"Mbeki urges Africa to preserve Timbuktu manuscripts"

Mbeki urges Africa to preserve Timbuktu manuscripts
- South African President Thabo Mbeki has called for the preservation of the Timbuktu manuscripts saying that Africa should not allow such a critical part of the continent`s history to die. Speaking on Tuesday night in Pretoria at a South Africa-Mali Timbuktu project fundraising dinner, Mbeki stressed the need to raise more funds to ensure the Timbuktu Manuscripts will always be available as part of the historic African literary, scientific and scholarly heritage.

Chad set to renegotiate oil deal
Chadian President Idriss Deby has expressed his government`s desire to renegotiate the oil agreement with the multinationals in order to better take into account his country`s interests.

France tinkers with its African troop deployment
Adjusting to new realities on the ground, France plans to re-deploy its thousands of African-based troops in a scheme it says will bolster the continent's own home-grown peacekeeping forces.

Textile jobs on the line
The textile industry has been handed a blow after the European Union and the United States moved last week to further relax the Chinese import quotas.

Ghanaian journalists confess to bugging phones
For years it remained a rumour, and at worst a suspicion, that the telephones of certain individuals in Ghana, mainly politicians, were being bugged.

Life for farmer who threw man to lions
A white farmer convicted of murdering a black former employee and throwing him to a pride of lions was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday at the end of a case that hit a raw nerve across South Africa, highlighting simmering racial tensions 11 years after the end of apartheid.

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