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June 2009 vol 1, Featured Articles

Special Report: Zimbabwe battles conflict’s explosive legacy

By Special correspondent   Tue, Jun 16, 2009

BULAWAYO // Thirty years after the end of Zimbabwe’s civil war, landmines continue to exact a heavy toll, killing and maiming people and livestock, and rendering large swathes of valuable land unusable.

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We all learn to look out for signs that our man is cheating, or subtle hints that he might be seeing someone else on the side, but what if you are the one that cheated? Assuming that you still want to work on your current relationship, we have 7 ways to move on successfully after you’ve been unfaithful. This is not a “loop-hole” and is not praised, but the reality is 14 percent of married women have had affairs at least once during their married lives and 17 percent of divorces in the United States are caused by infidelity. If you fall into this category, and don’t want to be part of the divorce statistic, take a look at these helpful steps.

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A student has been left feeling a little red-faced after an embarrassing incident with a monkey made her a global star. Charmian Chen, who just happens to be a model, was visiting the Sacred Monkey Forest Ubud in Bali last month when two of the primates decided she was a little overdressed.The 22-year-old student, from Taiwan, was on holiday on the tropical Indonesian island feeding long-tailed macaques when she was singled out.

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Barricading SA borders not solution: report

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ZANU-PF Communiqué Vindicates Madhuku

Despite indications to the contrary by MDC in government, on the 17th of June 2009 ZANU – PF politburo in Harare issued a communiqué endorsing the so-called Kariba Draft Constitution as the basis of consultations on the new constitution-making process writes Dehwa Mavhinga a human rights lawyer.

SOUTH AFRICA: One in four men rape

JOHANNESBURG, - More than 25 percent of South African men have raped; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person, says a new report by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Male circumcision - what's the latest?

Young boys rescued from an illegal initiation school in Orange Farm, South Africa

Credibility of Kimberley Process on the line, say NGO

JOHANNESBURG, - The credibility of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) - an initiative to prevent conflict diamonds from entering the multibillion dollar market - is being questioned by NGO activists ahead of a three day international meeting in Namibia on 23 June.

IPS:Investor Absence Fuels Retrenchments

BULAWAYO, - Forty-year-old Thelma Dube was this month told by her long-time employer to stay home. She will be called back to work when business picks up. Her husband got the same instruction, as did hundreds of other workers at a textile company in Zimbabwe’s second largest city.

Countdown to Zimbabwe's new constitution

Eddie Cross writes that Zanu-PF is terrified of a process of which they have no real control

How the Press is Challenging Zimbabwe's Government

The mounted head of a buffalo stared down at me beside the smoky, oak-paneled bar of the New Ambassador hotel. About a hundred journalists were crammed in, sitting or standing, for a debate of noise and passion with interludes of loud hilarity. A government minister sat at the bar and joined in, while another listened as he leaned on a pool table.

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SOUTH AFRICA: Market forces part of xenophobic violence

JOHANNESBURG, - The business acumen of foreign nationals, rather than xenophobia, is being named as the trigger that led to attacks against Somalis and other migrants in the South African port city of Cape Town.

UGANDA: Lilly Atong, “I was Joseph Kony’s wife”

GULU, - Lilly Atong, 26, was first abducted by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels from Amuru district in northern Uganda in 1991 when she was 10 years old. She was made a “wife” of the LRA leader Joseph Kony but escaped in 2005. However, during the Juba peace talks in 2006 she met Kony to persuade him to release other women and children, only to be held captive again in Garamba National Park, where the rebels were hiding. She managed to escape a second time and is now living in a rehabilitation centre in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu.