in 1972 after losing his parents to poachers.
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The Red Cross on Wednesday issued an emergency
appeal to donors for 26.6 million dollars for food aid to Zimbabwe,
saying millions in the politically and economically unstable country
faced hunger. The International Federation of the Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva the funds would help those
already in need...
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All eyes in South Africa will be riveted Monday on the southern city
of Pietermaritzburg, where ruling African National Congress (ANC)
leader Jacob Zuma goes to court to try to avoid a corruption trial that
could come between him and the presidency. On Monday, Zuma
will appeal to the Pietermaritzburg High Court to throw out his...
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Hundreds of supporters of the leader of South
Africa's ruling party, Jacob Zuma, braved cold and wet conditions to
show their support for the 66-year-old presidential hopeful ahead of a court hearing to decide the validity of corruption charges against him.
The gathering Sunday night came ahead of Zuma's appeal Monday to the
High...
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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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 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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