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Churches desecrated in Central African Republic Christians flee to countryside
In recent weeks, Islamist rebels who assumed power in the Central African Republic in March have kidnapped the rector of the cathedral in the nation's capital as well as the archdiocesan chancellor. Calling members of the new regime "religious extremists with evil intentions," Bishop Albert Vanbuel of Kaga-Bandoro decried "the deliberate program of desecration and ...
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Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual charge against US government worker
This image released by U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., shows the damage to the car that allegedly hit and killed Alois Pedzisai Matyoramhinga in Zimbawbe. Unusual circumstances have left federal prosecutors pursuing vandalism charges against Andrew Pastirik, a U.S. government worker accused of killing the Zimbabwe man in a drunken driving collision. Much of the case against Pastirik is ...
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Africa Africa Loses $50bn Annually to Illicit Fund Flow - Mbeki
The Chairman of the United Nations High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has said that the continent loses, at least, $50 billion annually through illicit fund flows. Mr. Mbeki, a former President of South Africa, made the fact known in Abuja on Monday when he led a delegation of the UN panel on a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan. He said the panel ...
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Zimbabwe Mining Firms to Engage Govt
INCOMING Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe president and Zimplats chief executive Mr Alex Mhembere says constant dialogue with Government is key to maximising the mining industry's contribution to national economic development. Mr Mhembere said this after he was elected the chamber's new president at a closed council meeting during the 74th annual general meeting at Troutbeck Resort in ...
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Kenya Elgeyo Marakwet County Tops in Changaa Busaa Abuse
Elgeyo Marakwet county has been rated as one of the leading in consumption and manufacture of chang'aa and busaa. The government has threatened to arrest parents who allow their children to engage in brewing and consumption of traditional brews. County deputy commissioner Moses Lilan said numerous children have dropped out of school in many parts of the region. "We will round up ...
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Tanzania Kikwete Mourns Veteran Politician Sykes
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has mourned the sad demise of a veteran politician and one of the champions of Tanganyika's independence struggles, Mr Ali Abdallah Kleist Sykes, who passed away in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday. A statement issued by the Directorate of the Presidential Communications said that the president received the death of Mzee Sykes, who was also one of the founders of the ...
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Kenya Copyright Board Raids Local Pay TV Company
The Kenya Copyright Board has today impounded equipment used by a local Pay TV Company to illegally redistribute the Indian Premier League cricket matches on its cable television platform.The Board says the pay TV firm has continued to unlawfully redistribute, the cricket matches to its subscribers, initially in Nairobi and until today, in ...
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Central African Republic Judges Approve Revised Bemba Witness List
Trial judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have approved an amended list of witnesses in which 13 fewer individuals are expected to testify for Jean-Pierre Bemba. Judges Sylvia Steiner (presiding), Joyce Aluoch, and Kuniko Ozaki have also approved the order of appearance for the five witnesses expected to testify next for the Congolese opposition leader. The first of these witnesses ...
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Kenya Airtel Losses Case Against Former Employees
AIRTEL has lost a case against its former 63 customer service executives who were protesting their transfer to outsourcing company Spanco Raps Kenya. Industrial court judge Monica Mbaru has now ordered Airtel to compensate the employees for wrongful dismissal in a ruling that will see the mobile phone company spend millions. According to the employees' lawyers, Rachier and Amollo ...
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Tanzania Kikwete to Lead Talks On Fast-Tracking Growth
AS Tanzania is implementing its five-year development plan spanning 2011 to 2016, some 300 local experts will this Friday present their recommendations on how the country should implement effectively six key result areas that have been identified to fast-track growth. The six national key result areas include boosting of domestic revenues, agriculture, energy, education and transport, ...
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Tanzania Justices Refuse to Bow Out of Dispute
THREE Justices of the Court of Appeal have refused to disqualify themselves from hearing an application for review in a commercial dispute surrounding payments of over 137bn/- involving the East African Development Bank (EADB) and Blueline Enterprises Limited. In the application, Blueline Enterprises Limited is asking Justices Edward Rutakangwa, Nathalia Kimaro and Salum Massati to review their ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN Voices Concern As Fighting Resumes Between Government and M23 Forces
Members of the M23 rebel group in eastern Congo. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today voiced its concern about renewed clashes between rebels from the 23 March Movement (M23) and the national armed forces in the eastern city of Goma. Fighting broke out early this morning in Kibati and Rusayo, some 12 kilometres from Goma, the capital of ...
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Tanzania CRB Annual Consultative Meet to Be Held in Dar es Salaam
CONTRACTORS are scheduled to attend their annual Consultative Meeting in Dar es Salaam effective Thursday, this week that will go parallel with exhibition of construction technology, services and products. Speaking with reporters in Dar es Salaam, the Contractors Registration Board (CRB) Registrar, Engineer Boniface Muhegi said the meeting would also assess their achievements realized in the ...
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Easing Africas Pain The Need for Palliative Care
"I am in pain 24 hours a day", Mamadou* told a Human Rights Watch researcher. "The pain I have all over my body…it is in my bones." Mamadou, a 47-year-old man from rural Senegal, has advanced prostate cancer that has spread throughout his body. He can no longer be cured, but with morphine, a strong painkiller, he could live his last months in dignity. However, ...
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UPDATE 2-Mercedes S.Africa strike ends union demands sector pay hike
Tue May 21, 2013 5:50am EDT * Auto sector 20 percent wage rise demands hit rand * Currency tumbles for ninth straight session * Rate cut hopes dashed By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, May 21 (Reuters) - A two-day wildcat strike at a Mercedes Benz plant in South Africa ended on Tuesday but industrial union NUMSA demanded a hefty pay hike for the sector, raising the prospect of labour unrest in ...
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Kenya Squatters evicted in night demolition
GILGIL , KENYA: Tens of squatters were forced to sleep in the open after hired youths demolished their house in the controversial Oljorai farm in Elementaita in ...
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Ghana Church Stampede 4 dead as 30 others dozens injured in the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Accra Africa News
The church is the branch of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria which is owed by Prophet TB Joshua. The incident occurred on Sunday morning around 10:00 local time when the church was reportedly to be distributing free holy water in their normal church service. The holy water is believed to have the ability to cure spiritual problems and driving demons and evil spirit away. ...
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S.Africa central bank sentiment indicator down 1.1 pct in March
business confidence and money supply to gauge the economic outlook. Indices: 2000 = 100 Jan Feb March Leading Indicator 103.0 103.0 101.9 ...
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Congo Central Bank Governor Seen Extending Bank Services
Democratic Republic of Congo's central bank governor last week, may boost efforts to extend financial services to more of the country's 70 million people, an industry group said. The 48-year-old, who has worked as an economist at the bank for more than two decades, most recently serving as director of banking and markets, took over from Jean-Claude Masangu, who held the position ...
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In Africas Great Lakes region peace dividend must follow peace deal
Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbours, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women, and create economic opportunities that will help the countries forge a path to prosperity, good governance, and lasting stability.In the ...
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Kenya Governor Calls for Roads Audit
Bungoma Kenneth Lusaka has called for thorough audit of all road projects done by the Kenya Roads Board in the county.Lusaka said the audit will help minimise duplication of projects while making officers in-charge of such projects accountable. He was speaking at the weekend when he lead KRB directors on an inspection of roads in Bungoma.Lusaka said Sh3.2 billion has been allocated to ...
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Angola Huila Governor Pledges More Power Water
Lubango - The supply of electricity and drinking water to Lubango city, southern uila province, will improve significantly with the start of the thermal stations and completion of the ongoing rehabilitation works on the existing network. This was said by The governor of southern Huila province, João Marcelino Tyipinge. Speaking on the "Televisão Pública de ...
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Angola Government Works to Ensure Food Self-Sufficiency - Minister
Menongue - The Executive led by the President Jose Eduardo dos Santos will continue to work on agricultural programmes to ensure food self-sufficiency in the country, said this week-end the Agriculture minister Afonso Pedro Canga. Speaking to the press at the end of the visit to the rice cultivation farm "Longa", south-east Kuando Kubango province, Afonso Canga ensured that projects ...
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Angola Foreign Minister At African Union Jubilee
Luanda - The Angolan Foreign minister, Georges Chikoti, left Monday for the city of Addis Ababa, where he will participate in the jubilee celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the continental organization, on May 25. Before the trip, the official said that "these celebrations take place at a time when Africa is redefining its revival. First it had to fight for political ...
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East Africa Arusha-Singida Power Project Ushers in EA Energy Sector Integration
The East African Community plans to speed-up the Arusha Singida power interconnection project which will also link Arusha to Nairobi at the Isinya point of Kajiado District. "It is necessary to fast track the funding for implementing the Singida-Arusha-Nairobi (Isinya) interconnector so that Tanzania can also be interconnected with the other EAC Partner States," reads a statement from ...
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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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