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<title>Zim leaders agree to re-call Mbeki</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551123</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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... HARARE - Zimbabwe&apos;s rival political leaders agreed on Friday to  ...  leaders agreed on Friday to recall ex-South African president Thabo Mbeki to help end a  ...  before he was forced to give up South Africa&apos;s presidency by his ruling ANC party, has  ...
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<title>Odinga slams African leaders&apos; fear of criticising each other</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192551122</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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... JOHANNESBURG - Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, on Thursday condemned African leaders&apos; fear of criticising each other, saying  ...  including the second round of elections in Zimbabwe. This has now become the norm, Odinga  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe Rivals Agree To Further Mediation By S. Africa&apos;s Mbeki</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192550501</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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...  national unity government, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and the heads of the two wings  ...  Democratic Change agreed to ask former South African President Thabo Mbeki to resume mediation in  ...  the power-sharing process, political sources said. Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told VOA that Mr. Mugabe,  ...
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<title>Mugabe risks MDC fury by gazetting ministries</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192547461</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... ZIMBABWE&apos;S President Robert Mugabe risked confrontation with the  ...  including the administration of any Act of Parliament or of any Ministry or department, Mugabe  ...  Tsvangirai and Mutambara had asked former South African President Thabo Mbeki to come and assist  ...
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<title>Martti Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192547343</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  conflicts in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia. The Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed  ...  Ahtisaari to co-head, with Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, the inspection of IRA arms&apos; dumps in  ...
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<title>Conflict Resolution Marked Career of Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192544332</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:27 GMT</pubDate>
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...  managing the whole transition to peace in Namibia, in south-west Africa in the late 1980s,&quot; he said. &quot;He  ...  a school teacher before joining Finland&apos;s Foreign Ministry in 1965. He was a senior Finnish  ...
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<title>Lup for the challenge</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192541872</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 22:04 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  players missed out, but are available for selection for the visit of the Panthers, however,  ...  to miss out on the Cumbria v South Africa game on Wednesday. Chris Reid comes in  ...
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<title>Zimbabwe rivals agree on fresh mediation by Mbeki</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192541001</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... Zimbabwe rivals agree on fresh mediation by Mbeki  ...  to seek renewed mediation from former South African president Thabo Mbeki to try to end  ...  him to travel to Zimbabwe, said Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa, Mugabes chief negotiator. Mbeki has  ...
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<title>Ahtisaari mostly lauded as a worthy Nobel peace laureate</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192540997</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of the Nobel Peace Prize. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner praised the 71-year-old Finnish diplomat  ...  and determined action to bring peace to Namibia, Kosovo, Indonesias Aceh and other world trouble  ...  who has made peace on three continents: Africa, Asia and Europe and I always found  ...
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<title>Cash boost for water sports</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192540525</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai,  ...  from foreign boats, including entries from Australia, South Africa, France and Germany. ...
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<title>Mugabe okays mediation to break deadlock</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192540008</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:30 GMT</pubDate>
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... Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has agreed to allow  ...  insisting there was no need for South Africa&apos;s former leader Thabo Mbeki to resume a  ...  continue with the mediation efforts,&quot; either in South Africa, in Harare or by telephone. Once hailed  ...
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<title>South Africa needs more to choose from</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192539992</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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... The emerging split in the African National Congress may be a way forward  ...  differences of policy. The ANC has run South Africa since May 1994, when apartheid ended and  ...  of Mbeki&apos;s supporters South Africa&apos;s former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota is one of Mbeki&apos;s closest  ...
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<title>U.S. Stocks Trim Losses After Early Plunge</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192539304</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Europe to the emerging markets of South Africa and Croatia. Across Europe investors dumped equities,  ...  3.1 percent to 20,595. Equity markets in Namibia, Botswana, and Qatar were among the few that  ...
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<title>Nobel Peace Price goes to veteran Finnish statesman</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192538867</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  conflicts in troublespots ranging from Kosovo to Namibia and Indonesia. The Norwegian Nobel Committee hailed  ...  Ahtisaari to co-head, with Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, the inspection of IRA arms dumps in  ...
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<title>Break Arab-Israeli deadlocks with water accords</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=192538859</link>
<pubDate>10 Oct 2008 21:29 GMT</pubDate>
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...  de Klerk is a former president of South Africa, Mike Moore is a former director general  ...  a Japanese philanthropist, Karel Schwarzenberg is foreign minister of the Czech Republic, George Soros is  ...
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