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HRW Mozambique Families Displaced by Foreign Mining
Rio Tinto's "Benga" coal mining operation in Tete province in central Mozambique. Arid, coal-rich Tete has been at the epicenter of a coal mining boom that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment. Without adequate safeguards, this surge ...
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UN warns DR Congo rebels it will intervene
The UN Secretary General has warned armed rebels in eastern Congo that the organisation's new "intervention brigade" would prevent any repeat of the fighting that has driven thousands of refugees out of camps this ...
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Kenya AGOA’S unexploited opportunities
http://www.africanpress.me/ A facilitator addressing the African Growth & Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum in Kisumu this morning. (photo by Alal) This is the irony of people laying emphasis on value addition as the sure way to lift the business fraternity in Kenya ...
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UN World Bank Say Development is Key to Congo Peace
GOMA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo’s conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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S. Sudan leader Intl court humiliates Africa
JUBA, South Sudan -; South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African ...
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Democratic Republic of Congo - Congolese journalist’s body found in river 12 days after disappearance
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn of radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro's death in Bunia, a city in the eastern region of Ituri. He was a Swahili-language journalist with Radio Canal Rvlation, a community radio station, and freelanced for the Bunia branch of the national broadcaster RTNC.His body was found in the bed of the River Ngezi - which crosses the city - on 17 May, 12 ...
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Kenya South Sudan and Uganda Pipeline poker
IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipeline together costing $16 billion that would serve all their countries and vastly enrich them. Taxpayers were billed $350,000 for the celebratory meal, according to local officials, though it actually cost only ...
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Kenyan police clear truckers blocking east Africas main trade route
MOMBASA (Reuters) - Kenyan police cleared the only highway from the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi on Thursday, two days after striking truck drivers blocked it and threatened to choke the main trade artery in east ...
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Kenya Nurses and midwives trained on safe abortion methods to curb high mortality rate
Executive Director of KMET the training is to enhance the capacity of health providers to offer quality abortion related services within the confines of the law in Kenya. Monica said health providers need to understand provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care services such as the use ...
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South Africa Guptagate Report whitewash Reinforces Need for an Independent Investigation
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. The final Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Report of the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft at Air Force Base Waterkloof reinforces the need for an independent investigation into "Guptagate". The final report was deliberately and cynically withheld from ...
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South Africa Agang Response to the Release of the Gupta Report
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. Johannesburg - ‘We note with interest the Government's report into the failures of governance that led to the landing of the Gupta family's aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force base. ‘The report confirms that ‘a culture of undue influence, underpinned by poor ...
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UN chief visits Goma Congo
The town of Kanyaruchinya is seen from the last United Nations peacekeeper outpost along the road leading north, into M23 rebel territory, from Goma in eastern Congo, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Congo's capital far to the west for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma, where a new U.N. military brigade is being formed to attack rebel groups ...
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WTO Leader Criticizes Trade Costs and Corruption in Africa
Nairobi, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, questioned today the negative impact of the high cost of cross-border trade and corruption for consumers in East Africa. "Due to these scourges the region pays 40 percent higher market prices," Lamy told local reporters in this capital. "If you are a consumer in Rwanda, you ...
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Kenya - Witnesses describe police killings of protesters bystanders in Kenya
The Kenyan authorities should promptly investigate and prosecute those responsible for shootings by the police in Kisumu on March 30, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Five people died and at least twenty-four were injured.The shootings occurred in the wake of demonstrations against the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling on March 30 upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory on March ...
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Regional Integration for Africa’s Structural Transformation
structural transformation " in order to take the bulk of its population out of poverty.Critical to the attainment of this structural transformation is without a doubt ...
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UPDATE 2-S.Africa holds rates but cut was on table
Thu May 23, 2013 12:15pm EDT * Bank discusses rate cut "extensively" * Concerned about steep wage settlements * Cuts growth forecasts (Adds analyst comment, writes through) By Xola Potelwa JOHANNESBURG, May 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's Reserve Bank left its repo rate unchanged on Thursday, while admitting for the first time in nearly a year that it had considered a cut to try to ...
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Congo has chance for peace U.N. ready to enforce Ban Ki-moon
1 of 5. U.N. peacekeepers patrol the streets during the visit of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-torn east, May 23, ...
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Inside Mercks new crusade against cervical cancer in Africa
Merck's cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. A new agreement between the GAVI Alliance, Merck and GlaxoSmithKline (which makes a similar vaccine, Cervarix) will provide vaccines in Africa at a fraction of their normal commercial cost -- with the goal of vaccinating 30 million women by 2020. Most pharmaceutical companies spend huge money on research and development, with new drugs requiring ...
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South Africa Clash of Booker titans
With freedom of expression under threat in South Africa again, Anton Harber recalls an electric confrontation between two Booker prize winners, JM Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, about the censorship of a third - Salman ...
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S.Africas central bank sees 2013 GDP growth at 2.4 pct
South African Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus' news conference after the Bank's policy meeting, and quotes from her speech, please double-click ...
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Africas dead women walking
>Editor's note: The names of some fistula patients have been changed to protect their privacy.(CNN) -- It's a condition practically unheard of in the United States and most Western countries. But in a culture where a woman's status and dignity is decided by her ability to provide a husband with multiple children, it can be a fate worse than death. "Obstetric fistula" is a mouthful. But to ...
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Uganda Today in Parliament Decision On Kampala
Parliament is expected today afternoon to take a decision on whether President Yoweri Museveni should take over Kampala management for six months or not. This followed a directive yesterday night by house Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah to the clerk of Parliament, Jane Kibirige, to investigate minutes of the controversial report by the Parliament's committee on public service and local ...
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Uganda Norway Pledges Funds for Forests
Uganda loses nearly 100,000hectares of forest cover annually through encroachment, exposing the population to the risks and costly consequences of climate change. It is therefore for this reason that the Norwegian Embassy has pledged continued support to Uganda in form of increased funding in forest restoration, environment management and conservation as part of their micro-development projects ...
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South Africa Water Debt and Leaks Plague City Residents
Cape Town - Nokuzola Bulana has a problem with leaks. The water that drips from the pipes of the toilet outside her home in Khayelitsha, a large semi-informal township on the fringes of Cape Town, South Africa goes to waste and drives up her water bill. Bulana, a water activist, says she fixed the leaks in January but water on the floor at the base of the toilet, which is inside a stall painted ...
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Namibia DRC Wants Nam Fishing Quotas
THE Government has turned down a request by the Democratic Republic of Congo to hold fishing quotas in Namibia. The Namibian understands that the horse mackerel is popular in the DRC and Namibian fishing companies export large quantities of the fish to that country, prompting its government to request Namibia for fishing quotas. Fisheries Minister Bernard Esau told The Namibian that no direct ...
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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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