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14 Dec 2000

Angola + 8 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 14 December

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ZAMBIA: Number of refugees reaching crisis proportions
Zambian President Frederick Chiluba has called for a new approach to the problem of the increasing numbers of refugees in his country. Chiluba said he was worried about the escalating refugee crisis in Zambia and called for the re-enforcement of UN peacekeeping operations to achieve peace and stability in conflict-ridden African countries.

"The mere presence of refugees on any territory impacts on the local resources of the host country and the task is daunting for a developing nation like Zambia which has competing

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09 Aug 2000

Angola + 6 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 9 August

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ZIMBABWE-SOUTH AFRICA: Eskom threatens to cut power
South Africa's power company Eskom has warned that it may be forced to cut supplies to Zimbabwe because of mounting debts, news reports said.

"Obviously it's a worry for us and we're taking steps through the correct process to address it," a senior Eskom manager Peter O'Connor told journalists on Tuesday. "We have informed them that if we are stretched with our local customers who are good payers, they will be the first to be cut."

The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority

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04 Aug 2000

Angola + 5 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 31 covering the period 29 Jul - 4 Aug 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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ZIMBABWE: A warning strike

Zimbabwean workers heeded a one-day stay-away call on Wednesday by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) in protest against intimidation and violence at farms occupied by liberation war veterans and supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF party.

With the exception of government offices,

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03 Aug 2000

Angola + 6 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 3 August

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ZIMBABWE: War veterans vow to stay on farms
Chenjerai Hunzvi, leader of the war veterans occupying white-owned farms in Zimbabwe, has said his followers would remain on lands they have seized as pressure mounted on President Robert Mugabe to stop the action and placate international donors, the weekly 'Financial Gazette' reported on Thursday.

It quoted Hunzvi as saying: "The land must go back to the people and we cannot retreat now. In fact, the government should move faster now and build on what has been achieved by

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02 Aug 2000

Angola + 4 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 2 August

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ZAMBIA-DRC: Chiluba and Kabila to meet in Windhoek
Talks between Zambian President Frederick Chiluba and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Laurent-Desire Kabila have been moved to the Namibian capital Windhoek, news reports said on Wednesday. The talks were originally scheduled to take place in the southern DRC town of Lubumbashi.

"The president's trip to Lubumbashi in the DRC was cancelled because it was found economical to hold consultations in Windhoek, Namibia, where both Presidents Chiluba and Kabila will be

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28 Jul 2000

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 30 covering the period 22-28 Jul 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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ZIMBABWE: Economy takes a battering

Zimbabwe's economic crisis has led to the loss of an estimated 200,000 jobs since the beginning of this year, mainly because of pre-election violence and dwindling investments, according to the country's employers confederation.

John Mufukare, the chief executive of

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14 Jul 2000

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 28 covering the period 08-14 Jul 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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AFRICA-AIDS: Conference debates solutions

The 13th International AIDS Conference in the South African coastal town of Durban this week debated issues ranging from making HIV/AIDS drugs available to the developing world, cutting the prices of antiretroviral drugs, to the effects that the pandemic is having

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13 Jul 2000

Angola + 7 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 13 July

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LESOTHO: Provisional election date
Lesotho's Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Wednesday set 26 May, 2001 as the provisional date for the country's general elections, the SAPA news agency reported.

IEC commissioner Mafole Sematlane said voter registration would begin in October and would last three months. Preprations for the recruitment and training of registration staff and the procurement and distribution of registration material was expected to start shortly and would be completed by the end of August.

ZAMBIA: US aid for Angolan refugees

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07 Jul 2000

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 27 covering the period 01-07 Jul 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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ANGOLA: Displaced estimated at 2.5 million

Around 2.5 million Angolans are believed to have been forced from their homes by the on-going conflict, according to the latest figures by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). But less than half of Angola's estimated displaced population,

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06 Jul 2000

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 6 July

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ANGOLA: World Bank approves credit
The World Bank has approved a US $33 million credit to Angola to help the government increase sustainable use of basic social and economic services, the bank said in a statement.

It said the Second Social Action Fund Credit will support the government's efforts to improve the quality of life and focus on facilitating the social and economic recovery of communities. "The credit will also address the restoration of basic social and economic services through demand-driven, community-oriented projects that

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16 Jun 2000

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 24 covering the period 10-16 Jun 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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ZIMBABWE: Observers hope their presence will diminish violence

International observers monitoring the run-up to Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections next week said they hoped their presence would serve to diminish intimidation and violence which has swept rural areas of the country claiming at least 30 lives.

The deputy head of the European Union

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14 Jun 2000

Angola + 8 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 14 June

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NAMIBIA: Soldiers in DRC may be freed
Namibian soldiers who have been held as prisoners of war (POWs) in Kigali, Rwanda, may be freed this week, a report in the 'The Namibian' said.

A spokesman for the southern Africa Regional Delegation of the International Confederation of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Harare told IRIN on Wednesday that the release was part of a recent agreement on POWs reached between all sides in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "It is not only related to the Namibians, but all soldiers," he said.

ZAMBIA: CPJ condemns government

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02 Jun 2000

Angola + 9 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 22 covering the period 27 May - 02 Jun 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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ZIMBABWE: DRC withdrawal under consideration

Zimbabwe indicated publicly for the first time this week that it was considering a phased withdrawal of its troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), possibly within coming weeks.

A defence ministry spokesman told IRIN an end to the controversial intervention would be linked to the military

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26 May 2000

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 21 covering the period 20-26 May 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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ANGOLA: Growing humanitarian crisis

During a recent week-long visit to Angola, UN Ambassador Ibrahim Gambari expressed "dismay" at the conditions he witnessed among internally displaced persons (IDPs) forced to flee their homes from fighting between government forces and UNITA rebels.

Upon visiting the central highland town

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19 May 2000

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 20 covering the period 13-19 May 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
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ZIMBABWE: Election set for June

Ending weeks of expectation and speculation, President Robert Mugabe announced that the country's parliamentary elections will be held on the weekend of June 24 and 25.

Within hours of the announcement in the official daily, 'The Herald' on Tuesday, the opposition Movement For Democratic

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17 May 2000

Angola + 3 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 17 May

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SOUTH AFRICA: IOM Representative Shun Chetty dies
Shun Chetty, the Southern African regional representative of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), died in Pretoria on Monday, the IOM said in a statement.

Chetty, who was born in Durban, South Africa, in 1941, was admitted as an attorney in 1971 and practised in Durban and Johannesburg. He left South Africa in the late 1970s for political reasons.

Among the high-profile political cases he handled was the marathon trial of a dozen black activists - from 1975

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15 May 2000

Botswana + 5 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 15 May

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SOUTH AFRICA: Goldmine blast kills seven
Seven miners were killed in an explosion overnight at a gold mine near Welkom, about 300 km southwest of the capital Pretoria, mine owners Gold Fields said on Monday. Gold Fields spokesman Wilson Zwane said the dead men were from neighbouring Lesotho and Mozambique.

"More miners might be missing," Zwane said. According to news reports about 1,105 miners were underground when the blast occurred at 3:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) 780 metres below the surface.

LESOTHO: Elections to be held in March

Lesotho's Prime Minister, Pakalitha Mosisili,

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12 May 2000

Angola + 8 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 19 covering the period 06-12 May 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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ZIMBABWE: Devaluation could increase inflation

As bankers in Zimbabwe lobbied the government of President Robert Mugabe to abandon its fixed exchange rate for the local currency, economists warned this week that any devaluation could push the country's spiralling inflation further out of control. Such are the constraints

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09 May 2000

Angola + 4 others
Southern Africa: IRIN News Briefs, 9 May

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LESOTHO: Security stepped up ahead of strike
Joint army and police patrols were ordered onto the streets of Lesotho on Tuesday on the eve of a nationwide strike called by the opposition.

The operation is to "make sure that people who love law and order are safe," a police superintendent was reported by Reuters as saying.

The opposition called for the strike action to demand the resignation of the government to make way for a government of national unity.

ANGOLA: Bulgaria denies sanctions busting

Bulgaria said on Tuesday that a government

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05 May 2000

Angola + 7 others
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-up 18 covering the period 29 Apr-5 May 2000

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UNITED NATIONS
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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ZIMBABWE: Government to seize farms

President Robert Mugabe has made land the centrepiece of his ruling party's election manifesto and on Wednesday said that the government is to acquire five million hectares of white-owned farm land for redistribution. Launching ZANU-PF's manifesto under the theme "land is the economy, the economy is land", Mugabe said that

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