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Kenya One Billion Mandera Airport Plan On Course
Plans are underway to put up an international airport in Mandera town at a cost of Sh1 billion, the governor Ali Roba has said. He said the main purpose of the facility will be to enhance exportation of livestock products to the traditional markets in the Middle East, North Africa and other emerging outlets in the world. Addresing NGO representatives, Roba said his government has earmarked an ...
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Kenya Herders to Lose Jobs Tsavo Park Evictions
Some 4,500 people are set to lose their jobs following plans to evict Somali livestock farmers from ranches in Taita Taveta, Kwale and Kilifi counties. Coast police boss Aggrey Adoli said the farmers have encroached the Tsavo conservation area. "Domesticated animals cannot graze in a national park," Adoli told the Star yesterday. Two weeks ago, the farmers protested the planned ...
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Kenya Be Accountable CDF Team Told
Nambale MP John Bunyasi has asked Constituency Development Fund Committee members to play their role with transparency and accountability. "CDF is taxpayers' money. Therefore, I want the newly appointed CDF Team to exercise transparency and accountability in the utilization of the funds," Bunyasi said. The MP was speaking at a funeral ceremony at Okatekok village at the weekend ...
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Kenya Truth Commission Report Links Leaders to Abuses
NAIROBI -- A long-awaited report from Kenya’s Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) has linked several of Kenya’s leaders, including current President Uhuru Kenyatta, to abuses committed throughout the country’s history. The commission has called for further investigation of those responsible for these crimes in an effort to bring ...
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On joint visit to DR Congo UN and World Bank chiefs voice support for latest peace effort
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support a recent peace deal and promote economic development in the long-troubled region. ';This is a critical moment for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region,'; Mr. Ban told reporters in the capital, Kinshasa, following a meeting with ...
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Borren to lead against South Africa
On May 28, Netherlands' YB40 squad will travel to Amsterdam for the Canal Bike Race against the South Africans. They will then practice for two days in Amstelveen before the ODI. Squad: Peter Borren (capt), Wesley Barresi, Tom Cooper, Daan van Bunge, Mudassar Bukhari, Tom de Grooth, Tim Gruijters, James Gruijters, Tom Heggelman, Ahsan Malik, Paul van Meekeren, Stephan Myburgh, Pieter ...
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Mugabe signs Zimbabwe constitution paving way for vote
1 of 3. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (R) looks on as President Robert Mugabe signs Zimbabwe's new constitution into law in the capital Harare, May 22, ...
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Qatar Petroleum Takes 15 Stake in Total EP Congo
Qatar Petroleum International (QPI) and Total announced the signing of a framework of Agreement whereby QPI will participate in Total E&P Congo through its subscription to a 15 percent share capital increase of this company. This participation reinforces Qatar's commitment to invest in Africa and illustrates Congo's willingness to welcome Qatar as a new partner. Furthermore, thanks ...
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UN Suggests Africa Review Nature of International Nexus
By Ulises Canales, special envoyAddis Ababa, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Africa needs to review the nature of its relations with the international community, U.N. Deputy Secretary General Carlos Lopes advised today, outlining three strategic themes for bringing about a structural transformation of the continent. "This means insisting on more beneficial associations to strengthen changes in the ...
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Middle East North Africa - Rights situation in post-revolutionary Arab countries remains dire
Two years after the "Arab Spring" swept the Arab region and led within months to the ouster of the autocratic rulers in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen, the state of human rights in these countries remains dire and the chances for democratic transition face major challenges. Arab countries which were less affected by the "Arab Spring" also continue to witness serious human ...
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Africa must increase competitiveness or jeopardize future growth report warns
It said the strides made by African economies in achieving economic growth must be accompanied by efforts to boost long-term competitiveness if the continent is to ensure sustainable improvements in living ...
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Africas hot bond market could overheat as U.S. funds pile in
By Tim McLaughlin BOSTON | Wed May 22, 2013 11:28am EDT BOSTON May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. investors searching desperately for higher yields are piling into Africa's emerging bond markets but may not be getting paid enough for the chaos and uncertainty still stalking sub-Saharan countries, some portfolio managers said. Emerging market debt funds have outperformed nearly every other bond ...
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Mugabe Paves The Way For Zimbabwe Elections
President Robert Mugabe has cleared the path to crucial elections later this year by signing Zimbabwe's new constitution into law. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans at a referendum. "This is a happening of joy, great joy indeed," Mr Mugabe said at ...
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Zimbabwe gets a new constitution
Zimbabweans overwhelmingly approved a new draft constitution paving way for elections scheduled for later this year, the country's electoral commission announced Wednesday. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced that the draft constitution had received 3,079,966 votes, just fewer than 93 percent of the votes ...
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S.Africas FirstRand no longer keen on Nigerias Enterprise
JOHANNESBURG | Wed May 22, 2013 11:17am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 22 (Reuters) - South Africa's FirstRand is no longer considering an acquisition of Nigeria's Enterprise Bank, although it is still keen on rivals Keystone and Mainstreet, its chief executive said on Wednesday. FirstRand, South Africa's second-largest bank by value, had said previously it was looking at buying one ...
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East Africa EALA Urges Leaders to Assent to One Stop Border Posts Bill
The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) MPs have appealed to regional heads of state to urgently assent to the long-awaited One Stop Border Posts Bill that was passed last year in Kigali to facilitate trade and movement of people within the Community. The former Busiro East MP and now member of EALA ,Susan Nakawuki , told journalists that the bill will remove bureaucracies at the border ...
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Rapid Climate Change In South Africa Linked To Cultural Innovation In The Middle Stone Age
Image Credit: Middle Stone Age Silcrete bifacial points, engraved ochre and bone tools from the c. 75 - 80,000 year old M1 & M2 phases at Blombos cave. Image copyright held by author, Chris Henshilwood. Photo by Henning ...
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The anatomy of a Mozambique land deal
Local leaders at a recent meeting in Bandeze discuss the impact of a plantation project in the area NIASSA, 22 May 2013 (IRIN) - A multi-million dollar "ethical" plantation development in northwestern Mozambique - the initiative of a clutch of Scandinavian faith-based organizations - has faced alleged acts of sabotage by the very people it was designed to assist, illustrating the ...
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SA’s Africa Day Awareness Lagging Behind
However the responses we received were rather disappointing. Africa Day is an annual commemoration of the historic 1963 meeting of leaders of 32 independent African states to form the OAU, now simply known as African Union ...
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New Zimbabwe constitution can usher in new culture of human rights
Zimbabwe's new constitution presents a golden opportunity for the country to break away from a culture of impunity for human rights violations, Amnesty International said today.President Robert Mugabe today signed into law a new constitution, following a three-year constitution-making process to replace the Lancaster House constitution adopted at independence in 1980."The new ...
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Zimbabwes Mugabe signs new constitution into law
President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday signed Zimbabwe's new constitution into law, clearing the path to crucial elections later this year. The longtime ruler inked the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved in a referendum. "This day is an historic day, it's about the future," Constitutional Affairs Minister Eric Matinenga said at the signing ceremony, held ...
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MIDEAST DEBT-Africa tempts Gulf bond investors
By Rachna Uppal and Mala Pancholia DUBAI | Wed May 22, 2013 10:00am EDT DUBAI May 22 (Reuters) - The lure of sub-saharan Africa, with its geographic proximity and promise of higher returns, is tempting cash-rich Gulf Arab bond investors to look south, a marked departure from the relative comfort and familiarity of the Middle East. Gulf investment in Africa is not a new trend, with ...
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Zimbabwe Global Fund Project in Zimbabwe Uses Technology to Improve Data Collection
A project being implemented under a Global Fund grant will improve Zimbabwe's health information systems by providing Internet connection infrastructure for 82 urban and rural sites. The Zimbabwe project is just one of many similar projects around the world where modern communications technology is being used to enhance data collection. The project is part of a Round 8 health systems ...
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Angola Governor Happy With Healthcare in Bengo
Caxito - The governor of northern Bengo province, João Bernardo de Miranda, said Tuesday in Caxito that the health sector in the region has social infrastructures that ensure a personalised medical care to residents. The governor who was speaking to Angop, added that the region has a health network with more than 96 units among hospitals, health centres and posts. The head of Bengo ...
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South Africa Western Cape Minister for Finance Economic Development and Finance Alan Winde Announces Spaces for Broadband Networks Pilot Phase
The Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) area in Khayelitsha has been selected as one of the first spaces to be linked to the broadband network. The Western Cape Government's broadband network will play a major role in transforming residents' lives, says Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Alan Winde. "As a major business hub in one of our ...
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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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