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Southern Africa Zimbabwe Poll Date in Flux After Regional Body Calls for Delay
JOHANNESBURG - Regional leaders have requested that Zimbabwe's government delay upcoming elections to give the troubled nation time to make sure the vote is free and fair. President Robert Mugabe set elections for July 31, saying he was complying with a ruling of the Constitutional Court. The request from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supports the argument of Prime ...
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Zambia Zambia Opposition Demands Inquiry Into Violent Attacks
Zambian opposition parties are calling for an independent investigation into violence allegedly carried out by a militia group affiliated with President Michael Sata's ruling Patriotic Front (PF). "We are making a demand on the police to be professional, investigate what is going on and let us know whether this government wants to govern by violence, so that we can make up our minds ...
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Uganda Uganda Warns Meddling Envoys
Uganda's foreign minister has warned foreign envoys in the country not to interfere in the East African nation's internal affairs. Henry Okello Oryem says he has told the envoys to use regular diplomatic channels with President Yoweri Museveni's government to resolve their concerns about governance issues. "Ambassadors and other diplomatic missions come with clear terms of ...
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Kenya Kuppet Insists Teachers Strike On Even As Learning Went Uninterrupted
Nairobi - The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) insists that secondary school teachers are on strike even as learning went on uninterrupted in most schools. KUPPET National Chairman Omboka Milemba has told Capital News that all secondary school teachers are under instructions to stay away from class until they get further directives from the Union. "The teachers must ...
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Kenya Refugee Software Apps Selected as Finalists in Hackathon Event
Nairobi - Two projects developed by Kenyan-based software developers designed to connect refugees and victims of war have been selected as finalists in the two-day developer session "Hackathon" organized by Refugees United and Ericsson on June 15 and16 in Nairobi. The two winning projects will now be presented at Kakuma Refugee Camp on June 20 (Thursday) as part of the World Refugee ...
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Kenya Mechanics Traders Arrested During Protest
Nairobi - Dozens of traders and mechanics were arrested on Tuesday morning as they protested a move to evict them from their stalls at the Grogan area in down town Nairobi. Police used teargas to disperse the traders who found the area sealed off following a court order barring them from operating on the disputed private piece of land. There was a major stand-off as heavily armed police ...
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Cameroon Nigerian Refugee Exodus Spreading to Cameroon
GENEVA - The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) reports people are continuing to flee the crisis in northeastern Nigeria's Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states. It said the refugee exodus is now spreading to Cameroon, where more than 3,000 Nigerians have fled. UNHCR said thousands of Nigerians began crossing into Cameroon one week ago. The new arrivals tell aid workers they fled a ...
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UPDATE 2-Gunvor builds Africa presence with Gabon fuel trading deal
Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:47pm EDT * African fuels market one of world's fastest growing * Gunvor seeks to support trading ops with new assets * Rivals such as Vitol, Trafigura also have large African presence (Releads with Gunvor confirmation, comment) By Jean-Rovys Dabany and Emma Farge LIBREVILLE/GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) - Switzerland's Gunvor has signed a deal with Gabon to create a ...
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South Africa want to reverse the ball to swing it like England
AB de Villiers is prepared to give England the benefit of the doubt over accusations that the Champions Trophy hosts have been guilty of ball-tampering. Ashley Giles, ...
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Kenya Farmers want State officers in Sh500m NCPB saga probed
This follows revelations to the Public Investment Committee yesterday that powerful people in Government were behind the Sh500 million award against the grain supplier. ...
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Kenya Kibakis office cash diverted to teachers
NAIROBI, KENYA: Public school teachers agitating for pay won a first round victory on Tuesday when Parliament secured more than Sh4 billion for their ...
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Kenya Farmers block project in pay dispute
The farmers alleged that the water provision body constructed sewerage pipes in their farms and despite a valuation that was conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture last January, they are yet to be compensated. The farmers, through their spokesman, Mr Wambugu Nyamu, said the board duped farmers that they will be compensated for the crops destroyed. "They also claimed that the Government ...
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Kenya Kaimenyi calls for more time makes it clear teachers demands will be met but not now
MOMBASA, KENYA: Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has asked the teachers unions to allow time for dialogue instead of asking teachers to boycott ...
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Kenya Children who can only see in the dark
children , shows squinted and fast-blinking eyes during the day but at dusk, the eyes return to normal. Ms Litei, who lives with her family at Kapchebogel village at the edge of Kasisit escarpment in Baringo North District, Baringo County says her ...
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Kenya Ruto wins ICC plea not to attend court
ICC trial due to start on September 10, a three-judge bench ruled that Ruto would be required to attend court during key parts of the trial, such as the opening and closing statements, but not throughout as is customary. Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta, elected on a joint ticket in March, face charges of orchestrating violence after the previous election five years ago, in which 1,200 people ...
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Kenya Official faults Keino accident theory
However, Mr Oduor explained that failure by pathologists to visit the scene of the accident posed challenges in establishing the real cause of death but noted some evidence casts doubt on the accident ...
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Botswana Botswana Court Sides With San in Ranyane Relocation Case
Gaborone, June 18 - In a major victory for the San in Botswana, a court issued an order today restraining the government from relocating people from Ranyane. The San went to court when it became clear that the authorities were planning to forcibly relocate people from the settlement, which is around 220 km south of Gantsi and houses a community of more than 600 San. "We appeal to the ...
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Congo-Kinshasa A Letter on DRC to the British Prime Minister
London - Dear Prime Minister RE: The G8 Time to Save the Congo! William Hague made history last April that far too few people know about. Britain became the first G8 country to put the wars and human tragedy engulfing the Congo on the G8 agenda; an issue which Save the Congo! as well as MPs and Peers on all sides of both Houses have campaigned for over the past five months. This July, ...
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Rwanda IMF Extends Policy Support Instrument for Rwanda
Washington, DC - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed on June 17, 2013, the sixth review under a three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Rwanda.1 The Executive Board has also extended the PSI by seven months to end-January 2014. The Executive Board's decision was taken on a lapse of time basis.2 Economic activity in 2012 was resilient despite ...
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Africa African Union Calls for More Investment to Promote Jobs in Africa
GENEVA (ILO News) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has called for more investment to promote job creation, achieve inclusive growth and eradicate poverty in a continent which in the next fifty years will be home to 1.1 billion workers - more than a third of the global workforce. "We are determined to step up our efforts to promote job creation, ...
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Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Cardinal Peter Turkson to Take Part in Upcoming EventsROME, May 29, 2013 (Zenit.org) - With a call to bring justice ministry to the center of Christian life, Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, joins celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network.The Cardinal, who celebrates Mass for the occasion, focuses his ...
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Piracy Victims Endure Harsher Treatment in East Africa
International Maritime Bureau (IMB), however, Somali pirates tend to mete out harsher treatment to their hostages. The report focuses on the human impact of piracy. According to the International Maritime Bureau’s data, the total number of seafarers attacked by pirates decreased significantly in 2012. But it says although the number of attacks decreased, there was a sharp rise in ...
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Kenya Industrial action splits giant union bosses
He said the union has given Government time to consult and dialogue with them even as they ready for a strike. "There cannot be a successful strike if it is not called by Knut," said Sossion. As he spoke, Kuppet national vice-chairperson Julius Korir said the strike has kicked off well and that teachers have absconded ...
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Kenya Midiwo wants Sh53.2 billion for laptop project given to teachers
MP Jakayo Midiwo said he will move an amendment of budgetary allocation by National Treasury so that teachers salaries and allowances are paid once and for ...
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Kenya Students expose more rot at troubled varsity
NAIROBI, KENYA: Fresh revelations of the rot at Presbyterian University of East Africa surfaced yesterday after it emerged that the church-sponsored institution has been mixing students doing the same course but in different years of study in one lecture ...
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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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