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- Swaziland king opens 'white elephant' airport
Mbabane (Swaziland) (AFP) - Swaziland's King Mswati III on Friday inaugurated a new $280-million airport in the tiny nation even though the project is years away from being operational and has been dubbed a "white elephant" by critics. It has taken 11 years to build the airport, at a cost equivalent to almost 10 percent of the impoverished mountain kingdom's 2012 Gross Domestic Product ...
March 7, 2014 - AFP via Yahoo! News
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- Morgan Tsvangirai in Reuters South Africa
When we return from Mbabane and if we get to form the government we will, from the start, have a problem of trust,said Tsvangirai. - Stephen Lewis in Independent Online
Back then, 60 percent to 70 percent of the beds at the Mbabane government hospital were filled with Aids patients. Today, doctors said the figure is 90 percent. It is a manifestation of the havoc brought by the pandemic,Lewis said. - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in BusinessDay
The negotiations are continuing. And on Monday we will all of us be meeting with the troika of the SADC organ on politics in Mbabane, in Swaziland, because they are meeting and they want to hear a report about how far the negotiations have... Thabo Mbeki http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mbeki&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHi7lAXP4NkNmUK8EizMzw_FSLodQ Voice of America http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-10-19-voa22.cfm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF6XaChVaDT9AB7qe4tBU0fep3Rng Oct 19, 2008 62153 82877 mbd I am also concerned about the realism of the 2010 budget, assumptions of a reference oil price of US$67 per barrel and production of 2.35 mbd. If oil revenue assumptions are not met, more draw-downs from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) would be...