$5 Million Prize to Mozambican
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A new foundation devoted to improving African governance awarded an audacious inaugural prize to Joaquim A. Chissano, Mozambiqueâs second president.
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The five-year agreement calls for a new 5-kilometer race track just south of Cancun&#39;s international airport. Construction of the $70 million track is expected to begin in January, with the first race possibly taking place in October 2006.
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SYDNEY Xstrata, the world&#39;s biggest exporter of power-station coal, offered 7.4 billion Australian dollars, or $5.5 billion, for WMC Resources on Thursday to add nickel and copper mines to its portfolio.
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Switzerland is to hand back to Nigeria SFr622 million ($500 million) belonging to the former ruler, Sani Abacha, and his family.
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A hospital building programme in South Africa is put back to help pay for the 2010 football World Cup.
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The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it has "brought forward" to this year $5.3 million of its 2005 pledge to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to help ensure that the United ...
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The US government announced a five-year, 547-million-dollar aid package to Ghana to help the African nation develop agriculture and alleviate poverty.
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Mozambicans go to the polls this morning to vote in both presidential and parliamentary elections. The country&#39;s electoral commission says half of the country&#39;s estimated 18 million people have been registered
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Mozambique's ex-President Joaquim Chissano wins the inaugural $5m Mo Ibrahim prize for African leadership.
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Dutch bank ABN Amro pays out $4.5m to try to settle a dispute with the Vietnamese authorities that have detained four of its staff.
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Sudanese authorities finally gave permission on Thursday for aid worth R5-million to be delivered by the Gift of the Givers Foundation in Pietermaritzburg to the Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur area.
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Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano wins a new Â£2.5m prize for African excellence in leadership.
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The British mining company Anglo American is in exclusive negotiations to pay $5.5 billion for control of iron ore projects owned by a Brazilian mining concern.
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Plans to bring Formula One to South Africa in 2007 are still on track, a bidding consortium&#39;s spokesman reported. David Gant, representing the &#39;Omega Consortium&#39;, said the body will apply to Formula One Management to stage a race in Cape Town.
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Jose Mourinho's achivement in leading Porto to successive victories in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League will be recognised by an award from the Portuguese government at a Lisbon based ceremony on ...
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South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has been linked to a multimillion-dollar arms payoff at a trial in Johannesburg, the Times of London said Tuesday.
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$2.5 million in prize money is on the line as gamers from Uzbekistan to Ecuador compete in the World Cyber Games.