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Tanzania Emirate Funds Construction of 50 Boreholes in Isles
Zanzibar - RESIDENTS in some parts of Unguja and Pemba islands currently facing water shortage will have the problem minimised by August, this year, when a project to construct 50 boreholes/wells will be completed. Ras-Al-Khamah, one of the countries comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has agreed o fund the USD 1.5 million project, which aims at supplying the people in water deficient ...
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Fee income boosts S.Africas Investec FY earnings by 18 pct
Thu May 23, 2013 3:04am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 23 (Reuters) - South African investment bank and asset manager Investec reported an 18 percent rise in full-year profit on Thursday, boosted by strong income from fees and commissions. Investec, which is also listed in London, said diluted headline earnings per share totalled 30 pence in the year to end-March, compared with 25.4 pence a year ...
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Latam Africa surges ensure SABMiller profit growth
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - SABMiller, the world's second biggest brewer, reported profit growth in line with expectations thanks to a surge in earnings in Latin America and Africa and said its markets should be broadly unchanged in the coming months.The maker of Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, said on Thursday adjusted earnings per share rose 11 percent to 238.7 U.S. cents in the year to the ...
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MentorMob Is Making a Difference In the U.S. And Uganda Join Us To Be Inspired
MentorMob have found a model for improving online education for everyone and at the same time they're working to rescue victims of trafficking and abuse in Uganda through ...
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Kenya Probe Moi Biwott Over Ouko Death Says TJRC
TRUTH, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has recommended the questioning of former President Moi over the1990 murder of former Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko. In their final report handed to the President yesterday, TJRC said former minister Nicholas Biwott and TJRC chair Bethuel Kiplagat should also be questioned on the death. "In addition to Biwott, former President Daniel ...
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Tanzania Ministry Promises to Avail Subsidised Fertiliser
Dodoma - THE government has promised to supply subsidised fertiliser to farmers by July 1, this year. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives, Mr Adam Malima told the National Assembly that his ministry had reached an agreement with the Treasury to release funds by July 1, this year, ready to procure organic fertilizer for supplying to farmers. Mr Malima was responding to a ...
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Rwanda Search for Rwandas Top 100 Medium Companies Starts
The search for Rwanda's 2013/14 top 100 medium-size companies has started with the aim of identifying and recognizing the good performers in this category of businesses often described as the 'engine' that powers the economy. The permanent secretary at the ministry of trade and commerce, Emmanuel Hategeka, launched the survey in Kigali on May 22. A project of an international ...
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Kenya Sh800 Million to Train Teachers On Computers
ABOUT 80 per cent of the primary school teachers in Kenya are computer illiterate. Knut national executive council member Karinga Munuhe has called for teachers to be trained before the free laptops promised by the Jubilee government are distributed next year. "Many of the teachers mostly from the rural areas have little knowledge on the use of computers," he said. Munuhe said more ...
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Rwanda Suspected Thieves Kill Two in Rwamagana
Unknown assailants have killed two people in Musha sector, Rwamagana in the night from Tuesday on Wednesday, police say. Speaking to The Rwanda Focus, the police spokesperson for Eastern Province, Supt Christopher Semuhungu, said that deceased were killed after being attacked in their homes in Kagarama cell, Musha sector. He identified the victims as Egide Ntaguranye and Metusera Mbarushimana, ...
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Rwanda Minister Nsengimana Commends Africa Digital Media Academy
The Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana commends Africa Digital Media Academy for teaching Rwandan Youth on using ICT to produce better videos and create more jobs. He made the announcement while the Workforce Development (WDA) was receiving a WSIS Project Prizes 2013 from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for the Africa Digital Media Academy (ADMA) which was voted ...
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Tanzania Inefficiency At Dar es Salaam Port Costs Billions of Dollars World Bank Says
Bureaucracy and inefficiency at Dar es Salaam port cost Tanzania and neighbouring countries more than $2.6 billion (4.3 trillion shillings) annually, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday (May 21st). Bringing the port's efficiency on par with nearby Mombasa port could save the government $1.8 billion (2.9 trillion shillings), said World Bank lead economist in Tanzania Jacques ...
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Tanzania Fastjet Wins Brand Strategy of the Year Award for African Grey Parrot
FASTJET, Africa's low-cost airline and its branding agency, SomeOne, have won the prestigious "Brand Strategy of the Year" award at the recent Drum Marketing Awards in London. The win for the airline's African Grey Parrot brand is the latest award for the airline which picked up three honours at the Transform Brand Awards earlier this year. Commenting on the various awards ...
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Tanzania More Investment Needed to Bridge Skilled Labour Gap in Tanzania - VP
VICE-President Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal hinted that Tanzania should produce 80 000 skilled graduates annually to meet the demand for skilled workforce. "This calls for enormous additional investment in the higher education infrastructure to double the current intake of 40,000 students on an immediate basis," Dr Bilal said in Dar es Salaam, while officiating at the 8th exhibition of ...
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Kenya Uhuru to attend AU summit in Ethiopia
Sudan counterpart President Salva Kiir. The AU summit coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the OAU-AU. During the AU Jubilee celebrations, member states will take stock of the past fifty years, acknowledge the contribution of the founding fathers of OAU towards ...
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Kenya One More Killed in Mandera Clan War
One more person was killed and another injured yesterday after armed militia attacked at Guba Village in Banisa constituency, Mandera county. Guba Village is about 15km from Banisa district headquarters. The attack has pushed the death toll to three and the injured to five after the renewed hostilities between the Degodia and Gareh clans began on Sunday, the local provincial administration has ...
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Kenya Kalonzo British Soldiers Among TJRC Indictees
Nairobi - Details of how former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and others evicted 2,000 Tharaka families from a huge parcel of land at Tholoni and awarded it to themselves before putting up the Mwingi cottages and disturbing details of how British soldiers raped and sodomised 30 Kenyan women are among the damning historical injustices captured in a voluminous report released by the Truth, ...
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Uganda Uganda Police Holding Our Newspapers - Rwandan Publishers
Police's continued closure of Daily Monitor and Red Pepper is not only affecting Ugandans but has now crossed the borders into Rwanda, The Observer has learnt. Two Rwandan Kinyarwanda newspapers, Rushyashya and Impamo, which print from Monitor Publications, claim that their already printed copies are part of the documents that police won't let go out of the premises. "I am very ...
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Kenya Kenyan Employers Raise Alarm About Quality of University Graduates
Nairobi - On streets across Nairobi, it is easy to spot university or satellite campus signboards advertising a variety of programmes and opportunities. While this could be a sign of improved access to education in Kenya, some employers and education officials worry that the proliferation of universities and the commercialisation of higher education have created schools that produce poorly ...
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Kenya Those Linked to Injustices Need Hearing - NCIC
Nairobi - The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) now wants Kenyans who have been incriminated by the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) report given a chance to clear their names. NCIC Chairman Mzalendo Kibunjia said that even though Kenyans must accept the report in order for the healing process to begin, those who have been adversely mentioned must get a ...
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Kenya Conflict Over Resources Caused Tana Clashes - Report
Nairobi - The Judicial Commission formed to probe killings that left more than 150 dead in the Tana Delta presented its report to President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday. In its report, the commission identified, "conflict over resources," as the reason behind the ethnic clashes that caused the death toll and called for the prosecution of those who instigated the clashes. The president ...
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Kenya Lower Interest Rates Boost CFC Stanbic Profits
CfC Stanbic yesterday said net profits for the three months of this year grew by 78 per cent to Sh1 billion as interest paid on customer deposits dropped by more than half. The bank, which posted Sh568 million over a similar period in 2012, said interest paid on deposits dropped to Sh531 million, down from Sh1.3 billion in 2011, a 60 per cent drop. Customer deposits however fell slightly to ...
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Kenya IEBC Hasnt Paid Us Say Suppliers
THE IEBC is once again on the receiving end for failure to pay some of its suppliers and hoteliers. The Commission is yet to pay some of its suppliers and hoteliers among other personnel who offered services before and after the March 4 polls. The suppliers, hoteliers and other staff hired by the commission have raised concerns over the delay by the electoral body to settle their debts. A ...
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Kenya Mother Asks for Help to Treat Daughter Mauled By Dogs
The mother of a 12-year-old school girl who was mauled by dogs belonging to the ex-wife of a sitting senator is appealing for help. Joyce Achieng on Monday evening told the Star she fears for her daughter's life. She is struggling to pay for her medication as she has no steady job or source of income. Atieno was attacked by Jane Madzayo's two dogs at her Nyali residence after she ...
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Rwanda Rwanda On the Right Track in Local Governance
An assessment of Local Democracy and Local Governance has shown that Rwanda is on the right track in as far as the promotion of good governance and service delivery is concerned. The report, presented to President Paul Kagame last weekend, was sanctioned and funded by the Commonwealth Secretariat in collaboration with the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, a conference of which took place at ...
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Uganda Stromme Foundation Helping Communities Out of Poverty
recently chose this important tool to symbolize their movetowards greater heights in their activities to improve the lives of the poor in Uganda. "We build ladders. Unique, very special ladders. On these ladders people climb to a better life," says the foundation's management in a report. " As a development organisation whose goal is to eradicate poverty, the ladders are the ...
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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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