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South Africa Zuma expresses outrage at circumcision related deaths
South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed shock and outrage at the deaths of 30 young men at a traditional circumcision clinic in the country's Mpumalanga province. The circumcision, seen as a rite of passage for millions of young men in the country, has seen almost 30 young men die this week.Addressing the House of Traditional Leaders in parliament, Zuma called for swift justice for ...
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Angola National Assembly Meets Thursday
Luanda - The National Assembly (Parliament) will analyse the Law on Unified Justice System during its 7th ordinary plenary session convened for Thursday in Luanda, Angop has learnt. Chaired by the National Assembly Speaker, Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, the session will also discuss the draft resolution approving the replacement of members appointed by the opposition UNITA party in ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Gets U.S. $50 Million World Bank Grant for Decentralization
The government and the World Bank yesterday signed an International Development Association (IDA) Grant of $50 million that will help Rwanda to improve decentralized service delivery through the quality of Decentralized Service Delivery Development Policy Operation. "On behalf of the government I thank the World Bank for having given us a grant of $50 million; it has come at the right time ...
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Angola State Secretary Highlights Construction of Schools in Moxico
Luena - The State Secretary of Education for General Teaching and Social Action, Ana Paula Inês stressed the construction of 94 education facilities in eastern Moxico province, under the Presidential initiative expanding programme. The official expressed the satisfaction at the end of a 24-hour visit to Moxico by the group of the technical commission for social policy of Cabinet Council. ...
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Angola Bibala Residents to Get Access to Potable Water
Luanda - Bibala municipality, south-west Namibe province, will soon benefit from drinking water, as part of implementation of water supply plan worth 800 million Kwanzas, said the local administrator. Pedro Mussungo said the project comprises the construction of two reservoirs at Monga and Ngomba spring, with capacity for 3000 and 3500 cubic metres to benefit 151,000 inhabitants of ...
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Namibia Drought-Stricken Farmers Sell Off Livestock
Walvis Bay - Some commercial and communal farmers in the Omaruru district have started to sell some of their livestock as the drought tightens its grip across the country. Last Friday President Hifikepunye Pohamba declared a national drought emergency and also issued an international appeal for assistance. The chairperson of the Omaruru Farmers Association, Marten van Wyk, said the situation is ...
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Namibia Trade With the UK Dropped in 2012
Windhoek - The decentralisation of De Beers' rough-diamond sorting and trading from London to Namibia, under the Namibian Diamond and Trading Company, and Botswana under Diamond Trading Company Botswana, put a dent on the overall trade figures between Namibia and the United Kingdom. Previously, exporting rough Namibian diamonds to the UK for sorting and processing had propped up overall ...
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Kenya Cabinet Secretary meets Liberia President at Jomo Kenyatta Airport
The President was received by Devolution and Planning Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. They held discussions at the Presidential Pavilion before the President and her entourage left the country for AddisAbaba the venue for the five-day AU meeting. The Liberia President was accompanied by Senior Officials in her Government including among others Hon. Lewis G. Brown, Liberian Information Minister ...
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Troops to build roads in Africa
>Editor's note: Calestous Juma is Professor of the Practice of International Development and Faculty Chair of Innovation for Economic Development Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Twitter @calestous.(CNN) -- As Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity, the focus of the celebrations is renewing Africa's vision for continental unification as ...
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Hometown salutes literary giant Chinua Achebe whose works spoke eloquently of Africa
Hundreds of mourners gathered in the hometown of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe) for the funeral of the man regarded as the father of modern African literature and the author of the widely praised ‘Things Fall Apart.’ The novel is estimated to have sold more than 10 million copies and was translated into 40-plus languages. Heavy security was in ...
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BRIEF-S.Africas HCI FY headline EPS up 7 pct at 860 cents
JOHANNESBURG | Thu May 23, 2013 7:15am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 23 (Reuters) - Hosken Consolidated Investments Ltd : * FY headline earnings per share at 860,07 cents * Declare a final ordinary dividend of 84 cents per ...
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UN chief arrives in Goma Congo a day after rockets strike city
The town of Kanyaruchinya is seen from the last United Nations peacekeeper outpost along the road leading north, into M23 rebel territory, from Goma in eastern Congo, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Congo's capital far to the west for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma, where a new U.N. military brigade is being formed to attack rebel groups ...
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Zambia Subsidy Removal Debate Rages
THE decision to remove subsidies on fuel and maize has raised a debate in Zambia with some sections of society calling on the Government to rescind its decision. Students from the Copperbelt University (CBU) and University of Zambia (UNZA) even staged protests against the removal of subsidies leading to the arrest of a number of UNZA students who were later released. National Restoration Party ...
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Kenya Kenya Turns to Mobile APP to Stop Motorbike Mayhem On the Roads
Mobile phones, often cited as a major cause of road traffic accidents, are being used to try to stem Kenya's rising death toll from motorbike accidents. A campaign launched by the Kenyan NGO El-Friezo this month will trial an interactive phone app targeted at the growing number of motorbike users, particularly young men working as drivers of "borda-borda" taxis. The app has been ...
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Cameroon Double Payment Case - Advocate General Demands Conviction
Accusation and defence presented submissions on May 22, 2013 at the Special Criminal Court. Advocate General, Didier Edjisna, has submitted that personnel of the Ministry of Finance notably Samuel Bayeck, Talla Feuneu, Eloundou Elomo, Joseph Olinga, Moussoua Moukete as well as Nga Melingui and Clement Biandoung of SOGELEC Company, should be convicted for acting in concert to embezzle the sum of ...
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Zambia Small-Scale Farmers for Subsidy Removal
THE Zambia Small-Scale Farmers Network (ZSSFN) says the removal of the subsidy on maize is based on reality and that the Government has to be firm in the implementation process. ZSSFN national coordinator Boyd Liambai said millers had been making huge profits at the expense of the masses. "We are pleased to note that the Patriotic Front (PF) Government wants to run affairs based on facts ...
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Cameroon Olympic Committee Holds EXCO Meeting
The meeting was to take stock of the past Olympiad and draw the road map for the next. The executive bureau of the National Olympic and Sports Committee met yesterday at the head office in Yaounde to take stock of the Olympiad just past and draw up plans for the next. The executive members also examined the finances of the movement, evaluated the organization of the 2012 edition of the national ...
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Cameroon Senate - Standing Orders Ready For Adoption
The process of the effective putting in place of Cameroon's Senate is now going at a faster pace as the 25-member Special Commission created by the Provisional Bureau of the Upper House to scrutinize the Private Member's Bill N° 1/PPL/S on the Standing Orders of the Senate, finished its work on May 21, 2013 night. After the commission members, headed by Thomas Tobo Eyoum adopt ...
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Angola Presidents of Angola Equatorial Guinea Assess Cooperation
Luanda - Presidents of Angola and Equatorial Guinea, respectively Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Teodoro Obiang Nguema met Wednesday in Luanda to analyse issues of bilateral interest in various fields of cooperation. The two Statesmen were expected to discuss regional (Central Africa) and international issues in general. Obiang Nguema arrived Wednesday in Luanda for a 24-hour official visit to ...
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Mozambique Mozambique - Mining Resettlements Disrupt Food Water
A railway track used to transport Vale's shipments of coal from their mine in Moatize to the port in Beira. Maputo - Many of the 1,429 households resettled to make way for Vale and Rio Tinto’s international coal mining operations in Tete province, Mozambique have faced serious disruptions in their access to food, water, and work, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ...
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Angola to open bourse in 2016 secondary bond market end-2013
Thu May 23, 2013 6:58am EDT * Stock market may open 2015 if used for privatisations * Bourse has been in pipeline for a decade * New plan to open markets gradually By Shrikesh Laxmidas LISBON, May 23 (Reuters) - Angola plans to open its much-delayed stock market in 2016 and could even bring it forward to 2015 if the bourse was used to privatise state-owned companies, the country's Capital ...
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Kenya economy to grow by 6
Nairobi - Kenya's economy is expected to grow by about 6 percent in 2013, up from a growth rate of 4.6 percent last year, driven by growth in sectors like agriculture, the planning minister said on ...
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UPDATE 2-SABMiller sees margin growth after Latam Africa surges
Thu May 23, 2013 6:21am EDT * Sees margin improvement of 20-50 basis points this year * EPS 238.7 U.S. cents vs 239 Thomson Reuters forecast * EBITA in line with mean, below SmartEstimate * Main growth in Latin America, Africa * Shares down 1.7 pct, but outperformed this year By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS, May 23 (Reuters) - SABMiller, the world's second-biggest brewer, forecast margin ...
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Investment to Africa understated by $5b bank report
/enpproperty--> Chinese official data have understated foreign direct investment from China to Africa by at least $5 billion, said the South Africa-based Standard Bank in a report released on Wednesday. "In Africa, evidence suggests that Chinese data may underreport the number of investment projects by as much as two thirds," said Jeremy Stevens, the bank's Beijing-based ...
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AfDB Approves a USD 100 million Risk Participation Agreement with Commerzbank AG to Boost Trade Finance in Africa
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) approved on Tuesday, May 22, a USD 100 million unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) between the AfDB and Commerzbank AG under which the two banks will share the default risk on a portfolio of qualifying trade transactions originated by issuing banks in Africa and confirmed by Commerzbank AG. This facility will help address ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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