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Nineteen hours East African time Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Eda Sanga First the main points The leaders of Tanzania Kenya and Uganda are due to meet in two weeks' time to sign a document paving the way for the revival of regional co-operation in East Africa The United Nations envoy in Angola has met representatives of the rebel movement UNITA in Zambia in an attempt to end the long-running civil war in Angola The World Health Organisation has called for increased support from the industrialised nations to fight tuberculosis in the developing nations Nigerians stayed away from work today the second day of a general strike against steep rises in fuel prices
Kampala The leaders of Tanzania Kenya and Uganda are due to meet in two weeks' time to sign a document paving the way for the revival of regional co-operation in East Africa The Ugandan Foreign Minister Mr told reporters in Kampala today that Presidents Ali Hassan Mwinyi Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda would meet in Arusha to sign a protocol on new areas of co-operation Mr then said all three leaders have at last expressed their eagerness towards the revival of the east African community which once joined the three states and which collapsed <-/>collapsed in nineteen seventy-seven President Moi currently on a three day state visit to Uganda made reference to the community's revival yesterday when he told a rally in eastern Uganda that the three East African leaders had agreed to work together to strengthen bilateral ties The heads of state meeting in Arusha will be preceded by one of foreign ministers who will meet to work out final technical details for the revival of the community
Lusaka The United Nations envoy in Angola has met representatives of the rebel movement UNITA in the Zambian capital Lusaka I'll repeat that The United Nations envoy in Angola has met representatives of the rebel movement UNITA in the Zambian capital Lusaka on the second day of an attempt to end the long-running civil war in Angola The envoy Mr was sworn has sworn the UNITA and government delegations to secrecy about the talks and there has been no official word on the structure of the meeting or on what Mr has been discussing But Mr did start a session of closed-door talks with UNITA officials including the information director Mr George Valentine today at the Conference Centre in central Lusaka A diplomatic source monitoring the talks said at this stage it appears that Mr will meet the Angolan government delegation later today The diplomat said the main aim of the UNITA cease-fire was to stave off tougher sanctions by the United Nations which has imposed an oil and arms embargo on the rebels and has threatened further action if they refuse to talk peace
Kampala Ten key officers of the rebel National Army for the Liberation of Uganda have surrendered to the government since the beginning of the year The ten include Lieutenant-Colonel and Major Johnson who reported to the government early last month The New Vision newspaper said there were only twenty rebels remaining in the camps by the end of September Their camps are allegedly situated on the Zairean side of the mountains They have no commanders after the death of their leader The paper added the rebel remnants are now surviving on wild animal meat The paper quoted an official in the district in south-western Uganda Mr as saying that security in continues to improve due to surrenders A reliable source said that due to pressure by government troops and division among the rebel leaders the number of NALU <./>reda rebels in the bush area has been decreasing The NALU a main armed anti-government group in Uganda has been operating in western Uganda terrorising villagers and abducting government officials
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Washington The World Health Organisation has called for increased support from the industrialised nations to fight tuberculosis in the developing nations In its annual report WHO said TB does not stop at international borders The appeal came nearly seven months after the WHO declared the resurgence of tuberculosis an often fatal disease of the respiratory tract a global emergency According to WHO TB will claim three million people annually a decade from now unless immediate action is taken to curb its spread Characterised by fever and weight loss TB is one of the oldest diseases known to man It was nearly wiped out in the nineteen fifties in North America and Europe but while TB was eliminated in the industrialised countries nothing changed for the developing world making it possible to be carried across borders through travel and immigration The disease the WHO said has returned to the industrial world with a vengeance in new and even deadlier forms since the nineteen eighties Some new TB germs have been found to be multi-drug resistant To help poor countries begin TB control programmes that work about one hundred million dollars is needed annually to provide medicine microscopes and a modest infrastructure Lagos Nigerians stayed away from work in Lagos today the second day of a general strike against steep rises in fuel prices Major banks and shops remained closed and the federal government secretariat in where many are located was partially empty The Nigeria Labour Congress called its three point five million members out on strike against the increase in petrol prices In addition many people could not get to work because of an acute shortage of public transport in Lagos Nigeria's biggest city with a population of six million Other oil products' prices have also risen in price doubling transport fares The strike poses a stiff challenge to Nigeria's unelected interim government which a Lagos court has ruled illegal Talks between the NLC and the government yesterday ended without agreement and are due to continue tomorrow
Lusaka The United Democratic Party UDP one-year-old opposition in Zambia has been disbanded Local press quoted the UDP interim president Mr as saying his party has faced serious financial problems making it difficult to operate effectively UDP has also suffered a spate of defections of its key members to either private life or other political parties Some thirty political parties have been formed in Zambia since the multi-party politics were introduced two years ago
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Dar es Salaam The British government has granted Tanzania more than two point three billion shillings in support of financial and health sectors The financial support aspect of the grant is to assist the office of the Controller and Auditor General with the aim of raising the standard of auditing within the government A statement issued by the British High Commissioner in Dar es Salaam said that the assistance would be accomplished through improved training technical assistance and provision of essential equipment More than one point one billion shillings will be allocated to the project over three years The statement said assistance to the National Board of Accounts and Auditors would be provided in the form of consultancy training and study tours including equipment for NBAA premises and books for staff and other institutions providing accountancy training
Dar es Salaam The Japanese international corporation Urgency has financed a study on water resources development in river basin in order to make the water flow to Dar es Salaam city reach eighty million gallons The Director General of the National Urban Water Authority Mr has said in an interview that the current supply to the city was only sixty million gallons He said the study started in mid-February this year Mr said that the would formulate a master plan for water resources' development at river basin with emphasis on water supplies for city use and for irrigation purposes He said the study would take about fifteen months to be completed Dar es Salaam residents mostly use surface water resources comprising the river flowing to the north of Dar es Salaam and two small streams of and both situated in the southern part of the city
Kampala At least nine people who went poaching in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in south-western Uganda have been killed by the game rangers since the beginning of this month A local daily the New Vision quoted reliable sources as saying that the number of alleged poachers including an official of village were shot dead in of the park According to one official in the park area poaching in the park was reportedly becoming rampant in the past three months He condemned the practice of poaching expressing concern about the deaths of a number of people who lost their lives in the park He also appealed to the people in the park area to fight against the practice of poaching
Johannesburg The South African law and order minister Mr Henry said there has been a fall in the number of violent incidents in the country although the number of people killed in communal violence remains high He said there were now three major flashpoints in South Africa where regular acts of political violence were commonplace the East Rand outside Johannesburg Natal and the Western Cape The secretary by the independent human rights commission said that in a number of townships around Johannesburg there had been a decrease of violence in the first ten months of this year compared to nineteen ninety two
<./>Br Brazzaville Sporadic fighting has continued in parts of the Congolese capital Brazzaville which are controlled by the opposition In the suburb of the stronghold of the opposition leader there was an exchange of gunfire between army soldiers and opposition militias known as The Congolese President told journalists that the opposition was trying to prevent food from The opposition is apparently opposing appeals from the army that taxis and buses should start running again in the Congo
Kigali The Attorney General of Rwanda has been attacked by a gang of men who threw grenades at his car Mr who is now in hospital is a member of the government and head of the human rights league in Rwanda His attack comes only a week before prosecuting a case of embezzlement of forty tons of food from the World Food Programme
Colombo Government troops in Sri Lanka killed twenty-five Tamil rebels on Sunday who had infiltrated the northern military air base A military spokesman said the killed terrorists had been caught inside the base adding that about fifteen more rebels were believed to have fled from the camp avoiding capture He said five government soldiers and twelve rebels were killed earlier inside the camp when government soldiers clashed with the rebels in an operation to clear the camp In the meantime the Tamil statement in London said four hundred government troops and one thousand rebels had been killed in the attack on Thursday The Tamil statement contradicts government statements earlier last week which reported the government losses of two hundred and fifty dead with <-_other><+_another> five hundred men missing in action as about one thousand rebels attacked the air base
New Delhi India and Britain have ratified a landmark extradition treaty aimed at curbing guerrilla attacks in either country Reports from New Delhi say that final documents were exchanged between India's External Affairs Minister and the British Foreign Secretary Mr Douglas Hurd British officials said the treaty which covers a full range of criminal activities in both countries was originally conceived in the mid nineteen eighties to help stamp out support in Britain for Sikh separatists in northern Punjab state
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Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Mary Mbele First the main points Official results in the first round of presidential elections in the Comoros showed that Mr Mohammed Abdulkarim of the National Union for Democracy has won The United Nations' mandate in Rwanda expires today China has started missiles tests in the sea off the coast of Taiwan International leaders are discussing proposals for a conference on ways of combating terrorism in the Middle east The news in detail
Moroni Official results in the first round of presidential elections in the Comoros showed that the winner was Mohammed Abdulkarim of the Comoro National Union for Democracy Second in the race was Abas Yusuf of the Foreign Financial Recovery The two men will face a run-off vote on March the sixteenth after failing to achieve outright majority Fifteen candidates took part in the elections to choose a successor to Mohammed Johar who was forced to step down after a coup last September
Kigali The United Nations' mandate in Rwanda expires today at the insistence of the Rwandan authorities The government wants the fourteen hundred strong <./>Uni United Nations' force now in the country to be replaced by a small political office made up of civilians The <-_government><+_government's> chief complaint is that the United Nations' troops failed to stop the genocide in nineteen ninety-four when well over half a million people mostly members of the Tutsi minority were killed The present United Nations' force will be withdrawn over the next six <./>month <-/>six weeks
Monrovia The United Nations' special representative in Liberia Mr Anthony Nyaki says troops of the West African intervention force <-_has><+_have> searched the home of the faction leader Mr Roosevelt Johnson He said they have found rocket propelled grenades and other weapons Earlier armed troops and tanks had surrounded Mr Johnson's home in the capital Monrovia and threatened to storm it The action followed the dismissal of Mr Johnson as a minister <./>rur rural development by the interim government after he refused to discuss the leadership dispute within his armed faction ULIMOJEI The government said the quarrel was endangering the Liberian peace process
Bombay Rescue teams in the Indian city of Bombay have been searching for survivors inside the wreckage of a five-storey apartment building after it collapsed Officials said nine people are known to have been killed and several were injured The number of casualties is expected to rise although some people were pulled clear of debris Hopes of finding anyone else alive are said to be fading
Washington The American administration has thanked the Tanzanian government for its close co-operation with Tanzania which enabled a United States' fugitive Cobi Mowatt to be back in custody in the United States The assistant director in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigations Washington Field Office Mr W Lane Croaker thanked the government at the news conference just minutes after Mowatt arrived in Washington from Tanzania via Amsterdam Mowatt was tracked through Moscow and Nairobi to Tanzania and was arrested by authorities in Arusha The Tanzanian ambassador to the United States Mr Yusuf Mustapha Nyang'anyi who attended the Washington news conference said Mowatt entered Tanzania disguised as a tourist mixing in with the thousands of travellers who visit the country each year He said Tanzania is endowed with natural resources beautiful wild game and national parks and therefore it allows a lot of people to come in Mowatt aged twenty-five had been a fugitive for approximately one year He now faces prosecution in US district court on charges that he conspired to participate in a racketeering organisation by committing acts of murder robbery kidnapping and drug dealing
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Taipei China has started missile tests in the sea off the coast of Taiwan The Taiwanese government said two missiles were fired and landed within zones designated by China The United States condemned the action as provocative The Chinese have never before conducted tests firing so close to Taiwan China says the tests are intended to exert pressure against any move towards independence from Taiwan which it claims as its own territory It announced the missile firing on Monday warning ships and aircraft not to enter the test area for a week from today
Washington International leaders are discussing proposals for a conference on ways of combating terrorism in the Middle East The United States says no firm decision has been made on whether to stage the conference but Washington is discussing the idea with other countries to establish whether it would help boost the Middle East peace process Israel radio said it believes such a conference would be held in Egypt next week
Tehran Voters in Iran go to the polls today in the country's first general elections since the Islamic revolution in nineteen seventy-nine Over three thousand candidates are competing for two hundred and seventy seats All prospective candidates were voted for their commitment to the prevailing Islamic system and at least one thousand eight hundred were disqualified Reports say any serious opposition was virtually ruled out
Bonn Some eighty-eight thousand men and twenty thousand women in Germany died of smoking in nineteen ninety-five Reports released at the seminar in Mostar in Germany did not give details but participants of the seminar on smoking and risk described smoking as a plague and the biggest enemy of man's health They agreed that the key to curb the plague is to prevent adolescents from smoking Around the world one point nine million people die of smoking every year accounting for seventeen per cent of all deaths
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<$A> Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Mary Mbele First the main points President Benjamin Mkapa has elevated the Ardhi Institute to an associate university of Dar es Salaam with effect from July the first this year Reports say although women make up nearly half the world's work force many still live face a living nightmare and work under almost slave-like conditions A group of army officers in Sudan have been arrested allegedly planning to sabotage the elections which began on <./>Mon Wednesday The Nigeria's military government has set out new penalties for anyone opposing its programme for a three-year transition to democracy The news in detail
Dar es Salaam President Benjamin Mkapa has elevated the Ardhi Institute to an associate University of Dar es Salaam beginning the first of July this year President Mkapa declared the elevation when he was officially inaugurating a comprehensive programme to rehabilitate Ardhi Institute yesterday financed by the government of Denmark President Mkapa said the new name for the college will be University College of Lands and <./>Archi Architectural Studies Talking to staff of the Ardhi Institute the president called on higher learning institutions in the country to establish a culture of trading their expertise through consultancy in order to get enough money for making the institutions self-reliant President Mkapa commended the leadership of Ardhi Institute for its efforts to make the institute participate in the preparations for implementation of various projects like songo-songo gas and national television construction projects He also called upon professionals in various fields of land to abide the ethics of their professions as a means to fight corruption which the president said was now affecting the lands and housing sector
Brussels The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions says although women make up nearly half of the world's work force many still face a living nightmare and work under almost slave-like conditions A report issued by the confederation in the Belgian capital Brussels yesterday to mark the International Women's Day said women were confined to the least skilled jobs were major victims of unemployment and made up seventy per cent of the one thousand two hundred and fifty million people who live in poverty The report said that feminisation of the labour market was being accompanied by a feminisation of poverty insecurity and exploitation It said trade unions had to work to improve women's working conditions and should be included in all international trade agreements guaranteeing workers' rights and en end to discrimination
Windhoek Police in Namibia say cases of sexual abuse are on the increase in the country mainly due to unemployment and poverty Inspector Blanche Neil of the women and child abuse centre in the capital Windhoek says many houses are overcrowded As a result she said children are forced to share rooms and even beds with their parents and relatives who sometimes abuse them Inspector Neil was speaking during a visit to the centre by Mr Prudence Bushnell United States' deputy secretary of the state
Harare A catastrophic outbreak of contagious diseases is immanent <-_to><+_in> two jails in Southern Zimbabwe unless urgent steps are taken to improve the harsh conditions inmates are exposed to A report tabled in the National Assembly by a parliamentary committee on security expresses concern at the crowded and unhygienic conditions in which the prisoners live The committee says it also worries about what it describes as high incidence of Aids related deaths in the prisons At Kami prison for example between four and five convicts die a week and homosexuality is rife
Harare The Zimbabwean government says it will take strong measures against the known Chimwenje dissident group if it engages in acts of destabilisation against the country The warning was made by President Robert Mugabe in his campaign trail in Zimbabwe's eastern border province of Manika land He told a meeting at Chisumbanje village in Chipinge district that the people of the area suffered during the war of liberation and during banditry activities by RENAMO Mozambique's former rebel group President Mugabe said it is now time for the district's residents to enjoy peace and development without fear of being terrorised by the Chimwenjes The Chimwenjes are believed to have links with opposition ZANU - NDONGA party led by sixty-six year old Reverend Ndabaninge Sitole who has denied the allegations This news broadcast comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Khartoum Sudanese security forces have arrested a group of army officers who were allegedly planning acts of sabotage on the eve of elections which began on Wednesday Reports say the group consisted of seventy and twenty low-ranking officers but did not say when they were arrested Other reports say the officers co-operated with members of the Sudanese opposition in exile to carry out acts of sabotage <-_of> <+_on> the eve of elections to create a state of chaos as an introduction to overthrow the military government
Abuja The opposition Nefta Democratic coalition in Nigeria has called for a boycott of local elections which would mark the first significant stage of the military <-_government><+_government's> three-year plan for a transition to democracy Two other pro-democracy groups the Campaign for Democracy and National Conscious Party have already called for a boycott The authorities have stepped up security in the run-up to the polling The local elections of the sixteenth of this month will be the first time Nigerians have voted since the annulment of the presidential elections in nineteen ninety-three The polling will take place on a <./>non-gove <-_>on a<-/> non-party basis and <-_have><+_has> been criticised by the opponents of the military regime as a propaganda exercise and a waste of resources The military government has invited a number of foreigners including American journalists into the country in time for the vote Meanwhile the military government in Nigeria has set out new penalties for anyone opposing its programme for a three-year transition to democracy It says those trying to undermine the process will be tried in a special tribunal and jailed for up to five years
Monrovia Fighting has again broken out between rival militias in Liberia The head of the West African peace keeping force in the country General Nyangapele said the clashes were between forces loyal to faction leaders Charles Taylor and Mr Johnson in the north east of the country
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Twenty-two hours East African Time Here is the news of the last twenty-four hours from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by First the main points All seventeen people on board a Canadian leased plane that crashed on Monday night in southern Iran were killed The United Nations Children's Fund has appealed to leaders and people of Africa to find lasting solutions to the root cause of the refugee problem The African Development Bank has granted Tanzania three hundred and thirty-one million shillings for a rehabilitation study of the Dar es Salaam water supply system South Africa's democracy negotiators put the final touches to a constitutional package before their leaders met today to sign an end to white minority rule
Teheran All seventeen people on board a Canadian leased plane that crashed on Monday night in southern Iran were killed The Iranian news agency said the identities of the cargo plane's crew and passengers have not yet been disclosed but it was indicated that they were all non-Iranians The airplane was flying to Tashkent capital of former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan when it went off the radar screen at the airport The plane flies continually between Tashkent and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates The Civil Aviation Organisation of Iran is investigating the cause of the crash
Dodoma The United Nations Children's Fund has appealed to leaders and people of Africa to find lasting solutions to the root causes of the refugee problem The appeal was made yesterday in Dodoma by the chairperson of the executive board of UNICEF Honourable She was speaking on the situation of Burundi refugees Honourable who is the Minister of Community Development Women and Children's Affairs told a press conference that refugees in Africa make women and children more vulnerable than ever before She said it is now estimated that six hundred and seventy-five thousand people have left Burundi to seek refuge in the neighbouring countries of Rwanda Tanzania and Zaire Honourable said eighty per cent of these refugees are women and children In Tanzania she said UNICEF had provided twenty thousand dollars' worth of essential drugs and salt for the Burundi refugees She said UNICEF will also give support to water and sanitation requirements through the provision of over ten thousand jerry cans for families and disinfectants for pit latrines
Algiers An Algerian court has sentenced thirty-seven Muslim militants to death for crimes including the murder of twenty-one people Thirty of the accused were sentenced in absentia The Algiers special court sitting in the town of sixty-five kilometres south-west of the capital also sentenced sixty-three other defendants in the same trial to prison terms ranging from three years to life The official Algerian news agency said the fundamentalists were members of an armed organisation in the desert town of three hundred and forty kilometres south of the capital The charge included an attempt to sabotage a gas pipeline At least three hundred and fifty-seven fundamentalists have been sentenced to death in Algeria since a state of emergency was imposed in February nineteen ninety-two Of these twenty-six have been executed The authorities decreed the state of emergency after an outbreak of street violence that followed the cancellation of a general election in which the now banned Islamic Salvation Front had taken a massive first round lead
Seattle The human rights group Asia Watch said today that countries had to protect human rights at the same time as they developed their economies or else they risked alienating their citizens In the report issued to coincide with the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation APEC summit meeting in Seattle the group resisted the idea that economic development would necessarily cause political liberalisation The report on human rights in the APEC region argues that economic development sometimes as in the case of China brought about further repression The Asia Watch report analysed the human rights situation in most of the dynamic APEC economies and several Asian countries like Vietnam and Burma that are not members of the organisation It had harsh words for many including the United States saying the United States' policy on Haitian boat people violated the international covenant on civil and political rights which Washington adopted last year
Lusaka The United Nations sponsored peace talks to try to end Angola's civil war entered a third phase today and debated problems of reconciliation and a new cease-fire An authoritative source said the negotiators were examining various problems of national conciliation and the need for a new date for holding a cease-fire The source told Reuters that this meeting there <./>wa that after this meeting they will be able to know if any significant progress had been made Each side had presented its own agenda and now the United Nations has to narrow these down
Lagos Nigerian workers' strike against the six hundred per cent in fuel price rise spread to several other states today Reports from Lagos say the workers in some northern and eastern states joined the action which has hitherto been mainly concentrated in the south-west home region of presidential contender Chief Mashood Abiola Banks and shops closed in many states today the third day of the indefinite strike called by the Nigeria Labour Congress The negotiations were expected to resume today between the Nigeria Labour Congress and Nigeria's unelected government to end the strike which has further damaged the administration's standing
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Dar es Salaam The African Development Bank ADB has granted Tanzania three hundred and thirty-one million shillings for a rehabilitation study of the Dar es Salaam water supply system The director-general of the National Urban Water Authority NUWA told Shihata that the objectives of the study were preparations of a long-term water supply distribution system for Dar es Salaam capable of meeting the demands for the next twenty years He said the study would also prepare detailed designs for the rehabilitation and strengthening of the existing water supply system in the city He added that the future distribution system should be based on the existing facility said the study would start in January next year and would take about nine months and should review the country's recently revised water and sanitation sector policy and strategy He added that the target is to make water flow to the city reach eighty to ninety million gallons per day The current supply to the city is only sixty million gallons
Dar es Salaam Unity and solidarity among members of the Southern African Development Community SADEC have been described as some of the achievements the organ has enjoyed since its inception over ten years ago The observation was made yesterday by the outgoing SADEC executive secretary Dr at a news conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Dr is currently in the country He said the region was confronted by the very serious danger of being split apart by external challenges He said through SADEC and other front-line states they managed to maintain and consolidate the unity of our countries and the people Asked if South Africa was welcome to join SADEC said the country was not forbidden to join the organ provided it abolishes its policy on apartheid He dismissed ideas that South Africa was a vast area that would overshadow the other member African states He said the presence of South Africa would make no change to the organisation It's only that South <-/>South Africa and other African states needed one another
Johannesburg South Africa's democracy negotiators put the final touches to a constitutional package before their leaders met today to sign an end to white minority rule The negotiators met today in a last minute drive to complete two years of work on the package that will give blacks the vote and end three centuries of white domination The twenty-one group negotiating council approved an interim constitution to see the country taking black majority rule The constitutional package includes a multi-racial transitional executive council to oversee the run-up to elections on April the twenty-seventh re-incorporation of apartheid's black homelands into South Africa a key constitutional court and a bill of rights President Frederik DeKlerk and African National Congress ANC leader Mr Nelson Mandela will be among leaders gathered at the World Trade Centre in Johannesburg to sign the historic series of accord
Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced that he was still betting on Middle East peace talks succeeding even as his army's guns sounded in Lebanon on the occupied territories He said he doesn't see any contradiction between continuation of the peace negotiations with the Palestinians and fighting the terrorism whose purpose is to undermine the peace process to stop it Pro-Iranian Hizbollah guerrillas in South Lebanon pledging to scuttle the PLO - Israeli deal for Palestinian self-rule yesterday rocketed the buffer zone which the Jewish state claims in the south and captured twelve pro-Israeli militiamen Israel called the guerrillas' offensive a gambit by Damascus to force the return of Syria to the forefront of the Middle East talks It launched retaliatory air attacks against Hizbollah bases
Bangkok A Thai court has jailed a former member of the United Nations peace-keeping force to Cambodia <-_>A Thai court has jailed a former member of the United Nations peace-keeping force<-/> in Cambodia for two and a half years for smuggling arms A court official said today that the court at first sentenced from Mali to five years but immediately reduced the term because the defendant pleaded guilty a computer programmer for the former United Nations transitional authority in Cambodia was arrested in transit at Bangkok's international airport in July after x-rays revealed guns hidden in his luggage Police seized four rifles three handguns a bayonet and two hundred rounds of ammunition told the court that he did not know he was breaking the law since the weapons were acquired only as souvenirs and possession of firearms was not illegal in his country
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Nineteen hours East African Time Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Charles Hilary First the main points The Investment Promotion <-_Centres><+_Centre> has approved <./>twenty-s twenty-six projects for investment in manufacturing natural resources tourism and transport sectors in the country Officials from Angola's government and the rebel UNITA group have discussed details of how to implement a new cease-fire in their eighteen year war as peace talks entered the fourth day today The World Food Programme has announced the launching of a major regional emergency relief operation for more than eight hundred thousand refugees and internally displaced people in Burundi The Nigerian city of Lagos was at a <-_virtually><+_virtual> standstill today as the military returned to power
Dar es Salaam The Investment Promotion Centre IPC has approved twenty-six projects for investment in manufacturing natural resources tourism and transport sectors in the country Briefing the press on the projects' status approved by the IPC the Centre's director general Ndugu said the projects which will create more than two thousand job opportunities have a total investment of over forty billion shillings Ndugu said that the manufacturing projects include a new brewery at Mwanza which is jointly undertaken by the Tanzania Brewery and Indol the rehabilitation and expansion of the Tanzania Brewery's facilities in Dar es Salaam Arusha and Moshi and the expansion <-/>expansion of production of veterinary products by the Intac pharmacy in Moshi On the natural resources sector Ndugu said a joint Italian and Tanzanian integrated agriculture project would be established in Dar es Salaam to carry out fish farming activities while a mamba ranch project would be incepted at Pangani for crocodile skins and meat and Allies Investment would invest in fish collection and processing for export The IPC director general further said the four companies have decided to invest in the tourism sector whereby a tourist hotel will be constructed in Bagamoyo and another in Iringa The National Urban Water Authority NUWA has issued an explanation <-_to><+_for> the water shortage which hit Dar es Salaam early today and which is still affecting some areas of the city A brief announcement from NUWA said all three pumping stations were affected by intermittent power cuts between six thirty and nine this morning At nine a m power was restored to Lower and Upper pumping station but by later this afternoon the pumping station was still without power The power cut in the morning briefly affected Radio Tanzania broadcasts An <./>explan will try to salve the meeting seeking to end a war which kills at least one thousand people a day and has <-_displaces><+_displaced> hundreds of thousands of others and left some three million in need of urgent food aid There was no word whether Angolan armed forces chief Mr early reported to be flying to Lusaka to join the talks had arrived Diplomatic sources said was likely to sign any truce that the warring sides might hammer out adding that this <-_>adding that<-/> his signature would be needed to any possible cease-fire accord
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Dar es Salaam The World Food Programme WFP has announced the launch of a major <./>re regional emergency relief operation for more than eight hundred thousand refugees and internally displaced people in Burundi Reports say there has been widespread fighting between members of the minority Tutsi and the majority Hutu tribes particularly in rural areas About six hundred and sixty thousand people so far have fled from Burundi to Rwanda Tanzania and Zaire and a further one hundred and fifty thousand are displaced within the country According to the WFP executive director the most urgent need is for cash to fund a local and regional purchase of cereals She said the total cost of the entire regional emergency operation is estimated at fourteen million dollars adding that the agency and the scope of the crisis required immediate response from the international donor community
Lagos The Nigerian city of Lagos was at a virtual standstill today as the military returned to power Police have banned any illegal demonstrations and they patrolled the streets today but mounted no big show of force Groups of Pro-democracy had set today for demonstrations to make a general strike against a big increase in fuel prices Reports from Lagos say the surprise resignation of head of state Mr Ernest and assumption of power by General Sani Abacha added yet another twist to a long-running political crisis General Abacha who was defence minister in the government of Mr was expected to address the nation later today
Lusaka Zambia plans to ask international donors for a record of more than one billion dollars in financial support for nineteen ninety-four at the donor consultative group meeting in December According to a report prepared for the meeting a copy of which was obtained by the Reuters today targeted an assistance level of eighty hundred and sixty million dollars plus external debt relief of two hundred and seventy million dollars for nineteen ninety-four The report said Zambia had adhered strictly to an International Monetary Fund IMF and World Bank economic reform programme and that more funding would enable the government to consolidate progress made over the past two years It would also help it to expand its social sector rehabilitation programme However western diplomatic sources said the consultative group provided eight hundred million dollars in funding for nineteen ninety-three and were sceptical that Zambia's hopes for the coming years would be met
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Twenty-two hours East African Time Here is the news of the last twenty-four hours from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Charles Hilary First the main points White and black South African leaders have approved a democracy constitution to end one-race rule The parliament in Malawi has passed a constitutional amendment abolishing the institution of the life presidency The United Nations World Food Programme has decided to grant emergency relief to over eight hundred thousand Burundian refugees
Johannesburg White and black South African leader leaders have approved a democracy constitution to give blacks the vote and end white minority rule The African National Congress ANC president Mr Nelson Mandela said they have reached the end of an era and they are now at the beginning of a new era He said for the first time in the history of South Africa on April the twenty-seventh nineteen ninety-four all South Africans whatever their language religion culture colour or class will vote as equal citizens The constitution will go before a special session of parliament beginning next week and the nation will start its approach to the first <./>un universal franchise election next April A multi-party transitional executive council will oversee the process to ensure fair play
Lilongwe Malawi's parliament has passed a constitutional amendment abolishing the institution of the life presidency occupied by the ailing Kamuzu Banda A government source reached by phone in Malawi said this did not affect the present status of President Kamuzu Banda who has been life president since nineteen seventy-one The source said the constitution the constitutional amendment <-_were><+_was> part of reforms being passed by parliament before the country's first multi-party elections are <-_hold><+_held> next May The amendment on the presidency would allow for a new president to be elected A three-man presidential council is currently ruling Malawi while President Banda recovers from brain surgery Radio said the amendment also <-_replies><+_applies> to the president's power to nominate members of parliament It reduced the qualifying age for presidential candidate to thirty-five from forty years and the voting age to eighteen from twenty-one years The radio said the constitutional amendment bill incorporated a bill of rights while parliament also passed a general amnesty amendment bill
Lusaka Zambia plans to ask international donors for a record of more than one billion dollars in financial support for nineteen ninety-four at the Donor Consultative Group meeting in December According to a report prepared for the meeting a copy of which was obtained by the Reuters today targeted an <./>ass an assistance level of eighty hundred and sixty million dollars plus external debt relief of two hundred and seventy million dollars for nineteen ninety-four The report said Zambia had adhered strictly to an International Monetary Fund IMF and World Bank economic reforms programme and that more funding would enable the government to consolidate progress made over the past two years It would also help it to expand its social sector rehabilitation programme However western diplomatic sources said the consultative group provided eight hundred million dollars in funding for nineteen ninety-three and were sceptical that Zambia's hopes for the coming years would be met New York United Nations weapons experts have said that they had pinpointed areas where Shia Moslems people were sprayed with chemical weapons and planned to inspect Iraq's southern marsh area The team of nine experts went to Iran to interview Iraqi refugees in an effort to <./>op to obtain a precise location for the alleged attacks Iraq has denied it used poison gas Sources at the United Nations said the nine experts now in Bahrain planned to go to Baghdad tomorrow leave for the marshes on Saturday and spend about three days there
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Algiers The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has decided to grant emergency relief to over eight hundred thousand Burundian refugees who have fled their homes in fear of ethnic massacres The report said that the WFP would provide more than twenty-nine thousand tons of <-_grains><+_grain> and other food which would feed the Burundian refugees for three months The emergency programme costs some fourteen million US dollars The military coup attempt in Burundi on October twenty-one in which the country's first freely-elected president was killed has led to a renewed tribal warfare between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis who have been fighting for power for years According to UN estimates more than six hundred and fifty thousand Burundians have taken refuge in neighbouring <./>Ru Rwanda Zaire and Tanzania and some one hundred and fifty thousand have been displaced inside Burundi since the failed coup
Jakarta Indonesia's president Mr has given the Palestine Liberation Organisation two hundred million dollars in aid The sum which Mr presented to PLO chairman Mr Yasser Arafat in Tunisia is part of a five hundred million dollars in aid which Indonesia has pledged Antara news agency quoted the state's secretary saying Mr had also pledged other help to the Palestinians as they move towards limited self-government Under a peace agreement signed between Israel and the PLO in September Israeli forces will withdraw from the Gaza strip and the West Bank town of Jericho in January next year The implementation of the peace agreement is facing many difficulties and has made practically no progress Mogadishu The Somali warlord General Mohammed Fara Aideed told crowds of followers today that they had won a victory when the United Nations <./>Seca <./>Seca Security Council abandoned its five month bloody efforts to arrest him General Aideed said he was addressing the crowd <-_in><+_on> the day of victory which was achieved by hard struggle of the people and supporters of his Somali National Alliance the SNA It was General Aideed's first public appearance since the United Nations ordered his arrest in condition with the massacre of twenty-four Pakistani troops on June the fifth General Aideed sporting a Hawaiian shirt and jubilantly raising his fist as a sign of triumph said at the rally that the hunting of SNA leader and his supporters was over and it was now the time for dialogue
Rabat The Moroccan government has reprimanded the director and editor of the opposition daily newspaper La Opinion for publishing a virulent and subversive article on the political situation in Morocco The senior member of the paper's staff told Reuters they were warned of possible legal action because the article signed by editor Halid Jamal said there had been a single party regime in Morocco for more than twenty years The newspaper's director and Mr Jamal were called in <-_>were called in<-/> on Wednesday by the minister of state for the interior and information Mr The paper is published by the old guard nationalist party one of three opposition parties which charge they were cheated of the parliamentary majority by electoral irregularities The article said Morocco has never known a real multi-party system but has in fact been subjected to a single-party system for more than twenty years
Nairobi Police in Kenya have arrested five Kenyan employees of a foreign aid organisation on <-_suspension><+_suspicion> of trying to smuggle weapons into the ethnic troubled Rift Valley The police said the five were detained in the north-west of the country which has become the centre for relief operations into the southern Sudan Newspaper reports say two of those detained worked for the United Nations Children Fund UNICEF and another for the Red Cross The arrests are the latest in a series related to the <-_>to the<-/> trouble in the Rift Valley
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Twenty-two hours East African time Here is the news of the last twenty-four hours from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Othman Mtata First the headlines Three people from the same family died and two others were seriously injured after a Landrover travelling from Dar es Salaam to overturned at village in Morogoro The Tanzania Housing Bank has declared redundant seven directors of the Bank with immediate effect as result of a restructuring process in the Bank Hundreds of angry people today demolished a fence of corrugated iron sheets erected by a businessman intending to construct a shopping centre in area at the Park in Dar es Salaam Angolan peace talks hung in the balance today after UNITA rebels rejected fresh government demands to disarm the rebels' civilian followers
Morogoro Three people died and two others were seriously injured after a Landrover travelling from Dar es Salaam to overturned at village in Morogoro today The matron of the Morogoro Regional Hospital Ndugu named the dead as and who died on the spot Ndugu named those who were injured and admitted to the Morogoro Regional Hospital as and
Dar es Salaam The Tanzania Housing Bank the THB has declared redundant seven directors of the Bank with immediate effect as a result of the restructuring process in the Bank A release issued today by the chairman of the board of directors of the THB >Ndugu said those declared redundant are the director of finance the director of banking operations Ndugu the director of Ndugu and the director of estates and technical services Ndugu Others are the director of manpower development and administration Ndugu the corporation secretary Ndugu and the chief internal auditor Ndugu The release said the changes are designed to create a dynamic banking organisation capable of providing quality services to its customers and competing in the Tanzania banking sector
Dar es Salaam Hundreds of angry people today demolished a fence of corrugated iron sheets erected by a businessman intending to construct a shopping centre in an area in Park in Dar es Salaam The crowd removed all the sheets and fencing from the area while making angry remarks against what they believe to be a negation of an order issued in parliament in Dodoma by the Minister for Lands Housing and Urban Development the Honourable Edward that the city council demolish the fence Eye witnesses said the crowds had demolished the fence and removed all material from the scene within ten minutes The Dar es Salaam regional commissioner the Honourable who arrived at the scene shortly after the demolition spoke to the crowd which confronted him demanding to know why an order from a minister was ignored He spoke to them and the crowd later dispersed peacefully The regional police commander Ndugu said the police had recovered seventy-five corrugated iron sheets from various areas in the vicinity of Park and one person had been arrested in possession of one sheet believed to have come the demolished fence He said however that the police were unable to do anything because by the time they got to the scene the fence had already been demolished with nothing in sight
Kigali The Rwandan Patriotic Front the RPF has denied allegations that it was responsible for the killing of forty civilians yesterday near the north-western town of Speaking from his headquarters the RPF commander told reporters that the RPF had not carried out such an attack He said he suspected it was the work of the Rwandan government and expressed the hope that the United Nations' investigation into the death would be reveal the truth The inquiry was started after reports on the Rwandan state radio said that the RPF guerrillas had launched several attacks in an area which RPF and government forces had agreed not to enter
Lusaka Angolan peace talks hung in the balance today after UNITA rejected fresh government demands to disarm the rebels' civilian followers Reports from Lusaka say United Nations envoy Mr held crisis talks to try to resolve the last minute snag threatening the <-_negotiation><+_negotiations> The talks began in the Zambian capital Lusaka on Monday and had appeared to be making progress towards ending the eighteen-year-long civil war The report said after an agreement had been reached for most issues to be discussed the Angolan government delegation introduced an item that civilian members of UNITA should be disarmed UNITA opposed the demand saying that the issue of disarmament was a global one and should involve the government
Lagos Nigeria's new military leader General Sani Abacha has announced sweeping changes to stem the country's slide to chaos but it is uncertain how conflicting interest groups will react In his maiden broadcast twenty-four hours after taking over power Mr Abacha banned politics and dismantled all the democratic institutions in Nigeria The ban effectively ended the nation's seven-year march to democracy in June when former military ruler announced elections to choose his civilian successor Meanwhile Britain has warned the new Nigerian military leader that it was discussing tougher sanctions with its international partners after his decision to ban political parties The Foreign Secretary Mr Douglas Hurd told parliament that Britain's patience towards its former colony was running out and it would judge Nigeria's regime critically by its actions
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Maputo Negotiations on Mozambique's first <./>part multiparty elections resumed today following an agreement within the government and its main rival on the issue of expatriate votes President and the leader of the former rebel Renama movement agreed yesterday to allow a multiparty national election commission to decide whether Mozambiquans working or studying abroad should have the right to vote The Maputo meeting between President and ended the two week wrangle over the issue between high-ranking government and Renamo delegations
Mogadischu The Somali faction leader General has appeared in public for the first time since the United Nations abandoned its hunt for him General protected by guards carrying grenade launchers and automatic rifles addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters in his south Mogadischu stronghold He called the cancellation of the arrest order against him a victory and said the withdrawal of all American soldiers by the end of March would pave the way for the forming of a new Somali government
Bagdhad Iraq has dismissed allegations that it has used chemical weapons against the people of its southern marshes A ruling Bahati newspaper said the allegations were a cheap lie perpetrated by the authorities in neighbouring Iran The United Nations has said it is planning to send a team of experts into Iraq in the next few days to investigate the claim The team hopes to examine soil and vegetation in the marshlands where the alleged attack took place It also wants to take blood and skin samples from the alleged victims
Sarajevo The leaders of the three warring parties of Bosnia-Herzegovna have signed an undertaking guaranteeing the safe passage of United Nations aid convoys in the republic The agreement was reached at a meeting in Geneva between the UN High Commissioner for Refugess and the leaders of the Serbs Croats and Muslims It covers the free movement of aid and humanitarian personnel and the release of detained civilians The High Commissioner said at the very least the agreement would mean that fighting on the supply route should stop as convoys pass and she would be recommending that overland delivery resume Asked why this agreement should succeed where others have failed Mrs said it was the first time all three leaders had signed such an undertaking at the same time
Dakar More than two thousand Muslims and have rallied in the Bangaldeschi capital Dakar demanding the government to put on trial and hang an outspoken feminist writer for her advocacy of women's liberation free sex and no religion Clerics from several fundamentalist groups charged that the writer was trying to derail Moslem religion and incite women to abandon their duties in the home They demanded that the government put her on trial and hang her It was the first such protest against the writer Nasreen in Dakar Hundreds of armed police stood by but the protesters dispersed peacefully Last month a fundamentalist group organised a general strike in the north-eastern town of against Nasreen's writing and scattered protests have occurred in other parts of the country
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Twenty-one hours East African time Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Othman Matata First the headlines At least forty-three thousand people have died of diseases over the past month in refugee camps in Zaire The stream of Rwandan refugees fleeing into Zaire continued today despite Kinshasa's decision to close the frontier post Language and <./>lit literature experts in Africa have been urged to help make Kiswahili the language of Africa Indian environmental activists have begun a people's movement to save the Taj Mahal India's best known monument which is under threat from industrial pollution
Goma Zaire At least forty-three thousand people are now estimated to have died over the past month in the disease-ridden Rwandan refugee camps around Goma in eastern Zaire The High Commissioner for Refugees' spokesman Mr Ray Wilkinson said approximately between four hundred and fifty to five hundred people were still dying daily from various diseases in the camps where some eight hundred thousand refugees mostly Hutus are stranded He said dysentery is the main killer in the Goma camps replacing a cholera epidemic Bukavu The stream of Rwandan refugees fleeing into Zaire continued today despite Kinshasa's official decision to close the frontier post A Reuter photographer who visited the bridge crossing after Zaire told the United Nations of its decision said she saw hundreds of villagers being waved through the border post by Zairean soldiers and customs officials Many refugees are convinced that the Tutsi dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front government which took over power in Rwanda last month following the flight of the Hutu government will wreak a bloody revenge after the French leave They have little confidence that African United Nations troops taking over can protect them Some aid workers however blame the fresh exodus on a propaganda campaign by Rwanda's former government to convince Hutus that they will be slaughtered by RPF soldiers when the French quit
Paris France has sent three vulcanologists to Goma in Zaire to monitor volcanoes threatening some fifty thousand Rwandan refugees crowded into makeshift camps The foreign ministry said experts had warned that the volcano fifteen kilometres north of Goma has become active and could erupt It last erupted in nineteen seventy-seven killing seventy people The volcanoes in the Goma area glow red at night and spew fire and dust A ministry spokesman Mr Richard said France had also sent a special envoy Mr to Kigali to establish ties with the new Tutsi-led government
Banjul Gambia's military head of state Lieutenant has extended the curfew by four hours after a fire broke out at a market outside the capital Banjul An official statement issued in Banjul said the curfew would run from ten p m to five a m for security reasons It gave no details but President visited markets yesterday to see the damage from Thursday night's fire which destroyed forty-two stalls There were no casualties and the police said there was so far no indication as to what caused the fire
Brazzaville France has agreed to offer the Congo a hundred and fifty-nine million dollars in soft loans to help its economic reforms A Congolese official said the first payment of seventy-five million dollars would be dedicated to the restructuring of nationalised industries for health and education and for underwriting the government debt The official said the second loan of one point three million dollars would be used to compensate civil servants laid off as part of a structural adjustment programme promised to the International Monetary Fund The loans will be lent at three point five per cent annual interest over twenty-two years with a nine year grace period This news broadcast comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar esSalaam
Dar es Salaam The minister of information and broadcasting the Honourable Dr William says time has come language and literature experts in Africa to help make Kiswahili the language of Africa Dr made the remarks yesterday at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel in Dar es Salaam when he was closing a three day meeting of language and literature teachers from the universities in the region He also underscored the need for the University of Dar es Salaam to establish communications and mass communication programmes since requirements of modern mass communication systems were now changing in Tanzania The minister emphasised on the need for improvement of African languages saying they are tools of societal development The meeting held at the University of Dar es Salaam was attended by about thirty language and literature university lecturers from Malawi Zimbabwe South Africa Lesotho Swaziland Botswana and Tanzania
Cairo The Sudan says police in Egypt have attacked a Sudanese diplomat outside his Cairo home the latest incident in the deteriorating relationship between the two countries An official at the Sudanese embassy in Cairo said during the incident on Thursday six Egyptian policemen followed the mission's first secretary to his home and beat him when he got out of his car The official said he would lodge an official protest with the Egyptian foreign ministry tomorrow when government offices reopen after a one day break to celebrate prophet Mohammed's birthday May peace be upon him The Sudan on Monday alleged attacks on two other diplomats in Cairo and said it had protested to the Egyptian foreign ministry
New Delhi Indian environmental activists have begun a people's movement to save the Taj Mahal India's best-known monument which is under threat from industrial pollution The seventeenth century monument which Mogul emperor Shah Jahan built for the much-loved second wife Mumtaz is also the country's favourite tourist destination attracting one point five million visitors every year Experts say the monument in Agra some two hundred kilometres from New Delhi faces chemical and carbon pollution from neighbouring industries causing marble cancer which is yellowing the Taj's glittering white facing Scientists lawyers and environmentalists are leading a campaign to protect the monument And now to end the news here are the main points once again And that's the end of the news
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The news of the last twenty-four hours from the external service of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Lawrence First the main points
The United Nations secretary general Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali has called on the international community to work together to end discrimination based on gender <-_issue><+_issues> wherever it may occur The British <-_governor><+_government> has imposed a visa regime for Kenyan visitors to Britain Six people have been killed and fourteen others injured in a serious traffic accident on a road between Cairo and Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria Troops of the West African intervention force <-_has><+_have> searched the home of the faction leader Mr Roosevelt Johnson
Dar es Salaam The United Nations secretary general Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali has called on the international community to work together to end discrimination based on gender <-_issue><+_issues> wherever it may occur In his message to mark the International Women's Day the UN chief says all of humanity women and men alike must be fully empowered to make their contribution to the development of society successfully He called on the implementation of the Beijing Declaration Platform for Action which identifies priority action in areas such as health education and human rights of women and targets to be met over the next five years to advance women In his message made available in Dar es Salaam today Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali is critical on the advance of women He says in most sections of human society poverty can truly be said to have a woman's face Dr Ghali said there was no doubt that of the more than one point three billion people struggling to survive on less than a single dollar each day the majority were women
Colombo Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumarotunga has urged women to act as key agents in safeguarding the quality and stock of natural resources for sustainable development In her message to mark International Women's Day the president said that the role which women can play in protecting the environment is now recognised by all governments She said since women perform various activities in agriculture industry and family health it was important for them that their knowledge and skills are taken into account in planning and implementing strategies for the conservation of natural resources The Sri Lankan prime minister Serima Bandarayeike in her message also said that a certain amount of dedication on the part of women is essential to understand problems they have to face
Harare The Zimbabwean government says it would not accede to opposition demands for constitutional changes It says the government did not see anything in the current constitution and electoral laws that impeded opposition parties from organising and expressing their views The opposition political parties maintain that the legal framework favours the ruling ZANU PF party making free and fair elections impossible But in response to the Zimbabwe minister of justice legal and <-/parliamental> affairs Mr Ameson Nnagagwa said there was nothing which can be <-_constricted><+_constructed> as an impediment to anybody wishing to exercise any contrary views to that of the ruling party
Harare Prices of fertilisers have gone up again in Zimbabwe a third increase within one year Compound fertilisers <-_goes><+_go> up by fourteen point eight per cent while nitrates rise by twelve point two per cent Fertiliser prices were last increased in August hardly four months after forty-seven per cent hike which followed the decision by the government to free itself from fertiliser pricing A spokesman for Zimbabwe's two fertiliser <-_company><+_companies> says the prices were forced upon them by rising production costs and devaluation of the Zimbabwean dollar against major currencies Zimbabwean farmers have complained about the frequent prices of fertilisers which they say erodes their viability
Johannesburg The South African president Mr Nelson Mandela has left hospital in Johannesburg looking fit and well The seventy-seven year old president underwent medical <-_test><+_tests> intended to disprove rumours of illness which <-_has><+_have> led to fall in the <./>view value of the South African currencies Mr Mandela has reiterated that he will not interfere in the trial of the former defence minister Magnus Malane and nineteen others who are accused of murder
London The British government has imposed a visa regime for Kenyan visitors to Britain The Home Office said nationals of Kenyan of Kenya wishing to go to the United Kingdom will have to obtain a visa before travelling The office said the introduction of a visa requirement for Kenyans is a direct reaction to the increasing number of bogus asylum seekers from Kenyan Kenya to Britain The new visa requirement will be effective from today In the first ten months of nineteen ninety-five four hundred Kenyans claimed asylum at British ports and since November a further eight hundred and twenty-five have done so Kenyan nationals who are settling in the UK will be exempted from the visa requirement if they return after an absence of no more than two years
Nairobi President Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and his Eritrean counterpart Mr Isayaz Afewoke have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen the existing relations between the two countries in social political and economic spheres A statement issued in Nairobi at the end of a three-day official visit to Kenya by the Eritrean leader said under the commitment the two countries will promote the co-operation particularly in the area of trade and in establishing shipping lines between them During the visit President Isayaz Afewoke and President Daniel arap Moi instructed their respective foreign ministers to hold the first Kenyan Eritrean joint ministerial permanent commission meeting before the end of next month On regional matters President Moi briefed Afewoke on steps taken so far by leaders of the three <./>Afric East African states Kenya Tanzania and Uganda to reactivate the East African co-operation
This news of the last twenty-four hours comes to you from the external service of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Cairo Six people have been killed and fourteen others injured in a serious traffic accident on a road between Cairo and Egypt's Mediterranean port city of Alexandria Reports say heavy rains caused a three-way collision involving a car a bus and a police vehicle The report added that the accident occurred near Abohoms in the province of Beheira No details were given
Monrovia The United Nations' special representative in Liberia Mr Anthony Nyaki says troops of the West African intervention force <-_has><+_have> searched the home of the faction leader Mr Roosevelt Johnson He said they have found rocket propelled grenades and other weapons Earlier armed troops and tanks had surrounded Mr Johnson's home in the capital Monrovia and threatened to storm it The action followed the dismissal of Mr Johnson as minister of rural development by the interim government after he refused to discuss a leadership dispute within his armed faction ULIMOJEI The government said the quarrel was endangering the Liberian peace process
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia has called on industrialised countries to open up their markets to exports of poor countries to promote free trade in the global trading system Speaking at a two-day symposium on East Asian economies the Malaysian deputy prime minister Mr Alnoor Ebrahim said the fears of various groups in developed countries that free trade would destroy their economies were very alarmist Mr Alnoor who is <-_>who is<-/> also Malaysia's finance minister said that much earlier it was the developing countries who had feared that free trade would be bad for them but now the champions of the <./>protecti protectionism seem to be residing in the industrialised world He pointed out that a continuously growing East Asia would provide the entire world with larger markets and more business opportunity
Washington The United States government has criticised China's missile tests A spokesman for President Clinton described them as provocative and reckless The Japanese prime minister Mr Hashimoto said China's action had taken what he called unfortunate direction The missile tests are reported to have resulted in heavy demand for gold Radio stations have been broadcasting warnings to fishermen to stay away from the test sites International airlines and shipping routes have also been warned to avoid missile zones but ports have remained open A senior Taiwanese government official has described the tests as dangerous and irresponsible
San Francisco A United States' court ruling that terminally ill have a right to a doctor's help to commit suicide has ignited a furious debate with some people applauding it and others saying it could lead to <./>in involuntary euthanasia In the first fall-out from the appeals court ruling attorneys at the state of <./>Are Oregon said the decision could open the way for that state's ground breaking assisted suicide law to go into effect within weeks In Pointiac in the state of Michigan defence lawyers unsuccessfully used the ruling yesterday to try to get charges dropped against America's leading assisted suicide advocate Dr Jack King who is accused of violating now expired ban on criminally assisting in suicide Reports say the ruling is binding only in the western part of the United States and does not set a national precedent although it can be cited in legal arguments in other courts
Washington The first direct pictures of Pluto taken by the space telescope show the distant icy planet has twelve <-./>distr distinct provinces including what looks like a polar ice cap Astronomers in Washington say the black and white Pluto photographs taken two years ago but only now analysed and publicly explained show a tiny planet covered with light and dark blotches at the outer edge of the solar system Scientists at the University of Washington said Pluto's blotches were likely to change dramatically and its apparent ice cap could grow in the next few years indicating a change in seasons as the planet moves further away from the sun in its two hundred and forty-eight-year-long orbit They said the pictures were taken during Pluto's summer when it was about four point three billion kilometres from earth The astronomers said the distant planet does not behave like the earth a terrestrial planet or like Jupiter the largest planet
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First the principle items More than three hundred people are missing after an overcrowded ferry sank in Meghna river in Bangladesh President Boris Yeltsin of Russia has said that August the twenty-second would become a national holiday to celebrate the restoration of the Russian flag after the defeat of the short-lived coup in nineteen ninety-one Algeria's former ruling party the National Liberation Front has agreed to take part in talks arranged by the country's rulers to try to find a solution to political and civil strife in the country The Guinea Bissau's opposition rival Mr has admitted defeat in the country's first free elections held this month The news in detail
Dhaka More than three hundred people are reported missing after an overcrowded ferry sank in a whirlpool in Bangladesh's Meghna river about one hundred kilometres from Dhaka yesterday Survivors said the ferry overturned in a strong current only two hundred metres from shore and sank in a whirlpool within minutes near Chandpore One of the survivors said the ferry MV was overloaded with nearly four hundred passengers and a large quantity of merchandise The Chandpore police officer Mr Akhbar Ali said only forty-five people could be rescued Rescuers battling a strong current and high winds said today that hopes of finding the missing alive were fading fast The rivers of low-lying Bangladesh have been the scene of some of the world's worst ferry accidents in recent years Six hundred people died in May nineteen eighty-six when a ferry carrying at least one thousand passengers capsized in the Meghna river in a storm In the meantime President of Bangladesh had to cut his speech yesterday when about five hundred rallying angry militant Moslems booed him Reports say the Moslems were angered by the flight to Europe of a feminist writer Nasreen who has been the target of death threats for alleged blasphemy against Islam's Holy Book the Koran Newspapers in Dhaka say it was the first time a government leader had been humiliated in the fracas over the feminist writer The writer flew to Sweden two weeks ago after the Bangladesh High Court granted her bail on a charge of insulting Moslem religious feelings
Moscow President Boris Yeltsin of Russia has said that August the twenty-second would become a national holiday to celebrate the restoration of the Russian flag after the defeat of the short-lived coup in nineteen ninety-one In a decree President Yeltsin said the holiday would be used to educate future generations to have respect for state symbols The coup was launched by a number of senior ministers who kept the then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov in his Crimea holiday home banned reformist newspapers and sent tanks into Moscow to enforce a curfew The coup collapsed after three days of resistance by volunteers who spearheaded resistance from the White House parliament building
Kampala Four people have been arrested after a grenade was thrown into a crowded bar in the eastern town of injuring ten people Quoting residents police said today that the attack was linked to a dispute among local politicians over a by-election in Uganda's interim parliament the Constituent Assembly This news broadcast comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Tunis Algeria's former sole ruling party the National Liberation Front FLN agreed yesterday to take part in talks arranged by the country's rulers to try to find a way out of two years of political and civil strife The FLN's secretary general Mr Abdul Hamid told a news conference that the party has accepted an invitation from President However Mr said his party would pull put if the talks <-_will be><+_are> aimed like those in the past to cover decisions taken in advance In a statement read to reporters Mr said his party favoured the involvement of all political forces including the banned Islamic Salvation Front FIS in seeking to end the turmoil A series of talks arranged since September nineteen ninety-two by 's predecessors have all failed
Amman Jordanian and Palestinian delegates met in Amman today to discuss strained relations which have hit a new low since recent peace moves between Jordan and Israel Jordanian Prime Minister Mr Abdul is co-chairing the meeting with Mr who runs the culture and information department in the Palestinian authority responsible for self-rule in Gaza and Jericho The talks are focusing on co-operation in tourism education health trade and communications and could be followed by a meeting between PLO chief Mr Yasser Arafat and King Hussein long time rivals The Palestine Liberation Organisation fears Israel will use its recent warming of relations with Jordan to hamper PLO efforts to extend self rule into the rest of the occupied territories
Bissau The Guinea Bissau's opposition rival Mr has admitted defeat in the country's first free elections but accused the reigning president of illegally bullying his way to power Mr told a news conference yesterday that the victory of Mr was an outcome of electoral campaigns conducted outside the law adding that he was accepting defeat for the sake of national stability He said Mr 's narrow victory over August seventh poll meant that his victory did not represent the wishes of the people Provisional results gave Mr a twelve thousand majority with fifty-two per cent of the vote Final results confirming Mr 's victory which hands him a further five year term are expected shortly
Nicosia Iran has said <-_and><+_that> revolutionary agents today planted a bomb in a phone booth in the north-western town of but it hurt <-_none><+_no one> as it exploded Iran's new agency IRNA says in a report that this is the second time in a week a sound bomb goes off in a telephone booth but it did not explain what it meant by a sound bomb It said another sound bomb had been set off in the region on August the fourth the fourteenth The agency did not give details of the August incident And now to end the news the main points once again And that is the end of the news from Dar es Salaam
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The Southern African Development Community has strongly condemned the dissolution of Lesotho's democratically elected government The Angolan Government and the UNITA rebels have agreed to a United Nations peace-keeping force of seven thousand troops The World Bank has called on poor nations to take urgent action to slow population growth And the United States has announced that it has been encouraged by moves being taken by Nigeria to combat drug trafficking
Gaborone The Southern African Development Community has condemned the dissolution of Lesotho's democratically elected government In a statement issued after a meeting in the Botswana capital Gaborone the organisation urged King to reinstate immediately and unconditionally the government of the Prime Minister Mr Nsleu Mohele King <./>repre King 's representative was refused admission to the Gaborone meeting and Lesotho was instead represented by Mr Mohele and three of his ministers The statement said South Africa would host the next leaders' meeting in August next year marking the Organisation's fifteenth anniversary The SADC was launched in nineteen eighty under the name of SADC South Africa joined the Organisation yesterday as its eleventh member state
Gaborone The Angolan Government and UNITA rebels have agreed in peace talks in Lusaka to United Nations peace-keeping force of seven thousand troops The Executive Secretary of the Southern Africa Development Community Mr Kaire Mbwende gave details of the agreement in a communiqué at the end of the group's annual meeting in Gaborone The communiqué said the Lusaka negotiations on ending two decades of war in Angola one on this one of the SADC members had made a significant breakthrough in reaching agreement on principles of national reconciliation The United Nations is mediating in the talks in the Zambian capital which began last November between the Angolan Government and UNITA rebels
Harare President Joaquin Chissano of Mozambique has held talks in Harare with his Zimbabwean counterpart Mr Robert Mugabe on the electoral process in Mozambique Zimbabwean officials said President Chissano briefed Mr <-/>Mr Mugabe on preparation by Mozambique for its first multiparty elections in October but gave no details President Mugabe was Mr Chissano's main backer during the closing stages of the sixteen-year civil war between the Mozambican Government and RENAMO rebels which ended in nineteen ninety-two
Harare Zimbabwe and Sudan which are at odds over alleged support by Zimbabwe for anti-Sudanese rebels today held talks <./>su to smooth out relations Official sources said the talks between the Sudanese Foreign Minister Mr Hussein Suleiman Abusallah and <./> Zim Zimbabwean counterpart Mr Nathan Shemwarira took place after foreign first reports said Zimbabwe was arming the Sudan People's Liberation Army fighting the Government in Khartoum since nineteen eighty-three The sources said Zimbabwe wants to set the record straight that it is not supporting the SPLA
Washington The International Monetary Fund has approved new loans to Senegal worth the equivalent of one hundred and ninety-two million US dollars The money which will be made available in instalments over the next three years is designed to support the Government's economic reform programme following the devaluation of its currency in January
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Washington The World Bank has said poor nations need to take urgent action to slow population growth but these moves alone will not be enough to get rid of poverty The Bank in a report released ahead of next week's United Nations' Population Conference in Cairo called for a broad-based strategy that combines family planning with other social development goals The World Bank vice-president Mr said a whole range of measures was needed from slowing population growth to investing in education health and nutrition He said there was need to combine reproductive health and family planning with better infant and child health education of girls and overall improvement in the status of women The UN Population and Development Conference which starts on September the fifth will decide how billions of dollars are spent by rich and poor nations and the Bank itself on population activities
Lima Rescue workers late yesterday began removing the bodies of five US drug agents who died when a drug reconnaissance plane crashed in Peru's north eastern jungle Authorities said that research team backing its way through dense jungle reached the wreckage yesterday and confirmed the deaths of the drug enforcement administration agents The bodies of those killed have been identified and Peruvian air force and US drug enforcement administration officials said the plane was found in pieces and partly burned near Pueto Pisana on the foothills of the Andes mountains some four hundred and five kilometres north of Lima The cause of the crash is being investigated and sabotage has not been ruled out Mr Lee Brown who is on visit to Nigeria has said Washington will not consider withdrawing measures taken against the country until the end of the year In April the United States announced it would vote against new loans to Nigeria and reduce and because the country was not doing enough to stop drug traffickers
Seoul A Canadian pilot and his South Korean co-pilot were formally charged today in connection with the crash of a Korean Airlines airbus this month in which all one hundred and sixty people aboard escaped A prosecution official said the two pilots were found to have committed errors after analysing the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder He said pilot Barry Woods and co-pilot were accused of violating aviation law and causing accidental injuries The official said the two would face up to five years in prison if convicted
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Here is the news of the last twenty-four hours from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Swaleh Msuya First the main points The prime minister Mr Frederick Sumaye has assured investors wishing to open up their business in Tanzania that the power problem which used to affect industries in the past is being overcome Rebels in northern Uganda have killed more than twenty civilians in a raid on a convoy The United States has donated two point five million dollars to demobilisation camps in Angola aimed at speeding up the peace process in Angola The European Commission has suggested a comprehensive approach towards the prevention of violent conflicts in Africa
Dar es Salaam The prime minister Mr Frederick Sumaye has assured investors wishing to open up business in Tanzania that the power problem which used to affect industries in the past is being overcome Mr Sumaye told an investment delegation from China that electricity supply has improved over the past few months and that the government was confident that it would further improve the situation The delegation is in the country to discuss areas of joint venture participation including the Friendship Textile Mill URAFIKI He has also assured the Chinese delegation that Tanzania has abundant resources which could provide raw materials in any joint venture undertaking Meanwhile the prime minister has reiterated that Tanzania is serious in her resolve to transform the national economy He told the director general of the Canadian International Development Agency CIDA Mr Donald McMaster that Tanzania would like to attain the objectives of her vision for the development Mr Sumaye said there would be targets to be met within a specified time in the course of working towards that vision
Dar es Salaam The head of German Technical Co-operation GTZ project administration services in the country Mr Rolf Detmaring says his organisation is currently implementing thirty-six development projects in the country worth one hundred and eighty-six million Deutschmarks He says GTZ's key activity areas include agriculture and rural development with emphasis on plant production agricultural research and pest management He was addressing Tanzanians who were in Germany for studies or training at the Goethe Institut in Dar es Salaam He said GTZ also supports measures relating to primary health care AIDS control and food security Mr Detmaring says on education and vocational training the faculty of engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam and Technical College Arusha are still supported in the field of road engineering and maintenance Other areas of GTZ concern are in natural resource conservation projects in Lushoto Handeni Mwanga and in the Selous Game Reserve
Nairobi The Kenyan government says it will send a goodwill delegation to Arusha to witness the launching of a new era of East African co-operation next Wednesday Kenya's chamber of industry's chairman Mr Kassim Owango said that the delegation composed of manufacturers and exporters will arrange for business contacts with their private counterparts from Tanzania and Uganda the other two members of the former East African Community that collapsed in nineteen seventy-seven He said his chamber fully supports the efforts taken by the three governments of East Africa to revive the community The Kenyan president Mr Daniel Arap Moi last week appointed a career diplomat Mr Francis Kirimi Muthaura to the top post of the East African Community that of secretary general The presidents of Kenya Tanzania and Uganda will meet in Arusha on March the fourteenth to officially launch the co-operation agreement
Kampala Rebels in northern Uganda have killed more than twenty civilians in a road in a raid on a convoy According to the Ugandan authorities the group which calls itself the Lord's Resistance Army has also murdered twenty-eight others they had abducted during raids in the north
Paris Suspected Moslem guerrillas have killed ten people and wounded sixteen others when they ambushed a passenger train in western Algeria The attackers raided the train on Friday near the town of Duel Shulei in western Clemont province four hundred and fifty kilometres from Algiers The Algerian state-run radio said the death toll could have been higher if the forces of order had not intervened quickly On Thursday a bomb ripped through the centre of Baroche town killing two people and wounding ten That acts for the Wednesday night statement by president Liamine Zeroual saying that nineteen ninety-six would be a year of political efforts with the opposition to end civil strife in which an estimated fifty-thousand people have been killed President Zeroual was elected last November in Algeria's first multi-party elections which the guerrillas boycotted
Nairobi The main group representing Rwandan Hutus has criticised the United Nations for withdrawing its troops from Rwanda In a statement issued in Nairobi the rally for the return of refugees and democracy to Rwanda Ara D Ara said the move would remove hopes of quick repatriation for Rwandan refugees It said the United Nations was repeating the mistake of ninteen ninety-four when it withdrew its troops leaving hundreds of thousands of people to be massacred
Lusaka The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA had provided Zambia with grants totalling three point one million US dollars to support seven projects in the area of population and education Local press reports that seven agreements on the projects were signed in Lusaka on Friday by Zambian deputy minister for development planning Mr Dan Pule and UNFPA representative in Zambia Mr Kermal Mustafa Speaking at the signing ceremony Mr Pule said like most developing countries Zambia has recognised that there is a two-way relationship between population and development Mr Pule also said that for that reason it is imperative that population and development are designed properly to ensure a sustainable balance between the two On the same occasion Mr Mustafa suggested the establishment of a population council of Zambia to efficiently manage the fast growing population and other social problems in the country Zambia's population grows at a rate of over three per cent annually in the past two decades
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Washington The United States has donated two point five million dollars to demobilisation camps in Angola aimed at speeding up the peace process there The director of the American Development Agency said the aim was to make sure that the camps open next week to act as the first four steps set up in November The camps have been used by thousands of soldiers belonging to the UNITA movement which fought against the central government for nearly twenty years after independence in nineteen seventy-five They are being disarmed under the terms of the peace agreement signed in nineteen ninety-four But the United Nations has criticised both sides in Angola for not implementing the agreement quickly enough
Brussels The European Commission has suggested a comprehensive approach towards the prevention of violent conflicts in Africa The commission's leader in charge of African affairs Mr Jawal Dedu Pinyairo said the Commission was committed to preventing conflicts at the earliest stage in Africa He said in a statement that the European Union should not only provide aid to African countries but further harmonise its current policy toward African affairs so as to help them achieve stability and avert violence Mr Pinyairo added that United Nations' peace-keeping and humanitarian aid operations have proved costly sometimes ineffective or even counterproductive
Addis Ababa The first conference of African ministers on development and environment has ended in Addis Ababa after calling for adoption of four resolutions to back up protection of the environment and promotion of development in Africa Four resolutions to this effect were adopted at a two-day meeting attended by ministers of forty African countries or their representatives with the presence of delegates from the United Nations' agencies and international organisations The implementation of Agenda Twenty-one has urged the conference on environment to continue to promote all activities related to capacity building and environmental monitoring The resolution on home and settlement requested member states of Economic Commission for Africa ECA to make human settlements a development priority and to mobilise resources for the formulation and pursuit of human settlements And a resolution on assistance to African countries of asylum experiencing environmental degradation being caused by the influx of refugees has urged the international community to help African countries whose economic and social conditions are affected by the influx of refugees
Jerusalem Israel and the United States are preparing a memorandum of understanding to help fight against terrorism The Israeli foreign minister Mr Ehud Barak told Israel television that the issue will be discussed during the international anti-terrorism summit to be held in Sharm el Sheich in Egypt on Wednesday and a document will possibly be signed at the end of the conference Mr Barak said such a memorandum will give Israel an access to intelligence methods as well as advanced equipment developed primarily by the United States to help its war against drugs He said the memorandum will also permit co-ordination between Israel and the United States to combat terror in the Middle East
Blantyre Six Malawian policemen have been suspended after seventeen criminals suspects suffocated in an overcrowded Malawi police cell Inspector general police Mr Patrick Chikapa said sixteen prisoners died on Tuesday last week after being cramped into cells in the capital Lilongwe adding that another died in hospital later Mr Chikapa said post-mortem results revealed that they died as a result of suffocation Six policemen including the police station's officer-in-charge and his deputy had been suspended pending the outcome of investigations The prisoners had been awaiting court hearings for offences including illegal possession of fire arms thefts and murder President Bakili Muluzo of Malawi last Friday appointed a three-member commission led by a judge to look into the deaths
Gaza The Palestinian leader Mr Yasser Arafat is in tense pressure to wipe out Hamas and other militant groups Senior officials from CIA have urged him to arrest five leading figures in the military wing of Hamas There have been also unconfirmed reports that Mr Arafat has sacked one of his security chiefs Mr Rajwa apparently for not being tough enough on Hamas However Colonel Rajwa himself has denied his being replaced Both the Israelian and Palestinian leadership are facing crises of confidence and neither seems to know how to solve them Mr Yasser Arafat hopes that Israel will ease its indefinite closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip imposed during the latest bombing The Israeli prime minister Mr Shimon Peres hopes that the tough measures he has ordered can defeat the bombers
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The last twenty-four hours from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Othman Mtata First the headlines South Africa has become the eleventh member of the Southern African Development Community Rwandan officials say Zaireans must help recover weapons and other property taken across the border by members of the old regime before there can be a ministerial meeting on the question of refugees There are reports that the treason trial of the Nigerian presidential claimant Chief Abiola has not resumed as scheduled Clashes between groups opposing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government have killed six hundred people
Gaborone South Africa has become the eleventh member of the Southern African Development Community the SADC South Africa was admitted to the formal ceremony held in the Botswana capital Gaborone at the start of a summit meeting of the Community today The South African first Deputy President Mr Thabu Mbeki attended the ceremony on behalf of President Nelson Mandela who has been told by doctors to rest Mr Mandela who took office in May had a cataract operation last month Since then they said there was no cause for concern for his health and his eyesight The Community was established fourteen years ago as SADC to co-ordinate attempts to reduce economic dependence on apartheid South Africa
Gaborone The current chairman of the Southern African Development Community SADC President Sir Ketimile Massire has expressed the hope that the entry of South Africa into the Community would inject a new spirit of inspiration and faster economic growth in the member states He was addressing the SADC summit in Gaborone in which an act of accession to the Community by the Republic of South Africa was made making the country the eleventh member The South African Deputy President Mr Thabu Mbeki signed the treaty on behalf of President Nelson Mandela The Chairman's statement which also reviewed the Community's economic performance over the past year as optimistic in the face of world recession stated that food shortage and unemployment were the greatest setbacks in the region Mr Thabu Mbeki in his speech after the signing ceremony stressed the need for an even development in the region which would redress the current pressure on South Africa from illegal immigrants from the region as well as illegal practices President Ali Hassan Mwinyi is also attending the summit
Capetown President Nelson Mandela of South Africa will visit Indonesia this weekend A government spokesman said President Mandela who is also head of the ruling African National Congress would leave on Thursday and return to South Africa on Sunday The spokesman Mr Pax Mankalana said the South African leader cancelled the visit last weekend to attend the summit of the Southern African Development Community in Gaborone on the advice of his personal staff Mr Mandela is recovering from a complicated cataract operation to his left eye in July
Kigali Officials from Rwanda say Zaireans must help recover weapons property and money taken across the border by members of the old regime before there can be a ministerial meeting on the question of refugees Two members of the Zairean Government were away in the eastern border town of Goma but it's not clear if they would meet the Rwandan Interior Minister Delegations from the two sides have been meeting in the town to try to resolve the issue Meanwhile a Hutu refugee returning home from the United Nations protected zone in South West Rwanda has been shot dead by soldiers of the new government A UN spokesman said the man was killed when he tried to run away from the soldiers who were questioning refugees in a UN convoy about their suspected involvement in the massacre of Tutsis earlier this year
Harare A member of parliament from President Robert Mugabe's party has been killed in a road accident Mr Sidney Malunga a member of parliament since Zimbabwe's independence from Britain in nineteen eighty died last night after his car overturned while trying to avoid a dog in the country's second city of Bulawayo Although an official of President Mugabe's ruling party ZANUPF Mr Malunga crusaded against state corruption and injustice often clashing bitterly with government ministers The fifty-year-old Mr Malunga is the third legislator to die in a car accident in Zimbabwe this year
Abuja Reports say the treason trial of presidential claimant Chief Mashood Abiola did not resume today in the Nigerian capital Abuja as scheduled The report said all the security arrangements were in place as usual with the defence team and Abiola's family present but there was no trial judge and no Chief Abiola Abiola's lawyer Mr Alao Agabashoun told reporters that the defence was there to apply for a halt in the proceedings pending the outcome of its appeal against holding the trial in Abuja The former judge in the case withdrew on the sixteenth of this month saying Abiola had no confidence in him to be impartial
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Algiers The authorities in Algeria say they have held talks with three legal opposition parties who have boycotted the government's meeting with opposition parties aimed at resolving the political crisis in the country A presidential statement said the contacts had been made with the front of socialist forces the rally for culture and democracy and the As-Sahari movements
Rabat Algeria and Morocco are at a stand-off in a visa war which erupted after Moroccan authorities linked two suspects in a hotel robbery to a mostly Algerian gang operating in Morocco Reports from North Africa say Algeria's neighbours fear that extremist violence there could spill over the borders One day after Algeria closed its border with Morocco the Foreign Ministry has called on the Moroccan ambassador to protest against police harassment of its citizens in Morocco Moroccan and Algerian newspapers have taken up the dispute One Algerian newspaper accuses King Hassan of Morocco of trying to embarrass Algeria A Moroccan newspaper on the other hand suggests that the robbery that sparked the visa war was part of a plot to destabilise the country
Abidjan The Liberian rebel leader Mr Charles Tailor's chief of staff has been killed by men of his own militia The British Broadcasting Corporation the BBC in a report from Mr Tailor's inland capital Banga said Lieutenant General Nixon Guy was shot dead on Saturday night by members of his own battalion Mr Tailor the leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia the NPFL told the news conference in Banga that his chief of staff had been undergoing interrogation by his men The report said he was accused of striking a deal with the former NPFL Interior Minister Mr Samuel Dockmy to get his men to mutiny against Mr Tailor who launched the Liberian civil war when he invaded from the Ivory Coast in December nineteen eighty-nine
Nicosia Iran's state-run radio said today that about six hundred people had been killed in recent fighting among Iraqi Kurdish factions and urged Turkey and Syria to work with Iran to end the human tragedy in Northern Iraq Tehran Radio said clashes between groups opposed to President Saddam Hussein's government killed about six hundred people and inflicted millions of dollars in damage in Iraq's impoverished Kurdish region in the past ten days The three countries which border Iraq and have Kurdish minorities of their own have voiced concern about the instability in Northern Iraq and opposition to any plans to set up an independent Kurdish state The recent clashes near the Iranian border were between the two main Iraqi Kurdish factions the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of the Kurdistan fighting over power
Islamabad About eighteen people were killed and nearly one hundred others were wounded following heavy rocket attacks on the Afghan capital Kabul The government-controlled Kabul Radio Monitor in Islamabad quoted the Bahthar news agency saying forces loyal to northern warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostam had rained more than one hundred rockets on the city It said eight houses and four cars had been destroyed in the bombardment Fifteen people died in a similar attack on Saturday Mr Dostam and his ally Prime Minister Golbadin Higmachia are battling the force of President Muhanu Din Rahbani in a fratricidal conflict which has reduced much of Kabul to ruins The Kabul Radio also reported fighting between Rahbani and Dostam forces in the north western province Pharia It said six of Dostam's fighters had been killed and eight captured No independent account of the fighting was available
Pale Bosnia Bosnian Serb authorities say partial preliminary results of a referendum showed an overwhelming rejection of an international peace plan Election organizers said there was a heavy turnout and that in some districts more than ninety per cent of voters cast their ballots against the peace plan fulfilling predictions by their leadership The organizers said more than ninety per cent of eligible voters participated in the two-day ballot whose results were expected within forty-eight hours The referendum has been denounced by the international community and Serbia a long time patron of the Bosnian Serbs as a farce
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First the main points A new round of peace talks among faction leaders in Liberia opens in Ghana later today African universities have been urged to develop curriculums relevant to the needs of the African continent More than six thousand people died in road accidents in China last month The European Union has reached agreement in principle with Israel on a new co-operation accord Monrovia The leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia Mr Charles Taylor has arrived in the Ghanaian capital Accra for a new round of talks with other faction leaders aimed at ending the Liberian civil war The talks are due to resume later today after being suspended last month amid disagreements over power sharing arrangements during the transitional period before elections The Ghanaian foreign ministry says all the warring factions have agreed to attend the talks Yesterday thousands of people took to the streets in <./>th <-/>in the Liberian capital Monrovia to protest against the civil war which has been continuing for five years Harare The Zimbabwean Higher Education Minister Mr Stanley Mudenge has appealed to African universities to develop curriculums relevant to the needs of the continent Mr Mudenge made the call while speaking at the first graduation ceremony at the United Methodist Africa University near the eastern Zimbabwean town of Mutare He said traditional curriculums in most African universities followed the British pattern Mr Mudenge said there is an opportunity not to simply repeat the transitional curriculum drawn from Britain more than a century ago Dar es Salaam The United Nations High Commissioner for refugees the UNHCR says it is working on plans for a proposed international conference next year focusing on refugees and forced displacement of people in the Commonwealth of independent states and the Baltic nations A UNHCR journal said the conference idea is part of an initiative aimed at developing a comprehensive approach towards the region's present and future refugee and migratory problems The journal said a number of governments international and non-governmental organisations and other United Nations agencies contacted so far by the UNHCR have expressed their support for the regional conference concept focusing on the republics of the defunct Soviet Union and the Baltic States Kuala Lumpur The Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr today urged Islamic countries to use economic sanctions against countries helping the Bosnian Serbs in their war against Muslim forces in former Yugoslavia Speaking on his return from an official visit to Croatia Dr told reporters he was confident Islamic countries would impose such sanctions based on the success of a similar action taken by Malaysia He said the economic weapon must be a collective action especially involving Islamic countries with the most economic power and he volunteered to organise it Dr has said his sanctions' proposal was in line with the recent Islamic Conference's <./>declar declaration in Casablanca calling on Muslim countries to review their economic ties with countries supporting the Bosnian Serbs Beijing More than six thousand people were killed in more than twenty-three thousand road accidents throughout China last month China's national public transport department reports that the number of road accidents climbed by three point seven per cent over the same period last year and the death toll jumped by ten point one per cent According to the department twelve thousand four hundred and eighty people were injured in the accidents a rise of two point eight per cent In the face of the rising road accidents the department urged the country to work <-/>work hard in advance of the China winter season to avoid serious accidents which claim many lives This news broadcast comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam France has confirmed that it was holding talks with Iraq about easing or lifting United Nations trade sanctions imposed on Baghdad during the nineteen ninety ninety-one Gulf crisis but denied it had agreed co-ordinated action on the issue with Baghdad A foreign ministry spokesman told reporters that French officials and the visiting Iraqi foreign under-secretary Mr Riad discussed Baghdad's compliance with United Nations resolutions on Friday The Iraqi newspapers at the weekend reported Mr as saying that the two sides have agreed to continue work at the security council in line with a co-ordinated plan with specific steps However the French spokesman said there <-/>there was no co-ordinated plan but France wants Iraq to respect the United Nations resolutions and Paris wants the sanctions to be lifted as a result Brussels The <./>Euro European Union has reached agreement in principal with Israel on a new co-operation accord but the European Union and Israel's forces have no details of the accord which followed weekend telephone contacts between the European Union's German presidency and Israeli foreign minister Mr Shimon Peres One Israeli source said that some issues which had been causing difficulty would still have to be discussed in the New Year under the French European presidency The sources said that these would include Israeli requests for access to build for the European Union government's contracts in the telecommunications sector in order to reduce Israelis' trade <./>deficie deficit with the European Union The new accord with Israel would update and replace a nineteen seventy-five agreement London A British schoolboy bored with waiting for his examination results robbed his neighbourhood bank to pass time Newspapers reported today that aged eighteen was sentenced to eight years in prison for robbery and would not be able to take up his place at the University of Wales impressed by his examination results The boy dressed up in combat gear and armed himself with an imitation World War Two pistol before robbing a bank near his home in Cardiff South Wales in July He was arrested after being tackled by two passers-by Tokyo Japanese police have arrested a twenty-two year old unemployed man who made three thousand harassing telephone calls to his dentist over one month period because he was dissatisfied with the treatment of a decayed tooth A police spokesman said today that the man started the harassing calls during which he got the dentist on the line and then remained silent on November the fourteenth after treatment last May The spokesman quoted as telling police after he was arrested yesterday that the dentist had <./>ig ignored his complaint that his treatment had caused <-_a> serious damage to 's health And now to end the news the main points again And that's the end of the news
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Military spokesman Major Ridge MacDonald said Mr 's convoy came under indirect fire during a fight between members of a Somali National alliance SNA of warlord Mohammed Fara Aideed and an armed group belonging to the Murro Sade clan The lead vehicle in the convoy was hit but there were no casualties In another incident Somali gunmen in Bossaso in the north-east let free a United Nations official who had been held captive for twenty-four hours This news broadcast comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Jerusalem The chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation PLO Mr Yasser Arafat has called for immediate deployment of international observers in Palestinian self-rule areas after two Arabs were killed in an anti-Arab riots on the edge of the Gaza strip A member of the Palestinian Authority Mr said Mr Arafat made the appeal to the United States and European countries He called the shootings by Israeli troops a violation of the Israeli PLO accord Palestinian officials said that in yesterday's violence Israeli soldiers shot dead two Arabs and wounded ninety-eight including twenty-five policemen during several hours of riots by workers angry at delays in entry to Israel Israel says some of the wounded were hit by bullets fired by Palestinian police In Tel Aviv Israeli and Jordanian negotiators are meeting at last today for talks of the two countries' peace Sources say the meeting with opening statements will be broadcast live on Israeli and Jordanian televisions The Israeli side spokesman said the negotiators have agreed to hold their talks in tents in a desert no man's land surrounded by minefields in a border area
Damascus Syria has warned that progress in Israeli's peace talks with Syria and Lebanon is impossible if the Jewish state does not announce its readiness to withdraw fully from the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon The government daily has welcomed the United States <./> Secreta Secretary of State Mr Warren Christopher's peace mission to the region which started yesterday and urged him to direct his efforts to Israel to force it to accept withdrawal The newspaper also reiterated Syria's and Lebanon's refusal to sign separate peace deals with Israel and said the two countries were in full agreement rejecting such proposals
Croatia Turkey Croatia and Bosnia have urged the world powers to get tough with Bosnian Serbs if they oppose a last-ditch international peace plan for Bosnia Turkey warned fellow NATO members Britain and France against pulling out their peacekeeping troops from <./>Br <-/>from Bosnia if the peace plan is rejected and the arms embargo against the Moslem is eventually lifted
And now soccer Reports from Los Angeles say Brazil are the new world <./>s <-_>reports from Los Angeles say Brazil are the new world<-/> soccer champions Brazil clinched the prestigious cup after beating Italy three to two in a penalty shoot-out as the two teams ended in a goal-less draw in ninety minutes and the extra time The three spot kicks that earned Brazil the victory were converted by Romario Branco and Dunga The Italians got their two goals through Albertini and Alberigo The win makes Brazil the only country to clinch the World Cup four times The last time for Brazil to win the cup was in nineteen seventy in Mexico after beating Italy four to one
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Thirteen hours East African time Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar-es-Salaam read by Nadhir Mayoka First the main points
Britain has started giving emergency aid to Zaire to help refugees from the civil war in Rwanda The United Nations will evacuate hundreds of Somali refugees who were caught in the cease-fire of Yemen's civil war tomorrow Kuwait says it will not take unilateral actions to increase crude oil production to make up for a potential short-fall from Nigeria Turkish troops have killed fifty-five rebels while thirteen soldiers have died in clashes in the east and south-east of the country in the past five days
London Britain started flying one fifty hundred pounds' worth of emergency aid <-/>aid to Zaire to help a flood of refugees from the civil war in Rwanda The Overseas Development Administration ODA said three aircraft to be sent yesterday and today were carrying food medicine tents and blankets It said the operation would be was being co-ordinated by the charities Action Aid and Assist The ODA said in a statement that first aircraft an Anatov one twenty-four will take eleven trucks to Goma in Zaire as the first half of a three hundred pounds package of help The statement added that ODA airport crew based in Mwanza north north-west of Tanzania will <./>ele <-/>will relocate immediately to Goma to assist with the new crisis The emergency flights follows a visit to the area this week to north-west Rwanda by ODA humanitarian expert who witnessed the mass movement of people
Sana The United Nations will evacuate hundreds of Somali refugees who were caught in the crossfire of Yemen's civil war tomorrow UN spokesman Mr said yesterday that a ship was to arrive in Aden from Djibout to evacuate between six hundred and seven hundred Somalis The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees official Mr said on Thursday that the refugees would be taken back to Somlaliland a relatively <-_peacefully><+_peaceful> enclave that has declared itself independent of war-torn Somalia He said another ship would <./>re <-/>would reach Aden on Tuesday with three fifty tons of food aid and another three hundred tons would arrive next week from the World Food Programme There was no immediate word on the fate <./>fra of the rest of the six hundred Somali refugees who were caught in the fighting which erupted last May and ended with northern forces capturing their southern's force capital Aden earlier this month Aden city is short of food and water and Yemen trade and supply minister Mr said on Thursday all ships docking in the port over the next two months to offload goods would not pay any charges
Kuwait Kuwait's oil minister says his country would not take unilateral action to increase crude oil production to make up for a potential shortfall from fellow member Nigeria Mr <./>to told Reuters that should an urgent need for action occur the <./>orga <-/>the Organisation of Oil Exporting Countries OPEC would meet to discuss the situation but that Kuwait will not take over alone He added that so far there is nothing in the picture that would call for action Oil workers in Nigeria a member with Kuwait of the OPEC are striking to demand the military ruler General Sani Abacha restore democracy and free opposition leader Mashood Abiola
Seoul South Korean police yesterday stepped action against a <./>pr <-/>a pro North Korean student movement in a bid to step to stamp out clandestine morning ceremonies for the North Korean president Kim Li Soong About two fifty riot police combed a campus in the south-western city of arresting about thirty students in a pre-dawn raid Reports said the police seized scores of items prepared for a demonstrations including petrol bombs iron pipes and pro-communist books On Friday police raided University in the city of Kwangju near and arrested about a dozen students for trying to stage memorial events in the campus
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Ankara Turkish officials said yesterday that troops have killed fifty-five rebel Kurds while eighteen soldiers have died in crashes in the east and southern-east of the country in the past five days Turkey's Anatolian News Agency quoting officials saying as saying troops fighting rebels trapped near the eastern town of on the <./>Arm Armenian border killed <./>th <-/>killed thirty-seven of them since Tuesday It is said thirteen soldiers including an <./>off an officer had also died during the fighting However the outlawed separatists Kurdistan Workers Party PKK said only five of its guerrillas had died A statement faxed to Reuters in Ankara by the German-based Code A News said thirty Turkish soldiers were killed and the rest had retreated from <./>Kaki <-/>from
London Two Britons and an Australian who were kidnapped in Cambodia have been killed The British Independent Television News station quoted Scotland Yard sources as saying the three hostages who were kidnapped in April had been murdered by their captors Mr Dominic Chapel a twenty-five years old Briton an Australian girl Kylie Winson and another girl a Briton Tina also twenty-five years old managed a restaurant in Britain's Home Office which has responsibility for the police and the Foreign Office both said knew both said they knew nothing of the television report The television ITN has said a senior Scotland Yard detective who was involved in the investigations would fly to Cambodia next week Cambodian authorities have said they feared the three were dead and Khmer Rouge guerrillas are thought to be responsible
Rabat Morocco's transport minister Mr left Rabat yesterday for Johannesburg for discussions on establishing regular flights between the Kingdom of Morocco and South Africa The <-_officials><+_official> new <-_agents><+_agency> MIP said Mr Rashid and other Moroccan officials will examine future co-operation between the two national carriers South African Airways and Royal Air Morocco search a joint exploitation of existing international air <-_route><+_routes> and the promotion of tourism
Rome Italy's interior minister Mr Roberto Marroni says he is ready to resign or by decree backed to the hilt by <:/>prem prime minister Mr Silvio Berlusconi that it removes powers of arrest in graft cases Mr Marroni told Italian television yesterday he had asked his federalists Norther <./>Lea <-/>Northern League party to decide by today whether he should stay at his post or not He said he is ready to resign by mandate tomorrow
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Here is the news from Radio Tanzania read by David Wakati First the main points
Rebels in northern Uganda have killed more than twenty civilians in a raid on a convoy A leader of the Portuguese socialist party Mr George Sampayo has taken oath in Lisbon as the country's next president The presidents of the member countries of Latin America's oldest trade group the Andean Pact have begun a two day summit in Peru to discuss ways of improving the Pact's organisational structure The Australian prime minister elect Mr John Howard has announced a stream-lined coalition government
Kampala Rebels in northern Uganda have killed more than twenty civilians in a raid on a convoy According to the Ugandan authorities the group which calls itself The Lord's Resistance Army had also murdered twenty-eight others they had abducted during raids in the north
Brussels The European Commission has suggested a comprehensive approach towards the prevention of violent conflicts in Africa The Commission's leader in charge of African affairs Mr Hwao Dideus said the Commission was committed to preventing conflicts at the earliest stage in Africa He said in a statement that the European Union should not only provide aid to African countries but further harmonise its current policy toward African affairs so as to help them achieve stability and avert violence Mr added that the United Nations' peace keeping and humanitarian aid operations have proved costly sometimes ineffective or even counterproductive
Nairobi The Kenyan government says it will send a goodwill delegation to Arusha to witness the launching of a new era of East African co-operation next Wednesday Kenya's Chamber <./>Ind and Industry Chairman Mr Kassim Owango says that the delegation composed of manufacturers and exporters will arrange for business contacts with their private counterparts from Tanzania and Uganda the other two members of the former East African Community that collapsed in nineteen seventy-seven He said his Chamber fully supports the efforts taken by the three governments of East Africa to revive the community The Kenyan president Mr Daniel arap Moi last week appointed a career diplomat Mr Francis Kirim Muthaura to the top post of the East African Community secretary general The presidents of Kenya Tanzania and Uganda will meet in Arusha on March the fourteenth to officially launch the co-operation agreement
Lisbon A leader of the Portuguese socialist party Mr George Sampayo has taken oath in Lisbon as the country's next president following elections in January Mr Sampayo who took over the presidency from fellow socialist Dr Maria Soaris best former prime I'll read that again <-_>Mr Sampayo who took over the presidency from fellow socialist Dr Maria Soaris<-/> beat former prime minister Mr Anibo Kavako Silver by a clear margin to the in the elections Portugal now has an elected president and parliament from the same party both at the start of their terms The new president said he would defend Portugal's integration in the European Union and the only way forward for the nation Dr Soaris said he would retire from active politics after departing from the presidency and devote his time to teaching writing and travelling
Dublin The prime minister of the Irish republic Mr John Bruton has renewed his criticism of the Irish Republican Army the IRA over its approach to the peace process in Northern Ireland Mr Bruton said the IRA had missed the opportunities of its cease-fire which has now been abandoned He said the entire <./>Republic Republican movement in Northern Ireland had to stop thinking in terms of threats and start thinking in terms of peaceful persuasion
This news comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Truhiro Peru The presidents of the member countries of Latin America's oldest trade group the Andean Pact have begun a two day summit in the Peruvian town of Truhiro designed to breathe new life into the organisation The heads of state of Columbia Bolivia Peru Venezuela and Ecuador are expected to discuss ways of improving the Pact's organisational structure Top on the agenda will also be Peru's full re-entry into the group four years after it suspended its obligations
Canberra The Australian prime minister elect Mr John Howard has announced a stream-lined coalition government featuring a strong commitment to environment industrial relations and gender equality Reports from Canberra say although there are six new faces in the line-up of the Howard government it can be expected that the coalition will deliver impressive performances in areas it emphasised during the election campaign One of the surprises to local media expectations is the appointment of Mr John Fahi former premier of New South Wales as minister for finance He entered the federal parliament for the first time and went all the way directly to the cabinet Mr Alexander Dana retained his portfolio under the shadow cabinet as minister for foreign affairs
Taipei The president of Taiwan has responded to China to China's announcement that it will carry out military exercises using live ammunition off the coast of Taiwan next week ahead of presidential elections in Taiwan Mr Lee said in a televised address that force and <-_threat><-+threats> would not obstruct his country to pursue democracy The Taiwanese authorities also said a week long Chinese military exercises would not stop air traffic to and from the island although air routes would be diverted around the exercise areas Beijing has said its exercises are a warning to Taiwan not to move towards full independence
Islamabad A senior Pakistan official says journalism is no less important than judiciary executive and legislature and that all the four pillars of the state need to be strengthened in Pakistan Addressing the thirty-fourth death anniversary function of Hamid Nizami founder of the daily Nawaid Waqt newspaper in Lahore the Pakistan senate chairman Mr Wasim Sajad said that journalism in Pakistan needed more strength so that it could play as an accountability tool as the other three pillars He said journalists should not be threatened and cowed down in the way of writing of truth He called upon the journalists to help reduce a prevalent tension on the political front and advance positive and practical suggestions in this regard
Dakar The Bangladesh president Mr Biswas is expected to meet leaders of the country's major opposition parties later today in an effort to resolve their long running disputes with the government Prime Minister Begam Halida Ziya's principal rival Sheikh Hasina has agreed to participate in the talks but she is reported to have said that an indefinite nation-wide strike called by the opposition which began yesterday would continue until the prime minister resigned The opposition wants fresh elections held under a neutral caretaker government
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Tanzanians have been cautioned not to be emotional on the death threats issued against a section of Tanzanians because the government was aware and was taking protective measures Addressing the North CCM members this week President Mwinyi said one of the noble <-_task><+_tasks> of CCM government was to ensure the security of the people regardless of their ethnicity I quote I assure all who are facing death threats that they should not worry We will protect them the President stressed President Mwinyi who was reacting to a message by branch elders that the government should act fast on elements who create tension between Tanzanians of African origin and Asian origin said the CCM government will save all its citizens regardless of their ethnicity President Mwinyi said some people are being prosecuted in court for allegedly threatening the life of the IPP chairman Ndugu Reginald Mengi and that what the government did was to take the suspects to courts of law and that they will be judged not on their ethnicity but <-_of><+_on> their actions If he if the court proves them guilty they will then be punished accordingly If they are not guilty they will be freed and will be part of us once again The President however asked Tanzanians to be wary of agitators who take advantage of the situation for their own interest He said Tanzania was a multi-racial country not only made of citizens of African and Asian origins but also Europeans Arabs and Africans from other countries and that their treatment is equal He reiterated CCM's belief in its concrete pillars of peace tranquillity love unity co-operation patience and interaction and that it will work hard to maintain them And of recent our correspondent Clement Mshana attended a seminar on AIDS in Geneva This seminar apart from being attended by the journalists from almost all over the world the director general of WHO also attended as it was organised by his organisation In this edition of Radio Magazine this week we have just extracted that part of the seminar which dealt with the causes of AIDS and if it is true that HIV causes AIDS An expert from WHO had this to say on the AIDS and its infection
The director general himself was required to give some explanations on what WHO is doing to get credibility in the diagnosis of the disease of the infection of the HIV and the screening of the HIV infection Dr Nakajima had the following definition and was also assisted by one of his experts from WHO headquarters
<$A> A report by Clement Mshana from Geneva who attended the WHO meeting on AIDS Tanganyika government resolution Sixty members of parliament support implementation Sixty members of parliament all back-benchers hailing from Tanzania mainland have supported a motion seeking implementation of the National Assembly Resolution to create Tanganyika government Addressing a press conference at the Hall grounds on Friday Chunya member of parliament Ndugu Njelu Kasaka said there were many other members of parliament who support the move but failed to sign a declaration note for various reasons He said those shying away <./>includi included cabinet ministers and their deputies regional commissioners and nominated members of parliament He said members of parliament hailing from Zanzibar have not endorsed their signatures Honourable Kasaka told the press conference that the proposed motion was submitted to the speaker of the National Assembly Honourable Pius Msekwa on July thirteenth but so far there was no response The member of parliament defended the motion saying it had merits to be deliberated on in the National Assembly since it was a follow-up of a legitimate resolution passed by the House On August twenty-fourth last year the National Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution that requested the government to arrange a procedure for collection of people's views throughout the country on the future structure of the Union The resolution pointed out that the views should take into account the need for creation of a separate government for Tanganyika within the Union structure The resolution however still called for the need to strengthen further the thirty-year-old political marriage between the then Tanganyika and Zanzibar The government has so far not given a statement on the progress in the implementation of the resolution but the ruling <-_>Chama Cha Mapinduzi<-/> since late last year started collection the opinion of the party members There are speculations that the party's stand on the issue is likely to be declared later this month during the session of the National Executive Council NEC of CCM to be held in Dar es Salaam Meanwhile the government has decided to recognise the new Rwandan government whose transitional president Pastor was sworn in last Monday diplomatic sources said in Dar es Salaam this week The sources said that the government was expected to make the announcement soon and the issue was a top agenda in the highest offices The sources further said that the special representative of the United Nations' secretary general on Rwanda Mr Shiran Khan was informed of Tanzania's stand on the issue when he held discussions with government officials this week The minister for foreign affairs and international co-operation Honourable Joseph Rwegasira could not confirm nor <./>de deny Tanzania recognising the new Rwandan government Anyway it was confirmed within this week that Tanzania has recognised officially the RPF government Meanwhile a plan seeking to revamp primary and secondary education system in the country is expected to start in this financial year the minister for education and culture Professor Philemon Sarungi has said Under the new education and training policy currently being <./>fi finalised elementary computer science would be taught in secondary school Professor Sarungi said when moving his ministry's budget proposals in the National Assembly on Thursday He said that the Education Act of nineteen seventy-eight would be amended to accommodate the new policy and steps would be taken to provide primary secondary schools and colleges with adequate textbooks and additional literature The ministry would continue to collaborate with donor countries and agencies like the Swedish International Development Authority SIDA and the World Bank to publish and distribute different types of educational literature Professor Sarungi said Another important aspect of the new education and training policy would be to mobilize the people to build more day secondary schools to reach the target of one school for each administrative ward The minister who is has requested sixteen point six five billion shillings for nineteen ninety-four ninety-five budget told the House And the minister for lands housing and urban development Honourable Edward Lawassa this week strongly denounced arrogant businessmen he said were bribing government officials to bend the law in their favour Honourable Lawassa said while winding up the debate on his ministry's <./>sta estimates in the National Assembly that the government has already started taking punitive measures against the culprits and called for public co-operation in fighting corrupt elements Honourable Lawassa said investigations conducted by experts have revealed several cases where his ministry's officials were bribed by some people and bent the law He said there was a case where two plots were created in the Moshi municipality to suit the desire of some people The minister said that there were people who were allocated plots and given the right of occupance along the beach <./>c contrary to the law Honourable Lawassa told the house that several culprits in the ministry were booked and the permission was sought from the president for their resignation in public interest earlier this year The minister said that the war was still going on and called for maximum co-operation The people have placed their hope in the hands of their government we are therefore duty-bound to live to their expectations Honourable Lawassa stressed in his brief speech which was frequently interrupted by applause Honourable Lawassa who admitted that his ministry had been attending several complicated disputes particularly on matters related to land tenure would continue working in the interest of the Tanzanians Citing cases of large plantations in Tanga region whose owners have absconded and abandoned the farms the minister said the government would re-allocate them to the wananchi He said talks were recently held between the government and the Tanzania Sisal Authority TSA who agreed to release thousands of hectares to the people who were in need of the land Honourable Lawassa further said that the report of the presidential commission on land issue led by Professor Issa Shivji was now out and circulated to the public The minister said the government welcomed the recommendations and opinion from the people and institutions on issues deliberated in the report He said the report is bulky but has a lot of useful information and recommendations with a reaching effects Honourable Lawassa strongly defended the decision by the National Housing Corporation NHC to increase rent for its buildings He said for many years the corporation was operating at a loss The National Assembly approved two thousand eight hundred and seventeen million six hundred and thirty thousand shillings being the ministry's nineteen ninety-four ninety-five budget proposal out of which eight hundred and forty million three hundred thousand shillings for recurrent expenses and one thousand nine hundred and nine seventy-seven million three hundred and thirty thousand shillings on development votes
And now on the comments This week the Daily News of Thursday July twenty-first had a comment on supporting the women projects and the editor says there are allegations that women contribute proportionately more of their income to family welfare than do men who hold back more for personal and individual consumption Studies made in several countries especially the developing ones have found that wives account for more than forty per cent of the total household income although their wage rates are far lower than those of their husbands The studies made in developing countries such as Mexico have proved the allegations to be true in the sense that they have found that while husbands contributed at most seventy-five per cent of their earnings to the family budget the women contributed a hundred per cent of theirs This means that in many countries it is the mother's income or food production that determines the relative nutrition of children in families The editor goes on to write Tanzania is not an exception in regard to the above situation and it is an open secret that some Tanzanian men spend most of their incomes on booze and other irrelevant issues leaving the heavy burden of raising their families squarely on the shoulders of their wives This unfortunate situation has extreme effects one of them being family disintegration which results in parents abandoning their children for nature to take care of them With the current national and the international depression biting hard the problem of abandoning children otherwise known as street children is so prevalent in Tanzania that it is really threatening the future of this country
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First the main points The United Nations is seeking two hundred experts to probe crimes in Rwanda A mini southern African summit on Lesotho is to be held tomorrow in South Africa The United Nations observers have declared Guinea Bissau's presidential election as free and fair Thirty people are reported to have died of sunstroke in Port Sudan in eastern Sudan
Geneva A United Nations commission investigating mass killings in Rwanda has asked various countries to make available one hundred forensic experts and one hundred lawyers to document crimes including possible genocide The three member panel leaves Geneva on Saturday for Rwanda on a two-week mission to probe into charges that the former Hutu government orchestrated a campaign to wipe out minority Tutsis Earlier the United Nations Special rapporteur on Rwanda Mr proposed sending a separate team of up to two hundred monitors to calm ethnic tensions and deter violence Both operations are aimed at beefing up the United Nations presence in Rwanda to pursue alleged perpetrators of atrocities while reassuring refugees that it was safe to return from abroad The United Nations commission of experts on Rwanda was set up last month by the Security Council in Geneva
Freetown Sierra Leone government troops are reported to have <./>kli killed fifty rebels in a battle in the eastern border region Military sources said the government side suffered only eight wounded in the three hour battle on Sunday outside the town of Kenema near the Liberian border One officer said the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front RUF attacked and killed four civilians Then government troops from Kenema town swiftly got into the area and went into action There was no independent confirmation of the numbers killed nor the military's identification of the gunmen as belonging to Mr 's RUF
Johannesburg South Africa says it will take delivery of the first of sixty <./>sw <-/>sixty Swiss-made aircraft for its airforce before the end of the year The Armsco state arms procurement agency said that the Pilatus turbo-<./>prop probe trainers will replace the country's fifty year-old Harvards The airforce suggested earlier this year the first aircraft will be delivered in nineteen ninety-five but Armsco told Reuters yesterday that the first would be in South Africa towards the end of nineteen ninety-four The one hundred and fifty million dollar deal was originally opposed by Mr <./>Nel Nelson Mandela's ruling African National Congress ANC which has however pledged to honour existing defence contracts since coming to power in the April elections
Gaborone President Nelson Mandela of South Africa has announced that the king of Lesotho and the man he dismissed as prime minister will meet tomorrow to try to resolve the power struggle in the mountain kingdom Mr Mandela told reporters that King Letsie and ousted prime minister Nsum Khale would attend peace talks in Pretoria along with Presidents Masire of Botswana and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe He was speaking after a meeting in Botswana capital with Presidents Mugabe and Masire to discuss the crisis in Lesotho King Letsie sacked Mr 's elected government last week and appointed an interim administration Mr Mandela said on Monday the situation was of major concern to South Africa which encircles the country of one point six million people and other regional states
This news comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Bissau United Nations observers have declared Guinea Bissau's close-fought presidential election which kept president João Bernado Vieira in power as free and fair The head of the United Nations observer team Mr de Santos said in a statement on Monday night that the difficulties encountered in the first run poll on July the third were <./>a ironed out in August the seventh between President Vieira and his opposition challenger Mr Mr de Santos described the first free elections Guinea-Bissau as free fair and transparent Mr had accused Mr Vieira and the ruling African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde of running an illegal and intimidatory campaign and said vote counting in some areas had been suspect
New Delhi Opposition law makers have urged India to withdraw its troops from the United Nations peace-keeping force in Somalia after the killing of seven Indian soldiers in an ambush The attack in which at least nine Indians were wounded was the worst clash between United Nations peace-keepers and Somalis since United States and other western troops pulled out in March leaving eighteen thousand seven hundred strong Asian and African force At first ministers' spokesmen said there are no plans to pull out the Indian peace-keepers India sent its first United Nations peace-keepers into Somalia in October nineteen ninety-three and has one of the largest contingents with about five thousand soldiers
Khartoum A Khartoum newspaper reports that thirty people have died of sunstroke in Port Sudan in eastern Sudan The government-owned Al-nassu newspaper said the town had experienced very high temperatures and high levels of humidity for nearly a week It said a hospital ward had been set aside for sunstroke victims Temperatures in the vast African country often rises above one hundred and five Fahrenheit in the summer
Dar es Salaam The International Conference on Population and Development ICPD will hold an eight days global conference on population issues under the auspices of the United Nations in Cairo Egypt from September the fifth this year At a pre-ICPD briefing meeting yesterday the country representative of the United Nations Populations Fund UNFPA Mr Bill Musoke said the meeting would host more than three hundred non-governmental organisations NGOs and delegations from <./>develo developed and developing countries headed by ministerial or high level <-_representative><+_representatives> He said the main issues to be addressed at the conference would include a an integrated approach to poverty population and sustained development with efforts to slow population growth and reduce poverty Others include achieving economic progress improving environmental protection and reducing unsustainable consumption and production patterns
Durban Hundreds of truck drivers have blocked a main South African highway in a protest over wages and the dismissal of colleagues They are also protesting against the killing of their colleague by a driver who refused to join them Police said trucks were parked for three kilometres on the highway near river in Kwazulu Natal forcing traffic between Johannesburg and Durban to make lengthy detours One of the truckers was killed when he was knocked down by a truck that refused to join the protest which began on Monday
And now to end the news here again are the main points And that's the end of the news
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This news broadcast comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Nicosia Iran's state-run radio said today that about six hundred people had been killed in recent fighting among Iraqi Kurdish factions and urged Turkey and Syria to work with Iran to end the human tragedy in northern Iraq Teheran radio said clashes between groups opposed to President Saddam Hussein's government killed about six hundred people and inflicted millions of dollars in damage in Iraq's impoverished Kurdish region in the past ten days The three countries which border Iraq and have Kurdish minorities of their own have voiced concern about the instability in northern Iraq and opposition to any plans to set up an independent Kurdish state The recent clashes near the Iranian border were between the two main Iraqi-Kurdish factions the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of the Kurdistan Fighting over Power
Monrovia The leader of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia Mr Charles Taylor has said that one of his most senior military officers has been killed Mr Taylor said his strike force chief of staff Lieutenant-General died from injuries sustained during an exchange of gunfire with his own men who accused him of trying to lead a mutiny A number of senior officials has defected from Mr Taylor's movement in recent weeks Reports say Mr Taylor is facing a growing internal rebellion just as rival factions close in on the headquarters of his National Patriotic Front at Banna
And now to end the news here are the main points once again
South Africa has become the eleventh member of the South African Development Community The South African president Mr Nelson Mandela will visit Indonesia this weekend Radio Iran says clashes between groups opposed to Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's government have <./>be <-/>have killed about six hundred people And Algeria and Morocco are at a stand-off in a visa war And that's the end of the news
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The news from the external service of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by G C Lawrence
First the main points Three Nairobi city council workers have appeared in court accused of stealing a total of nine hundred wheelbarrows worth some twenty-five thousand dollars
President Bill Clinton of the United States has announced that his country and Israel have began talks on agreement to combat terrorism Yemen has received a French proposal to settle a dispute with Eritrea over a group of Red Sea islands claimed by two countries Human activity has been blamed for the spread of deserts
Nairobi Three Nairobi city council workers have appeared in court and accused of stealing a total of nine hundred wheelbarrows worth some twenty-five thousand dollars over the last sixteen months The Kenyan Times newspaper which is owned by the ruling party KANU said the three were accused yesterday of stealing the wheelbarrows between November nineteen ninety-four to February this year and were released on bail of a total of six thousand nine hundred dollars ensurities of the same amount The three a storekeeper a yardsman and a store clerk were ordered to appear in court for trial on May thirtieth this year However the newspaper did not say what happened to the nine hundred stolen wheelbarrows
Colombo Survivors of a massacre of Tamils including women and children by government troops in eastern Sri Lanka have identified eight soldiers who carried out the killings Police said the survivors were remanded pending further inquires into the February the twelfth deaths of twenty-four villagers in the remote village of Kumarapuram in Trinkomali district Twenty-six villagers were wounded in the attack Tamil politicians and some of the wounded accused government troops of going on a rampage after separatists Tamil Tiger guerrillas killed two soldiers earlier that day The rebels have stepped up attacks in the east after the loss of the northern Jaffna town stronghold to government forces last December
Jerusalem President Bill Clinton of the United States has announced that his country and Israel have begun talks on agreement to combat terrorism which will be funded by more than one hundred million dollars of American money Mr Clinton told the news conference in Jerusalem that he had already asked the Congress urgently to approve the first instalment of the money to counter terrorism measures He said under the planned agreement the United States would immediately provide Israel security forces with additional equipment and training Mr Clinton said the general declaration of support for the north-east peace process that came out of yesterday's summit in Egypt was the first broad-based commitment in the region to peace
Jerusalem Israel will expel Islamic militants directly connected to suicide bombers who have killed scores of people in Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres' spokesman Mr Yadin Vatikav today confirmed a report in Israel's Dayarushan newspaper which quoted Mr Peres as saying that only people who had connections indirect with suiciders will be expelled The paper said Mr Peres made the comments yesterday to reporters who flew with him to an Egyptian summit of world leaders on Middle East peace moves called after four suicide bombings against Israel by the Islamic Hamas group which killed fifty-eight people in nine days It said however that Mr Peres refused to say which countries the Hamas militants would be expelled to Mr Peres said the government had decided on the move and that the expulsions would apparently come soon
This news broadcast comes to you from the external service of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Sana Yemen has received a French proposal to settle a dispute with Eritrea over a group of Red Sea islands claimed by the two countries A Yemeni official says the proposal received several days ago is supposed to be signed by the two countries before starting arrangements for international arbitration He gave no details of the proposal and did not say whether it had already been accepted by Yemen or was still under consideration Last month Yemen accused Eritrea of failing to accept the final text presented by French mediator Mr Francis Gutman to solve the dispute The two countries are locked over a group of Red Sea islands claimed by both They fought a brief battle in December when Eritrean forces captured the Greater Hanish island
Beijing Human activity has been blamed for the spread of deserts A leading Chinese scientist Mr Jing Hai has dispelled the traditional notion that nature is solely to blame for desertification after studies lasting several years Mr Jing Hai a historian and archaeologist started his observational studies at the beginning of the nineteen seventies and charted the historical progress of deserts covering sandy land in the northern part of inner Mongolia and the northern part of North China and other deserts Mr Jing attributed the worsening of China's desertification damage to the land by people Noting there are similar situations in other countries and regions he said before solving the problem people should learn from historical lessons that desertification is a result of the impact of nature brought about by human activities
London The British prime minister Mr John Major says his government is considering new measures to ensure Britain does not become what he called a support base for foreign terrorist groups Mr Major said that any information on fund-raising for extremist groups would be carefully examined He was speaking after his return from the summit meeting in Egypt which considered ways of countering politically motivated violence in the Middle East
Caracas Tens of thousands of public sector workers in Venezuela have been demonstrating in support of demands for higher <-_wage><+_wages> Reports say the protest which took place in eight cities were the largest so far against the current government As protesters marched through the capital Caracas residents leaned out of their windows shouting and banging in support The Venezuela Workers Confederation the country's biggest union says three million families are unable to afford even basic necessities Annual inflation in Venezuela is about seventy per cent when the economy is in deep recession
Hong Kong Hong Kong's governor Mr Chris Patten has said the escalating tension between Taiwan and China was affecting sentiment in the British colony and as it prepared for its own future under Chinese rule next year Hong Kong a territory of six point three million people is due to be handed back to China on July the first next year after one and a half centuries of British rule Governor Chris Patten told journalists that the territory has been jittery over the hand over especially during the latest China Taiwan military stand-off
To end the news the main points once again
And that's the end of the news from the external service of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam
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Reports from Gambia say the situation in the capital Banjul was calm today after the bloodless coup on Friday which ousted President Reports from Goma say Rwandan refugees abandoned camps of eastern Zaire in growing numbers today and crossed back to Rwanda The World Bank has urged greater private sector participation in higher education in developing countries Pope John Paul has slammed the use of artificial methods of birth control Banjul Reports from Gambia say the situation in the capital Banjul was calm today after the bloodless coup on Friday which ousted President The reports say Banjul's main market was open and people were going about their business normally However an overnight curfew was still in force from seven p m to seven a m The reports added that the state radio continued to be off the air since yesterday night but international telephone lines which were out on Friday were working again today Hospital staff in Banjul confirmed there has been no casualties in the coup which began as a rampage through the capital on Friday by soldiers demanding back-pay Meanwhile the ousted President sits aboard a US warship off the capital Banjul today with his family and senior officials hoping to negotiate with the young army officers who staged the bloodless coup Officials said Mr his two wives and about fourteen of his nineteen children were sheltering on the US ship in Banjul harbour with the finance and justice ministers and the director general of police Mr who was Prime Minister when Gambia won independence from Britain in nineteen sixty-five became President when it became a republic in nineteen seventy Goma The French army says forty-five thousand refugees have left its safe haven in south-western Rwanda for their homes in areas held by the Rwandan Patriotic Front RPF The group is seen as the biggest return of refugees since the <./>RA RPF won the civil war a week ago The government spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel told Radio France International yesterday that the two thousand people mostly from Rwanda's Hutu majority were streaming through a pass fifteen kilometres east of the town of Ibuye every hour The spokesman said he believed the refugees have realised that if they want to go on living it is better they return to their land so that this year's crops are not lost Aid agencies and an RPF government formed last Tuesday have urged refugees in Zaire and south west Rwanda to return to their homes to escape death from disease lack of food and exhaustion Over a million people fled into the French protected zone and across the border into the area of eastern Zaire after the mainly Tutsi RPF seized the southern Rwandan town of Butare on July the fourth Goma Reports from Goma say Rwandan refugees abandoned camps of eastern Zaire in growing numbers today and crossed back to Rwanda However the report said those who stayed up to one thousand five hundred were dying each day from disease or exhaustion Rwandan Patriotic Front official Lieutenant Peter Karagi said today that by yesterday more than ten thousand refugees had crossed into Rwanda Other reports said soldiers were still collecting up the tons of rifles bullets machetes and grenades abandoned by the former government troops when they fled RPF forces eleven days ago along with about one million civilians This news comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam The World Bank has urged greater private sector participation in higher education in developing countries to address the problems of <-/>of overcrowding and continuing deterioration in the quality of teaching at existing institutions In its latest edition the World Bank News said developing countries should invest more in non-university institutions such as polytechnics professional technical and community colleges to meet the acute crisis in higher education It said higher education depends heavily on public funding in most countries but as budgets shrink and populations expand governments face the challenges of doing more with less in their colleges and universities The World Bank said governments needed to boost the efficiency quality and equity of their public investments in higher education Rome Pope John Paul keeping up his stiff opposition to contraception ahead of a United Nations conference on population today slammed the use of artificial methods of birth control In an address to the faithful from his summer retreat north of Rome the Pope admitted that the growth of the world's population was worrying but in remarks aimed at the United Nations conference on population in September he added that not enough was being done to encourage natural methods of family planning The Catholic Church rejects abortion and other artificial means of contraception and only accepts the natural ones such as a rhythm method which determines when a woman is infertile New Delhi Residents in India say at least forty people were killed today when tribal militants attacked the relief camp in the north-western Assam state Today's killings brings to more than sixty people who have died in the ethnic violence this week The Assam government yesterday said twenty-one people were killed in ethnic clashes in district of the state on July the nineteenth and twentieth It said the dead included ten shot by police In a renewed spate of violence earlier today armed militants opened fire at sleeping inmates at relief camp some one hundred sixty kilometres east of the state capital Residents said some forty people were killed and over one hundred injured in the clashes as the militants fired indiscriminately after surrounding the camp Mogadishu Gunmen have ambushed the United Nations food convoy in the Somali capital Mogadishu and hijacked two food trucks and a motor vehicle following fresh clashes between factions vying for control of the shattered city A United Nations spokesman said no casualties had been reported from the ambush which followed a fierce battle between rival factions which killed six people in the city yesterday Earlier Mogadishu warlord General Mohammed Somali National Alliance SNA said its gunmen had taken control of the area around the capital's UN guarded port a move denounced by his main rival as <./>provoke <./>provoke <./>provo provocative The UN spokesman Major said today's ambush was at a notorious roadblock near a traffic circle where an airport road enters central Mogadishu troops from the United Nations operations in Somalia <./>U UNASOM were escorting the convoy And now to end the news here again are the main points Reports from Gambia say the situation in the capital Banjul was calm today after the bloodless coup on Friday which ousted President And that's the end of the news
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Here is the news of the last twenty-four hours from the external service of radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Othman Mtata First the headlines The government has called upon the scientific and technological community to explore ways and means of using science and technology to improve the socio-economic development of the people The military government in Nigeria has set out new penalties for anyone opposing its programme for a three-year transition to democracy A United Nations flag has been lowered in Kigali to mark the end of the United Nations' peace keeping mandate in Rwanda International leaders have agreed to attend a conference in Egypt next week to discuss ways to combat political violence in the Middle East
Dar es Salaam The government has called upon the scientific and technological community to explore ways and means of exploiting science and technology in improving the socio-economic development of the people Closing the fifth Annual Scientific Meeting on environmentally friendly technologies for sustainable development the minister for science technology and higher education Mr Jackson Makweta says the imported technologies have brought benefits as well as drawbacks in the life of mankind In his remarks which were read on his behalf by the director of science and technology in his ministry Mr Tarson Mteleka the minister says that it is an opportune time to find new solutions to the century as we expect to have a higher demand for an efficient natural and non-polluting product process Earlier the participants recommended to the government to ensure that the farmers are involved in formulating a relevant technology which suits the local environment on indigenous soil fertility management The three-day meeting was organised by the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology
Dar es Salaam President Benjamin Mkapa has elevated the Ardhi Institute to an Associate University of Dar es Salaam beginning the first of July this year President Mkapa declared the elevation when he was officially inaugurating a comprehensive programme to rehabilitate the Ardhi Institute yesterday financed by the government of Denmark President Mkapa said the new name for the college will be the University College of Lands and Architectural Studies Talking to staff of the Ardhi Institute the president called on higher learning institutions in the country to establish a culture of trading their expertise through consultancy in order to get enough money for making the institutions self-reliant President Mkapa commended the leadership of the Ardhi Institute for its efforts to make this institute participate in the preparations for the implementation of various projects like the songo-songo gas and National Television construction projects He also called upon professionals in various fields of land to abide by the ethics of their professions as a means to fight corruption which the president said was now affecting the land and housing sector
Abuja The opposition NEFTA Democratic coalition in Nigeria has called for a boycott of the local elections which would mark the first significant stage of the military government's three-year plan for a transition to democracy Two other pro-democracy groups the Campaign for Democracy and the National Conscious Party have already called for a boycott The authorities have stepped up security in the run-up to the polling The local elections of the sixteenth of this month will be the first time Nigerians have voted since the annulment of the presidential elections in nineteen ninety-three The polling will take place on a non-party basis and has been criticised by opponents of the military regime as a propaganda exercise and a waste of resources The military government has invited a number of foreigners including American journalists into the country in time for the vote Meanwhile the military government in Nigeria has set out new penalties for anyone opposing its programme for a three-year transition to democracy It says those trying to undermine the process will be tried in a special tribunal and jailed for up to five years
New York The United Nations' secretary-general Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali and the president of the World Bank Mr James Woofensen will launch a ten-year multi-billion dollar programme to promote Africa's development The launching will take place at the United Nations' headquarters on March the fifteenth Reports say the special initiative on Africa is the United Nations' system's most significant mobilisation of support ever for the development of the continent's people The reports say the initiative will mainly improve basic education health peace building good governance water and food security in Africa The implementation of the initiative will require up to twenty-five billion dollars mostly from the reallocation of the existing resources at the national and international levels
Lusaka An outbreak of measles has been reported in the western province of Zambia The Zambian news agency says at least two children have been killed by the disease in Mongo district Mongo district's director of health Mr Kingsley Kufuna has been quoted as saying that out of the seventeen cases reported so far since the outbreak in the area two deaths involving a fifteen-year-old boy and an eighteen-month baby girl have been recorded He said there were also eight unconfirmed deaths from the suspected killer disease in the district A mobile medical team has been rushed to the affected area to vaccinate children
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Kigali A United Nations' flag was lowered in Kigali yesterday to mark the end of the United Nations' peace keeping mandate in Rwanda Speaking at the ceremony the United Nations envoy to Rwanda Mr Shaarean Khan said the United Nations' forces of up to one thousand two hundred and thirty peace keepers and the one hundred and forty-six military observers were leaving after completing their mandate He said the peace keepers were leaving with the sense of success and dignity because stability has returned to Rwanda The last of the troops will be pulled out in six weeks and United Nations assistance mission in Rwanda would be replaced by a United Nations' political team of up to twelve officers United Nations' troops failed to stop the genocide in nineteen ninety-four of up to one million minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda
Cairo International leaders have agreed to attend a conference in Egypt next week to discuss how to combat political violence in the Middle East Reports say the meeting will be chaired jointly by President Bill Clinton of the United States and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in the Red Sea resort town of Shah Mal Sheif The two leaders are reported to have extended <./>invit invitations to all parties concerned to take part in the summit to be held on the thirteenth of this month President Boris Yeltsin of Russia will also attend the meeting Other leaders will come from Jordan Israel the European Union some Gulf states and North African countries The meeting follows suicide bombings in Israel that killed sixty-one people recently
Jerusalem The police in Israel have arrested some one hundred and seventy Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists in a campaign to crack down on fundamentalist groups Israeli radio says during the campaign which began last Sunday security forces also sealed off six Islamic colleges and eight homes The Israeli chief liaison officers with the Palestinians Colonel Moshel Ilard has said there has been a turning point in the Palestinian co-operation with the Israeli security forces in the actions A commander of the Israeli army undercover unit said that his men had captured five wounded Palestinians in the West Bank in recent days The five are tied to recent suicide bombing attacks
Lagos The Nigerian head of state General Sani Abacha has said that the dispute between Nigeria and the Cameroon over the Bakasi peninsular should not result in an open armed conflict since a dialogue could solve the problem General Abacha made the remarks in the capital Abuja yesterday when he met with the visiting head of state of Colonel Maina Sara Bare Reports say General Abacha urged the Cameroonian government to consider historical links between the two countries and allow peace to reign He said the use of dialogue to solve problems was better than the use of violence General Abacha stressed that Nigeria would always encourage the use of dialogue to solve any problem between her and other countries He commended Colonel Bare's administration for intervening the country's constitutional problem in order to move the country forward and pledged Nigeria's co-operation and support in the restoration of a stable democracy
Kampala Fifteen people were killed in Northern Uganda when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army the LRA overran a home guard unit Reports reaching the capital Kampala said the dead included one soldier of the Uganda Peoples' Defence Forces the UPDF two home guards and twelve civilians among whom were seven women and three children The reports quoted security sources in Kitgomu district say that Thursday's attack was meant by the UPDF from further pursuing the main rebel group led by Koni About five hundred and seventy LRA rebels are reported to Kilak county in the Gulu district over three hundred kilometres north of Kampala from the Sudan since early last month committing various crimes and destabilising the northern part of Uganda
Khartoum Sudanese security forces have arrested a group of army officers who were allegedly planning acts of sabotage on the eve of elections which began on Wednesday Reports say the group consisted of ninety low-ranking officers but did not say when they were arrested Other reports say the officers co-operated with members of the Sudanese opposition in exile to carry out acts of sabotage on the eve of elections to create a state of chaos as an introduction to overthrowing the military government And now to end the news here are the main points once again
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Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Swaleh Msuya First the main points President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has opened an international summit to foster peace and combat political violence in the Middle East The United States is consulting its allies about the possibility of imposing sanctions on Nigeria over the execution of nine human rights' activists last year Twenty-five bandits suspected to be from Ethiopia have been killed in Marsasit Marsabit district in Kenya And China has warned the United States that its support for Taiwan risked inflaming tensions
Cairo The president of Egypt Mr Hosni Mubarak has opened an international summit to foster peace and combat political violence in the north the north-east Mr Mubarak told fellow delegates that the process in the Egyptian resort town of Scharm el Scheich showed that the commitment of the international community to the peace process His remarks were echoed by the American and Russian presidents and later by the Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres who said measures should be taken to smash the infrastructure of terrorists organisations He accused Iran of supporting such moves Meanwhile differences have emerged over how the summit should proceed Addressing the conference after the prime minister Mr Peres the <./>Palestine the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said the summit will be held to complete the process under Mr Peres which was started by the assassinated Izhak Rabin Mr Arafat added that the peace must be based in justice Before the summit began Syria officially confirmed it would not be attending
Khartoum The Sudanese foreign minister Mr Ali Osman Mohammed Taha says there are no reasons for the UN security council to impose sanctions against Sudan in connection with complaints lodged by Ethiopia about the attempt to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa last June Mr Taha says Sudan has shown all co-operation required for the execution of the UN security council to impose sanctions against <-/>against it He added that foreign influences have <./>cause <-/>have caused Sudan's relations with both Egypt and Ethiopia to be affected Mr Taha was addressing a news conference in the Sudanese capital Khartoum
Washington The United States is consulting its allies about the possibility of imposing stronger sanctions on Nigeria in response to the execution of a human rights' activists Ken Sarawiwa in November last year The American state department has given no details but an American newspaper says the Clinton administration has circulated proposals to countries in Europe and elsewhere for an international ban in new foreign investment in Nigeria
Monrovia Forces of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia led by Mr Charles Taylor say they've taken control of Todi district in the north of the capital Monrovia But some reports say the NPFL succeeded in dislodging Ulimo's faction fighters because many of them had already handed in their weapons to the west African peace keeping force
Cotonou The president of Benin Mr Nice For Soglo has announced the run-off to the elections between himself and the former military leader Mr Matthew Kareku would be held four days later than planned on March the twenty-first A government spokesman said the poll was being pulled back to avoid problems encountered in the first inconclusive round of voting which left Mr Soglo and Mr Kareku each with around <-_>each with around<-/> a third of the total votes
Abidjan Transport ministers of states that own Air Afrique meet this month to discuss the plight of the national carrier in particular in acute debt servicing problem that threatens to deprive it of some of its planes A company spokesman said in an interview that the meeting planned for March twenty-second will take place in the Ivory Coast's commercial capital Abidjan Ivorian official said it would be followed by a heads of state meeting at a date to be fixed The spokesman said the Abidjan meeting would focus on the March debt servicing deadline He said the airline could only reschedule its debt beyond the current ten-year repayment period if the shareholder states agree to act as guarantors Air Afrique based in Abidjan and set up by former French African colonies in nineteen sixty-one serves west and central Africa with longer haul flights to Europe the United States and South Africa
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Nairobi Twenty-five bandits suspected to be from Ethiopia were killed in Kenya's Marsabit district fierce on Saturday The Times newspaper reported today that the bandits numbering over one hundred from Ethiopia crossed the border to Dukana north of Kenya last week where they attacked herdsmen and killed thirteen people in a village in Marsabit district The eastern provincial commissioner Mr Ismael Chailenga confirmed the incident and said that security has been beefed up to counter further attacks and to pursue bandits who were driving away some one hundred and twenty herds of cattle The provincial commissioner urged the Kenyan families affected by the attack to remain calm as the government is tracking down the attackers with a view to arresting them
Beijing Senior generals in China's armed forces are reported to have warned the United States that its support for Taiwan risked inflaming tensions and that China will stop not will stop any American ship from entering Chinese waters According to a Chinese newspaper in Hongkong the generals issued a warning in the Chinese capital Beijing during a session of Chinese parliament A commander of United States seventh fleet said American ships heading for Taiwan will go to join those already in the area as a precaution He said the intention was to prevent what he called any miscalculation in the region Latest Taiwanese reports said more than thirteen <-_aircrafts><+_aircraft> were taking part in the continuing Chinese military exercises in the Taiwanese Strait Earlier today China launched a fourth missile into into the sea off the Taiwanese coast within the zone which China has designated for its current series of its military tests
Colombo Sri Lankan security forces have launched a large search operation for Tamil rebels in the east of the island country following the killing on Monday of at least twenty police personnel The death occurred when rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil ambushed a police patrol in Velaveli near Batticaloa town The rebels group has been fighting a thirteen-year guerrilla war for a separate Tamil state in the north and the east of the country Reports say police have recovered the bodies of the dead personnel
Johannesburg The survivors of the South Africa's Kwamakuta massacre in nineteen eighty-seven related chilling accounts yesterday during the murder trial of the country's former defence minister General Magnus Malane In the Durban supreme court General Malane and his co-accused are facing thirteen counts of murder arising from the massacre of thirteen people of Kwazulu Natal province nine years ago One of the survivors twenty-nine-year old Siwela Tusini described how she and her husband had laid on the floor while a gunman killed five of their six children in an adjoining section of their partitioned bedroom Ana Khumalo aged thirty-four told the court she cowered in a cupboard and heard people being shot dead in another section of the house Mrs Khumalo and her four-year old were knocked into the cupboard by a victim who was shot dead in an attempt to flee Thirteen people died in on the night of the January the twenty-first nineteen eighty-seven when gunmen armed with AK forty-seven rifles attacked the Kwamakuta home of the United Democratic Front leader Victor Ntuli The victims included four women and six children of whom five were under the age of ten
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Arusha President Ali Hassan Mwinyi has made a direct appeal to the people of Burundi and Ruanda to strive for a general reconciliation and confidence building measures in order to restore peace love and unity under their current leadership The President made the appeal in his speech to open a special regional summit on the situation in the two francophone countries held at Arusha International Conference centre He said the role of neighbouring countries was to extend a firm support to the transitional government of Burundi and the newly installed government of Ruanda to clear out the current levels of mutual suspicion and hostilities through confidence building measures He said the current tension in Burundi must be eased while the ethnic killings must be stopped before they triggered a full-fledged civil war He suggested that the Burundi army be transformed into a truly national army an army to defend the people and not one group against the other
Geneva A commission of three African jurists named by the United Nations to investigate genocide and war crimes in Ruanda is expected to visit the country next week The experts headed by former Togolese foreign minister and supreme court president Mr were appointed at the beginning of this month by the UN Secretary General Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali and urged to report back to him by the end of November The other members are the Attorney-general of Guinea Mrs and a law professor <./>fro from Mali Mrs United Nations' officials say at least five hundred thousand people mostly the minority Tutsi and opponents of Ruanda's Hutu government were killed at the height of Rwandan bloodshed in April and May this year
Arusha The Organisation of African Unity Secretary General has said that African countries must ensure that the attainment of political liberation must not be undermined by conflicts and economic want In his speech of thanks on the conclusion of the OAU co-ordinating committee for the liberation of African world at the Arusha International Conference Centre yesterday said unity and common purposes are needed among African countries to empower Africans economically and democratically
The OAU Secretary General said that the friendship that served African countries to liberate the continent must now be refocused to deal with the challenges of managing conflicts and improving the lives of Africans He said that the present conditions in Somalia Angola and Liberia as well as conflicts in Burundi and the Sudan need the undivided attention and determination of African countries Ndugu said that unity and solidarity manifested during the struggle for decolonization against apartheid and against apartheid must be mounted at the ending of conflicts and building enduring peace and stability on the continent promoting economic development and fostering the course of democracy and human rights Meanwhile African leaders and government representatives paid vibrant homage to retired President Nyerere and to the two executive secretaries of the liberation committee for the role they played during the decolonization process on the African continent President of Namibia said it was through the front-line states under the presidency of Mulimu Nyerere and Zambia's Dr Kalunda who stood out in their firm support for the liberation of the regime that the liberation committee achieved its goals and strategies He said Tanzania will always stand out as the pioneer of liberation and the home of freedom fighters President of Zambia commended Mulimu Nyerere Brigadier and the late George Magombe for having devoted their time and energy to plan a strategy and ensure that the liberation committee lived up to all African expectations Likewise President Magabe of Zimbabwe reiterated his country's deep gratitude to former President Nyerere who he said was a mental and driving force during his country's struggle for liberation he said it was through Mulimu Nyerere's reason and principled dedication that the liberation committee was set up and headquartered in Tanzania
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Dar es Salaam Kigali Reports say Rwandan Hutus in a French army safe haven are massing on the border with Zaire days before the French withdraw creating a new humanitarian nightmare for helpless aid workers Frontier Aid organisation team counted twenty-five thousand people reaching the frontier town of yesterday A spokesman for the organization said that there is not much that can he done to stop the movement signalling the growing despair of aid agencies already struggling to cope with about two point seven million Rwandan refugees outside the devastated nation's borders Hutus started moving from deep inside the safe haven towards Zaire last week driven by a fear that the pull-out of French troops from the area by next Monday will signal an invasion of the mainly Tutsi guerrillas who have taken the rest of Ruanda
Arusha The father of the nation Mulimu Nyerere has said that African leaders should start a dialogue with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to help a structural adjustment which will take into consideration the interests of their people In a brief address to participants in the seminar on the effects of the structural adjustment programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa at the Meru Hotel today Mulimu said any sound economic programmes must be planned and implemented by the people and for the people He said most of the programmes in Africa have little impact to the development of the people despite being implemented for over a decade now because they were just imported from Washington He challenged economic experts to advise their leaders so that they can argue their case with the World Bank and the IMF for the structural adjustment programmes that will have a positive impact on the people He said while the main objective of such problems were to increase industrial utilisation capacity imports reduced <./>infla <-/>reduced inflation and the government deficit neither of the four has been achieved
Dar es Salaam The Indonesian government has donated ten million shillings for Ruandese refugees in Tanzania A press release from the Indonesian ambassador to Tanzania Dr said the money was given to the United Nations' High Commission for Refugees in Geneva The ambassador said the money is a humanitarian assistance for Ruandese refugees in Tanzania through the UNHCR as a token for sympathy and solidarity The UNHCR representative in Geneva Mr Ernest expressed a sincere appreciation to the government of Indonesia for its generous and continued support for the work of the UNHCR Indonesia has also donated money for Burundi refugees
Monrovia The United Nations' envoy to Liberia Mr Gordon has said that the process of disarming the country's rival factions has almost stopped because of the continuing fighting between them Mr said that since the process began in March almost four thousand fighters have been disarmed However the rate has slowed with just over two hundred members disarmed in the past two and a half months Meanwhile the leader of the Mulimo faction General has said that fighters from the national patriotic front had been attacking his forces in He said there had been casualties on both sides
Paris One of the world's most wanted criminals popularly known as Carlos the Jackal faced the law today for the first time after twenty years on the run At a Paris court Carlos looked fit and relaxed as he emerged into the glare of publicity He was due to be formally placed under investigation which is the first step towards a trial for a nineteen eighty-two bombing in Paris in which one person died and sixty-three were wounded The Venezuelan born guerrilla who was caught last Sunday in the Sudan and extradited to Paris has been linked to hijacks bombings and other attacks in many countries since the mid nineteen seventies including the kidnap of eleven OPAC ministers attending a meeting in Vienna Austria in nineteen seventy-five
Jakarta Ministers from thirty-one member states of the non-alignment movement have ended their meeting in Indonesia with a call for creditor countries to solve the debt crises with substantial debt reductions The Indonesian coordinating minister for economic affairs Mr said the meeting prepared a report for the movement's one hundred and eleven members industrial countries the World Bank the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations The report urged final arrangements for settling all outstanding debt including a multilateral debt The chairman of the movement's advisory group of experts on debt Mr has said between fifty-five to sixty developing countries had serious problems and that the total value of their outstanding long-term debt was two hundred and forty-eight billion US dollars compared with two twenty-four billion dollars in nineteen eighty-seven
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Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Abisai First the main points Pro-democracy groups in Nigeria have condemned the return of military rule after General Sani Abacha scrapped all democratic structures Gunmen have shot dead six members of a family in a township east of Johannesburg The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has predicted that over one third of the four thousand breeds of domestic animals used for food and agriculture are under threat of extinction The United Nations has called for an end to what it called the systematic torture of detainees in Egypt and Turkey
Lagos Pro-democracy groups in Nigeria have condemned the return of military rule after General Sani Abacha scrapped all democratic structures The Human Rights pressure group Civil Liberties Organisation CLO called on Nigerians to reject the return of military rule in the country The group called on the international community to take comprehensive economic and political measures to isolate General Abacha and his fellow mutineers in the military until the expressed will of the Nigerian people prevailed Nigeria has been ruled by soldiers for twenty-five out of its thirty-three years of independence from Britain Mr Abacha on Thursday axed political parties banned politics and dissolved elected local councils state government and the federal legislature
Lome The main opposition party in Togo says it will not run in the country's first multi-party parliamentary polls next month saying President had ignored its demand for electoral change The Union of Process for Change said in a statement that it would not take part until President reversed the changes he had made to the Supreme Court and redrew electoral boundaries it said were currently vague It also demanded guarantee of security for candidates opposing President 's Toganese People's Rally Party The President set December the nineteenth for the first round with the second on January the second
Johannesburg Gunmen have shot dead six members of a family in a township east of Johannesburg South African police said at least four gunmen armed with AK forty-seven assault rifles opened fire on the family's home in the troubled on Thursday night Two children were wounded in the attack Townships east of Johannesburg have become the focus of political violence in which more than twelve thousand five hundred people have been killed since President de Clerk unbanned black opposition groups and began dismantling apartheid in February nineteen ninety
Harare Zimbabwe says it is now ready to sign a landmark treaty setting up an African common market The agreement establishing the common market for Eastern and Southern African states COMESA was written by more than twenty countries at a conference in Uganda but the Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe said he needed more time to consult his government
Amman Jordan has carried out the second execution of a woman in its history The latest victim is thirty-six year-old housewife who hit her husband to death with a brick as he watched television then burned his body with kerosene In a rare development in Jordan two men were also hanged the same day for separate crimes of fighting Official sources said the women and the two men were hanged in prison outside Amman on Thursday The only other woman executed in Jordan was another housewife hanged in nineteen eighty-six along with her son who helped her murder her husband
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Rome The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has predicted that over one third of the four thousand of breeds of domestic animals used for food and agriculture are under threat of extinction The Rome-based agency of the United Nations identified one thousand four hundred and thirty-three breeds as being threatened by extinction because they have one thousand or fewer breeding females for twenty males Of those one thousand four hundred and thirty-three breeds three hundred seventy-nine were classified at risk because there were one hundred or fewer breeding females or five or fewer breeding males The study found two hundred and seventy-four breeds at risk in Europe among them the cattle in Northern Italy whose milk produces high quality Parmesan cheese North sheep of the Orkney Islands of Northern Scotland and the Yakuti cattle of Northern Siberia The study the World-Watch list of domestic animals diversity is part of a campaign to save the genetic diversity of the animals from being lost forever
Geneva The United Nations has called for an end to what it called systematic torture of detainees in Egypt and Turkey The UN Committee on Torture ending a two-week session urged the two states to ensure their police and security forces protected the human rights of those in their custody The committee's chairman Mr Joseph told that no exceptional circumstances neither internal uprising war or anything else justified the practice of torture The ten-member board of experts monitors compliance the nineteen eighty-four UN convention against torture and other cruel inhuman or <-_degradading><+_degrading> treatment or punishment
New York The United Nations' Secretary General Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali has agreed to resumption of aid convoys to Central Bosnia suspended last month Our political advisor to the United Nations said Mr Boutros Ghali had accepted recommendations from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mrs and the UN special representative for the former Yugoslavia The convoys had been halted after the killing of a Danish aid driver which the UN investigators later blamed on troops of Bosnia's Moslem-led army
Baghdad United Nations experts have arrived in Iraq to investigate allegations that it used chemical weapons against civilians in the south of the country But Baghdad suggested the visit was a ploy to keep Gulf prices' sanctions in place The Foreign Minister Mr Mohammed Said Al said in a statement issued minutes before the team's arrival that the probe was biased and intended to raise doubts about Iraq compliance with the United Nations resolution a condition for any easing of sanctions The United Nations team arrived in Baghdad after examining alleged victims among Iraq refugees in Iran and would conduct a detailed scientific analysis in Iraq's southern marshes home of the marsh Arabs for five thousand years
Islamabad The South African Prime Minister Mr Pic Botha says his delegation would like to explore the possibilities of co-operating with Pakistan including technology agriculture and mining He was speaking on arrival at Islamabad at the start of a three-day visit to Pakistan the first high level contact between South Africa and Pakistan The Pakistan Foreign Minister Mr told his counterpart that his country would recognise South Africa in view of recent changes in the country towards a democratic society
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World health experts have called for an international support and advice campaign for at least two hundred million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases and one hundred and fifty thousand deaths from unsafe abortions which occur every year A three-day general body meeting of the Asia - Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists and the regional workshop on <./>Ref Reference Book on Environment has started in Nepal
Washington World Health experts have called for an international support and advice campaign to reduce the two hundred million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases and the one hundred and fifty thousand deaths from unsafe abortions which occur every year The <-_international><+_internationally> planned Parenthood Federation the world's largest voluntary family planning organisation also revealed that one in twenty teenagers around the globe catches a sexually transmitted disease every year The organisation announced its findings in a report published to coincide with its annual policy making meeting with representatives from one hundred and forty countries taking part The report also found that over one hundred million women mainly in Africa have been subjected to female genital mutilation which seriously affects their sexual health and damages the reproductive process In Morocco and Algeria two thousand unwanted babies are abandoned every year by <./>unm unmarried girls and many pregnant girls commit suicide in despair More than half of all women in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America give birth before the age of twenty and pregnancy-related complications are the major cause of death among girls in their late teens
New York The United Nations' Secretary General Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali has designated Mr Ahmed Abdullah as his special representative for Burundi with immediate effect Since nineteen eighty-four Mr Abdullah has served with the United Nations as a special co-ordinator for Africa and the least developed countries since nineteen ninety-two Mr Abdullah has served a number of high positions with his government notably as Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation and Ambassador to the United States and the European community
Lusaka Talks to try to end Angola's civil war resumed yesterday after government negotiators dropped a demand that civilian supporters of the UNITA rebels be disarmed Sources said a scheduled session was scrapped a day before after UNITA rebels had rejected the government's demand saying the government itself had tens of thousands of armed followers The sources said a plenary session of the talks would tackle a host of issues such as a cease-fire integration of government and rebel forces and composition of the new government The resumption of the closed-door peace talks chaired by the UN envoy Mr followed urgent meetings held with <-_Angola><+_Angolan> negotiators late on Thursday and foreign observers from the United States Russia and Portugal yesterday
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Kathmandu A three-day general body meeting of the Asia <-/>Asia Forum of Environmental Journalists and the regional workshop on Reference Book on Environment has started in Nepal The meeting and the workshop <-_has><+_have> been organised by the Asia Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists in co-operation with the Norwegian Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and hosted by Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists In his opening speech as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nepal Mr Amman said that the greatest challenge of today is to generate environmental awareness among the people and to mobilise people's participation in the environmental activities The participants of the meeting and the workshop <-_includes><+_include> representatives of the national <./>for Forums for Environmental Journalists from Bangladesh China India Indonesia Malaysia Nepal Pakistan the Philippines Sri Lanka Singapore and Thailand
Kampala Uganda will establish diplomatic relations with South Africa by the end of this year The local weekly Topic said the Ugandan government has decided to appoint a mission to South Africa as soon as an interim administration is established in that country to prepare for elections scheduled for April next year Uganda has no diplomatic ties with South Africa since its independence in ninety sixty-two It is expected that Uganda will appoint a council and <./>upagr <-/> upgrade it to an embassy after the April next year elections Uganda now all trade and economic sanctions of South Africa last week The sanctions were imposed in nineteen sixty-three
Lusaka The Zambian local governmental housing minister Mr Chongwe has resigned from the Cabinet with immediate effect Mr Chongwe handed in his resignation latter to President Frederick Chiluba Mr Chongwe said he has just lost interest in his Cabinet position and has decided to devote all his time to his small farm He said he has no intention of joining any political party at the moment therefore will remain a member of the ruling party and a member of the parliament for constituency Mr Chongwe is the third minister who resigned from the Cabinet since the present government came to power in November nineteen ninety-one
Abidjan President Felix of Ivory Coast who is Africa's longest serving leader returned home yesterday after six months abroad for medical treatment A government statement said he was flown from Geneva to the inland capital by special flight Mr eighty-eight years old had been <./>conv convalescing at a private Swiss cancer clinic outside since first of November after undergoing a prostrate operation last June in Paris The government statement ending hours of speculation did not comment on the ailing leader's state of health
Madrid Spain has seized more than twenty-seven tonnes of drugs believed to be loaded in Morocco in a boat sailing from West Africa Customs officials said it was the largest single haul of its kind in Europe since nineteen eighty-five and it represents a third of what Spain captured in all of nineteen ninety-two They said that eight crews from various countries including Greece Belgium the Netherlands and Seychelles were being held for questioning
Jerusalem The Israeli Foreign Minister Mr Shimon Peres has said that Egypt has decided to lift all restrictions on visits by Egyptian <./>civ citizens to Israel Mr Peres was speaking at the Israeli - Egyptian Friendship Society on the occasion of the sixteenth anniversary by the late Egyptian president Mr al Sadat to Jerusalem Meanwhile the Israeli Minister of Energy Mr Moshe Shahal has brought back good news from Egypt to Israel In a radio interview upon arrival from Cairo Mr Shahal said Egypt has agreed to sell natural gas to Israel During his three-day visit to Egypt Mr Shahal held talks with Egyptian officials on energy co-operation between the two neighbours He said Israel and Egypt will immediately begin <-_an> initial work on the construction of a natural pipeline Israel will also take part in an Egyptian plan to build an electricity grid linking all North African and Middle East countries Israel and Egypt will also be linked up at a Red Sea resort on the Egyptian side of the border
London At least eleven schoolchildren and their teacher have been killed in an early mooring crash when their mini-bus collided with a parked lorry and burst into flames in Warwickshire central England The children aged twelve and thirteen were on the way home from a concert in London when the mini-bus driven by their teacher ran into the back of a road maintenance truck parked on the hard shoulder of the motorway shortly after midnight Firemen had to cut the top off the vehicle to free the dead and injured from the wreckage Two boys nine girls and a teacher have died so far in the accident and one of the three injured is still in serious condition in hospital Police are investigating the crash which is the second serious road accident in the past nine days in Britain
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The news of the last twenty-four hours from the external service of Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by G C Lawrence First the main points The Vatican has expressed its appreciation of President Benjamin Mkapa's leadership in the effort to achieve economic emancipation the crusade against corruption and maintenance of peace and unity in Tanzania The United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa says a large number of African countries have realised the need for carving up special programmes for their poor people The retired president Dr Julius Nyerere has concluded his peace mission to Burundi and left the country President Dos Santos of Angola says he believes the UNITA opposition leader Mr Jonas Savimbi would accept an offer to become vice president in a government of national unity
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The official representative of the Vatican in Tanzania archbishop Francisco Jovier Rusano has expressed appreciation of President Benjamin Mkapa's leadership in the effort to achieve economic emancipation the crusade against corruption as well as in the maintenance of peace and unity in the country Archbishop who represents the head of the Catholic church Pope John Paul the second in Tanzania called on the president at the state house in Dar es Salaam today and placed special emphasis on peace and unity as the most precious possession which the government and people of Tanzania have to guard very jealously The pronouncio of the Holy See praised Tanzania for having conducted last year's general elections under an atmosphere devoid of ethnic and religious divisions elements which tended to cause tensions even in some of the developed countries On his part President Mkapa urged the Catholic Church to continue with its humanitarian devours in the provision of social services especially in health and education sectors
Addis Ababa A large number of African countries have realised the need for carving up special programmes for the poor people The United Nations' Economic Commission for Africa ECA says the number of poor people in Africa constitute sixteen per cent of the worlds destitute and are likely to make up thirty per cent of the total by the year two thousand and one It said the governments of Tanzania Uganda Mauritius and Kenya have consolidated their role in safeguarding the welfare and interests of workers and provided continued assistance to vulnerable and disadvantaged people such as children and refugees The commission praised the government of Malawi for embarking on improving the living conditions of the poor people through development of human capital and the expansion of employment opportunities as well as rise income According to the commission Zambia has taken several initiatives to support people most vulnerable to the negative impact on economic reforms Three programmes have been adopted They include a programme to prevent malnutrition a food for work programme and another programme for urban self-help all of which aim at <-_proving><+-providing> short term relief
Kampala The Rwandan minister for public service Sheikh Abdulkarim Halerimana says the Rwandan civil service was facing serious manpower shortages Sheikh Halerimana who is on a visit to Uganda disclosed that most posts in the civil service servicing his country requiring professionals were vacant because a large number of civil servants were killed during the nineteen ninety-four genocide while others were exiled He said only the unskilled staff had returned from exile in significant numbers Mr Halerimana said the Rwandan civil service had about forty thousand employees but the government lacked resources to pay and train them therefore their productivity was low
Harare President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe who is seeking <-_re-elections><+_re-election> after sixteen years in office has blamed white-owned cooperations for the country's economic trouble He told a rally that many industrialist were crooks who deliberately sabotaged the economy He said they were laying off workers and diverting money to neighbouring countries to increase their profit margins Unofficial statistics put unemployment at about fifty per cent Mr Mugabe's challengers in the presidential elections in a week's time are capitalising on widespread economy's and social <./>frus frustration accusing the government of mismanagement and corruption
Beijing China has described the idea of American intervention in its dispute with Taiwan as ridiculous It has reaffirmed that it would be prepared to use force if the island tries to declare independence The statement was made by the Chinese foreign minister Mr Chen Chi Chan in Beijing after an announcement from the United States that it was sending warships to the waters around Taiwan while China conducts military exercises He said Taiwan was part of China and not an American protectorate Meanwhile the United States has indicated that at least one and possibly two of its carrier battle groups may be involved
Khartoum A senior Sudanese official has confirmed reports that the security forces foiled what he described as an army coup attempt by army officers last week The minister of state for foreign affairs Mr Gazi Saleh Aziban said that a small number of officers had planned to overthrow the government during general elections last week He said the officers have been arrested and they had never posed a serious threat A London-based Arabic newspaper reported that about twenty officers were arrested
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Bujumbura The retired president Dr Julius Nyerere concluded his peace mission to Burundi and left the country Reports say that the former Tanzanian leader who arrived in Bujumbura on Thursday in an effort to mediate and settle the crisis between the two main ethnic communities the Hutus and Tutsis held talks with various dignitaries aimed at pushing for dialogue between the two opposing sides The reports said Dr Nyerere met the Burundian president Mr Sylvestre Ntibantunganya a Hutu former Tutsi president Mr Pierre Buyoya and Mr Jean Baptiste Bagaza and the prime minister Mr Antoine Nduwayo
Lisbon President Oze Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola has said he believed the UNITA opposition leader Mr Jonas Savimbi would accept an offer to become vice president in a government of national unity President Dos Santos told reporters in Lisbon after meeting Portugal's new president Mr Jacques San Paiyo that in Libreville Dr Savimbi showed his firm commitment to peace and to seek in every way to achieve national reconciliation He said that Dr Savimbi's participation in government would inspire confidence in the peace process adding that all Angolans believe in the work they are doing for reconciliation in Angola The Angolan government and UNITA at war for nearly twenty years agreed in Libreville early this month to set up a government of unity and merge their armies by July this year Under the agreement UNITA must nominate a vice president possibly Dr Savimbi Mr Dos Santos was visiting Lisbon to attend the swearing in of President San Paiyo on Saturday and to hold bilateral talks on the Angola's peace process with Portuguese officials
Pretoria The trial has resumed in South Africa of the former defence minister General Magnus Melan and other leading military figures accused of involvement in death squad murders of political opponents during the last years of apartheid The accused persons pleaded not guilty to thirteen counts of murder in connection with the massacre in nineteen eighty-seven at the black township south of Durban where the case is being heard
Gaza Palestinian police in Gaza have arrested three top members of KASAM the military wing of the Islamic militant organisation HAMAS responsible for the wave of bombings in Israel The head of the Palestinian security forces in Gaza Major General Abdul Maijade said the three Abdel Satari Salim Marouf and Kamal Khalifa were arrested in Canunis in the south of > Gaza Strip on Saturday night Palestinian police have rounded up more than six hundred activists of the Islamic HAMAS since the group launched a wave of suicide bombings in Israel starting on February the twenty-eighth killing fifty-eight people
Jerusalem The authorities in Israel say President Bill Clinton of the United States will attend a special session of the Israeli cabinet later this week The meeting will be devoted to security issues The Israelis say Mr Clinton is the first foreign leader to attend such a meeting President Clinton will be visiting Jerusalem after attending a conference in Egypt on ways to combat political violence in the Middle East Meanwhile the Israeli government says it will issue extra work permits to more the sixteen thousand foreigners to replace Palestinian workers who cannot go to Israel because of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been sealed off
Kampala The former Ugandan president General Tito Okelo was in intensive care in a Kampala hospital after his condition worsened on Sunday The doctor said the eighty-seven- year old soldier was under a team of the country's best doctors but his condition has deteriorated since he was admitted to hospital in a coma last Thursday Hospital authorities declined to give further details
Tripoli Libya has said it will again use its own aircraft to fly its citizens on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca Alhaji in defence of the United Nations air embargo against the country The official news agency said Libya did not accept that permission should be needed from anyone to undertake the <-_pilgrims><+_pilgrimage> which takes place in April It said the Libyan government will take full responsibility for whatever consequences might result After a similar statement last year Libya sent one token aircraft carrying pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in defiance of the sanctions
Seoul There have been angry scenes in the South Korean capital Seoul as two former presidents went on trial for treason and military rebellion There were scuffles inside the courtroom and demonstrations outside as the accused persons Chandu Wan and Rote Ru face their accusers sixteen years after the coup that brought them to power They have denied the charges The defence lawyer argued that if their rule had been illegal and so was the current administration which succeeded theirs
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Here is the news from Radio Tanzania read by David Wakati
First the main points The vice president Dr Omar Ali Juma has reiterated the government's stand that self-reliance policy remained relevant to Tanzania development and called on people of Mtwara region to implement the policy to attain rapid development Survivors of a weekend ambush by Christian fundamentalist rebels in northern Uganda have been quoted as saying between seventy and a hundred and thirty people were killed The authorities in Burkina Faso say more than five hundred people have died in an outbreak of meningitis which began in January Nigeria will hold its first elections next Saturday since a presidential poll in nineteen ninety-three collapsed through military intervention plunging the country into a still unresolved political crisis
Masasi The vice president Dr Omar Ali Juma has reiterated the government's stand that self-reliance policy remained relevant to Tanzania's development and called on people of Mtwara region to implement the policy to attain rapid development The vice president was speaking during a dinner party hosted by the people of Masasi town which was held at Masasi Girls' Secondary School He said that there was no short-cut in alleviating poverty in the country except for the people to work hard in agriculture production and get full support from the government Earlier addressing the residents of Chungutwa and Mikangaula villages Dr Omar Ali Juma urged all able youths to stop migrating to urban areas to do petty business because the tendency denied the rural areas <-_of> productive labour necessary for increased crop production He said self employment should now be the cornerstone for the youth's future development sustainable
Kampala Survivors of a weekend ambush by Christian fundamentalist rebels in northern Uganda have been quoted as saying between seventy and a hundred and thirty people were killed They said most of the dead were burned alive in buses set ablaze by Lord's Resistance Army rebels who ambushed a military escorted convoy in northern Uganda The military said on Sunday twenty-one people were killed and fifty-two kidnapped when the seventy vehicle convoy was ambushed near Karuma falls on river Nile two hundred and sixty-five kilometres kilometres north-west of Kampala It said sixty-eight people were wounded most of them seriously Many lost limbs and were being treated in hospitals in Kampala uh at the northern town of Gulu The Monitor newspaper put the toll at a hundred and thirty dead and the usually conservative state-run New Vision said at least seventy were killed
Kampala Uganda has deported a Ghanaian student accused by his university of master-minding a strike last week that paralysed it for four days Immigration officials said Yusuf Sezalo was put in a flight to Ghana after he was expelled by administrators at the Islamic University in Uganda at Mbale two hundred and fifty kilometres east of the capital Kampala The Ghanaian was in Uganda on a student's visa Sezalo was also accused of beating up a student leader Mr Nasal Mukunja at the university set up in nineteen eighty-nine by Arab nations to boost Islamic education in predominantly Christian Uganda
Ouagadougou The authorities in Burkina Faso say more than five hundred people have died in an outbreak of meningitis which began in January The French news agency quoted health officials as saying there were now more than six thousand reported cases of the disease in Burkina Faso with the worst affected region being the northern province of Yatenga The disease has also struck neighbouring countries In Nigeria it is reported that over two hundred and fifty thousand people have died Meningitis is prevalent in West Africa during the dry season from January to March
Monrovia Hundreds of Liberian rebels from ethnic wing of the Ulimo militia have handed over their weapons to West African peace keepers The rebel leader Mr Roosevelt Johnson was recently ousted in an internal power struggle and his faction has suffered setbacks at the hands of the rival MPFL militia led by Charles Taylor Mr Taylor's faction has ceased control of two towns Kakata and Bomims both to the north-east of the capital Monrovia
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Lagos Nigeria will hold its first elections next Saturday since a presidential poll in nineteen ninety-three collapsed through military intervention plunging the country into a still unresolved political crisis The military government now seen as a pariah by much of international community says the local council elections are the first step in its programme to return Nigeria to democracy The opposition says they are a waste of time but given the rush for nomination forms turn-out may be respectable enough to give the government the ammunition to counter criticism that the wait for democracy is too long Voters will choose councillors and chairpersons for five hundred and ninety-three local councils Meanwhile Nigeria's military ruler General Sani Abacha has called for the setting up of an independent body of local journalists to monitor the forthcoming local council polls He urged the Nigerian Union of Journalists to establish the proposed body which would help to strengthen the credibility of the election General Abacha made the call over the weekend in Abuja at the launching of the fund for the International Institute of Journalism in the nation's capital
Yaounde Authorities in Cameroon have arrested the late Rwandan president Jovenal Habyarimana's chief of presidential staff who is wanted by the United Nations' war crimes tribunal
when an express train ploughed into a bus carrying a wedding party in eastern India The United News of India said the accident took place at an unmanned level crossing about five kilometres from Japlaguri town in the north-west Bengo state The agency quoted police as saying eight people died on the spot and the rest in hospital It said six women and four children were among the dead The train was travelling from Trivandrum in southern India to Guahati the capital of Asam state in north-eastern India The agency said the bus was carrying about forty-five passengers at the time of the crash It said the bride and bridegroom suffered <./>injur injuries in the crash
Taipei A Taiwanese government official says the latest Chinese military exercises have begun in Taiwanese streets He said the Chinese were using live ammunition Earlier foreign residents in the south-eastern Chinese port city of Shantuu across the water from Taiwan said they had seen military aircraft in action and have heard several loud explosions There has been no word yet from Beijing The exercises have led to heightened tension with Taiwan which has put its forces on increased alert A group of Taiwanese pro-independence politicians say the exercises are intended to intimidate voters ahead <-_>they are intended to intimidate voters ahead<-/> of presidential elections later this month
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Here is the news of the last twenty-four hours from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Othman Matata First the headlines
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says there has been a slight improvement of the socio-economic situation in Africa since nineteen ninety-four More than five hundred people have died from meningitis in Burkina Faso since the outbreak of the disease in January this year Representatives of both the Angolan government and its UNITA adversaries have expressed concern over the delay of the assembling of UNITA troops at agreed points Reports say lack of treatment plants to treat industrial residue water and chemicals is the major cause for river water pollution in Dar es Salaam
Addis Ababa The executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa the ECA Mr Muwako has said that the socio-economic situation in Africa has improved slightly since nineteen ninety-four In his opening statement to the ninth conference of African planners statisticians and population and information scientists in Addis Ababa Mr Muwako said Africa's Gross Domestic Product the GDP grew by two point two per cent in nineteen ninety-five as compared to one point six per cent in nineteen ninety-four and to only zero point eight per cent in nineteen ninety-three Mr Muwako said agricultural output virtually stagnated in nineteen ninety-five after the exceptionally good performance growth of three point five per cent in nineteen ninety-four With the per capita food production falling by two point six per cent Africa's food security continues to give cause for anxiety He added that in nineteen ninety-five alone cereal production fell by fifteen per cent
Dar es Salaam Tanzania has assured Commonwealth members that it would continue to give support to activities and programmes of the Commonwealth and will at all times work in partnership The position was made clear by the ministers for foreign affairs and international co-operation Mr Jaka Kikwete at the residence of the South African High Commissioner during a reception to mark the Commonwealth Day He said the Commonwealth is growing in strength with <-_ever><+_every> passing year with both the number of members modes and quality of co-operation increasing Mr Kikwete said because of a common faith in the dignity and unique worth of the human person irrespective of colour class or creed the principles for unity and coexistence are the bases of the Commonwealth
Kampala A new method for sweet-potato storage has been introduced in Uganda A daily newspaper the New Vision has reported that with the technology term PITENCAMP storage sweet potatoes could be preserved underground for more than three months The method was officially launched and witnessed by a visiting team of scientists from Kenya Tanzania Malawi Burundi and South Africa The scientists came to the country last month for a ten-day workshop on sweet-potato post-harvest technology The new method reportedly involved digging a pit of a preferable size according to the quantity of sweet potatoes Potatoes are accommodated inside the pit which is then covered with dry grass and the system involves putting up a structure over the pit
Rome The director general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO Mr Jacques Giouf has announced that the World Food Summit will be held in Rome from November thirteenth to seventeenth this year Mr Giouf said in a statement that the summit bringing together heads of state and government will seek commitment to a policy statement under plan of action to eradicate hunger The statement said world food production will have to increase by more than seventy-five per cent over the next thirty years to keep pace with the population growth Mr Giouf said the summit will marshal at the highest political level a global consensus and commitment needed to implement policies programmes and strategies that will lead to the virtual eradication of hunger worldwide The theme for the summit is Food For All The FAO director general said it is unacceptable that hunger and malnutrition should continue to diminish the human potential of nearly twenty-per cent of the people on earth in an age when we explore the planets and beyond He added that the very survival of humanity depends on world food security
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Luanda Representatives of both the Angolan government and its UNITA adversaries have expressed concern over the delay of the assembling of UNITA troops at agreed points A UNITA representative in a United Nation sponsored joint commission of the implementation of the Angolan peace process Mr Isaiah Samakuva said in an interview with the local radio that there existed some problems in UNITA's assembling of troops such as the lack of necessary living conditions in the assembly camps Mr Samakuva said UNITA would strive to overcome these problems so as to continue with the assembling of its troops On his part a government spokesman in the commission Mr Higino Kanairo expressed his worry over the pace of UNITA's troop assembly saying that many of UNITA's weapons and ammunition had not been transported to assembly camps
Johannesburg South Africa has arrested and deported forty-six thousand illegal immigrants to their respective countries in the past two months Recent statistics released by the department of home affairs show that Africans and particular Mozambiquean and Zimbabwean nationals accounted for most of the deportees About forty-four thousand Mozambiqueans and more than one thousand eight hundred Zimbabweans were deported during the period in question The statistics also show that the deportees included twenty-four Germans and twenty Russians A Johannesburg police spokesman has meanwhile said that the South African authorities would continue to arrest illegal immigrants despite accusations that they were biased in performing the exercise
Harare A week-long African child consultation conference to bring the plight of African children to the attention of governments and policy makers in Africa is underway in the Zimbabwean capital Harare Under the theme Generation at Risk What Future the conference will discuss problems affecting children in Africa and specific and decisive recommendations that can be used to pressurise governments and policy makers The consultations will also focus on issues such as children in war zones education and health needs and cultural political and economic effects on children Speaking at the opening ceremony the Zimbabwean health and child welfare minister Mr Timothy Stamps warned governments against concentrating
Yaounde Authorities in the Cameroon have arrested the late Rwandan president Juvenal Habyrmana's chief presidential staff who is wanted by the United Nations' war crimes tribunal Colonel Fionesst Basogora is wanted by the Hague-based tribunal in connection with April nineteen ninety-four deaths of ten Belgian soldiers protecting the former Rwandan prime minister Mrs Agatha Awilingyamana The Yaounde state prosecutor's office which ordered the arrest declined to comment on what would happen to Colonel Bagosogora who has been in the Cameroon since September nineteen ninety-five The war crimes tribunal has so far indicted ten Rwandans in connection with the deaths of up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocide after president Habyrmana's plane was shot down in April nineteen ninety-four The Rwandan foreign minister Mr Anastaze Gasana said earlier this month that Rwanda had formally asked African countries harbouring alleged leaders of the genocide to hand them over to the tribunal which will hear cases in the Tanzanian town of Arusha
Dar es Salaam According to a survey conducted by the Tanzania News Agency lack of treatment plants that could treat residue water and chemicals in a number of industries in the city of Dar es Salaam is the major cause for river water pollution The survey has revealed that many industries in Dar es Salaam region have no incorporated treatment plants to treat water and chemicals so as to meet the allowed pollution percentage as per international standards Recently the news media reported that the Msimbazi river has been profoundly polluted to an extent that vegetables cultivated on pieces of land along the river did contain toxic elements
Mexico City The authorities in Mexico City which is widely regarded as one of the most polluted cities in the world have announced a four-year programme to improve the air quality there by the end of the century The project expected to cost at least twelve million dollars will focus on efforts to reduce toxic emissions by factories and motor vehicles Most of the day Mexico City with the population of over twenty million is reported to be covered by a thick grey smoke And now to end the news here are the main points once again
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Twenty-one hours East African Time Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Kitoje First the main points The Organisation of African Unity has expressed a regret at the decision of the United Nations Security Council to renew sanctions against Libya President Daniel arap Moi has been asked to appoint a committee to discuss the political future of Kenya and to curb the ongoing debate of federalism in the country The South African minister for home affairs Mr Mangusuthu Buthelezi says there are more than two million illegal immigrants who have flooded into South Africa The deputy minister for health Honourable has called upon women non-government organisations to come up with concrete proposals and recommendations and develop a common agenda for the international conference on population and development to be held next month in Cairo Addis Abeba The Organisation of African Unity has expressed a regret at the decision of the United Nations security council to renew sanctions against Libya An OAU statement issued in Addis Abeba said the decision will only add to the suffering of Libyan people The statement said the OAU believed that the government of Libya has clearly demonstrated its disposition to resolve the dispute over the Lockerbie issue by making reasonable concessions and taking constructive initiatives It said it is unfortunate that those measures taken by the Libyan government have not yet received the recognition they deserve in the security council The sixtieth session of the OAU council of ministers held in Tunis last June called for the immediate removal of sanctions against Libya The OAU said it hopes that the security council will reconsider its position both in the interests of the Libyan people and in the interests of finding a resolution to the crisis based on international justice Kinshasa The aid operation in the Zairean town of Goma has been stopped after clashes between local people and Zairean soldiers Aid agencies have ordered their workers not to go out in the streets The trouble broke out during a funeral procession for one of two people who the local people say were shot by soldiers demanding money Police fired into the air to try to disperse thousands of demonstrators who had poured into the town erecting barricades Brussels Belgium says it is prepared conditionally to resume its co-operative relationship with Zaire and <./>parci participate in rebuilding Zaire The Belgian secretary of state for co-operation and development Mr Eric Derrick had been quoted as saying that his country will resume co-operation with Zaire after co-ordination with the European Community the United States the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund He said because of Zaire's unfortunate situation co-operation is necessary Mr Derrick said that before re-establishing co-operation with Zaire Belgium had decided to give Mr Kendo Wadondo Zaire's new prime minister six months of probation to see whether he could carry out his policies of reviving the economy and respecting human rights He also said that the resumption of co-operation would not be realised <-/>realised until Belgium had held comprehensive talks with Zaire Belgium used to be the colonial power in Zaire The two countries broke off co-operation in May nineteen ninety Nairobi The secretary general of Kenyan FORD Asili party Mr Martin Shikoko has asked President Daniel arap Moi to appoint a committee to discuss the political future of Kenya and to curb the ongoing debate of federalism in the country Mr Shikoko told a news conference in Kakamega that Kenyan political leaders who are advocating practice of the federal system are retarding the development of the country He said President Moi should appoint the committee consisting of leaders of the ruling party and the opposition to discuss the future of Kenya Mr Shikoko said he wondered why the leaders of the ruling party KANU are now advocating federalism when they clearly know it will divide Kenyans on tribal lines and create chaos in the country This news comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam Johannesburg The South African minister for home affairs Mr Mangusuthu Buthelezi says more than two million illegal immigrants have flooded into South Africa posing a serious threat to the country's reconstruction and development programme The minister was addressing parliament in Cape Town yesterday He said because of the gravity of the problem the cabinet has set up an inter-departmental committee to deal with the issue Mr Buthelezi said that a shortage of personnel in his department and in the police force is one of the reasons why the flood of immigrants is not curbed According to South Africa's official statistics a total of three hundred and eighty-nine thousand seven hundred and thirteen illegal immigrants had been repatriated from nineteen eighty-eight to nineteen ninety-three mainly to neighbouring countries such as Mozambique Zimbabwe and Lesotho To curb the influx of illegal immigrants Mr Buthelezi said a new identity document is being considered Dhaka The Bengali woman writer has left Bangladesh is now in Sweden after she received death threats from Muslim militants Reports from Dhaka say her departure from Bangladesh is still a mystery as no-one can tell exactly when and how she left the country on Tuesday while the police are still heavily guarding her residence The thirty-two year old physician-turned-writer <./>popo reportedly left Dhaka on board a Bangkok-bound flight and arrived in Stockholm yesterday Meanwhile the Bangladesh foreign minister says the case of Nasreen is not a human rights issue as some western countries have contended He said Nasreen's decision to leave Bangladesh was a matter of choice adding that while in the country she had been under the protection of the law and was able to enjoy her freedom Nasreen is travelling on a Norwegian passport and reports say Norway could be her final destination Beijing China says it had forty thousand private schools by the end of last year and about one point five million children are registered in privately run kindergartens and primary and high schools Officials said that encouraging the participation of people from all walks of life in education will promote China's education as it will help train specialists needed by the society They revealed that the <./>pomo promulgation of regulations on the development of private schools is under way China began to encourage individuals and social institutions to invest in education in nineteen seventies Dar-es-Salaam The deputy minister for health Honourable has called upon women non-government <-_organisation><+_organisations> NGOs to come up with concrete proposals and recommendations and develop a common agenda for the international conference on population development to be held in Cairo next month <./>Hono Honourable said that the <-_recommendatio><+_recommendations> and proposals would help in creating awareness in population issues through loving and linking with other groups during the conference She was opening a two-day workshop on women NGOs' reflection on international conference on population and development in Dar es Salaam today Honourable said population issues must not be seen as demographic approach but to people's needs Earlier the co-ordinator of the workshop Dr told the minister that the workshop would reflect on key issues that would be discussed <-_in><+_at> the Cairo conference Bangkok Six Cambodian soldiers arrested with a large quantity of arms have been handed over to police and charged with illegal entry into Thailand and the possession of war weapons The charges were made after the armed forces ended its investigation into the six described by task force commander Mr as village militia The soldiers were caught last Wednesday near the border at with large numbers of weapons including two rocket launchers and hundreds of other rounds of ammunition And now to end 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Here is the news from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam read by Eda Sanga First the main points A coalition of human rights groups have urged the United Nations to shut down a Rwandan radio station which is allegedly encouraging genocide and violence in Rwanda Nine supporters of Malawi's president-elect Mr Bakili Muluzi have been killed when a bus crashed into them as they celebrated their victory President Sam Nujoma of Namibia has asked the European Union to grant his country free access to European markets King Hassan of Morocco has pardoned one hundred and one prisoners to mark the Muslim feast of Id-el Haj
Paris A coalition of human rights groups yesterday urged the United Nations to shut down a Rwandan radio station they said was encouraging genocide in the violence-torn central African nation The group said Radio operated by radical Hutus openly encouraged the mass slaughter of Tutsi tribes people The coalition group said in a statement the dispatch of five thousand five hundred United Nations peace-keepers hailed by all will not be enough to stop the massacre if the radio station continues to broadcast its murderous appeal The six human rights groups said the station's broadcasts had threatened UN troops called on Hutus to barricade the streets of Kigali urged the massacre of innocent civilians and urged others to flee the country It urged the United Nations to use force if necessary to shut down the station and replace it with a peace radio broadcasting pleas for reconciliation
Blantyre Nine supporters of Malawi's president-elect Mr Bakili Muluzi were killed when a bus crashed into them as they celebrated his poll victory Malawi state radio said the accident occurred in Mpayo a remote settlement in Machinga Mr Muluzi's birth <./>pl birth place north of the commercial city Blantyre The radio also quoted a statement by the Malawi Congress Party of ousted president Kamuzu Banda accusing Mr Muluzi's supporters of violence The statement said six houses of MCP followers in Malawi's capital Lilongwe were destroyed on Thursday by supporters of Mr Muluzi's United Democratic Front UDF and another member's house in Blantyre was stoned It urged Mr Muluzi a former MCP secretary general to end the violence quickly This was the first reported trouble since Malawians voted on Tuesday in their first pluralist elections in thirty years of MCP leadership Brussels Namibian president Mr Sam Nujoma said he had asked the European Union to grant his country free access to European markets Mr Nujoma who was in the Belgian capital Brussels for a three-day visit said in a statement issued yesterday that he had asked the European Union to examine duty-free access to its member countries for Namibian seedless grapes and fishing products During his visit the Namibian president met European Commission president Mr Jacques Delors development commissioner Mr Manuel Martin as well as Belgian prime minister and King Albert Mr Nujoma said the European Union had agreed to extend Namibia's status as a least developed nation for a further five years due to the adverse effects of a prolonged drought the global recession and the impact of apartheid in neighbouring South Africa
Rabat King Hassan of Morocco has pardoned one hundred and one prisoners to mark the Muslim feast of Id-el Haj The justice ministry said yesterday that no names were given but royal pardons on religious holidays are normal to common criminals not political prisoners Meanwhile other reports from Rabat say Moroccan security police have arrested several Muslim fundamentalists who will stand trial for illegal possession of fire-arms The Moroccan association of human rights said eight Moroccans and two Algerian Muslim fundamentalists were arrested on Thursday and legal proceedings were taken against them for possession of fire-arms and weapons A spokesman for the human rights group told Reuters the group will be tried next week by military court and could face death penalty or twenty years in prison The spokesman said it is the first time since nineteen eighty-five that an armed Muslim group has been captured in Morocco No official comment was available This news comes to you from Radio Tanzania Dar es Salaam