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In Africas Great Lakes region peace dividend must follow peace deal
Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbours, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women, and create economic opportunities that will help the countries forge a path to prosperity, good governance, and lasting stability.In the ...
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Kenya Governor Calls for Roads Audit
Bungoma Kenneth Lusaka has called for thorough audit of all road projects done by the Kenya Roads Board in the county.Lusaka said the audit will help minimise duplication of projects while making officers in-charge of such projects accountable. He was speaking at the weekend when he lead KRB directors on an inspection of roads in Bungoma.Lusaka said Sh3.2 billion has been allocated to ...
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Angola Huila Governor Pledges More Power Water
Lubango - The supply of electricity and drinking water to Lubango city, southern uila province, will improve significantly with the start of the thermal stations and completion of the ongoing rehabilitation works on the existing network. This was said by The governor of southern Huila province, João Marcelino Tyipinge. Speaking on the "Televisão Pública de ...
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Angola Government Works to Ensure Food Self-Sufficiency - Minister
Menongue - The Executive led by the President Jose Eduardo dos Santos will continue to work on agricultural programmes to ensure food self-sufficiency in the country, said this week-end the Agriculture minister Afonso Pedro Canga. Speaking to the press at the end of the visit to the rice cultivation farm "Longa", south-east Kuando Kubango province, Afonso Canga ensured that projects ...
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Angola Foreign Minister At African Union Jubilee
Luanda - The Angolan Foreign minister, Georges Chikoti, left Monday for the city of Addis Ababa, where he will participate in the jubilee celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the continental organization, on May 25. Before the trip, the official said that "these celebrations take place at a time when Africa is redefining its revival. First it had to fight for political ...
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East Africa Arusha-Singida Power Project Ushers in EA Energy Sector Integration
The East African Community plans to speed-up the Arusha Singida power interconnection project which will also link Arusha to Nairobi at the Isinya point of Kajiado District. "It is necessary to fast track the funding for implementing the Singida-Arusha-Nairobi (Isinya) interconnector so that Tanzania can also be interconnected with the other EAC Partner States," reads a statement from ...
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Tanzania Inadequate Funds Fail Railways Sector
INSUFFICIENT funds to support railways sector is to blame for the disconnection of the bulk means of transport between countries in East Africa, it has been revealed. To address that shortfall, a summit will be held next month to discuss among other issues pertaining Railway transportation in the region particurally thinking on areas of investments that can effectively uplift the economy of the ...
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Angola Angola At Meeting On Natural Mineral Resources in Japan
Luanda - The Angolan minister of Geology and Mining, Francisco Queiroz, participated from 16 to 18 May, in Tokyo, Japan, at the meeting of African and Japanese Ministers responsible for natural and minerals resources. According to a press release from the Embassy of Angola in Japan deliver today to ANGOP, the meeting was attended by 16 African delegations, of which 11 were headed by the ...
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Angola Ethiopia Reportedly to Send Ambassador to Angola
Ethiopia may soon send an ambassador to Luanda after having the consent by the Angolan authorities, which will lead to a more direct work as part of the re-launch of bilateral cooperation. This is according to www.allafrica.com. This was said Thursday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by the Angolan ambassador to the African Union (AU), Arcanjo do Nascimento. Speaking on the state of bilateral ...
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Kenya Partnerships to Pave Way for Solar Technology in Kenya
Solar energy provider BBOXX has partnered with Brighterlite Kenya and Rural Development Solutions (RuDeSo) in order to help it provide 2.5 million off-grid customers in Kenya with an on-grid experience by 2018, African Review reported. The partnerships will lead BBOXX to provide the technology, on-the-ground training and service support, while also enabling the company to extend its reach into ...
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Angola Angola Holds Vice Presidency At World Health Assembly
Geneva - Angola was appointed Monday in Geneva vice president at the 66th World Health Assembly of World Health Organisation (WHO) where the country represents Africa. The event is running under the motto "Ensuring health in the context of implementation of global development goals". The Angolan delegation is led by Health minister, Jose Van-Dúnem, who arrived Friday in ...
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Angola Executive Committee Has 57 Demining Brigades in Angola
Luanda - The Executive Demining Commission controls a total of 57 brigades deployed across the country, under the Government programme drafted for the purpose, announced Monday in Luanda the Director General of the National Demining Institute (INAD). Leonardo Severino Sapalo told Angop that the brigades include 54 manual demining, two mechanised and one dog brigades, that respond to the ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Burundi Power Project Gets EU Financial Boost
The European Union (EU) will provide a financial boost of nearly US$49mn for the commencement of the construction of a 143km 220kV transmission line from Rwanda's Kigoma to Burundi's Gitega The agreement was signed last week between the East African Community (EAC) and the EU. The project, when complete, will enable the two countries to share electricity using a common transmission ...
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Angola AU Marks 50th Anniversary Under Rebuilding Period
Luanda - Angola's Foreign Affairs minister, Georges Chikoti, said Monday in Luanda that Africa is celebrating the 50 years of the continental organisation in a rebuilding strategy period. The Cabinet minister said so to the press ahead of celebrations of jubilee of the African Union (AU), saying that the event is taking place in a period the continent is engaged in rebuilding of its ...
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Rwanda African Forum Warns of Graft in Public Sector
Unless corruption-related cases are uprooted, the public sector will continue to lag behind in terms of strategies that support the economic and social transformation of Africa. The delegates attending a high level African meeting on Public administration and management in Kigali said this yesterday. The three-day African Association for Public Administration and Management (AAPAM) and the ...
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Uganda How Mayiga Took Buganda Top Job
At 3:05pm on Monday, May 13, Buganda kingdom Katikkiro (prime minister) JB Walusimbi officially stepped aside to make way for his successor Charles Peter Mayiga. Walusimbi gave a small speech that carried a word of caution for Mayiga: "It is not easy to serve this kingdom." His retirement comes during the year of the 20th coronation anniversary of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. For ...
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Africa African Davos to Plot Continents Rise
The World Economic Forum (WEF) provides a good opportunity to promote the African continent, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. South Africa is hosting the 23rd World Economic Forum on Africa 2013 in Cape Town on May 8-10. This is according to AFP. The great and good of global commerce descended on Cape Town on Wednesday 8 May, 2013 to take part in "Africa's ...
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Uganda Narcotics - Uganda Under Tight Scrutiny
More international arrests of people from Entebbe International airport with narcotic drugs have put Uganda under pressure to control the drugs trade in the country. A crackdown on drug dealers has taken on greater urgency as the number of arrests and convictions climb monthly in Uganda and abroad. Just this month, a woman carrying narcotics collapsed and died on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta ...
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Ethiopia World Bank AfDB to Fund U.S. $1.26 Billion Ethiopia-Kenya Power Line
The World Bank and African Development Bank will provide 80 percent of the funds needed for a $1.26 billion line that will take power to Kenya from Ethiopia, Bloomberg reported. The World Bank will lend the countries $684 million for the 1,070-kilometer (665-mile) line that will run from Wolayta-Sodo in Ethiopia to Suswa, 100 kilometers northwest of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, African ...
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Kenyas CFC Stanbics pretax profit soars in first quarter
NAIROBI | Tue May 21, 2013 3:34am EDT NAIROBI May 21 (Reuters) - Kenya's CFC Stanbic Bank posted a 79.5 percent jump in pretax profit for the first quarter from a year ago to 1.46 billion shillings ($17.41 million). Banks in east Africa's biggest economy have reported higher earnings for the first three months of this year, buoyed by the growth of lending on the back of a ...
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Zimbabwe’s mines body rejects bid to control production
THE CHAMBER of Mines of Zimbabwe, which represents companies including Impala Platinum, had rejected a proposal for the state to control mineral production and prices, a draft response from the industry organisation obtained by Bloomberg News ...
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Ethiopia UK Propping Up Ethiopia Tanzania Tax Systems
The UK is working with Ethiopia and Tanzania to build the capacity of tax systems of the two countries. The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) through Developing Countries Capacity Building Unit is to run new tax capacity building programme with Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA) and Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA). The Programme is intended to tailor ...
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Vodacom shows appetite for increasing its footprint in Africa
VODACOM, which is aggressively seeking to acquire new operations on the African continent, could expand into as many as three new countries by the end of next year, Shameel Joosub, the group chief executive, said ...
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South Africa Jansen to Be Honoured in New York
South Africa's Professor Jonathan Jansen will receive the Education Africa Lifetime Achievement Award for Africa at a gala ceremony in New York on 3 June, it was announced at the weekend. Jansen, the vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State, played a key role in turning the university "away from its apartheid legacy into an institution that is truly ...
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Africa DRC-South Africa Pact Paves Way for Mega Hydro-Electric Plant
With South Africa confirmed as a key partner, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced October 2015 as the launch date for construction of the first phase of what could eventually be the largest hydroelectric plant in the world. The Grand Inga project on the Congo River is expected, once all the phases are complete, to generate a massive 40 000 MW of electricity, bringing renewable ...
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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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