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SA troops deployed for elections

    JOHANNESBURG
    South Africa has deployed more than 100 members of its Defence Force in northern Mozambique to assist in the country’s second democratic elections, the South African Press Association reported on Tuesday. The troops will use five helicopters and three planes to fly about one million ballot papers to outlying areas which cannot be reached by road, it said, adding that the Mozambique government had requested South Africa’s help.

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