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Cameroon FAO Gets Programming Unit For Cameroon
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) now has a programming unit for its intervention in Cameroon for the next five years. The document was endorsed in a workshop in Yaounde on Wednesday May 15 chaired by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Claude Eko'o Akoufane. The document is a guide for the organisation to improve its methods of ...
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Angola Coach Envisages Expansion of Hockey After World Cup
Luanda - The holding of the 41st World Rink Hockey Championship, scheduled for 20-28 September in Angola, may boost this sport countrywide, judging by the pronouncements made by provincial officials, said to ANGOP in Luanda the coach Antonio Gaspar. Speaking in an interview last Wednesday, the Portuguese coach reminded that the provincial governors are among the first people to defend that the ...
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Rwanda Best Schools in Reading and Writing Culture Scoop Awards
APE Rugunga has come first in a reading and writing competition that took place in 17 schools countrywide. Other top performers were Petit Seminaire Ndera, Lycee Notre Dame de Cîteaux, Christ-Roi Nyanza and HVP Gatagara. During an award ceremony held on Thursday, each of them received a Kindle e-book reader containing more than 400 e-books and other school material such as calculators and ...
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Cameroon Govt Lobbies For Justice Asuagbors Re-election at AU Human Rights Commission
The Minister of External Relations, Prof. Pierre Moukouko Mbonjo on May 15, 2013 presented Cameroonian born Justice Lucy Asuagbor to some African diplomats in Yaounde as Cameroon lobbies for her re-election as African Union (AU) Commissioner for Human and People's Rights of the African Union. She is Cameroon's candidate to the esteemed position for which elections are due May 23, 2013 ...
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Rwanda RGB to Use Sports to Entrench Governance
The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi was a result of bad governance, and to fight genocide ideology, Rwandans must promote principles and values of good governance. The Deputy CEO of Rwanda Governance Board, Fatuma Ndangiza, said this is the best way to achieve a just and free society. Ndangiza was speaking during a news briefing on Wednesday to explain a new initiative by RGB to work closely ...
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Cameroon Preparations For 20th May Celebrations Gather Steam in South West
The people of the South West are mobilising to celebrate the 41st edition of the National Day come Monday, 20 May 2013 on the theme; "The Army And the Nation, Working Together Towards Meeting Security Challenges for an Emerging Nation." Committees have been holding meetings to give the event the significance it deserves. In the South West Regional capital Buea, the Governor Mr. ...
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Cameroon Misty Haze Looms over Resumption of Professional League
The mist is yet to dissipate over the resumption of the championship this weekend. Though the president of the Professional League, Pierre Semengue and the association of elite club presidents jointly signed a communique scheduling the resumption of the championship for the weekend running from May 18 to 19, it is not certain whether the matches are going to take place. The problem this time is ...
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Rwanda Kisementi - the Shoppers Paradise
Kisimenti or Chez Lando as many folks like to call it is a fast-growing neighborhood in Remera, Gasabo District. It is famous for its many restaurants and bars with some of the establishments open 24 hours, 7 days a week. This vibrant business hub starts with Chez Lando (the hotel and popular restaurant), and slowly transforms as you move towards the Amahoro Stadium to Kimironko and Giporo, ...
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Kenya Swiss national decries high bail terms in porn case
court in Mombasa with luring 11 Kenyan women into prostitution has moved to the High Court to challenge the Sh1 million bond slapped on him on ...
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Kenya Kidero promises to work with Government
Speaking in his office at City Hall, Mr Kidero said he is prepared and anxious to co-operate with Jubilee's central administration despite being popularly elected on the opposition's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) ...
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Bob Marleys call to contemporary Africa
Gregory Mandizvidza is an illustrator in Zimbabwe. This is his tribute to the Jamaican reggae singer and guitarist Bob Marley on the occasion of his death anniversary. The musician died on 11 May ...
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Kerry to visit Middle East Africa in late May
US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month, the State Department announced on Friday.On May 21, Kerry will visit Muscat, the capital of Oman, and meet with senior Omani officials on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the department said in a statement.On May 22, the top US diplomat will visit Amman, the capital of Jordan, to meet ...
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South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19
Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...
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Europe investors bow to Africa Asia in U.S. real estate deals
The panel analyzing capital investment in U.S. real estate, from left, were: John R. Miller, Charles H. Fedalen Jr., Christopher R. Ludeman, J. Michael Stedman and Jon H. ...
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We’re not planning to ‘punish’ Eagles – Kenya
Kenya have denied they will retaliate against Nigeria for the alleged mistreatment of the Harambee Stars by the Nigeria Football Federation when they visited the country for their first leg 2014 World Cup ...
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Angola to sell 33 firms to boost economy
Angola, Africa's largest crude oil producer behind Nigeria, plans to sell about 33 state-owned companies over the next five years to increase efficiency and cut costs, its Economy Minister Mr. Abrahao Gourgel, ...
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Will Kenyas new president respect international court
At his inauguration on April 9, Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, promised to uphold "international obligations". This was most likely a reference to the International Criminal Court. Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are to stand trial before the ICC for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's election-related violence in 2007 and 2008. ...
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Fighting to save Africas rhinos
Wildlife Rangers are on the frontline of the battle to save elephants and rhinos from poaching gangs. The illegal trade in rhino horn, highlighted by Prince William earlier this year, is threatening the very existence of the creatures. NBC's Rohit Kachroo reports on the work of the round-the-clock patrols at Lewa National ...
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Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
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Secretary-General Appoints Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz of Brazil Force Commander for UN Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo
-moon announced today the appointment of Lieutenant General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz of Brazil as Force Commander of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
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Kenya Teen battles heart defect
And this is why she was shocked to discover she was born with an abnormal condition. A congenital heart disorder that threatened to tear her life apart. The Form Four student at Mahiga Girls High School was busy doing her cleaning on a Saturday in October last year when she suffered chest pains. The chest pains, she narrates, worsened and she started wheezing. Within an hour, she was bleeding ...
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Kenya Crisis as Bungoma hospitals are overstretched
Bungoma town is another facility that has been receiving victims of the recent atrocities and it is here where the wife of a slain businessman and her daughter were admitted. ...
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More Than 22 Killed in Democratic Republic of Congo Mine Collapse
Kinshasa, 17 May (Prensa Latina) The government of D.R. of Congo says more than 22 people have died in a collapse at a bush mine in the region of Masisi in North Kivu province in the far eastern part of the country. The statement sent to reporters late Friday and signed by government spokesman Lambert Mende says the mine near the village of Rubaye collapsed Friday evening. The statement says a ...
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US Strengthening Trade with The Rising Continent Africa
Hailing Africa's economic resurgence in the 21st century, the United States of America today talked about America's vision for global trade and opportunities for Africa. In his remarks in Pretoria in South Africa, Under Secretary Robert D. Hormats says the US is committed to supporting Africa's integration into the global trading ...
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Proflight Zambia’s B737 makes maiden flight to Livingstone
Proflight Zambia's 105-seat Boeing 737-200 aircraft made its maiden flight to Livingstone on May 15, with VIP and celebrity passengers helping the airline celebrate the introduction of its new aircraft. Deputy Minister of Local Government and Housing Hon. Nicolas Banda was among those on board the plane from Kenneth Kaunda International Airport, along with celebrities including JK, Cactus, ...
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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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