S. Africa declares electricity emergency
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The government on Friday declared a national electricity emergency and said it would introduce urgent measures to try to reduce demand and boost supply, as sweeping power outages caused chaos and misery across the country
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Peru declares a state of emergency in an Andean region where army reservists have seized a police station.
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The east African nation is in crisis after a flawed election leads to riots in the streets and the threat of a confrontation between rival ethnic groups
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A full-scale emergency is declared over at the scene of a ruptured gas pipeline in Belfast.
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Thousands of customers are without electricity in South Carolina, where a layer of ice as much as one half an inch thick is weighing down tree branches and power lines.
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Hot weather and high air-conditioning use in California on Thursday will likely cause the state's power grid manager to call a "Stage 2 power emergency," which causes mandatory electricity use cuts to come business customers, the grid manager said.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki pledged on Friday quickly to overcome a power crisis that has damaged Africa's biggest economy and raised questions over whether it can host the 2010 soccer World Cup.
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South Africa&#39;s president, Thabo Mbeki, arrived in Ivory Coast yesterday to launch an African Union effort to resolve the crisis, as violence continued for the fourth day.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra   declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Wednesday shortly   after Reuters witnesses saw tanks surrounding Government House.
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South Africa will overcome an  electricity "emergency" that has damaged the economy and cast  doubts over its hosting of the 2010 soccer World Cup, President  Thabo Mbeki said on Friday.
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa faced deep uncertainty on Wednesday after the greatest political shake-up since the end of apartheid set populist Jacob Zuma on the road to leadership of the country.
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French citizens wait to depart to France at the airport of Abidjan , Ivory Coast, on Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004. African leaders convened in an emergency summit on Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis on Sunday without this country&#39;s
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South African President Thabo Mbeki has flown to Ivory Coast to launch an African effort to reign in chaos here, amid four days of sudden mob and government confrontations with French troops that have wounded more than 600 and
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POLOKWANE, South Africa  - South Africa faced deep uncertainty on Wednesday after the greatest political shake-up since the end of apartheid set populist Jacob Zuma on the road to the state presidency.
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Zambia has declared HIV/AIDS a national  emergency in a bid to start manufacturing generic AIDS drugs  under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, a senior government  official said on Friday.
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Costa Rica declares a national emergency after heavy rain leads to flooding.
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The UN calls an emergency meeting as Africa fails to make progress on its Millennium Development Goals.