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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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American missionary priest in Kenya suspended in dispute over control of hospitals
An American missionary priest in Kenya who became embroiled in a legal dispute over the ownership of hospitals has been suspended from the priesthood. The Maryknoll Society suspended Father William Charles Fryda after he refused to drop a lawsuit he filed three years ago against Cardinal John Njue and Sister Marie Therese Gachamab, superior of the Assumption Sisters in Nairobi. He charges that ...
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Zimbabwes Tsvangirai says Mugabes Party is Dead
Zimbabwean Prime Minister and Movement for Democractic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai, left, and his wife Elizabeth greet the audience on the first day of the party's National Policy Conference in Harare, May 17, ...
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Secretary-General Appoints Haile Menkerios of South Africa Secial Representative to African Union
Menkerios of South Africa as the new Head of the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) and Special Representative to the African Union at the level of ...
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Finding Skywalker’s House Photos of Old Movie Sets in North Africa
If you’re a Star Wars fan, you might be looking at the photo above and wondering — ';Hey, isn’t that one of those moisture vaporators from the Skywalker farm there by that man who is begging?'; And you’d be right. Star Wars is only one of the many big budget films that have gone to various North African locations over the years to create a certain feel, a ...
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Kenya Senate told of plot to derail devolution
Devolution could be crippled by lack of common understanding on its implementation and rival interpretation of laws guiding it, a Senators' retreat ...
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Kenya Balala pledges strict mining policies
Balala said no person or agency shall be licensed unless they prove they are competent and able to deliver. He promised to ensure transparency in management of natural resources and to promote Kenya as a mining destination. "We shall not give licenses to speculators. To explore any mineral the investors must prove their resource base to complete the job and deliver on the deal," he ...
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Kenya Row over plan to hire county police chiefs
Divisions are growing among senior officers over whether to apply for the Assistant Inspector General positions before the May 28 deadline. Potential applicants feel under pressure to "take sides" in the power struggle between the ...
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Kenya Bungoma residents recount losses
Bungoma . After all, I was born and raised here. Most of my schooling was also in this County. But it does not take more than five minutes to realise that this is not the same town I grew up in. Something has changed in the years since I was here ...
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Kenya Anger over slow police probe on Bungoma killings
Bungoma 's Kware village in early April. No other charges have been brought over the dozens of other attacks, including those that ended in ten murders. In an exclusive interview with The Standard On Saturday at ...
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Opinion Kenya needs laws against torture
One of the key reforms introduced in 2010 with the adoption of the new Constitution was the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading ...
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Christians Suffering in Central African Republic Islamists Targeting Churches Says Bishop
Reports from Africa indicate that militia soldiers under the control of the Central African Republic's government are looting and destroying Christian churches and mission ...
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Kenya Ruto Denies ICC Shuttle Diplomacy
DEPUTY president William Ruto yesterday clarified that he is on "an official bilateral trip" to four African countries, as the Senate saw heated debate on the issue. Ruto denied claims he is on a shuttle diplomacy to gain support against the International Criminal Court where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta, together with radio journalist Joshua arap Sang are standing trial for crimes ...
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Kenya Uasin Gishu Reps Snub NCIC Peace Meeting
Uasin Gishu county assembly members yesterday boycotted a key meeting of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission which had been called to discuss peace, reconciliation and operations of counties. NCIC commissioner Fatuma Muhammed said the boycott did not augur well for the planned peace activities in the region. "Even if they have complaints, it would have been better to attend ...
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Kenya Counties to Maintain Class D and E Roads
The Kenya Roads Board has said it will restructure its operations and devolve part of its mandate to county governments in line with the new dispensation. Speaking in Bomet yetsrday, the board's chairman Joel Wanyoike said the county government will be in charge of the class D and E roads. He said Kenya Rural roads Authority and Kenya Urban Roads authority, which are the board's ...
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Kenya Kenyan Traders Told to Increase AGOA Exports
Kenya' small scale entrepreneurs have been challenged to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the African Growth and Opportunity Act to access the American market. African Cotton and Textiles Industries Federation chief executive Officer Rajeev Arora said since Kenya currently exports less than thirty products yet the trade deal offers a market for more than 6,400 products from ...
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Kenya reviewed on torture reforms
There are two sides to the human rights story in Kenya and one of them deals with reports of torture and cruel treatment, the United Nations was told. Kenyan Attorney General Githu Muigai briefed a U.N. committee against torture from Geneva. He said there have been major improvements in Kenya's human rights record in terms of how it applies U.N. conventions on torture and ill-treatment. ...
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Venezuelas ties with Africa
At the third Summit Africa - South America (ASA)held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, 63 countries participated, including Venezuela, which was represented by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Elas Jaua. He read a letter written by President Hugo Chvez to the ASA members in Malaba. The Venezuelan President highlighted the ties between both ...
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Congo Does Not Have The Worlds Largest Deposits Of Tin and Coltan
At least 20 people were killed when a mine collapsed in mineral-rich but conflict-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following heavy rains, the government said on ...
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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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