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BREAKING NEWS

ZIMBABWE: Government to deploy 30,000 police  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2752.shtml
Harare, Zimbabwe (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The Zimbabwe government said it
would deploy 30,000 police ahead of this weekend's polls, news reports
said on Tuesday. 

NIGERIA: State government denies reports of Christians fleeing  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2751.shtml
Kano, Nigeria (ANN, June 21, 2000) - An exodus of Christians and
southerners from the northern state of Kano prior to the official
introduction of Sharia law there on Wednesday has begun, 'The Post
Express' newspaper reported on Saturday. 

RWANDA-UGANDA: Rebel group RCD traces conflict to Kazini  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2749.shtml
Kisangani, DR Congo (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The Vice-President and
overall military commander of the RCD, Jean-Pierre Ondekane, has alleged
that the conflict between former allies Uganda and Rwanda stemmed from
the arrival in Kisangani, eastern DRC, in 1998 of Ugandan Chief of Staff
Brigadier James Kazini. 

NIGERIA: Accused Praises Judge Over Jail Term  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2748.shtml
Ilorin, NIGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Yusuf Bello, a village drunk,
last week prostrated endlessly and showered praises on an Ilorin
magistrate for jailing him for two months after beating a policeman.
Bello, a native of Babaloma, had been arraigned before the court for
beating a police sergeant Salawu Moshood on June 13 near the Ilorin high
court complex. 

SOMALIA: Heavy fighting at Baidoa airport  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2747.shtml
Baidoa, Somalia (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Heavy fighting broke out at
Baidoa airport on Saturday, and resumed again on Monday, humanitarian
sources told IRIN. On Saturday, militiamen of the governing Rahanwein
Resistance Army (RRA) opened fire on militiamen guarding a khat flight,
unhappy with their allocation of the narcotic plant. 

NIGER: Four soldiers accused of coup plot released  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2746.shtml
Niamey, Niger (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Four Niger soldiers allegedly
involved in the failed kidnap of a member of the country's former junta
last week were released on Saturday, AFP reported Defence Minister
Sabiou Dadi Gao as saying. 

DR CONGO: 'Patriotic awakening' campaign launched  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2745.shtml
Kinshasa, DR Congo (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The governor of Kinshasa,
Theophile Mbemba Mfundu, on Monday initiated a "patriotic awakening"
campaign in Kinshasa, the state-owned Congolese television reported. 

DR CONGO: Displaced still leaving "tense but quiet" Kisangani  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2744.shtml
Kisangani, DR Congo (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The situation in the
northeastern DRC city of Kisangani, where the Ugandan and Rwandan armies
engaged in clashes earlier this month that left hundreds of people dead,
was "tense but quiet" as of Monday, according to humanitarian agencies
in the field. 

ZIMBABWE: Observers denied accreditation  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2743.shtml
Harare, Zimbabwe (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The Zimbabwe government has
barred a number of international observers, mostly from non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), from observing and monitoring this weekend's
parliamentary elections. 

UN issues first global plan to boost Internet access in developing
countries  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2742.shtml
New York, United Nations (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The United Nations has
issued the first global plan to engage the public and private sectors in
overcoming the information technology lag in most developing countries,
aiming to bring Internet access by 2004 to the 80 per cent of the
world's population who are currently unconnected. 

ERITREA: Italy, UN food agency team up to help Eritrea  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2741.shtml
Asmara, Eritrea (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) and the Government of Eritrea on Tuesday began an
airlift operation that will transfer 36 metric tonnes of emergency aid
to Eritrea on behalf of several Italian-based relief agencies. 

On Africa Refugee Day, UNHCR urges joint efforts to counter rise in
xenophobia  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2740.shtml
Kampala, Uganda (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The escalating refugee problems
in Africa need more attention now than ever before, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadaka Ogata, stressed on Tuesday on the
occasion of Africa Refugee Day as she visited a settlement in northern
Uganda where some 11,500 people have taken refuge since fleeing southern
Sudan six years ago. 

SIERRA LEONE: West African delegates to meet Security Council on Sierra
Leone crisis  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2739.shtml
Freetown, Sierra Leone (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Delegates from the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are on their way from
Sierra Leone to New York, where they will hold a private meeting with
the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the war-torn
West African country, a UN spokesman said in New York. 

DR CONGO: Foreign troops leave Kisangani as DRC Government files suit  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2738.shtml
Kisangani, DR Congo (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The bulk of Ugandan and
Rwandan forces in Kisangani appears to have left the city, according to
preliminary reports released yesterday from the United Nations
peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). 

ZIMBABWE: Africans To Take over White-Owned Companies  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2737.shtml
Harare, ZIMBABWE (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Skilled Africans are to take
over control of foreign-owned mines if President Robert Mugabe's party
wins parliamentary election in just less than a week. President Mugabe
disclosed this on Friday last week. 

ZIMBABWE: Mugabe Confident, Dismisses Opposition Victory in Polls  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2736.shtml
Harare, ZIMBABWE (ANN, June 21, 2000) - In spite of an opinion poll
which predicts opposition victory in the June 24-25 parliamentary,
President Robert Mugabe is confident that his ZANU-PF would make a clean
sweep in the polls. 

NIGERIA: Non-Indigenes Flee Kaduna and Kano Sharia Atmosphere  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2735.shtml
Kaduna, NIGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Non-indigenes have started to
flee en-masse the restive Kaduna and Kano cities following the alleged
threats of a renewed mayhem over matters relating to the Sharia legal
system. 

NIGERIA: Court Declares Nassarawa Constituency not Vacant  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2734.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June21, 2000) - An Abuja Federal High Court on
Friday voided the resignation of Ibrahim Inuwa Babawo from the House of
Representatives, thus declaring his Nassarawa Federal Constituency of
Kano State, Northern Nigeria, not vacant. 

NIGERIA: 24 Oil Workers Kidnapped in Warri  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2733.shtml
Warri, NIGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - At least 24 workers, including 2
foreign expatriates, were kidnapped in the turbulent Niger Delta region
of Warri, southwest of Nigeria. The workers were said to be working on a
project owned by Chevron Nigeria Limited. 

DR CONGO: Confusion as Ugandan and Rwandan Troops Leave Kisangani  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2732.shtml
Kisangani, DR Congo (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Rwanda and Uganda have
accused each other of moving troops into areas around Kisangani in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, even as they continued to withdraw from
the city itself. 

GAMBIA: Police Detain Gambian Opposition Party Leader  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2731.shtml
Banjul, GAMBIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The leader of the Gambian
opposition party (the UPC) Hussein Udabo and some members of his party's
executive were detained by the police at the wekend following a clash
between members of the UPC and supporters of the ruling party, the APC,
in a rally organized on Saturday by the UPC. 

NIGERIA: PDP Chieftain Berates Obasanjo for Poor Performance  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2730.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Chieftains of the ruling People's
Democratic Party (PDP) rose from a meeting on Tuesday in Abuja with a
call to President Olusegun Obasanjo to sit up if he is not to lose the
party's confidence completely. 

NIGERIA: "Why I Went to Court Over My HIV Vaccine," Dr. Abalaka  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2729.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Reasons are beginning to emerge
why the Abuja-based medical practitioner Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka sought a
court injunction restraining the Minister of Health, Dr. Tim Menakaya,
the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and the Council's
investigating panel from compelling him to appear before them. 

NIGERIA-SIERRA LEONE: "UN Yet to Ask for More Nigerian Troops," Says
Colonel Ugbo  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2728.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June21, 2000) - Nigeria's Defense Spokesman Colonel
Godwin Ugbo said that the defense headquarters had not received a
written request from the United Nations (UN) to send additional troops
to reinforce the peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone. 

MOROCCO: 1,016 Detainees Pardoned in Morocco  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2727.shtml
Rabat, MOROCCO (ANN, June 21, 2000) - In a goodwill gesture to mark the
Eid-Al-Mawlud, a feast that celebrates the birthday of Prophet Mohammed,
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has granted pardon to 1,016 detainees, the
royal household and chancellery revealed. 

ALGERIA: Algerian President Ends Tour to France, Seeks Closer Ties  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2725.shtml
Algiers, ALGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - President Abdulaziz Bouteflika
of Algeria on the last day of a 4-day tour to France on Saturday called
for closer ties with France. 

LIBYA-BLACK AFRICA: Amidst Accusations of Racism, Black Africans Appeal
for Caution on Proposed African Union  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2724.shtml
Tripoli, LIBYA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - African Leaders have been warned
to be cautious as they push for a speedy take-off of the Libya-proposed
African Union. A cross-section of black African residents in Tripoli,
Libya, made the appeal by saying that rather than rush into the Union,
African leaders should first work towards unity among their various
nationals. 

ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Signing of peace accord welcomed by Security Council,
Secretary-General  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2723.shtml
New York, United Nations (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The members of the
United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan have
welcomed the signing by Eritrea and Ethiopia of an agreement on the
cessation of hostilities, proposed by the Organization of African Unity
(OAU). 

SIERRA LEONE: "Relative calm" reported in Sierra Leone following weekend
gunshot scare  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2722.shtml
Freetown, Sierra Leone (ANN, June 20, 2000) - United Nations aid
officials on Monday voiced continuing concern about the humanitarian
situation in Mile 91, a Sierra Leone town where an estimated 30,000
people have been registered by UN agencies as internally displaced. 

NIGERIA: Pressure Mounts on Former Spaeker Buhari to Stay Away from the
House  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2721.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Pressure continues to mount on the
disgraced former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Salisu Ibrahim
Buhari. Most MPs have asked Buhari not to return to the House. 

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Measles Outbreak Claims 300 lives  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2720.shtml
Oudda-Djalle, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The
measles outbreak, which began in May in the impoverished Central African
Republic (CAR), has now claimed not less than 300 lives. 

TANZANIA: Tanzania Seeks INTERPOL Assistance to Arrest Swindler  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2719.shtml
Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Tanzania has sought the
assistance from the International Police (INTERPOL) for the arrest of a
Dar Es Salaam businessman, Rijaz Gulamani. 

NIGERIA: Fawehimi Goes to Court Over Governor Tinubu's Forgeries  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2716.shtml
Lagos, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Lagos lawyer and human rights
activist Chief Gani Fawehimi has appealed to Nigeria's Supreme Court as
he seeks to challenge the judgment of the court of Appeal that it cannot
compel the police to probe Bola Tinubu, the Governor of Lagos State,
southwest Nigeria, over matters of forgery of certificates and perjury. 

NIGERIA: Teacher Drags School to Court over Alleged Witchcraft  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2715.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - A school teacher told an Abuja
High Court judge, M. L. Gumi, that in October 7, 1999, one Joy Mohammed,
the proprietress of the school, invited her and told her in the presence
of 3 other staff members of the school that she made an unnamed pupil
sick by appearing to the child through diabolic means. 

MAURITANIA: Mauritania Will Pull Out of ECOWAS in 6 Months  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2714.shtml
Nouakchott, MAURITANIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Mauritania has concluded
plans to pull out of the West African regional body, the Economic
Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) within the next six months. 

GHANA: Ghana Air Crash Survivors in Critical Conditions  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2713.shtml
Accra, GHANA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Several survivors of the Airlink
Flight 200 that crashed at Kotoko Airport in Accra on Monday are said to
be in critical condition, hospital sources said. 

ZIMBABWE: Winnie Mandela Criticized for Supporting Land Invasions in
Zimbabwe  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2712.shtml
Harare, ZIMBABWE (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Former wife of Nelson Mandela
and President of the African National Congress Woman's League (AVCWL),
Winne Madikizela Mandela has been criticized for expressing support for
the invasions of white farm lands by Zimbabwean war veterans. 

SOUTH AFRICA: Assassin Links Botha with Bloody Cross-border Raid  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2711.shtml
Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Eugene De Kock, who
admitted being an assassin for South African's former apartheid regime,
has implicated former President P. W. Botha in a bloody cross-border
raid by police into neighboring Lesotho in December 1985. 

ZIMBABWE: Top Commonwealth Official Resigns Observer Status  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2710.shtml
Harare, ZIMBABWE (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Senior advisor to Commonwealth
Secretary General, Don Mckinnon, has resigned his appointment as head of
an observer mission to oversee the Zimbabwean parliamentary election of
June 24-25. 

RWANDA: Spanish Priest Killed in Kigali  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2707.shtml
Kigali, RWANDA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - 3 armed men on Saturday killed a
Spanish priest in central Kigali. 

DR CONGO: Ugandan army movements may cause another outbreak of violence
in Kisangani  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2706.shtml
Kinshasa, CONGO DR (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The alleged re-enforcement of
troops by Uganda in the areas around Kisangani may cause another
outbreak of violence, main rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of
Congo (DRC) warned on Sunday. 

LIBYA: EU Ambassadors hold talks with Gaddafi  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2705.shtml
Tripoli, LIBYA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Libyan President Moammar El
Gaddafi held talks with ambassadors of the European Union (EU) on Sunday
for the first time since 1992 to deliver messages on "unresolved
questions between EU and Africa". 

NIGERIA: Traffic Disrupted for 2 Hours by Robbers  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/headlines/story2703.shtml
Awka, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Armed robbers disrupted traffic at
the busy Nteje-Awkuzu junction in the eastern part of Nigeria for about
2 hours. 

ECONOMY

ZIMBABWE: Africans To Take over White-Owned Companies  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/economy/story2737.shtml
Harare, ZIMBABWE (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Skilled Africans are to take
over control of foreign-owned mines if President Robert Mugabe's party
wins parliamentary election in just less than a week. President Mugabe
disclosed this on Friday last week. 

EGYPT: Egypt Hosts G-15 Meeting  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/economy/story2726.shtml
Cairo, EGYPT (ANN, June 21, 2000) - It was a busy Monday in Cairo as
Egypt hosted the summit of the Group of 15 nations (G-15) on June 19. 

NIGERIA: "Lagos State must Pay $75," Lagos State NLC Insists on Minimum
Wage  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/economy/story2717.shtml
Lagos, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The President of the Lagos State
branch of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) Ayodele Akele has berated the
Lagos State government over its refusal to pay the $75 (N7, 500) minimum
wage being demanded by Lagos State workers. 

MAURITANIA: Mauritania Will Pull Out of ECOWAS in 6 Months  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/economy/story2714.shtml
Nouakchott, MAURITANIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Mauritania has concluded
plans to pull out of the West African regional body, the Economic
Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) within the next six months. 

ZAMBIA: Zambia to sign Partnership Agreement with EU  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/economy/story2708.shtml
Lusaka, ZAMBIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The Zambian government will sign a
new Africa-Caribbean-Pacific (ACP) partnership agreement with the
European Union (EU), despite strong opposition from civil society in the
country. 

NIGERIA: Crisis Looms Again over Minimum Wage  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/economy/story2704.shtml
Minna, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Nigeria, just out of an industrial
action called on by the Nigeria Labor Congress to protest the hike in
prices of petroleum products, is set to witness yet another round of
crises, owing to the "inability" of many of the states to pay the
recently announced minimum wage. 

SPORTS

NIGERIA: Super Eagles Scraps to a Sloppy 2-0 Win over Leone Stars  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/sports/story2718.shtml
Lagos, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The match, a Japan-Korea 2000
African World Cup qualifier started at 5:50pm (local time) with high
expectations. Most of the fans that thronged the venue of the match, the
"dreaded" National Stadium, expected a routing of the Leone Stars who
only arrived at 2 am (local time) on Saturday, June 17. 

SOUTH AFRICA - SOCCER: SAFA May Sack Trott Moloto  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/sports/story2709.shtml
Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - The future of Trott
Moloto as South Africa's national football coach has come under review
again following the loss suffered at the recently concluded Nike Cup in
the United States. 

BOXING: Ugandan Juuko Loses Bout, But Honors Africa in Match against
Diego Corrales in California  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/sports/story2681.shtml
Los Angeles, California (ANN, June 18, 2000) - In an undercard bout of
the Oscar de la Hoya-"Sugar" Shane Mosley Pay-Per-View megafight, which
Shane Mosley won on a split decision upset of Oscar de la Hoya, Ugandan
boxer Justin Juuko held his own against rising star Diego Corrales,
despite suffering a 10th round TKO in the 10th round. 

SOCIETY & CULTURE

On Africa Refugee Day, UNHCR urges joint efforts to counter rise in
xenophobia  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/culture/story2740.shtml
Kampala, Uganda (ANN, June 21, 2000) - The escalating refugee problems
in Africa need more attention now than ever before, the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadaka Ogata, stressed on Tuesday on the
occasion of Africa Refugee Day as she visited a settlement in northern
Uganda where some 11,500 people have taken refuge since fleeing southern
Sudan six years ago. 

NIGERIA: Non-Indigenes Flee Kaduna and Kano Sharia Atmosphere  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/culture/story2735.shtml
Kaduna, NIGERIA (ANN, June 21, 2000) - Non-indigenes have started to
flee en-masse the restive Kaduna and Kano cities following the alleged
threats of a renewed mayhem over matters relating to the Sharia legal
system. 

LIBYA-BLACK AFRICA: Amidst Accusations of Racism, Black Africans Appeal
for Caution on Proposed African Union  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/culture/story2724.shtml
Tripoli, LIBYA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - African Leaders have been warned
to be cautious as they push for a speedy take-off of the Libya-proposed
African Union. A cross-section of black African residents in Tripoli,
Libya, made the appeal by saying that rather than rush into the Union,
African leaders should first work towards unity among their various
nationals. 

NIGERIA: Teacher Drags School to Court over Alleged Witchcraft  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/culture/story2715.shtml
Abuja, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - A school teacher told an Abuja
High Court judge, M. L. Gumi, that in October 7, 1999, one Joy Mohammed,
the proprietress of the school, invited her and told her in the presence
of 3 other staff members of the school that she made an unnamed pupil
sick by appearing to the child through diabolic means. 

NIGERIA: Traffic Disrupted for 2 Hours by Robbers  
http://www.africanewswire.com/annews/categories/culture/story2703.shtml
Awka, NIGERIA (ANN, June 20, 2000) - Armed robbers disrupted traffic at
the busy Nteje-Awkuzu junction in the eastern part of Nigeria for about
2 hours. 

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