South Africa begins gun amnesty
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South Africa begins a nationwide amnesty for gun owners in an attempt to cut high crime levels.
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KABUL , Afghanistan -- The country's lower house of Parliament voted into law yesterday a revised resolution calling for an amnesty for groups suspected of perpetrating war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, but also recognized the rights of victims to seek justice.
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JOHANNESBURG-- A decision by the African National Congress this week to investigate a murky, multibillion-dollar arms deal has reopened a deeply divisive affair that has dogged the government of President Thabo Mbeki and his onetime deputy Jacob Zuma for nearly a decade.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government says it will extend the weapons handover program for Sadr City, a Baghdad slum rife with anti-US sentiments, and will soon extend the arms amnesty program nationwide.
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Jacob Zuma, who won a bitterly contested election for leadership of the ruling African National Congress, was ordered to stand trial on corruption and other charges related to a French weapons contract, his lawyer said Friday.
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South Africa on Thursday became the first country in Africa, and only the fifth in the world, to legalize same sex marriages.
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The Mozambican government on Monday authorised soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks.
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ABIDJAN  - Visiting South African President Thabo Mbeki appeared to have made some headway in his peace mediation in the Ivory Coast, securing a government pledge to amend a contentious constitutional provision to open the way for a wider range of
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Amnesty International will today launch a campaign against domestic violence in the Caribbean. Radio ads will be played in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Grenada, and
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Liberia's police, who have been unarmed for three years, are being allowed to carry weapons again.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa  - President Thabo Mbeki on Friday pledged to tackle poverty and crime and speed up land redistribution to blacks, signaling a new interventionist approach in fighting South Africa's glaring social ills.
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Some see a new amnesty bill as a necessary step for stability; others see it as a free pass for war criminals.
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Africa&#39;s new representative body, the Pan-African Parliament, has opened its first session in its new home in South Africa. South African President Thabo Mbeki was joined by drummers and dancers to welcome
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PRETORIA, South Africa  - The new head of Interpol  declared war on small arms Tuesday, saying the proliferation of  pistols, shotguns and rifles threatens peace and law  enforcement across Africa and around the world.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa  - South African police  fired rubber pellets at township youths who blocked a highway  and burned tires Monday in a rare protest over poverty and  other grievances.
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President Thabo Mbeki hailed the launch of a rolling news network in South Africa on Friday as an opportunity to break free of Western news agendas and give a more rounded picture of the continent.
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ELGIN VALLEY, South Africa -- When South Africa held its first fully democratic elections in 1994, Patrick Kraukamp, a day laborer, was just starting a job as a forklift driver at the Paul Cluver wine estate in this lush mountain valley.