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Rwanda Two Prominent Studios Closed Over Tax Arrears
Authorities of Nyarugenge Sector, have closed two of the country's top music production studios over failure to pay their taxes. Ibisumizi Studio owned by rapper Emery Gatsinzi, commonly known as Riderman and Unlimited Records run by a series of producers, were closed by authorities of Nyarugenge Sector. The Biryogo-based studios were until yesterday still closed with a notice signed by ...
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Rwanda Change With Stability and Continuity - a Political Homework. Part Xiii
As pointed out in the previous article, the many readers of these series have raised legitimate concerns over the change homework facing our country, and to them time is of essence. Essence in that, the longer this debate lags on, the more anxiety and uncertainty it creates not only among Rwandan compatriots, but also foreign investors as well as friends of Rwanda. I did highlight my own ...
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Angola MPLA Shows Solidarity With Victims of Drought in Cunene Province
Mbanza Kongo - At least sixty tonnes of cassava will soon be distributed to the families that have been affected by the drought in the southern Cunene Province, in an initiative of the northern Zaire Province MPLA party committee. The campaign to gather this donation took place last Saturday in Wolongo locality, in Mbanza Kongo Municipality, in Magave farm, an event that had the participation ...
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Kenya Uhuru Wants ICC Trial Moved to January 2014
President Uhuru Kenyatta now wants his case on alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court to start in January next year. Through his lawyers, the president told the ICC judges, on Wednesday, that due to continued slow pace of disclosure, they have not been able to complete investigations on prosecution witnesses. "The Defence requires time to investigate the ...
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Zimbabwe Special Zanu-PF Congress to Anoint Mujuru
ZANU PF is mulling over a special congress which is expected to fill vacant top positions and decide once and for all the succession of President Mugabe, sources have said. Details of the congress remain a closely guarded secret, only known to very senior party officials. According to sources in the party, the current restructuring of provinces was in preparation for the special congress which ...
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Namibia Top Cop Admits Nation Is Too Armed
POLICE Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga has admitted that it has become "too easy to own" a firearm in the country and that there is an urgent need to amend the Arms and Ammunition Act of 1996 in order to address its shortcomings. The Namibian on Friday reported that police issued close to 15 000 licenses for guns to civilians in the past two years - just over 7 100 license ...
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Rwanda Western Province Calls for Budget Increase
Western Province districts want respective budgets increased because they are prone to disasters more than other regions, mayors told Parliament. Presenting the next fiscal year's budget to parliament on Thursday, the district mayors said their geographical location present them with unique challenges. Nyabihu District regularly grapples with landslides that not only leave people ...
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Rwanda Young Grace Queen Cha Call for faithfulness in New Song
They are considered among the most promising upcoming female musicians with one taking the afrobeat scene by storm and the other venturing into the Hip-hop world mostly dominated by male rappers. Yvonne Mugemana, known by the stage name Queen Cha and Hip-hop artiste Grace Abayizera commonly known Young Grace have released a new song titled, Farsel, in which they urge young men to keep one lover ...
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Rwanda Government Swiss Firm Sign U.S$15 Million Energy Deal
The government has signed a $15 million (approximately Rwf9.7billion) energy agreement with a Swiss based company to develop hydro power plants in the Southern Province. The Swiss firm, Renewable Energy For Accelerated Development (REFAD), through its subsidiary in Rwanda on Thursday, pledged to construct and maintain a 5 megawatts (MW) hydro power plant near Mushishito and Rukarara rivers in ...
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Rwanda Friends of Jesus to Launch New Album Tomorrow
The Friends of Jesus choir, under Kigali English SDA church in Kibagabag, will launch their seventh album tomorrow at Kigali Serena Hotel. The forthcoming masterpiece album entitled, Shepherd of My Soul, contain thrilling songs that fans will appreciate. In an interview with The New Times, Tito Rugamba, one of the main organisers of the launch and member of the choir said the launch will be ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Not Singapore of Africa
The Economist of March 25, 2012 dedicated a page on "Business in Rwanda - Africa's Singapore? A country with a bloody history seeks prosperity by becoming business-friendly" This is an article that particularly picked my interest; not because I fancy The Economist's style and quality of writing, but essentially because I was eager to learn what kind of judgment or insight an ...
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Rwanda NCDs Clinic Opens in Kayonza District
The Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Partners In Health (PIH) launched a clinic dedicated to Non-Communicable Disease (NCDs) in Kabarondo Sector of Kayonza District, yesterday. Partners In Health (PIH-IMB), works with the Ministry of Health in the decentralisation and national scale up of care and treatment of NCDs. According to Dr. Fulgence Nyekabahizi, the director of Rwinkwavu ...
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Namibia Mangetti Ends Shailemos 14-Year Rule
ISMAEL Shailemo's 14-year leadership of the Mangetti Farmers' Association (MFA) ended after a faction of the association, led by Kashona kaMalulu, voted him and his team out at a conference held at Ondangwa on Saturday but he is not taking the ousting laying down. The new MFA leadership consists of Kashona kaMalulu, who is the chairman, and is deputised by Shali Kamati while Quito ...
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Ansar al-Sharia supporter dies after Tunis police clash 14 injured
An Ansar al-Sharia supporter died of injuries he sustained during fighting between police and militants in a Tunis neighborhood, Tunisian officials said. Eleven police officers and three protesters were hurt in the fighting Sunday between security forces and supporters of Ansar al-Sharia, an organization that advocates implementation of strict Sharia, or religious, law, Tunisia's official ...
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Namibias Sam Nujoma hospitalised
Former Namibian President Sam Nujoma "has been hospitalised, following a pacemaker procedure or pacemaker implantation," according to "highly placed family and medical ...
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High alert over Tanzania deadly virus
A deadly disease which broke out in Tanzania this year risks spreading to Southern Africa, posing a mortal threat to more than 50 million sheep and goats and bringing risks of famine to the region, FAO warned ...
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DR Congo gets US$ 7bn debt cancellation
The main creditors of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) have agreed to cancel Congolese foreign debts totalling US$ 7.35 billion. Much of the unsustainable debt was accumulated under ex-Dictator Mobutu Sese ...
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Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments
Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil ...
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Uganda police raid newspaper over generals letter
KAMPALA, Uganda -; Witnesses say police in Uganda forcibly entered the offices of an independent newspaper to search for evidence against an army general who questioned the president's alleged plan to have his son succeed ...
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Brazils da Silva wins Zambia Golf Open title
Brazilian Adilson da Silva claimed the Zambia Golf Open title with an overall 11-under-par score to become only the sixth golfer in the history of the championship to win the crown twice, the Times of Zambia reported on Monday.The Brazilian, winner of the Zambia Open in 2010, scored a modest 73-par but this was enough to win the title by one stroke after his two main competitors faltered as they ...
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Congos army clashes with rebels near eastern city of Goma
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese soldiers clashed with rebel fighters for the first time in nearly six months on Monday near the city of Goma, just days before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is due to visit the troubled eastern ...
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Rwanda University Students Construct House for Genocide Survivor
Students from the School of Finance and Banking (SFB) in partnership with Miss SFB, contributed at the weekend in the construction of a house for a homeless Genocide survivor, Angelique Kayinamura, in Kicukiro District, Kigarama Sector, Kigali City. The students said they used to commemorate Genocide by visiting various Genocide memorials but this year they chose to approach Genocide survivors ...
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Kenya Jubilee Takes Charge of 2 Committees
THE Jubilee Coalition has taken charge of two departmental committees in the National Assembly. Just a day after the House approved membership of 24 out of the 28 committees, members of four departmental committees were called upon to elect their chairpersons yesterday. The four were the committees on Budget and Appropriations, Delegated Legislation, Administration and National Security and ...
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Rwanda Empower People to Achieve Democracy Says Kagame
President Paul Kagame has said that democracy can be achieved when people are empowered and developed for a better life. The Head of State was speaking yesterday at the 5th Annual Oxford Africa Business Conference at Sai;d Business School in London, United Kingdom, where he was invited by the institution's authorities as the guest speaker. The university conferred on Kagame the ...
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Kenya Bureaucracy Delays Small Firms Listing
Long approval processes at the Nairobi Securities Exchange are delaying the listing of small firms at the bourse despite the existence of the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (Gems). The segment which was regularised in January this year, is yet to list any firm owing to various levels of approvals. The first firms are expected in about four months. This is despite the fact that the segement ...
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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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