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Kenya Cotu Denies Misusing Donor Funds
The Central Organisation of Trade Unions has dismissed reports that its secretary general Francis Atwoli diverted donor funds to politics in the run-up to the March 4 general election. While admitting there were attempts to defraud the organisation out of undisclosed amounts of money, Cotu chairman Rajabu Mwondi exonerated Atwoli from blame. Mwondi said two former employees fraudulently opened ...
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Zimbabwe Chinamasa Ordered to Resubmit Court Application
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has been ordered by the Principals to sit down with Finance Minister Tendai Biti and MDC President Welshman Ncube to craft a 'document by consensus', which will reflect the position of the government in its inclusive nature. This will then be filed before the Constitutional Court (ConCourt). The latest development comes a day after Chinamasa ...
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Kenya Govt to Cushion the Poor On VAT Bill
The government will ensure that you are cushioned from high commodity prices when the VAT Bill is reintroduced in parliament. According to the economic secretary Geoffrey Mwau, the bill will target the rich. He says other than raise the much needed revenue for the government, the Bill will seek to address other challenges arising from the current Bill among them tax ...
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Uganda Kiwanuka Explains Her Budget but Private Sector Unconvinced
A breakfast meeting between Finance minister Maria Kiwanuka and private sector players reignited debate over who 'eats' the taxpayers' money that is allocated in every budget. The Observer has learnt that during the June 14 meeting, private sector businessmen asked the minister to explain why government keeps postponing major projects yet in most cases the money to complete such ...
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Angola Cunene Govt Analyses Development Plan for 20132017
Ondjiva - The government of the southern Cunene province is discussing Wednesday the economic and social development plan for 2013/2017 period during its 3rd extraordinary session of Social Council, chaired by the local governor Antonio Didalelwa. At the opening ceremony, the governor said that the meeting is intended to accomplish the recommendation from the previous session of the council ...
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Uganda Elephants Killing Farming in North - Ogenga Latigo
Farmers in the northern district of Nwoya are losing their entire annual crop to marauding wild animals from national parks, former Leader of Opposition Morris Ogenga Latigo, who is a farmer himself, has said. Latigo, who has suffered heavy losses, urges the government to help farmers fight off elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals from the park that are doing all the damage. During a ...
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East Africa East Africa Budgets Seek Self-Reliance
In their budgets read out on Thursday last week, East African states differed in the sectors they targeted for revenue, but they shared common ground when it came to reducing their reliance on external support, preferring to rely on domestic resources to finance their expenditures. Uganda and Rwanda, which suffered aid cuts during the previous year, had the biggest burden finding finances for ...
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South Africas Cipla Medpro appoints joint acting CEOs
JOHANNESBURG, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:17am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Reuters) - Cipla Medpro South Africa , the drug firm being taken over by India's Cipla Medpro , said on Thursday it had promoted its two deputy chief executives to serve as joint CEOs on a temporary basis. Skhumbuzo Ngozwana and Mark James van Lill Sardi will take over as joint acting chief executives from ...
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Namibia Lending rate held at 5.5
Namibia’s central bank kept its main lending rate unchanged at 5.5 percent for the fifth consecutive meeting yesterday, saying inflation was stable but the economy needed guarding from the impact of the euro zone recession. ';Global economic conditions remain weak with the pace of contraction in the euro area increasing and commodity prices declining, which is a concern,'; Bank ...
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Rwanda Tax Cuts in Transport Sector Will Spur Growth Say Experts
The move by the government to reduce or scrap taxes on selected categories of motor vehicles will encourage economic activity and spur growth, Herbert Gatsinzi, the Ernst & Young director for tax advisory services, has said. The government reduced common external tariffs on motor vehicles for transport of goods with between five tonnes and 20 tonnes capacity to 10 per cent, down from 25 per ...
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Kenya Past Winner to Contest the 2013 Total Quartz Economy Run
Mike Anderson--a past winner of the Total Quartz Economy Run--is among the competitors who will contest this year's event scheduled for Saturday. He will be driving a 1984 made Alfetta GTV6 over the 84km route. Instead of the two litre 155 which previously steered him to victory, Anderson's choice of using his immensely powerful three litre sports racing coupe for Saturday's ...
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Rwanda World Refugee Day - the Rwanda Story
About 15 million people remain cramped in refugee camps around the world, latest statistics from United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate. About 55 per cent of all refugees come from five countries including Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan and Syria, and that developing countries now host 81 per cent of refugees globally, 11 per cent more than a decade ago. The UN ...
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Tanzania No to Sex Workers Please
IT has been reported in the press that the so-called commercial sex workers, sex minorities and narcotic drug addicts in this nation of upright people complain that they are not treated like human beings. They say they are discriminated, stigmatized and scoffed at. They also complain that there is a high level of gender abuse among commercial sex workers (prostitutes), perpetrated by their ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Wants ICTR Judge Meron to Resign
Rwanda has called for the resignation of embattled president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Appeals Chamber Theodor Meron, who was recently accused of influencing court decisions by exerting undue influence on judges to let high-profile war crimes suspects go free. Speaking at a news briefing yesterday, the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against ...
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Tanzania Bilal Trumps Public-Private Partnership for Development
THE Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, has described publicprivate partnership as a key weapon for improved and reliable transportation systems in the country, saying he was optimistic that the sector would grow rapidly in the near future. Dr Bilal said this in Dar es Salaam while opening a three day-Regional Africa and Middle East Freight Forwarders Conference (RAME 2013) held under the ...
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Kenya Rent Dont Buy Office for Former Presidents
YESTERDAY MPs shot down government plans to purchase an office for former President Mwai Kibaki at a cost of Sh700 million. An ex-president enjoys many benefits including a golden handshake of one year's salary for each term; a monthly pension of 80 percent of the current President's salary; an entertainment allowance of Sh200,000 per month; a housing allowance of Sh300,000 per month; ...
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Kenya New Sh250 Million Stadium for Kapsabet Town
Kapsabet will have a modern sports stadium to be constructed at a 25-acre plot at a cost of Sh250 million through the support of the International Olympics Committee. Nandi governor Cleophas Lagat said the facility is expected to replace the dilapidated Kipchoge Keino stadium and give training facilities to the huge number of athletes using the old facility. Lagat said the stadium will be ...
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Kenya Probox Taxis Kicked Out of Kirinyaga Route
TWO groups of public service vehicle operators clashed in Kirinyaga county yesterday.Probox operators were forced out of major bus parks after members of Kukena Matatu Sacco accused them plying their routes illegally. Kukena drivers and touts forced passengers out of the Proboxes. At least four cars were damaged during the incident.The saloon car operators said the sacco members behaved like ...
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Rwanda EDPRS II - Tapping the Youths Potential
In Rwanda, the youth (people between the ages of 14 and 35) currently make up close to 40% of Rwanda's population. This means that 4 in every 10 Rwandans are youth, and therefore over 4 million Rwandans have the potential to fundamentally change the country's economy should they be appropriately skilled, energized and willing to embrace the development challenge. This is why EDPRS II ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Celebrates Refugees Resilience
Today Rwanda joins the rest of the world to mark the annual World Refugee Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees throughout the world. At the national level, the day, which is observed annually on June 20, will be held in Kigeme camp, Nyamagabe District but smaller events will be organised in other camps across the country. Kigeme, which hosted Burundian ...
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Angola Education Minister Urges Efforts Made in Academic Training
Luanda - The Minister of Education, Pinda Simão, urged this Wednesday in Luanda the children of Sambizanga Friends Club to commit themselves in their studies so that they contribute to the growth of Angola. Pinda Simão received this morning a delegation of children friends club that visited the Ministry of Education, as part of the children's day. He said that the country is ...
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Kenya Kwani Trust British Council Host Writing Workshop
Kwani Trust and British Council will collaborate with Granta to host a week of literary events in Nairobi between June 19-23. The joint week of literary programming will include a launch of the latest Granta issue, Best of Young British Novelists 4, a three-day writing workshop, readings by visiting writers Nadifa Mohamed and Adam Foulds at Daystar University and a symposium based on related ...
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Kenya Export Zones Offer Huge Incentives for Investors
The Export Processing Zones Authority has licensed one project and is assessing several others lined up from proposals by developers seeking to build in EPZs. The EPZA invited potential investors to a real estate developers' day in late 2012 where it briefed them on existing opportunities and the benefits of building in EPZs countrywide. "The authority has received many enquiries and ...
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Rwanda Ingabire Lawyer Accused of Manipulating Witness
Prosecution and a co-accused in the case involving Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire told the court on Tuesday that they have proof her lawyer manipulated witnesses to give false testimonies mitigating her case. Ingabire is before Supreme Court in an ongoing appeal case against her eight-year imprisonment handed to her by High Court last year. A leader of FDU-Inkingi, an unregistered political party, ...
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Rwanda British Activist Calls for Global Efforts Against Genocide Denial
Genocide denial and revisionism is a universal problem that requires wider international collaboration, Dr James Smith, the chief executive of Aegis Trust, a British NGO fighting Genocide, has said. Smith, who was speaking during a one-day consultative session on combating Genocide denial and revisionism at Parliament, yesterday, said denial cannot be addressed by one country, but a concerted ...
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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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