"Africa Urged To Unite"

South Africa Targets 'Despicable' Hunting

South Africa to expropriate white farmer's land
MARK COLVIN: The South African Government is going to force a white farmer to sell his land in the first expropriation of a property to speed up the process of land transfer to the black community. Until now, the South African Government has pursued a policy of willing buyer/ willing seller to return white land to black families dispossessed by apartheid.

South African farmers see barren future with evictions on horizon
For eight years Mr Jacobs, 53, and six neighbouring landowners in the Ventersdorp district of North West Province, have been disputing the claims on their farms by the Bakwena tribe, who say that the land was taken from them under apartheid laws. Now Mr Jacobs has been told that the farm where he has lived for 30 years must be returned to the Bakwena, a ruling that has profound implications for other white farmers.

Africa Urged To Unite And Regain Its Dignity
Outgoing Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa on Monday called on Africa to unite, regain its dignity and bring an end to Western domination. He was speaking in Zimbabwe where he is on a two-day visit to big farewell to his counterpart, President Robert Mugabe.

Tanzania won't condemn Zimbabwe, says Mkapa
"There are governments - some of them very good friends and development partners of ours - which are upset with me because of my steadfast refusal to censure the Zimbabwean Government for what they claim are human rights abuses and democratic deficits in this country." "I think we have reached a point where, like good friends, we have agreed to disagree on Zimbabwe. I am glad they have not insisted on choosing friends for us," said President Mkapa.

Nigerian prince jailed in UK
London - A West African prince was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday after trying to smuggle cocaine worth £163 000 into Britain inside hollowed-out onions. Prince Adegbenie Olateru-Olagbegi hoped the pungent vegetables would provide the ideal cover for the illegal consignment as he arrived at London's Heathrow airport on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Lagos.

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Christian group wants to 'redeem' US states

Galloway rejects senate perjury claims
A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.

"I am demanding prosecution, I am begging for prosecution," Mr Galloway told Sky News. "I am saying if I have lied under oath in front of the senate, that's a criminal offence. Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the senate room.

"Because I publicly humiliated this lickspittle senator Norman Coleman - one of [George] Bush's righthand men - in the US senate in May, this sneak revenge attack has been launched over the past 24 hours."
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