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Central African Republic UN measles vaccination campaign to protect 125000 children
an emergency measles vaccination campaign that will aim to reach 125,000 children in the Central African Republic (CAR). The five-day campaign, which begins tomorrow, will take place in the conflict-hit Bangui, the country’s capital, after eight children tested positive for the disease last month. ';Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children. Mass violence ...
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Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened
Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Militias Spread Fear of Voting
- For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in the country's capital ...
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Gabon and CAR Colloborate on Effective Management of Protected Areas
The following statement was released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society President and CEO ...
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Clashes in Congo continue as U.N. chief prepares to visit
Ban Ki -moon. Fighting between the Congolese Army and the rebel group M23 was again centered near Mutaho, 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of the city of Goma, Voice of America reported. Government spokesman Lambert Mende said 15 rebels and four army soldiers were killed in the fighting. Speaking in Mozambique, Ban said he will travel to Goma Thursday, and called for faster deployment of a U.N. ...
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How Congress Is Using the Congo to Weaken Dodd-Frank
Lawmakers expressed what appeared to be heartfelt concern Tuesday over an obscure provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, the major financial reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010, and how it has affected the people of the Democratic Republic of ...
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Kenya Patrol cars top police priority list
The team supposed to spearhead modernisation of the National Police Service said officers are incapacitated in several other ways but they urgently need vehicles, protection gear and houses. They met Tuesday at the Treasury as directed by ...
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Kenya Over 69 cases pave way for poll petitions
This follows enactment of new election rules, which provides that a judge or a magistrate handling petitions should not be engaged in any other court matter until the conclusion of election ...
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Kenya Governor appoints rivals to Cabinet for peaces sake
Dado's long awaited cabinet includes one of his competitors in the gubernatorial race in an effort, he says, will bring cohesion among communities living in the county.?? He has ...
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Kenya Coast residents suffered most land injustices
The Mijikenda, Taita and Pokomo communities in the Coast have suffered the worst land-related injustices since independence and successive governments did little to solve the problem, ...
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Kenya TJRC blames State for massacres
TJRC ) report wants President Uhuru to apologise for the failure of the State to avert the killings. The report, released yesterday also recommends that all the victims be compensated within two years of the issuance of the report. ...
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Kenya Hospital warns buyers to keep off disputed land
The hospital superintendent Benson Njuguna said it had emerged that the developer is attempting to dispose of the property at Sh2.5 million to unsuspecting business people. "I'm cautioning the business community and the public that the structure on the plot is illegally there, and soon the Government will demolish it since it belongs to ...
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Kenya Report Kibaki Government sanctioned extra-judicial killings
Mwai Kibaki presided over a Government that was responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights that included unlawful detentions, extra judicial killings and, economic crimes and grand ...
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Kenya Uhuru says State is committed to healing
Speaking when he received the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission final report at State House Nairobi, President Kenyatta said the Government would take the recommendations of the report seriously, while its contents would be made public. The President added that addressing the causes and effects of past injustices would contribute towards national unity, reconciliation and healing and ...
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Kenya TJRC wants all assassination reports made public
Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission wants all reports and materials of previous investigations into political assassinations in Kenya made ...
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Kenya Commissions mandate as outlined in statute
It was to investigate, analyse, and report gross human rights violations and other historical injustices in Kenya between December 12, 1963 and February 28, 2008 as part of the accountability component of Agenda Four of the National Accord signed in 2008 by Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and former President Mwai ...
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Kenya Uhuru My work will amaze foreign partners
Speaking after it emerged US President Barrack Obama would skip the country in his tour of Africa, President Uhuru said his immediate concern was to fulfil pledges he made to Kenyans. "Our main concern is to work hard and uplift the economy. We are going to work so well until our foreign detractors are amazed," he said. While reiterating his earlier stand on MPs' salaries, Uhuru ...
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Kenya USAID offers Kenya Sh4.2 billion for counties
USAID ), East Africa Regional Mission, will disburse the funds under Ahadi (Agile and Harmonised Assistance for Devolved Institutions) project. The funds will be used to help strengthen governance systems of county governments, one of areas identified to be key in making ...
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Kenya Efforts to initiate talks unfruitful
Numerous letters written by the group to governments of Kenya and Britain, Sultan of Oman, United Nations, East African Assembly and legislators from the Coast from as far as 2005 have gone unanswered. Top officials ...
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Opinion President Obamas tour of Africa is in line with countrys foreign policy
Africa n heritage and doubt his commitment to Kenya and the continent. Others see it as a direct jab at the recently elected government of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. Certainly, many Kenyans expected him to visit his 'ancestral home' immediately after winning re-election last year. But those familiar with American politics and the workings of the US Department ...
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Kumasi Fans To Boycott Ghana’s World Cup Qualifier Against Zambia
Some Kumasi fans plan to boycott Ghana's potential World Cup decider against Zambia in protest against a Ghana FA ban on Kumasi Asante Kotoko following recent violence at their home match. The Porcupine Warriors have been in the news for all the wrong reasons after the Baba Yara stadium was temporarily shut down by the Ghanaian FA due to crowd violence. Irate fans of the club attacked ...
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Africa Seizing Opportunities Delivering Products As African Markets Expand - PG
Manoj Kumar, Vice President for Proctor & Gamble West Africa, and Temitope Iluyemi, government relations director for Proctor & Gamble in sub-Saharan ...
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New Hope for Better Internet Access in Africa
WASHINGTON -- A non-profit technology company based in Kenya has created a wireless internet router that it says will help people living in places where electricity is spotty and internet service is unreliable. Founded in early 2008, Ushahidi is known primarily for its open-source software applications, but is now launching its first piece of hardware, called the BRCK. One of the BRCK's ...
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Kenya How MRC funds its activities
The separatist group has a network of over 30,000 registered members spread across 97 branches at the Coast. The 30,000 membership is based on signatures raised to support one of its court petitions. However, it is also understood that the members could be more and the group may have thousands of sympathisers. At the top is the 'president' or chairman, who runs a government of about 14 ...
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Kenya ICC changes judge in Rutos case
The court also changed the Presiding Judge who will oversee the trial of Deputy President William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua arap Sang as the Kenyan suspects await the court's decision on the date of the crucial trial. The ICC Presidency appointed Judge Olga Herrera Carbucci as the new presiding judge on a temporary basis replacing Judge Kuniko Ozaki in the Ruto and Sang Case in ...
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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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