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Rwanda Govt Moves to Upgrade Meteorology Facilities
About $450,000 (Rfw292 million) has been earmarked by the Ministry of Natural Resources and its sister agencies, with the support of development partners to upgrade meteorological and hydrological stations to boost climate data management and service delivery. The project aims at providing investment and technical support to improve the hydrological observation and data management systems in ...
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Rwanda Guyana Courts Rwanda Ties On Environment ICT
The minister for environment and natural resources from Guyana, Robert M. Persaud, is on a working visit in Rwanda to explore possibilities of cooperation between the two countries. The visit which was organised by the UN in Guyana in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda, aims at exchanging knowledge and experiences related to public policies for environmental management, information and ...
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Rwanda MPs Give Nod to Foods Medicines Authority
Lawmakers on Monday approved the establishment of a new agency that will ensure that fortified foods like cereals and milk products, as well as food supplements on the local market, meet national or international standards. The authority will also be in charge of enforcing regulations relating to food safety in public food service establishments. MP Ignatienne Nyirarukundo, the deputy ...
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Rwanda Cancer Hospital Hosts Debate On Smoking
Health officials, government leaders and representatives of different NGOs last week convened at Butaro Hospital, in Burera District to discuss issues pertaining tobacco smoking. During the discussion, participants also commended efforts by government to deal with other drugs such as marijuana and illicit beers among others and requested for the total ban on tobacco due to its health ...
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Rwanda The Inside Story of 16 Fleeing Students
On the chilly dawn of Sunday, June 2, 16 students crossed the border into Uganda. They arrived in Kampala in the evening and proceeded to Kololo, an upscale suburb of the capital. The students knew their destination all too well as if they had been briefed on where to go and what to say. All they had to do was seek direction to the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. At ...
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World Briefing | Africa 9 Students Killed at School in Nigeria
Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday. The attack on Monday at a private school in Maiduguri was the second on a school in recent days. On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in ...
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Tanzania Japan seal $32m agreement on flyover project
Tanzania and Japan on Tuesday signed an agreement of more than $32 million to finance a flyover project in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of the East African country.The two countries sealed the grant agreement of 52.5 billion Tanzanian shillings ($32.8 million) on the project in Dodoma, where Japanese Ambassador to Tanzania Masaki Okada said the initiative is meant to de-congest Dar es ...
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Chinese mining industry contributes to abuses in Democratic Republic of the Congo
The DRC authorities have not only failed to prevent mining companies and traders abusing rights, they have themselves violated human rights to facilitate mining ...
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The US Military and the Unraveling of Africa
website. The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of US Africa Command's big success stories. The Gulfof Guinea. Never mind ...
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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Get me out of here - Canary Islands KenyaTanzania San Diego
Set sail for a cruise of the Canary Islands on 1 July. The 12-night trip departs from Southampton aboard P&O's Ventura, costing 749pp for an inside cabin. Ports include Madeira, La Palma, Tenerife, Lanzarote and ...
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Tour Operators Win Scholarships To 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit In Namibia
Representing three different nations but sharing similar strategic goals, the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) and Rome McGuigan P.C. announced Uptuyu Adventures, Zbulo! -- Discover Albania and RED Sustainable Travel as winners of the 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS) Tour Operator Scholarships. Each winner receives financial backing to attend the ATWS, a trade-only professional ...
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A move toward peace in Congo
Secretary of State John Kerry sent a powerful signal Tuesday to the people of war-torn eastern Congo by appointing former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) as the new U.S. special envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region. Feingold’s appointment signals strong leadership from the Obama administration in supporting the peace process for Congo and the larger Great Lakes region. Grassroots women ...
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Terrorism in Tanzania – tourists scared
TANZANIA (eTN) - As more details about recent terror incidents in northern Tanzania's tourist city of Arusha are flowing through the media, the United States of America has issued a strongly-worded statement condemning the Saturday bombing at a public rally organized by the opposition Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo political party . The statement that was issued by the US Department of ...
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Africa Advocacy Groups Congo Experts Applaud Appointment of Feingold as Great Lakes Envoy
Washington, DC - Nineteen advocacy groups and Congo experts applaud U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for his appointment of former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) as the new U.S. Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They congratulate Special Envoy Feingold in an open letter, and call on him to apply leverage and use incentives to focus ...
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ICC trials for Kenyas new leaders may shift partly back home
Newly elected president Uhuru Kenyatta and deputy president William Ruto were indicted by the ICC for 2007 election violence. Is Kenya ready to watch the hearings up ...
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Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia report says
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A new report says piracy affected more ships and sailors off West Africa than off Somalia's coast last year.The report, drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau, said nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken hostage.The report said attacks on ...
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AB de Villiers says South Africa will be Trophy champions or chokers
AB de Villiers has it in his power to keep South African tears at bay at The Oval on Wednesday - unlike the last time his country met England in a global semi-final.In March 1992 an eight-year-old De Villiers could only watch television in Pretoria as his heroes got the rawest of deals in Sydney. South Africa returned following a 12-minute rain interruption to discover, having needed 22 runs ...
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West Africa has worlds worst piracy rate report
A ship of the Nigerian navy, taking part in a counter-piracy patrol on September 28, 2011. Wast Africa has overtaken Somalia as the world's piracy hot-spot with 966 sailors attacked last year, a report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said on ...
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North Africa AQIM Reportedly Confirms Commanders Death in Mali
The militant group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is reported to have confirmed the death of one of its top commanders. The Mauritanian news agency ANI says it received a statement from the militant group, saying that Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was killed while fighting French and Chadian troops in northern Mali. The statement says other jihadists also were killed in the clash, including another ...
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World Brief | Africa Six Men Sentenced for Attacking Sufi Shrine in Tunisia
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How to travel to Africa for under $100M
The president and first lady will begin an 8-day trip to Africa on June 26, stopping in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. Obama will meet with government figures as well as leaders from the business, civil society and youth communities. The administration says the visit highlights the importance of close U.S. ties to sub-Saharan Africa.Source: Washington ...
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Southern Africa Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay
JOHANNESBURG - Regional leaders have requested that Zimbabwe's government delay upcoming elections to give the troubled nation time to make sure the vote is free and fair. President Robert Mugabe set elections for July 31, saying he was complying with a ruling of the Constitutional Court. The request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supports the argument of Prime ...
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Zambia Zambia Opposition Demands Inquiry Into Violent Attacks
Zambian opposition parties are calling for an independent investigation into violence allegedly carried out by a militia group affiliated with President Michael Sata's ruling Patriotic Front (PF). "We are making a demand on the police to be professional, investigate what is going on and let us know whether this government wants to govern by violence, so that we can make up our minds ...
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Uganda Uganda Warns Meddling Envoys
Uganda's foreign minister has warned foreign envoys in the country not to interfere in the East African nation's internal affairs. Henry Okello Oryem says he has told the envoys to use regular diplomatic channels with President Yoweri Museveni's government to resolve their concerns about governance issues. "Ambassadors and other diplomatic missions come with clear terms of ...
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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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