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Kenya Govt to Renegotiate EU Trade Deal
The government will in the next two months conclude a deal that will ensure goods from Kenya continue enjoying tax-free market in European Union countries. Deputy President William Ruto said the government will ensure the Economic Partnership Agreement is signed. He said Kenya will negotiate with East African countries over the same agreement. "It is our responsibility as a government to ...
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Uganda Sri Lanka Uganda Agree to Stronger Links
Kampala - Uganda signed a bilateral trade partnership with the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka last week. President Mahinda Rajapaksa was in Uganda to hold talks with President Yoweri Museveni and meet a cross section of the business community. He also officially opened the new Sri Lanka High Commission in Kampala. This is expected to strengthen the diplomatic and business ...
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Kenya TSC Operations to Be Crippled Next Month
Operations at the Teachers Service Commission may grind to a halt next month when the term of current members expires in June.The Commission on Administration of Justice says the TSC faces a crisis as a majority of those shortlisted were rejected by parliament and their appointment stopped.The commission wants the president to consider forwarding a fresh list of ...
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Gambia Gambia Cameroon Reinforce Ties
A special envoy of the Cameroonian president dispatched to Banjul has said that his mission in was to deliver a special message to the president of the Republic, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, from his Cameroonian counterpart, His Excellency Paul Biya. Speaking to journalists shortly after his closed-door meeting with the Gambian leader, Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, Minister ...
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Congo-Kinshasa South African Peacekeepers Chase Away Refugees - Report
Dozens of crying children and women have been locked out of a UN base manned by South African peacekeepers outside Goma in eastern Congo, despite a barrage of shooting and bombing close by. Since Monday, DR Congo Government forces have been using helicopter gunships to bomb bases of M23 rebels around Mutaho - some 17Km from Goma. Other areas have been engulfed as well, as fighting escalates. In ...
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Chad Wave of Arrests in Chad
Chad has Africa's largest contingent of troops in Mali. It is fighting alongside French forces to flush out Islamist groups. But at home, the government is cracking down on opposition activists and journalists. Chadian President Idriss Deby suddenly declared last Monday (13.05.2013) to be a public holiday to mark the return home from Mali of the first 700 Chadian soldiers. In the capital ...
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Uganda Housing Teams Up With Umeme
Kampala - Housing Finance Bank Limited (HFBL) has gone into partnership with Umeme, the electricity distributor to ease payment of bills. HFBL is offering its MCash electronic platform for more customer convenience. Its attraction is that it allows you to save and transfer money to other people or make payments at participating outlets. MCash is an electronic wallet of money that you can ...
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East Africa EA Drug Plan On
Kampala - East African Community (EAC) member countries are getting ready to come out with a blueprint that will drive the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector forward. Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have started implementing the EAC Regional Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan of Action (EACPMPOA 2012-2016) by setting up a project steering committee. The committee is made up of ...
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Kenya Fake Doctor Found in Nakuru Hospital
A man who has been pretending to be a doctor at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru was yesterday arrested. The hospital's medical superintendent, John Murema, said the "fake doctor", Francis Kadaya has been attending to patients during night shifts for the past week. He said Kadaya had a doctor's coat and a fake name tag that he used to enter the hospital. ...
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East Africa EAC Eyes Capital Markets for Development Funds
Kampala - East African Community (EAC) partner states have been discussing the possibilities of raising more money from international capital markets and reduce donor dependency. The plan is to use this money for financing infrastructure projects to improve the EAC competitiveness as an investor destination. Most recently Rwanda managed to sell a $400 million Eurobond which was quickly snapped ...
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Gambia President Jammeh Receives Cameroonian Envoy
President Yahya Jammeh yesterday received at State House a special envoy of President Paul Biya of Cameroon. Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cameroon, told waiting reporters shortly after a closed-door meeting with the Gambian leader that he was in Banjul as a special envoy of President Biya to President Jammeh. He told reporters that his ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Gets U.S. $58 Million for Vision 2020 Plan
Kigali - Rwanda's ambitious strategy to achieve middle income status by 2020, as spelt out in its Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2) received a $50 million backing from the World Bank. The Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the grant recently. It is meant to support the government's efforts to improve decentralized service delivery through the ...
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Kenya Citi Profits Dip 36 Per Cent to Sh800 Million
CITIBANK NA Kenya has reported a 35.9 per cent drop to Sh801 million for the first three months of this year, down from Sh1.2 billion posted in a similar period last year. The period saw the bank's interest income on loans and advances dropping by close to 50 per cent to Sh536 million from Sh1 billion the previous year. This is after its loans and advances to customers, primarily ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Howard G. Buffett Foundation Renews Support for the United Nations World Food Programme Work in Eastern DRC
The Howard G. Buffett Foundation has announced three new grants to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) worth nearly US$350,000. The funds will support a "green initiative" to reduce fuel costs associated with WFP operations and facilitate airport rehabilitation projects allowing greater humanitarian access. Howard G. Buffett, President and CEO of the Foundation and a WFP Ambassador ...
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Uganda Uganda Hot On Turkish Airlines List
Kampala - Turkish Airlines, the two time winner of Europe's Best Airline Award and the people behind the popular ad of Lionel Messi dueling with Kobe Bryant, say they are ready to work with Uganda's Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders to promote the country's attractions. Speaking to the East African Business Week in an exclusive interview last week, Erbil Akgun, the ...
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Rwanda China Grants Kigali Tax Free Access
Kigali - China has dropped all import duties on most Rwandan-made products entering its domestic market of just over one billion people. Not long ago, China became the second largest economy in the world with a GDP of about $7 trillion which is half of that of the US. "We would like to take this opportunity to appreciate the commitment made by the government of China to extend duty free ...
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Kenya Investors Pledge Sh56 Billion for Machakos County
Machakos county has received a commitment of Sh56.3 billion from investors. This follows the signing of an MoU between governor Alfred Mutua and investors after a two day conference at Maanzoni lodge in Machakos at the weekend. "As an incentive to our investors, Machakos county will provide land free of charge to investors who are ready to start work," Mutua said. The governor was ...
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Kenya High Court Halts Removal of Justice Angawa
The High Court has stopped the Judicial Service Commission from suspending Justice Mary Ang'awa pending a hearing on her petition to reverse her removal from the Judiciary. High Court Judge Mumbi Ngugi said Ang'awa will not be removed from office and she will continue to receive her salary until the case is determined. Ang'awa's file has been forwarded to Chief Justice ...
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Burundi EU to Fund Burundi - Rwanda Power Line
Kampala - The European Union has agreed to give the East African Community €16 million Euros ($20 million) to build a power interconnector between Burundi and Rwanda. An interconnector is a cable or overhead line connecting two separate control areas, (or this case countries), each with its separate system operator. The Rwanda-Burundi 220kV Interconnector is part of a larger ongoing ...
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Kenya Mobile Umbrella GSMA Opens Nairobi Office
Nairobi, Kenya - The Global System for Mobile (GSM) Association, the umbrella organization for the world's mobile operators, opened its African headquarters in Nairobi last week. This is aimed at supporting the sub Saharan Africa's expanding telecoms market. GSMA Director General Anne Bouverot said the market vibrancy on the continent and Kenya's strategic location at the centre ...
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Vodacom extends M-PESA to Mozambique
According to AllAfrica.com Vodacom Mozambique has introduced the mobile money transfer service M-PESA, as popularised by its Vodafone-owned sister company Safaricom in Kenya. Speaking at the launch ceremony in Maputo last week, Ernesto Gove, the governor of the Bank of Mozambique, said that 'the existence of a strong and stable financial system that is comprehensive and inclusive is an ...
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Lifestyle An energy efficient stove for Kenya
The three stone fire is a commonly used in food preparation in Kenya, and many people can relate with the simple and accessible mode of cooking. For ...
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Mortar lands in Congo as UN chief arrives
GOMA, Congo -; A spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo says that a mortar landed in a neighborhood of Goma, a major city in eastern Congo, which last year was briefly overrun by a rebel group. The explosion comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's distant capital for a two-day visit that is expected to take him to ...
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Artillery lands in east Congo city humanitarian camp
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Artillery rounds landed in a heavily populated neighborhood of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring other civilians a day before a planned visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a human rights group ...
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Namibia Winter Could Exacerbate Power Crisis
Windhoek - This winter, Namibians should expect major uncertainties when it comes to electricity provision as Namibia's largest supplier of power, Eskom, is experiencing a power deficit and electricity outages, according to NamPower. "It will indeed be challenging for NamPower to keep the lights on. I would therefore appeal to all our customers, small and large, to meet us halfway by ...
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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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