South Africans murders hit scary rate
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Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 12 -- A shootout in which police killed 11 gunmen apparently planning to rob a truck transporting money has prompted widespread applause in South Africa and spurred calls to lift a 12-year-old prohibition on the death penalty.
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JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9 -- President Thabo Mbeki on Friday sought to reassure worried South Africans that his government is stepping up its fight against crime but offered little new detail on how it can curb levels of rape, robbery and murder that are among the highest in the world.
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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A wave of alleged executions by Kenyan police is terrifying anyone with links to those killed, while families of the missing fear their corpses could turn up next.
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The US embassy in South Africa said its diplomats were living in fear after six of its staff became the latest members of a foreign mission to be robbed in the crime-ridden country.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa  - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new.
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Jacob Zuma, who survived rape and corruption charges to become the president-in-waiting of South Africa, has harsh words for Kenya and Nigeria, where recent elections were marred by alleged fraud, violence and disputed results.
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A BBC team finds new evidence of mass ethnic killings and rape in Darfur, adding to fears of genocide.
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A HORRIFIED neighbour told last night how he found the three blood-soaked victims in a gruesome triple murder.
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National elections on Sunday are shaped by one of the world's highest murder rates.
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Selling sex on the streets of this gambling capital is a dangerous pursuit: Streetwalkers have been strangled, smothered, slashed and set ablaze.
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The massacre of over 160 Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsis in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi has once again brought to the fore the ethnic problem in Africa&#39;s Great Lakes Region.
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Like a recurring nightmare, reports of the beheading of civilians kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists flashed across our newspapers and television screens this week in macabre, horrifying succession.
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Six grisly murders in Togo in which the victims were decapitated and drained of their blood have raised fears of a resurgence of ritual killings ahead of parliamentary elections in the West African state next month.
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South Africa's Thabo Mbeki is under pressure over crime but his annual speech is expected to highlight poverty.