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GENEVA. — Thousands of civilians in conflict-torn Central African Republic are at imminent risk of attack, the UN refugee agency warned yesterday, calling for heightened security and more international troops. More than 15 000 people in 18 locations in the
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ACCRA. — Minister of Information and Media Relations Mahama Ayariga says the dramatic fall in value of the cedi is no basis for the country to be said to be in economic crisis. According to him, the fall in the value of the local currency affects only importers, whom h
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LUSAKA. — Authorities in Zambia have suspended operations at a unit belonging to Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) Plc after an accident which left seven miners injured with one of them in a critical condition, the Times of Zambia reported yesterday. Seven miners were injured at
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COLOMBO. — Sri Lanka yesterday accused the UN rights chief of “unwarranted interference” by calling for an international inquiry into allegations troops killed thousands of civilians at the end of the civil war. The government of President Mahinda Rajapakse formally
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LONDON. — British police arrested former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg and three other people yesterday in the latest in a string of detentions linked to suspected terror offences relating to Syria. Begg, who spent three years in the US detention centre in Cuba
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KAMPALA. — A Ugandan newspaper listed yesterday 200 people it accused of being gay, a day after the president called homosexuals “mercenaries” and signing one of the world’s toughest anti-gay laws. “Exposed!” the headline of the Red Pepper tabloid read, beneath
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TEHRAN. — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that the Islamic republic is determined to continue its nuclear talks with the P5+1 group until “a final victory” is achieved for the Iranian nation, Press TV reported. Rouhani said his administration of “hope and
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BLANTYRE. — Fourteen sex workers arrested by police in Malawi and forced to take HIV tests launched a fresh bid to seek damages in court yesterday. The group was detained in 2009, hauled to a government hospital for HIV testing without their consent, and the results
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KIEV. — Ukraine’s parliament has put off plans to vote on the formation of a national unity government until tomorrow to allow consultations to continue. “The vote on the national unity government should be on Thursday (tomorrow),” Oleksander Turchinov, the
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ABUJA. — A kinsman of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was kidnapped when some gunmen attacked his homestead in the southern state of Bayelsa, security and other local sources said yesterday. Inengite Nitabai, the victim and first cousin of the Nigerian leader, was
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Pretoria – A judge has ruled that media houses are able to broadcast parts of the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius in the North Gauteng High Court next week.
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LUSAKA – Zambia’s founding president, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda has been discharged from Lusaka Trust Hospital. Dr Kaunda (89), was admitted to the hospital on Friday evening after he complained of fatigue.
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KAMPALA. — President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-homosexuality Bill into law yesterday. “Homosexuals are nurtured but not natured. No study has shown that one can be a homosexual purely by nature. “Since nurture is the cause, that is why I have agreed to
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MOSCOW. — Russia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov yesterday issued a statement regarding the situation in Ukraine. Below is the full text of the statement: We are deeply concerned about the events in Ukraine. We have cautioned about such a development of
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BRUSSELS. — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff yesterday welcomed a German government proposal to create a European communications network to rival that of the US National Security Agency. Speaking in Brussels, Rousseff said she shared concerns expressed by German