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Rwanda Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwandas Technology and Digital Ambitions
AS RWANDA Day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the Rwandan business community in the diaspora can play by embracing the creation of Rwanda startup culture and make a difference in creating much needed jobs at the same time benefiting from the growth of the ICT sector. Rwanda Day is a periodical event that is held in different ...
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Rwanda Nur Coach Nyirimana Eyes V-Ball League Title
National University of Rwanda head coach Fidele Nyirimana alias Fidjo believes his side can win the league title this season. NUR are tied on points with the Institute of Agriculture and Technology of Kibungo (INATEK) going into their meeting in today's stage five round of matches at the former's gymnasium. The winner will go two points clear at the top in Group Three. Eight-times ...
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Uganda Govt Releases Sh1.2 Trillion for Last Quarter
The Government has released money to ministries, departments and local governments for the last quarter of this financial year. The release is in line with the 2012/13 budgetary allocations endorsed by Parliament last year. The commissioner in charge of budget and evaluation in the Ministry of Finance, Kenneth Mugambe, disclosed that the total release for the quarter was sh1.2 trillion. ...
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Tanzania Dar es Salaam Bourse Record Outstanding Performance
THE Dar es Salaam bourse recorded outstanding performance last week with turnover rising to 2.43bn/-, which is 514.7 per cent high compared o 395m/- of the previous session. The increased trading activity at the market was buoyed by the banking and industrial segments. The Tanzania Securities Limited (TSL) weekly market report shows that shares which changed hands at the bourse rose to ...
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Rwanda Rwandan Films Among Want-to-See Titles At Seattle Film Festival
ON MY first pass through the annual Seattle International Film Festival lineup, it's easy enough to find a few want-to-see titles: a movie by director X, whose previous film was top-notch; a film starring Y, an actor always worth watching; a documentary about Z, some subject of interest. This year, Z actually stands for "zombie," but we'll get to that. Aside from the ...
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Rwanda Schools Rewarded for Promoting Reading Culture
APE Rugunga emerged winner of the inaugural reading and writing competition that was held at Rwanda Library Services, an event organised by the Ministry of Sports and Culture among other partners. Seventeen schools participated in the competition where Petit Seminaire Ndera, Lycee Notre Dame de Cîteaux, Christ-Roi Nyanza and HVP Gatagara were also among the top five. The top five schools ...
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Rwanda Ferwafa Minispoc Should Task Clubs to Invest in Youth
If you take a deep analysis of sports development and particularly football; you realize that the strength and potential of the club to perform well consistently requires a good youth foundation. Football management is not always about buying the best players; it can also be about identifying and developing the potential of young players for the future of the club. For the case of Rwanda, ...
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Kenya Bomet County Reps Reject Budget
County representatives in Bomet have refused to approve the county supplementary budget for a second time over a stalemate on the county assembly allocation. The representatives on Thursday forced the Committee on budget and appropriation to withdraw a motion to debate and approve the budget saying their earlier calls to have the budget amended have not been factored. They said the budgetary ...
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Rwanda Agaciro Exported to London
The Rwanda Day event held in London this year marked another successful milestone when thousands turned up for the event. The now popular event is another rare initiative that has come to attract many foreigners, who have a chance to interact with the President and pose questions in any area of their choice and receive frank answers. Most of the foreigners and friends of Rwanda had nothing but ...
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Rwanda Kajuga Targets to Win Kigali Half Marathon
RWANDA'S leading middle distance athlete Robert Kajuga is optimistic on staging a conquering performance when the ninth edition of the Kigali Peace Marathon sets off today at Amahoro National Stadium. Speaking to Sunday Sport on Friday, Kajuga said, I have done thorough training for the race keeping in mind that I want to win this year's half marathon title. "We have not trained ...
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Gabon opposition chief faces treason case
Mr Obame leads the one-year-old National Union party, uniting many of Gabon's main opposition parties. In the August 2009 presidential election, Mr Obame stood as an independent candidate, losing out to interim President Ali Bongo. The Gabonese opposition leader in January created international headlines as he declared himself winner of the elections held 17 months earlier. The declaration ...
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Concerns over Congos ill-prepared elections
Congo Kinshasa (DRC) authorities plan to hold the 5 December constitutional deadline to hold elections, but observers warn the vast country is in no way prepared to do ...
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Uganda opposition wins Kampala mayor vote
In the first-ever significant opposition election victory, Erias Lukwago was declared winner of the polls in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. But the powers of the mayor's office have been ...
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Huge Uganda election funding questioned
A 3 February press statement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that a team from the Fund would visit Uganda in June 2011 to examine an economy that has experienced skyrocketing prices and hard currency shortage in a dash for Mr Museveni to win elections. Several government and donor sources suggest President Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party may have ...
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Tanzania cultural sector to get major boost
A well-funded "major programme" to support the cultural sector is close to be approved. The programme would fund Tanzanian entrepreneurs in the cultural field and help conserving national ...
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Uganda Presidents campaign still soft-handed
Foreign election observers may hold the Ugandan President back from the typical intimidation during elections, many Ugandans hold. The European Union (EU) is among those having an observer mission in the country. According to Graham Elson, deputy European election observer mission leader for the Ugandan polls, the EU is spending euro 4 million on it mission. Ugandans on 18 February are to choose ...
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Congo halts oil exploration in Virunga Park
The government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has suspended the highly controversial oil exploration programme in the unique Virunga National Park, a World Heritage ...
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Rough election climate emerges in Uganda
This month's general elections in Uganda, widely expected to be won by President Yoweri Museveni, are held in a rough climate, with the opposition crying fraud and the army getting ...
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Large-scale logging underway in DR Congo
New decisions by the Congo Kinshasa government, lifting a 9-year moratorium, mean that up to 25 million hectares of rainforest could be sacrificed for industrial ...
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African Union chief No comment on North Africa
The opposition of Equatorial Guinea today denounced President Teodoro Obiang Ngeuma, who is also the current African Union (AU) President, for keeping quiet on the North African ...
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Doing business in Africa becoming easier
Foreign investments in Africa are strongly increasing as the continent displays on of the world's highest growth numbers. African analysts hold that this is a consequence of improved business environments in ...
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Africa receives least health aid
New research reveals that the part of development aid directed towards health issues has increased strongly during the last two decades. But Africa receives far less health aid than less challenged developing countries, compared to ...
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Zimbabwe to institute compulsory infrastructure sharing
Zimbabwe's government has announced plans to institute compulsory infrastructure sharing among telecommunication providers, in order to remove the duplication in investments, which saw an overinvestment in some areas of the country, resulting in environmental degradation while others have remained neglected. The permanent secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure ...
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M23 rebels clash with soldiers in eastern Congo military says
GOMA, Congo - A military commander in eastern Congo says rebels attacked an army position north of Goma, a major provincial capital in the country's troubled east. Lt. Col. Mamadou Ndala said Monday that the attackers were from the M23 movement, a Tutsi-led rebellion believed to be backed by neighbouring Rwanda. Last November, the M23 succeeded in overrunning Goma. It took intense ...
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Namibia President Declares Drought Emergency
President Hifikepunye Pohamba last Friday declared a national emergency due to the devastating drought that has already killed 4 000 large and small stock. The current nationwide drought has also affected over 300 000 people classified as food insecure. "Our country is experiencing the wrath of mother nature in the form of a devastating drought," Pohamba said during a press conference ...
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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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