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Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South ...
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Kerry pressures Nigeria on human rights during first visit to sub-Saharan Africa
US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) attends the 50th African Union Aniversary Summit in Addis Ababa on May 25, 2013, with Africa's myriad problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made. Today's 54-member AU is the successor of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established amid the heady days as independence from colonial rule swept the continent in 1963. ...
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DR Congos Silent Ordeal
According to the diocesan report, this was the third such massacre in a month. Both reports implicate the FDLR militia group-Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda, ideological descendants of the Interahamwe militias responsible for the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. The FDLR is one of several domestic, foreign or foreign-backed armed groups threatening to tear the country apart. ...
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High alert over Tanzania deadly virus
A deadly disease which broke out in Tanzania this year risks spreading to Southern Africa, posing a mortal threat to more than 50 million sheep and goats and bringing risks of famine to the region, FAO warned ...
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Kenya Visa and Equity Sign New Money Deal
Visa in partnership with Equity Bank yesterday launched a new money transfer service dubbed Visa Personal service. It enables Visa card holders to transfer money to other Visa card holders anywhere in the world. Equity Bank chief operating officer Julius Kimngetich said the service will enable Equity Bank Visa card holders receive funds at no cost. He said the service is instant and one can ...
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Kenya Pupils get cancer vaccine in Sh141m project
NAIROBI, KENYA: On May 14, nine-year-old Mariam became the first girl in Kenya to receive a free vaccine against cervical cancer at her Central Primary School ...
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Brazil to cancel $900m debt to strengthen ties with Africa
Brazil has said it plans to cancel $900-million worth of debt in 12 African countries, as part of a broader strategy to boost ties with the ...
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China pledges to step up partnership with Africa
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Top legislator Zhang Dejiang said on Saturday that China is willing to work with African countries to advance the China-Africa new-type strategic partnership to a higher level. Zhang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), made the remarks at a reception held by the African Diplomatic Corps in China to mark the 50th founding ...
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Improbably Missionary Trains Stars in Kenya
The ...
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Namibia Botswana connect to 5.12 terabit cable
Last week, the powerful WACS submarine fibre optic cable was landed in Swakopmund, Namibia. Now, the work has started to make WACS provide high-speed telecom services to consumers in Namibia and ...
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Tanzania says work on China-funded gas pipeline to continue
Sat May 25, 2013 11:51am EDT * Tanzania says disputed gas pipeline to be completed next year * Parliament approves budget with pipeline proposals * Govt says to reform state-run power utility By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala DODOMA, May 25 (Reuters) - Tanzania will continue building a China-funded $1.2 billion gas pipeline from the south of the country to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam despite ...
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Africa celebrates progress and 50 years of unity
ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia): African leaders on Saturday opened extravagant celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the African Union, with the continent's myriad problems set aside for a day to mark the progress that has been made. African Union chairman and Ethiopian Prime ...
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Kenya Government Targets Six Percent GDP Growth in 2013
Kenya's economy expanded by 4.6 per cent in last year helped by growth in key sectors despite a turbulent global economy, delayed long rains and a weaker shilling in early 2012. The government is however targeting a six per cent GDP growth this year, an ambitious target going by figures resgistered in the past five years. The Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning Anne Waiguru said ...
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DR Congo gets US$ 7bn debt cancellation
The main creditors of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) have agreed to cancel Congolese foreign debts totalling US$ 7.35 billion. Much of the unsustainable debt was accumulated under ex-Dictator Mobutu Sese ...
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Travel Writer Paul Theroux’s Last Trip to Africa
Paul Theroux has been traversing continents--often crammed into an overcrowded bus or wedged into a packed train car. His international wanderings began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in 1963, and in 1975 he published his first travel ...
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Namibia Nation Faces Hunger
GOING HUNGRY Lesley Mouton is one of more than 300 000 Namibians who are faced with food insecurities countrywide. Mouton, who has been faced with bouts of hunger over the last 15 years was found searching for food in the trash drums of Katutura yesterday. AN estimated 330 900 Namibians are currently facing food insecurity following a dry rainy season, a recent study has found. A report ...
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Namibia Pohamba Recalls Ambassadors
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba is said to have recalled all ambassadors and high commissioners heading Namibia's foreign missions with one or two exceptions. Government sources told The Namibian that news of the diplomatic reshuffle did not only affect the Ministry of Foreign Affairs but the entire government. This shuffle occurred, sources said, because Pohamba is planning to send a few ...
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South Africa Govt Importing Meat Considered significant Risk
In a reply to a DA parliamentary question, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Tina Joemat-Pettersson has revealed that various meat products - including water buffalo, donkey and horse meat - are being imported into South Africa from Brazil and India. This is despite meat from these countries being considered as posing a 'significant risk'. The reply does not ...
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Kenya KNUT Officials Plot Next Years Elections
KNUT officials in four counties in Western province have begun plans to take up top union positions after the death of their secretary general David Okuta. Most of the union's national executive members are set to retire between December and August next year leaving room for a battle for the top positions. The national chairman Wilson Sosion, second vice chairman Wycliffe Omucheyi and ...
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Kenya Maize Disease Destroys Crops
MAIZE farmers in Narok South district are counting losses after about 2,000 acres of their crop was destroyed by a strange viral disease suspected to be lethal necrosis. Speaking at Mogoiyuet Primary School in Narok yesterday, spokesman Simon Seroney said their crops have turned yellow. This is the second time the disease is reported in the South Rift region, Kenya's biggest maize belt. ...
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Kenya Stanchart Hopes to Resolve Sh14 Billion Pension Case
Standard Chartered Bank is eagerly awaiting the determination of a court case in which its former employees sued it demanding up to Sh14.6 billion in unpaid pension. The bank's acting chairperson, Anne Mutahi told the annual general meeting it is counting on the new judiciary to expedite the matter that has lasted four years. She was responding to shareholders' concerns that the bank ...
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Namibias Sam Nujoma hospitalised
Former Namibian President Sam Nujoma "has been hospitalised, following a pacemaker procedure or pacemaker implantation," according to "highly placed family and medical ...
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Gabon nets US$1.7bn Singaporean investments
Gabonese authorities have managed to secure investments worth a total of US$ 1.7 billion from Singapore, including a new fertilizer plant to be set up outside Port Gentil and palm oil ...
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Kenya UK murder suspect Michael Adebolajo had been detained in Kenya last year.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend - one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby's murder in south-east London on Wednesday - had rejected the approach from the security ...
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Kenya A Swiss National arrested while making a pornographic movie - girls were having sex with a dog in Mombasa
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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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