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04 January 2003
Nestle drops $6 million demand from Ethiopia
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Global Information Network
New York, Jan 1 (GIN) -- Under pressure from aid agencies and mounting bad publicity, Swiss-based multinational Nestle has dropped its demand for $6 million from the famine-stricken Ethiopian government.

   Nestle claimed the $...
04 January 2003
Nigeria: President expresses remorse for army massacre
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LAGOS, Jan. 1 (GIN) - At a meeting of local Christian groups, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo publicly apologised for the killing of more than 200 unarmed civilians by the army in Benue State in October 2001.

   The army...
04 January 2003
Government air attack condemned by French forces
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ABIDJAN, Jan. 2 (GIN) -- A government attack by helicopter on a rebel-held village in the center of embattled Ivory Coast was condemned by the French military detachment which has reportedly been assigned to preserve a fragile ceasefire in...
04 January 2003
Exiled Ugandan strongman Idi Amin wants to come home
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Gabriel Packard
NEW YORK, Dec. 30 (GIN) - More than 20 years after he was toppled from power and forced into exile in Saudi Arabia, Idi Amin wants to return to Uganda - the country where, during his eight-year dictatorship, at least 300,000 people were...
04 January 2003
Togo: Africa's longest-serving leader won't have to step down
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Gabriel Packard
New York, Dec. 30 (GIN) -- The Togolese parliament yesterday changed the constitution in a way that will allow President Gnassingbe Eyadema to seek re-election in next year's June elections.

   As it stood, the 1992 constition...
01 January 2003
South African broadcaster to keep CNN but may add Al-Jazeera
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 1 (GIN) - Initial reports that the South African Broadcasting Corporation would drop CNN for Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Persian Gulf news network well known for broadcasting videotaped messages from Osama bin Laden,...

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