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Uganda A Case of Misguided Students
The Rwandan Ambassador to Uganda H.E Frank Mugambagye has refuted claims attributed to Rwandan students who fled to Uganda in pursuit of asylum, that they were being conscripted into the M23 rebel group among others as baseless and ridiculous. The diplomat who was speaking to the press at the Rwandan high commission in Kampala said that the 16 students who include 2 girls and 14 boys where part ...
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Botswana split over Kalahari court ruling
The Botswana government is frustrated about yesterday's Court of Appeal decision to allow the indigenous San ("Bushman") people of a Kalahari reserve drill for water. Human rights groups celebrate the ...
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Niger transition shows way for North Africa
With Saturday's second-round presidential elections, Niger ends a model one-year all-inclusive democratic transition process. The process could be an example for the revolutions in Egypt and ...
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Pedal power may clean up Tanzania slum
The slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, are an unhealthy and smelly place due to freely flowing sewage. Now, a researcher has found a low-threshold technology without needing electricity that could clean up the ...
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Gabon officials seize chimpanzee body parts
Wildlife officers in Gabon have arrested five men accused of possessing illegal animal products, including those of endangered species. As there are traditions of bushmeat consumption in Gabon, the arrests signal a stricter law ...
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Central African Rep clamps down on poachers
An operation by special police forces earlier this week in the Central African Republic led to the arrest of a key wildlife smuggler and seizure of elephant tusks and cat ...
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Africas worst dictator becomes AU leader
Equatorial Guinea's Dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema has been elected to take over the post of chairman of the African Union (AU). "This is the darkest day in the AU's history," afrol News editors ...
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Africa to see rise in investments
According to IMF analyst Shawn Ladd, Africa is to see a strong rise in investment this year and in the years to come. Mr Ladd however foresees the strongest rise in investments in Africa to originate in Asia, above all China. African trade is already shifting toward the dynamic emerging markets, notably China. Trade between China and Africa has been expanding rapidly, growing by an average of 30 ...
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Kenya Rapists on the prowl they target mentally ill women
The UN Convention on the rights of people with disability notes that women and girls with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse.? About 25 per cent of women with intellectual disabilities have been raped and six per cent forcibly sterilised. The Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped puts the number of mentally challenged people in Kenya at 3.6 million.? Mary is one of ...
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Lifestyle Rapid desertification in Kenya threatening livelihood
Kenya: Drought has eroded the country's natural resources to an extent that they are inadequate for production and support for livelihoods, Environment Cabinet ...
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Coal of Africa surges most in five months
Johannesburg - Coal of Africa, which owns collieries in South Africa, jumped the most in more than five months in Johannesburg after saying its Makhado project may deliver 5.5 million metric tons of the fuel ...
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S.Africa warns US as Fed meets on stimulus
South Africa's finance minister urged the US on Wednesday to consider the impact that any winding down of monetary stimulus would have on emerging markets, after weeks of market volatility.Hours before the conclusion of the US Federal Reserve's latest monetary policy meeting, minister Pravin Gordhan urged the US to "beware of the spill-over effect of your actions."His ...
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Mozambiques Renamo threatens to paralyse vital coal railway
MAPUTO (Reuters) - The Renamo opposition party, a former guerrilla organisation, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line out of Mozambique's vast coalfields in an effort to hurt the government. Renamo information chief Jeronimo Malagueta told a news conference in Maputo that disruption of the Sena line connecting the northwest region of Tete to the Indian Ocean port of ...
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Weak rand boosts export demand to shrink South Africa current account gap
current account deficit in the first quarter of the year, a trend that could continue if the sharply depreciated rand remains weak. Consumer inflation for May also slowed more than expected, giving ...
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Lens Blog West Africa as Seen From Its Barbershops
Mr. Esiebo , 34, a Nigerian photographer, is fascinated by the nuances of this relationship and how men present themselves to the world. He has traveled through seven West African countries to explore how barbers and their shops function, and to document the often kinetic aesthetics of the salons. Whether they consisted of a single chair on a sidewalk or a fancy space in a shopping center, the ...
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South Africa Equal Education Vs Motshekga Gets Nasty
The struggle between Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, and activist organisation Equal Education, is getting nasty. The Department has accused EE of using whites to mislead black people and EE has accused the Department of racism. EE held Youth Day marches on Monday 17 June in Cape Town and Pretoria. The marches were part of EE's campaign to get Minister Motshekga to publish a ...
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Uganda Court to Hear Lukwago Petition On Tribunal Today
Justice Vincent Zehurikize of the High Court in Kampala is today expected to hear a petition filed by Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago seeking to block the tribunal instituted to review a petition by city councillors calling for his sacking. Lukwago filed the petition on Monday through his law firm. The tribunal is scheduled to start seating tomorrow at Metropole Hotel in the upscale city ...
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Uganda Uganda South African Army Chiefs Discuss Security
Visiting South African Special Forces Commander, Brigade General Rudzani Maphwanya has held talks with the Chief of Defense Forces, General Edward Katumba Wamala. The meeting took place at the ministry of defense headquarters, at Mbuya in Kampala. Brigadier General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Commander Special Forces Command also attended. According to Capt. Edison Kwesiga, the spokesperson, ...
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South Africa Orange Extends South Africa Footprint
French telecommunications operator Orange and South Africa's Nashua Mobile have signed an agreement to expand the firm's South African footprint by opening several local retail outlets. Orange entered the South African market in January when it launched an e-commerce store and online portal. The new agreement will extend Orange's reach to a fully-fledged in-store service ...
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Cameroon Lawmen Explain Role in Tatsa Family Saga
Lawmen in Bamenda, headquarter of the North West Region, who are at the centre of allegations by beneficiaries of the Tatsa Estate that they ganged up to "wrongfully and illegally claim FCFA 1.583.788 awarded by the Courts for work not done" (CT No.10357/6558 of June 7th, 2013) have dismissed the allegations as derogatory, baseless, impossible and unfounded. It emerged from a briefing ...
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Uganda MP Dragged to Court Over SH40 Million Bad Debt
The Kalungu woman MP, Florence Kintu who was recently dragged to court for defaulting payment of sh40m debt has admitted to borrowing sh25m and asked court's indulgence on the interest rate. Through her lawyer, Silas Mugabi, the MP told Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court that she borrowed sh25m but failed to repay because she had financial problems, and yet the interest rate was inflated by ...
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Rwanda Rwanda and Israel to Forge Closer Ties
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame arrived in Jerusalem, Israel, on Monday to strengthen ties between the Middle East nation and his country at the fifth Israel Presidential Conference. Kagame hopes to posit Rwanda's economic security in line with that of Israel's at the 2013 Israeli Presidential Conference, The Africa Report said. Bilateral meetings between Kagame, Israeli ...
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Angola Mbanza Kongo to Benefit From 220 Kw of Energy
Mbanza Kongo - Mbanza Kongo city, capital of the northern Zaire province, will benefit in three years a 220 KW-power supply line from the gas combined cycle station, under construction in Soyo district. This was said to Angop on Tuesday here by the Secretary of State for Energy, Joaquim Ventura, in the meeting with local government, as part of his few-hour visit that he paid to Zaire province, ...
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Angola Capital Flight Amounted At Over One Billion Kwanzas
Luanda - Capital flight in Angola, in 2011, was amounted at 1.7 billion kwanzas, according to the director of the Studies and International Relations Office of the Finance Ministry, João Boa Francisco Quipipa. The official provided the information in Luanda, during a conference on "Capital flight and development policy to favour the poorest in Angola", promoted by Norwegian ...
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Cameroon Governor Commissions New Nigerian Consul General
His Excellency Musa Mallam Hassan is in charge of the Littoral and West Regions of Cameroon. The Governor of the Littoral Region, Joseph Beti Assomo yesterday June 18 officially installed the new Nigerian Consul General in Douala. In a solemn ceremony that held at the Banquet Hall of his office premises, His Excellency Musa Mallam Hassan was presented to his new collaborators. Charged with ...
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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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