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Rights group up in arms as Botswana plans to evict Bushmen
Indigenous rights group Survival International said on Friday that the indigenous community based in the south of the country, will be removed on Monday and their homes will be destroyed. "The Bushman community at Ranyane has allegedly been told by the local government that trucks will arrive on Monday to remove them from the land they have inhabited for generations," said a ...
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Uganda - Ugandan police defy court order occupy publication premises
premises) was operationalized after the police obtained two search warrants from the Nakawa Magistrates Court and a letter from the Uganda Communications Commission, ordering the stations to cease operations pending the police search.The Nakawa Grade One Magistrate, Rosemary Bareebe, in issuing the Wednesday evening's vacation order, wrote that "in the process of execution of the said ...
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Patients drugged confined at Kenyas only mental hospital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients.Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section ...
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Kenya Commission outlines Coast marginalisation issues
Land issues, war on terror, poor education levels and lack of infrastructure have fuelled feelings that successive governments ignored the region. "One of the critical issues, described by some as a 'ticking bomb' is the seemingly intractable land question. More recently, other factors including perceived mistreatment of residents at the hands of police in the context of ...
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Continuing push for Great Lakes peace UN chief in Uganda after visit to Rwanda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today thanked the Government of Uganda for its contribution to peace and security in Africa, travelling alongside World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on a first-of-its-kind visit to support a recent peace accord and promote economic development in the Great Lakes region. Earlier in the day, Mr. Ban spoke at ...
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Kenya KWS entangled in insurance anomalies that may cost taxpayers Sh40m
KWS ) may now terminate an insurance cover with CIC Insurance Company after an internal audit committee established anomalies that may have cost taxpayers Sh40 million over irregular insurance ...
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Kenya TJRC demands justice for Taveta residents
TJRC has recommended proceedings against a former PC and local District Officers in charge of the area at that time. This former PC, allegedly, presided over or ordered the mass arrest of these people, their illegal detention and confiscation of their property while a junior officer in charge of Bomeni Division. According to ...
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Chinese TV series find a new voice in Africa
When Mao Doudou and Her Sweet Days, a 36-episode light comedy about a modern Chinese couple and their relationship with each other's families, was dubbed in Swahili and broadcast in East African countries in 2011, Omar Ahmed, like many, became a big ...
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Uganda Activists arrested as disturbing crackdown on media continues
The Ugandan authorities must end an attack on freedom of expression that has left several media outlets shut by security forces for a fifth day, Amnesty International said today after several activists were arrested for protesting against the crackdown.Armed police closed two newspapers and two radio stations on 20 May, after they reported on an alleged government plot to assassinate politicians ...
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African Union Reject Kenya’s attempt to shield its leaders from accountability
The African Union must reject Kenya's attempts to shield its leaders from being held to account for the human rights violations that took place in Kenya in ...
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Kenya My passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits
Kitui County , 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day's work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the 'prick' was the bite from ...
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Statoil Completes Tanzania Farm-In
Statoil ASA reported Friday that it has acquired a 12-percent working interest in the Block 6 license, offshore Tanzania, from operator Petrobras Tanzania. Block 6 covers 2,130 square miles in the Mafia basin, offshore Tanzania. It is located approximately 105 miles north of Statoil's Block 2, where the company made three high-impact gas discoveries in 2012 and earlier this year. After ...
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Angola to Carry Out Fumigation Campaign Against Mosquitoes in Luanda
Luanda, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Health brigades are set to carry out an intense three month fumigation campaign here in Angola's capital, to eradicate mosquitoes carrying dengue and malaria, reported government sources here today. Throughout Luanda, Cuban health workers will collaborate with an anti-vector control group and other agencies to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds, said the ...
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Niger Al-Qaeda Attack 20 people dead as dozens others left injured in Niger Africa News
Both attacks were carried out as people prepared for early morning prayers known as Fajir just after 05:00 local time (04:00 GMT). Local reporters say a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west of the country were the target of the terrorists. A bomb at a barracks in Agadez killed 19, including 18 soldiers while four terrorists died in the attack and a passbyer. ...
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Kenya asks UN to squash ICC case
New York - Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the United Nations Security Council to ';terminate'; International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence in which more than 1 000 people died and 600 000 were evicted from their ...
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Africa’s Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda’s tragic story
Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are ...
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
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Africa Investing in Africas Women
Cape Town - Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Grace Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her inspiring words were delivered during her keynote address at the Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) symposium in Cape Town, South Africa - attended by some of the continent's most powerful women. ...
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UN chief challenges African leaders over Congo
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging African leaders to implement a plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo after years of ...
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4 Innovative Models Changing Health Care In Africa
By David J. Olson In Tanzania, giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out tuberculosis in human sputum samples. DubbedHeroRATS, the animals can evaluate 40 samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a full day. In northern Kenya, health services–including family planning services–are being brought to 36 remote, underserved communities by ...
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Uganda president ousts army boss amid dispute - NBC40.net
By RODNEY MUHUMUZAAssociated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state. Sacked army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima was appointed minister of internal affairs, effectively cutting his links to the army's chain of ...
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Advocacy group Kenyas mental hospital confines drugs patients
NAIROBI, Kenya - An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients. Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section is ...
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Zimbabwe Zim Faces Food Crisis
THIRTEEN years after its fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe is still importing most of its food and is far from regaining its breadbasket status. Analysts have said the discordant land tenure system ushered in after the reforms remains an albatross around the economy's neck. However, President Robert Mugabe appears to ignore that the country needs a deep relook at land ...
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Zimbabwe Still Rolling Out the Barrel
Delta Corporation Limited, the biggest counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by capitalisation, recently published results for the 12 months ended March 31 2013. Results from the brewer are always much anticipated by the investment community and as such the results presentation is always well-attended. This is because Delta accounts for 30% of the total market capitalisation on the ZSE ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN World Bank Say Development Is Key to Congo Peace
Goma - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo's conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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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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