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Kenya KNUT Officials Plot Next Years Elections
KNUT officials in four counties in Western province have begun plans to take up top union positions after the death of their secretary general David Okuta. Most of the union's national executive members are set to retire between December and August next year leaving room for a battle for the top positions. The national chairman Wilson Sosion, second vice chairman Wycliffe Omucheyi and ...
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Kenya Maize Disease Destroys Crops
MAIZE farmers in Narok South district are counting losses after about 2,000 acres of their crop was destroyed by a strange viral disease suspected to be lethal necrosis. Speaking at Mogoiyuet Primary School in Narok yesterday, spokesman Simon Seroney said their crops have turned yellow. This is the second time the disease is reported in the South Rift region, Kenya's biggest maize belt. ...
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Kenya Stanchart Hopes to Resolve Sh14 Billion Pension Case
Standard Chartered Bank is eagerly awaiting the determination of a court case in which its former employees sued it demanding up to Sh14.6 billion in unpaid pension. The bank's acting chairperson, Anne Mutahi told the annual general meeting it is counting on the new judiciary to expedite the matter that has lasted four years. She was responding to shareholders' concerns that the bank ...
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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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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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Kenya UK murder suspect Michael Adebolajo had been detained in Kenya last year.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend - one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby's murder in south-east London on Wednesday - had rejected the approach from the security ...
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Kenya A Swiss National arrested while making a pornographic movie - girls were having sex with a dog in Mombasa
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Southern Africa Civil Society Condemns Mobile Voter Registration
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensively failed to reach all prospective registrants. In a joint statement, the civil society groups lists some key concerns about the process that ran ...
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Zimbabwe Why PM Dislikes Chinese VPs Visit
The official visit this week by the People's Republic of China Vice Premier Wang Yang is a demonstration of the strong relations between the Government of Zimbabwe and China. VP Wang became the first high-level Chinese government official to visit Zimbabwe since President Xi Jinping took over from President Hu Jintao in March. His visit is also in keeping with China's Africa policy, ...
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Gabon opposition chief faces treason case
Mr Obame leads the one-year-old National Union party, uniting many of Gabon's main opposition parties. In the August 2009 presidential election, Mr Obame stood as an independent candidate, losing out to interim President Ali Bongo. The Gabonese opposition leader in January created international headlines as he declared himself winner of the elections held 17 months earlier. The declaration ...
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Concerns over Congos ill-prepared elections
Congo Kinshasa (DRC) authorities plan to hold the 5 December constitutional deadline to hold elections, but observers warn the vast country is in no way prepared to do ...
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Uganda opposition wins Kampala mayor vote
In the first-ever significant opposition election victory, Erias Lukwago was declared winner of the polls in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. But the powers of the mayor's office have been ...
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Huge Uganda election funding questioned
A 3 February press statement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that a team from the Fund would visit Uganda in June 2011 to examine an economy that has experienced skyrocketing prices and hard currency shortage in a dash for Mr Museveni to win elections. Several government and donor sources suggest President Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party may have ...
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Tanzania cultural sector to get major boost
A well-funded "major programme" to support the cultural sector is close to be approved. The programme would fund Tanzanian entrepreneurs in the cultural field and help conserving national ...
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Congo halts oil exploration in Virunga Park
The government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has suspended the highly controversial oil exploration programme in the unique Virunga National Park, a World Heritage ...
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Uganda Presidents campaign still soft-handed
Foreign election observers may hold the Ugandan President back from the typical intimidation during elections, many Ugandans hold. The European Union (EU) is among those having an observer mission in the country. According to Graham Elson, deputy European election observer mission leader for the Ugandan polls, the EU is spending euro 4 million on it mission. Ugandans on 18 February are to choose ...
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Rough election climate emerges in Uganda
This month's general elections in Uganda, widely expected to be won by President Yoweri Museveni, are held in a rough climate, with the opposition crying fraud and the army getting ...
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Large-scale logging underway in DR Congo
New decisions by the Congo Kinshasa government, lifting a 9-year moratorium, mean that up to 25 million hectares of rainforest could be sacrificed for industrial ...
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African Union chief No comment on North Africa
The opposition of Equatorial Guinea today denounced President Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma, who is also the current African Union (AU) President, for keeping quiet on the North African ...
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Doing business in Africa becoming easier
Foreign investments in Africa are strongly increasing as the continent displays on of the world's highest growth numbers. African analysts hold that this is a consequence of improved business environments in ...
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Africa receives least health aid
New research reveals that the part of development aid directed towards health issues has increased strongly during the last two decades. But Africa receives far less health aid than less challenged developing countries, compared to ...
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On Africa Day UN chief says continent39s future full of opportunity and hope
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with students at Sansão Muthemba Secondary School in Polana Caniço, Maputo, Mozambique. UN Photo/Eskinder ...
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ANC Africas economic independence is still an ideal
The 50th anniversary of the forming of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) is a good opportunity to assess the progress made in living up to the founding principles of African unity, the ANC said on Saturday. ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu said this assessment should include what still needed to be done to achieve an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa. May 25, known as Africa ...
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African Unity at 50 the dominant narrative of Africa Rising and its impact on the press
As African leaders meet in Addis Ababa to chart Vision 2063, a blueprint for the next 50 years, optimism about the possibilities seems limitless. After an unprecedented decade of booming growth rates, improving infrastructure, and some strides in social indicators, Africa seems poised to finally take off. With the optimism, pressure is bearing down on the press to "promote" a single ...
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Angola President Odebrecht Leader Assess Companys Functioning
Luanda - Angolan Head of State Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Friday in Luanda met with the "Odebrecht" CEO, Marcelo Odebrecht, with whom he analysed the performance of the Brazilian Building company operating in Angola, for about 30 years. At the and of the audience, held at the presidential palace, the businessman said that he assessed with President the execution degree of the projects ...
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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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