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[Excerpt] Sheikh Khalid Balala [former Islamic Party oF Kenya, IPK, activist who resigned from IPK in October 1993] yesterday threatened to call a nationwide strike of schools and colleges if Secretary-General Abdulraham Wandati of the Islamic Party of Kenya and the chairman of the Universities Academic Staff Union, Dr... | [
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[Excerpt] Abdulaziz Shaykh Yusuf, deputy chairman of the National Alliance, SNA, who is also the chairman of the Southern National Movement [SSNM], today attended a press conference held by Mohamed Nur Hufane, the chairman of the United Front [USF]. The press conference, which was held at the SNA headquarters in Mog... | [
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[Article by Nazaire Breka] [Excerpt] A joint Franco-Ivorian military exercise codenamed "N'Zi 94" will take place from 28 February to 4 March in the Gagnoa, Sinfra, Bocanda, and Bongouanou quadrilateral area. "N'Zi 94" will therefore be the first major military maneuver undertaken by the Ivorian Army in 10 years. Franc... | [
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Monrovia, Feb 28 (AFP) -- Rebel Liberian leader Charles Taylor named Monday [28 February] five supporters to ministerial posts in a transitional government after striking a power-sharing deal with a rival armed movement, pro-Taylor radio said. Taylor said his National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) and the United Li... | [
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The Constitution was violated at the Higher Council of Communication, CSC, this morning. Elements from the police and Republican Guard intervened to prevent the CSC chairman and other members of the council's standing committee from entering their offices. This operation was ordered by the Supreme Court, whose members ... | [
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Abuja, 28 Feb (AFP) -- France should be held responsible if the current border disputes between Nigeria and Cemeroon degenerates, Nigerian External Relations Minister Alhaji Baba Gana Kingibe pointed out today. Mr. Kingibe who was addressing reporters in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, felt that problems between Nigeria a... | [
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As Nigeria tries to resolve its dispute with Cameroon over the Bakassi peninsula through peaceful means, there are reports that France has sent about 40 paratroopers and two Puma combat helicopters to Cameroon. The French troops are said to have arrived at Yaounde airport base carrying light machine guns. The troops we... | [
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Lagos, 28 Feb (PANA) -- Nigeria said on Monday [28 February] that the arrival of French troops in Cameroon does not change its commitment to peace on the border dispute between the two countries. "We (Nigeria's military) will continue to do our normal duties of maintaining peace in the border area until the federal gov... | [
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[Commentary by Mohamed Okorejo] General Sani Abacha, the Nigerian head of state, put it most appropriately when he told a visiting Cameroonian envoy a few days ago that no problem should be too big for the two brotherly nations to solve at the conference table. Responding to a message from President Paul Biya (?suing)... | [
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A former presidential candidate on the platform of the defunct Social Democratic Party, retired Major General Shehu Yar'adua, has withdrawn his case against the attorney general of the federation and three others. When hearings resumed today before the Kaduna High Court, counsel to Gen. Yar'adua, Mr. Ademola Ajala, tol... | [
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The head of state, General Sani Abacha, today in Abuja received a special message from his Togolese counterpart, President Gnassingbe Eyadema. The message which was delivered by a five-man delegation headed by the minister of defense, Mr. Inoussa Bouraima, was not made public. The delegation later held a closed-door di... | [
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A delegation from Israel arrived in Nigeria yesterday to seek ways of strengthening bilateral relations between the two countries. Professor Naomi Chazan, a member of the delegation, told Emeka Onwachukwu that one of the reasons for their visit was to (?intimate) the Nigerian Government on the peace process in the Midd... | [
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[From the "African News" program] The authorities in Senegal have said the four opposition leaders charged after last week's disturbances in the capital, Dakar, could face death penalty. A statement from the attorney general's office said the maximum penalty could be applied if the men were found guilty of inciting th... | [
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Lome, 28 Feb (AFP) -- The president of the Supreme Court of Togo, Mr. Emmanuel Apedoh, told AFP today that the full results of the legislative elections organized on 6 and 20 February in Togo have not yet been sent by the National Electoral Commission (CEN). He specified that he is still without "the reports on the cou... | [
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Durban March 1 SAPA -- Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi arrived at a Durban hotel at about 9.45am Tuesday [1 March] for a meeting with African National Congress [ANC] President Nelson Mandela, indicating that much of their talks would centre on violence. Mr Buthelezi told the media as he arrived:... | [
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Durban March 1 SAPA -- African National Congress [ANC] and Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] delegations, headed by Presidents Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, began closed-door talks at a Durban hotel at 11.15am. Officials from both parties said the talks could last several hours. The ANC and IFP presidents arrived ... | [
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[Report by Craig Doonan] Durban Feb 28 SAPA -- Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] Central Committee member Farouk Cassim says a proposal to postpone elections in Natal/kwaZulu is aimed at preventing spiralling political conflict and avoiding a total constitutional deadlock. Mr Cassim confirmed on Monday [28 February] that he... | [
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[Report by Chris Whitfield, political correspondent] The Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] has launched a bid to have the election postponed in kwaZulu/Natal and for a referendum to be held on a provincial constitution it would compile. In terms of the IFP's surprise proposals put to a parliamentary committee, an election i... | [
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[Report by D. van Zyl] Cape Town Feb 28 SAPA -- The talks between the government and members of the Freedom Alliance had reached "a bit of a standstill", President F W de Klerk said on Monday. On his way to addressing a special three-day parliamentary session, he told pressmen that the South African Government still h... | [
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Parliament Feb 28 SAPA -- The status and position of the Zulu king had to be elevated above party politics, and the monarchy secured through effective constitutional safeguards, the state president, Mr F W de Klerk, said on Monday [28 February]. Addressing a special session of Parliament, he said he understood the conc... | [
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The state president, Mr. F. W. de Klerk, says the government is determined to go ahead with the April election, irrespective of whether the Freedom Alliance participates. Mr. de Klerk was speaking during a joint session of the special parliamentary sitting that opened today. He said any attempts to disrupt the election... | [
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[Paid advertisement by African National Congress] These are the people who will bring jobs, peace and housing to the regions. "We give you our pledge that we will work together with you to make a better life for all of us. We'll work hard to create new jobs and build houses. To end discrimination. To give women the ri... | [
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Pretoria March 1 SAPA -- Conflict would probably persist in South Africa for a number of years and the South African Defence Force [SADF] had a role to play in this regard, African National Congress [ANC] President Nelson Mandela told the Defence Command Council. An SADF statement quoted Mr Mandela as telling the counc... | [
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[Report by A Thomson] Bloemfontein Feb 28 SAPA -- Fewer than half the planned 10,000 members of the National Peacekeeping Force are being trained, Liaison Officer Col Coenie van Rensburg told SABC [South African Broadcasting Corporation] radio news on Monday. He said there was not enough time to train the rest. Only 4... | [
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Johannesburg March 1 SAPA -- The National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF) being trained for the April elections will cost R[Rand]130m [million], according to the NPKF's budget proposal. The NPKF budget was due to be tabled on Tuesday at the Cape Town sitting of the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) whose subcouncil on def... | [
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[Report by Lorraine Braid] Cape Town Feb 28 SAPA -- African National Congress [ANC] President Nelson Mandela's "eventual" decision that ANC members should behave themselves at rallies was welcome, Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel said at a press conference on Monday [28 February]. "The National Party is not the onl... | [
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[Report by Lorraine Braid] Cape Town Feb 28 SAPA -- A tough programme to ensure law and order would be implemented by the National Party [NP] after the election, Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel said on Monday [28 February]. Speaking at a press conference, he said when the NP could no longer be accused of a lack of... | [
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Cape Town March 1 SAPA -- Between 500 and 1,000 people were being trained and armed in Northern Natal every fortnight, ANC [African National Congress] Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa, told the Transitional Executive Committee on Tuesday. He said people in the Umfolozi area were being armed by white conservative farme... | [
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Rayton Feb 28 SAPA -- Armed Boerecommando [Boer Commando] members fortified Rayton's municipal offices with sandbags and razor wire on Monday [28 February] -- but a special town council meeting resolved hours later that the barricades should be removed by the commando members. Pretoria Boerekommando Commandant Willem R... | [
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[Report by Ryan Cresswell] A security firm run by Umkhonto we Sizwe [Spear of the Nation, MK, armed wing of the African National Congress] commanders and manned by MK soldiers is operating in a township on the edge of Johannesburg. Five MK commanders have capitalised on their training in Angola and the former Soviet U... | [
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[Report by Ferial Haffajee] Three refuse bags filled with torn-up ID application forms have been found at a Department of Home Affairs office -- prompting an Independent Electoral Commission [IEC] probe into possible official sabotage of the election process. The remains of the completed forms, with photographs and fi... | [
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[Report by Jacqueline Myburgh in the "Election 94 Countdown" column] Open up the newspaper you're busy reading and measure it from top to bottom. That, plus another two centimentres, is what a ballot paper for the National Assembly election will measure. With 60 cm ballot papers, 10 different kinds of ballot papers an... | [
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[Report by Louise Flennegan] Homeland administrations are crumbling on the eve of the elections with the public service in Venda almost non-existent and that in Bophuthatswana coming under tremendous strain. With increasing restlessness among Bophuthatswana civil servants -- evident in the homeland this week -- there ... | [
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[Report by Norman Chandler] The first observers from China, part of the UN team monitoring the election, have arrived in South Africa [SA]. It marks the first occasion on which representatives of the People's Republic of China have taken part officially in South African affairs. The first two observers arrived last we... | [
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[Editorial Report] THE STAR Mandela's Call for Peace Prelude to `Tough Action' -- A page-16 editorial in Johannesburg THE STAR in English on 1 March comments on two "major initiatives" to persuade the Freedom Alliance (FA) to participate in the April election. The first African National Congress (ANC)-National Party (N... | [
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The search for peace continues in the Zambian capital. The peace talks are to continue today with a second reading of the general document on national reconciliation that has been presented by the mediators. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] and government teams held a plenary meeting yest... | [
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[Report by correspondent Neto Mwakazumba in Cuanza Sul] Early this morning the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] carried out a violent attack on government forces in Ebo District. Bloody clashes are continuing. This was revealed by Antonio Augusto Torcato, deputy governor of Cuanza Sul for mi... | [
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Reliable sources in Soyo today told the Voice of the Resistance of the Black Cockerel that Portugal is once again granting military assistance to Jose Eduardo dos Santos' regime. It has been reported that 143 soldiers belonging to Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola forces are presently receiving technical tr... | [
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[Excerpts] His Excellency Dr. Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] president, presided over the opening of a four-day UNITA General Secretariat methodological seminar. This four-day seminar was the first of a series of three to be held this year. It closed on 26 February a... | [
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Hundreds of people who claim that they suffered abuse during President Kamuzu Banda's three decades in office have banded together to demand compensation and an investigation into their complaints. The alleged victims are mainly political exiles, prisoners, and members of the Jehovah's Witness religious sect forced int... | [
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A source close to the FAM/FPLM [Mozambique Armed Forces/Popular Forces for the Liberation of Mozambique] representation in the Cease-Fire Commission [CCF] confided to DOMINGO that "it does not make sense to try to dissociate the preelectoral campaign in South Africa from the ongoing events in Mozambique. Renamo [Mozamb... | [
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NOTICIAS newspaper has learned from the UN Operations in Mozambique [Unomoz] that the demobilization of government and Mozambique National Resistance [Renamo] forces will no longer begin throughout Mozambican territory today. That is because Renamo has not yet delivered to Unomoz its lists with the names of men to be d... | [
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A daily report issued by the UN Operations in Mozambique [Unomoz] reveals that the government confined 907 men over the past three days. The Mozambique National Resistance [Renamo] sent 269 troops to assembly areas during the same period. A total of 39,905 troops from the government and Renamo have so far been confined... | [
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Walvis Bay Feb 28 SAPA -- South Africa signed the Walvis Bay enclave over to Namibia in the port town at 4:40PM on Monday [28 February]. The treaty, signed by Minister of Justice Kobie Coetsee and his Namibian counterpart Ngarikutuke Tjiriange, takes effect on March 1. The Joint Administrative Authority, established in... | [
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His Majesty King Mswati III has appointed two more principal secretaries, commissioner of police and his deputy, and the commissioner of prisons. A statement from the Prime Minister's Office said Mr. Edgar Hillary has been appointed commissioner of police, taking over from Mr. Sandile Mdziniso. Mr. Mnguni Simelane has ... | [
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President Nicephore Soglo, his wife, and a delegation returned from a four-day official visit to Japan yesterday morning after stopping over in Paris. The head of state of state was invited to Japan by the Japanese Government. It was an opportunity for him to hold discussions with the highest Japanese authorities, incl... | [
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[Report by D Isaacson] Ulundi Feb 28 SAPA -- African National Congress [ANC] President Nelson Mandela will be wasting his time if tries to persuade Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi to enter the April elections when they meet in Durban on Tuesday [1 March], the IFP president said on the eve of th... | [
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[Report by correspondent Pedro Manuel in Lusaka] Good evening! Some progress has been reached in the discussions of specific principles and modalities on national reconciliation. Some sources said today that agreement had been reached in more than half of the issues on specific principles and modalities. The sources s... | [
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[Excerpts] Libreville, 1 March (AFP) -- The UN Economic Commission for Africa (CEA) said Tuesday [1 March] that the CFA franc, used in 14 African countries, might be devalued again if the 50 percent devaluation on January 11 did not boost growth. The African franc zone "will not be safe from a new devaluation" over the... | [
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The first round of the fifth session of the conference of African finance ministers has opened in Libreville. There are many items on the agenda. They include the project to create an African Monetary Fund, the mobilization of resources, the basing of African currencies on European currencies which, in fact, calls for ... | [
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[Report by correspondent Pedro Manuel in Lusaka] Good evening! The discussions of specific principles and modalities of national reconciliation are still at an edge. The parties have not yet reached an agreement because of two issues, which we do not know because of news blackout. What we know is that the document und... | [
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Piecemeal progress has been reported at the Lusaka talks. Yesterday, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola [UNITA] and the government met and made additional progress. We have learned that consensus has been reached on UNITA's role in central and provincial governments and in the news media, and on ch... | [
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According to the UN, 25,000 people were killed in Cuito, in the center of the country, in 1993, in clashes between the regular army and rebels. UNITA [National Union for the Total Independence of Angola] leader Jonas Savimbi said in an interview with AFP today that he ruled out the military victory of one side or the o... | [
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Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings left Luanda for his country a few moments ago. Jerry Rawlings made a one-hour technical stopover in our country after attending the official handing over of Walvis Bay to Namibia. Presidents Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Jerry Rawlings took the opportunity to review the situation in Ango... | [
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Lieutenant General Mateus Ngonhamo from the Mozambique National Resistance [Renamo] told Radio Mozambique this afternoon that his movement handed the list of men to be demobilized to the UN Operations in Mozambique [Unomoz] on 27 February. Ngonhamo said the list was handed in at the Unomoz headquarters' reception in Ma... | [
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Tian Zengpei, PRC vice-minister of foreign affairs, has said his country is ready to give any assistance requested by Mozambique. The PRC vice-minister, who arrived in our country on 27 February, told Radio Mozambique that his visit to the country will help strengthen cooperation and friendship between the two countrie... | [
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Harare March 2 SAPA -- Signs of tension between Zimbabwe and Ethiopia are beginning to show over the Ethiopian Government's request for the extradition of former dictator and alleged mass murderer Mengistu Haile Mariam. Last week Ethiopian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Fantahun Michael announced that he had formally lodged do... | [
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[Interview with President Nicephore Soglo by Gerard Nicaud; place and date not given: "Not All Reforms Are Possible"] [Nicaud] Mr. President, is it possible to make an initial assessment of the devaluation of the CFA franc, almost two months on? [Soglo] The effects started well before that. When the new majority came ... | [
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[Excerpts] The president, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, and his entourage returned home last night from Namibia where they witnessed the official handing over of Walvis Bay to that country. [passage omitted] President Rawlings made a brief stopover in Luanda for talks with President Eduardo dos Santos on the c... | [
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The Electoral Commission has announced the postponement of the district assembly elections in 15 districts on 22 March to 21 April. This is in a statement issued in Accra today and signed by the chairman of the commission, Dr. Asare Djan. It named the districts as Yendi, Nanumba, (Koshua-Kaga), Saboba-Chereponi, Zabzug... | [
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Monrovia, 1 Mar (AFP) -- The deployment of Economic Community of West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group [ECOMOG] troops began today throughout the country in order to carry out the 7 March disarmament of all the factions fighting since December 1989, according to ECOMOG Commander General John Inienger in Monro... | [
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Lagos, March 1 (AFP) -- The Nigerian government and media have expressed suspicion at the arrival in Cameroon of French troops and a high-ranking French diplomatic team to discuss a bloody border dispute between the West African neighbours. "We are a bit suspicious of what really the French intentions are," a senior Ni... | [
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Lagos, 1 Mar (PANA) -- Nigeria on Tuesday [1 March] reasserted its claim to the Bakassi Peninsula, a major bone of contention with neigbouring Cameroon. Nigeria's military leader, General Sani Abacha told a French delegation that his country had always maintained a police post in the disputed area and conducted populat... | [
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A four-man French delegation, led by Monsieur Bruno Delaye, an adviser to the French president, Francois Mitterrand, was in Aso Rock, Abuja, today to deliver a special message from the French president. The message was in connection with developments in the Bakassi peninsula. State House Correspondent Chris Ngu reports... | [
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A major raid has been carried out in Senegal. Police forces and the gendarmerie arrested more than 1,000 people in Dakar yesterday. Nicolas Balique reports: [Balique] A total of 1,262 people were arrested for questioning during the operation, a major roundup which required almost 1,000 men during the Sunday [27 Februar... | [
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Lome, 28 Feb (AFP) -- Togo's electoral authority has given the Supreme Court complete results from the second round of a general election held on February 20, court President Emmanuel Apedoh said Tuesday [1 March]. The opposition to President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who has ruled the small West African country for 27 years... | [
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The Burundi Government has reiterated its determination to restore peace and put an end to the massacres in the country. This determination was expressed today by the minister of state for external relations, Jean-Marie Ngendahayo, before the UN Commission for Human Rights. The ending of the massacres and the restorati... | [
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Cameroon has officially requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting following, I quote, the brutal attacks launched recently by the Nigerian Armed Forces in the border Bakassi Peninsula. In a letter addressed to the Security Council, which was made public in New York yesterday, Cameroonian Foreign Minister Ferdi... | [
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Brazzaville, 1 Mar (AFP) -- The Congolese opposition coalition today accused the presidential group of violating the cease-fire agreement concluded on 30 January by deputies of the four regions of the southern part of the country for the restoration of peace in the Congolese capital. In a communique, the opposition cla... | [
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[Excerpts] After a meeting between representatives of the Republican National Movement for Democracy and Development, the Republican Democratic Movement, the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, and the Christian Democratic Party and the Rwandan head of state on Sunday, 27 February, the office of the president i... | [
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[Report by Ahmad Kamal Hamdi: "Djibouti Opposition Leader Tells AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT: Government Refusing To Conduct Peaceful Dialogue, Insisting on One-Party System] Bonn--Ahmed Dini Ahmed, former Djibouti prime minister and leader of the the opposition "Union and Democracy Front" in Djibouti, is on a visit to Germany. ... | [
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Mogadishu, March 1 (AFP) -- Somali gunmen shot at American and Italian troops in seperate incidents on Tuesday [1 March] as the last soldiers from a key US army unit left Mogadishu. The withdrawal of the Falcon Brigade, left some 2,700 US troops in Somalia and some 4,000 others off-shore. The United States was due to c... | [
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Durban March 1 SAPA -- IFP [Inkatha Freedom Party] President Mangosuthu Buthelezi has again rejected participation in South Africa's first all-race election in April under the present constitution and says the election period should be "extended" while constitutional negotiation takes place. In a statement delivered to... | [
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Durban March 1 SAPA -- The Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] is to consider provisionally registering for South Africa's April elections while both the IFP and African National Congress [ANC] are to explore possible international mediation to resolve outstanding constitutional deadlocks. This emerged after several hours of t... | [
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[Joint statement by ANC President Nelson Mandela and IFP President Mangosuthu Buthelezi at the Royal Hotel in Durban on 1 March; on the SAPA PR Wire Service] Both parties approached this meeting with a determination to promote conditions in which the people of South Africa as a whole can exercise their democratic righ... | [
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[Interview with Home Affairs Minister Danie Schutte in the Cape Town studio by SABC announcer John Bishop in the Johannesburg studio on the "Agenda" program--live] [Bishop] We are going across to talk to Mr. Danie Schutte about the Inkatha Freedom Party [IFP] agreeing to register provisionally. Good evening, Mr. Schut... | [
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Parliament Mar 2 SAPA -- The government remained primed to deal with significant progress in constitutional negotiations now or in the near future, State President Mr F. W. de Klerk said on Wednesday [2 March]. He also revealed that he had had discussions on Tuesday night with Afrikaner Volksfront [National Front -- AV... | [
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Bophuthatswana's chief negotiator, Mr. Rowan Cronje, says Bophuthatswana will consider registering for the election if international mediators are called in to resolve issues. Mr. Cronje told our political news staff that the Freedom Alliance had always said that it would be prepared to look at international mediation ... | [
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[Editorial Report] THE STAR Housing Issue Becomes Political Football -- Johannesburg THE STAR in English on 2 March in a page-14 editorial notes that the African National Congress (ANC) is "irritated that the Minister of National Housing, Louis Shill, should try to gain the political initiative by announcing a 10-year ... | [
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[By Randy Zormelo] Cotonou, 1 Mar (PANA) -- Beninois President Nicephore Soglo said Tuesday [1 March] in Cotonou that African countries must unite to collectively meet the challenge of development or perish. He was opening the committee meetings of the Global Coalition for Africa (GCA) in the Beninois economic capital... | [
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[Excerpts] The European Union is asking Nigeria and Cameroon to go to international arbitration or mediation to settle their border dispute. [passage omitted] Yesterday Nigerian President Sani Abacha received a high-level delegation; Paris is trying to calm things down, though it has sent a few paratroopers to Cameroo... | [
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[Excerpts] Upon his return from Libreville, Gabon, where he attended the summit of Central African heads of state on the consequences of the devaluation of the CFA franc, President Ange Felix Patasse announced the creation in the days ahead of the Economic and Monetary Commission of Central Africa [CEMAC]. He also spok... | [
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[Excerpt] The Kigali Town Security Committee today met under the chairmanship of the prefect of Kigali, Colonel Tharcisse Renzaho. The committee decided to curtail the curfew in the town. Beginning Wednesday [2 March] the curfew will start at 2200 and end at 0500 in the Kigali Town Prefecture. [passage omitted] | [
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[Excerpt] The UN secretary general's special representative to Rwanda, Dr. Jacques Roger Booh-Booh, has called on the parties that signed the Arusha peace agreement to redouble their efforts so as to find a solution to the current deadlock as soon as possible. Mr. Booh-Booh renewed his call yesterday 1 March at the end... | [
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Luanda, 2 Mar (AFP) -- The Zairian radical opposition will launch "an armed resistance struggle" in the near future to "paralyze the country" considering "the failure of the inter-Zairian political negotiations," Jacques Matanda, chairman of the Convention of Nationalist Reformers, one of the components of the Sacred U... | [
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The Eritrean National Assembly this afternoon extensively debated legal Decree 37 of 1993 on the establishment, powers, and duties of the Eritrean Government, and decided to set up a new cabinet. The National Assembly, which is meeting for the fourth time, was opened this morning by President Isayas Afewerki. According... | [
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A National Alliance [SNA] senior spokesman has said that some surrogates taking orders from elements of UN Operation in a [UNOSOM] have attacked residents of some areas of Galguduud area in Dhuusa Mareeb town. The SNA senior spokesman said that in their attacks on districts in Galguduud region, the elements massacred ... | [
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The leader of the National Alliance, SNA, who is also the chairman of the United Congress, USC, Mohamed Farah Aidid and his large delegation left Addis Ababa International Airport today for Nairobi, Kenya. While in Addis Ababa, Mr. Aidid held talks with the French, Russian, Chinese, Italian, and Egyptian ambassadors ... | [
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The Catholic church in Uganda says a priest and three Ugandan nuns have been kidnapped in the north of the country. A church spokesman said the father and nuns were kidnapped in Lira District by members of a religious sect calling itself Lord's Resistance [two preceding words in English], who were followers of the reli... | [
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Kampala, March 2 (AFP) -- Rebels have freed a kidnapped Spanish priest but seriously wounded an unspecified number of travellers in an attack in northern Uganda, a church source and press reports said here Wednesday [2 March]. The rebels, led by Joseph Kony, on Monday ambushed a vehicle operating a daily passenger serv... | [
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A contingent of the task force stationed in Tamale was yesterday called upon to observe an imminent attack by a group made up of predominantly Dagomba youths on Kokomba elements, who are reported to have gone to the Tamale branch of the Agricultural Development Bank to transact business. The contingent was also called ... | [
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Monrovia 2 Mar (AFP) -- An AFP journalist in Monrovia has observed that on 2 March, United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia, [ULIMO] soldiers stationed at Po River, 20 km east of Monrovia, opposed the deployment of Economic Community of West African States Cease-Fire Monitoring Group [ECOMOG] troops to thei... | [
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According to various sources, Yehia Oud Zarawana, general secretary of the Association of Malian Students and Pupils [AEEM], was reportedly arrested yesterday morning. Our sources stated that his arrest might be in connection with investigations into the 15 February disturbances during which several public buildings as... | [
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[Statement issued by four opposition political parties in Niamey on 2 March following a meeting on armed rebellion; read by Sanni Bako, information and propaganda secretary of the National Movement of Development Society-Nassara--recorded] We, the Alliance for Democracy and Social Progress-Zoumounchi, the National Mov... | [
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Nigeria has opened a mission in Pretoria, South Africa. A Foreign Ministry's spokesman, Ambassador Boko York, said in Abuja today that Nigerian charge d'affaires, Mr. (Korpo), and a minister in the ministry have already left in company of five other officials to open Nigeria's first mission in that country. Ambassador ... | [
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The following correction pertains to the item headlined "Prime Minister on Need To Defend Sovereignty," published in the 24 February Sub-Saharan Africa DAILY REPORT, page 25: Column two, first full item, make sourceline read: ...Luanda Radio Nacional Network in Portuguese 1900 GMT 23 Feb 94....(correcting time and date... | [
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