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EU dangles 500 000 euro to control Zimbabwe media

Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
THE European Union has offered 500 000 euro to fund operations of the Zimbabwe Media

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‘Gaddafi poured millions into Sarkozy campaign’

FRENCH president Nicolas Sarkozy received up to £42 million from the late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to fund his election bid in 2007, it was claimed on Monday.
The report comes six weeks before the first round of France’s presidential election on April 22.

The funding however, did not stop Sarkozy from being at the forefront of the military campaign that ousted Gaddafi.
Evidence made public in Paris is said to prove that the two men had an illegal financial arrangement that helped Sarkozy to power in 2007.

A governmental briefing note published by Mediapart, an investigative website, points to numerous visits to Libya by Sarkozy and his colleagues that were aimed at securing funding.
One meeting referred to in the note as having taken place on October 6, 2005, led to “campaign finance to NS (Nicolas Sarkozy)” being “totally solved”.

At the time Sarkozy was an ambitious interior minister raising money for his presidential election campaign.
Taking cash would have broken French political financing laws.
Mediapart claims that 50 million euros referred to in the note was laundered through bank accounts in Panama and Switzerland.

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Let prisoners quench sexual desire — senator

Lloyd Gumbo Herald Reporter
MATOBO Senator Ms Sithembile Mlotshwa (MDC-T) says prisoners can go without food and clothing as long as they satisfy their sexual needs.
She urged the Government to forgo clothes and food and provide “sex gadgets” in prisons to curb homosexuality.
She made the remarks when Justice and Legal Affairs Ministry officials appeared before the Parliamentary Thematic

Committee on Gender and Development on Monday.
Mutoko Senator Jacob Edmond (Zanu-PF) was the acting chairperson of the committee.
“Considering that some of the same-sex orientation (homosexuality) come from prisons and when those people are out they then spread that orientation, what measures are you putting in place to make sure that vice is stopped?” Sen

Mlotshwa asked Acting Secretary for Justice and Legal Affairs Mr Maxwell Ranga.
“In other countries they provide sex gadgets and they have also constructed rooms where people go and service themselves when the desire arises.”

Mr Ranga said the ministry faced financial constraints which made it impossible to consider providing such gadgets.
“If I am struggling to feed and clothe the prisoners, then how can I ask for gadgets? There is therefore need