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Africa

NEWSMAKER-Goodlace a calm hand for Implats tiller

JOHANNESBURG- Impala Platinum's chief executive-in-waiting Terence Goodlace has plenty of experience operating in tough places, such as Democratic Republic of Congo.

Africa

IMF urges new Senegal government to tighten belt

DAKAR- The International Monetary Fund urged new Senegalese President Macky Sall on Tuesday to get rid of energy subsidies offered by his predecessor, warning the West African country's deficit could rise to untenable levels unless spending fell.

World

Strauss-Kahn countersues NY hotel maid for $1 mln

NEW YORK - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France.

Africa

Wanted Congo general still using child soldiers: HRW

DAKAR- A renegade Congolese general wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes has begun to recruit child soldiers again to fight the government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation released on Wednesday.

Africa

Egypt vote monitors say state hindering their work

CAIRO- Foreign observers of Egypt's first real leadership contest will be unable to say whether the process is free and fair because their movements are being restricted by election authorities, one of the groups supposed to be monitoring the vote said.

Africa

Taylor to reject call for 80-year sentence

AMSTERDAM- Former Liberian President Charles Taylor will on Wednesday tell judges he bears no responsibility for atrocities during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war, rejecting the prosecution's demand for an 80-year sentence in a maximum-security British jail.

Members of the Airforce of Zimbabwe traditional dance group performing on the occasion to mark the inaugural flight to Harare from Windhoek by Air Namibia at Harare International airport yesterday.
Comment & Analysis

INNERZELA: Making your heritage count

A news article caught my eye the other day. It was about the Lemba people from Gutu who share genes with the Cohen line of the Jews from the time of Moses.

National

Deported Zimbo seeks citizenship reinstatement

South Africa-based Zimbabwean Roland Whitehead has made an application at the High Court seeking a declaration order to have his citizenship status restored and to be issued with a new Zimbabwean passport within 14 days.

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