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Kenya My passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits
Kitui County , 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day's work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the 'prick' was the bite from ...
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Statoil Completes Tanzania Farm-In
Statoil ASA reported Friday that it has acquired a 12-percent working interest in the Block 6 license, offshore Tanzania, from operator Petrobras Tanzania. Block 6 covers 2,130 square miles in the Mafia basin, offshore Tanzania. It is located approximately 105 miles north of Statoil's Block 2, where the company made three high-impact gas discoveries in 2012 and earlier this year. After ...
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Angola to Carry Out Fumigation Campaign Against Mosquitoes in Luanda
Luanda, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Health brigades are set to carry out an intense three month fumigation campaign here in Angola's capital, to eradicate mosquitoes carrying dengue and malaria, reported government sources here today. Throughout Luanda, Cuban health workers will collaborate with an anti-vector control group and other agencies to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds, said the ...
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Niger Al-Qaeda Attack 20 people dead as dozens others left injured in Niger Africa News
Both attacks were carried out as people prepared for early morning prayers known as Fajir just after 05:00 local time (04:00 GMT). Local reporters say a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in two towns in north-west of the country were the target of the terrorists. A bomb at a barracks in Agadez killed 19, including 18 soldiers while four terrorists died in the attack and a passbyer. ...
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Kenya asks UN to squash ICC case
New York - Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the United Nations Security Council to ';terminate'; International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence in which more than 1 000 people died and 600 000 were evicted from their ...
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Africa’s Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda’s tragic story
Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are ...
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
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Africa Investing in Africas Women
Cape Town - Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Grace Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her inspiring words were delivered during her keynote address at the Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) symposium in Cape Town, South Africa - attended by some of the continent's most powerful women. ...
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UN chief challenges African leaders over Congo
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging African leaders to implement a plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo after years of ...
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4 Innovative Models Changing Health Care In Africa
By David J. Olson In Tanzania, giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out tuberculosis in human sputum samples. DubbedHeroRATS, the animals can evaluate 40 samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a full day. In northern Kenya, health services–including family planning services–are being brought to 36 remote, underserved communities by ...
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Uganda president ousts army boss amid dispute - NBC40.net
By RODNEY MUHUMUZAAssociated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state. Sacked army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima was appointed minister of internal affairs, effectively cutting his links to the army's chain of ...
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Advocacy group Kenyas mental hospital confines drugs patients
NAIROBI, Kenya - An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients. Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section is ...
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Zimbabwe Zim Faces Food Crisis
THIRTEEN years after its fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe is still importing most of its food and is far from regaining its breadbasket status. Analysts have said the discordant land tenure system ushered in after the reforms remains an albatross around the economy's neck. However, President Robert Mugabe appears to ignore that the country needs a deep relook at land ...
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Zimbabwe Still Rolling Out the Barrel
Delta Corporation Limited, the biggest counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by capitalisation, recently published results for the 12 months ended March 31 2013. Results from the brewer are always much anticipated by the investment community and as such the results presentation is always well-attended. This is because Delta accounts for 30% of the total market capitalisation on the ZSE ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN World Bank Say Development Is Key to Congo Peace
Goma - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo's conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN Chief Goes to Eastern DRC After Clashes
U.n. Chief Ban Ki - moon flew into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday, just hours after a halt in fighting between rebels and government troops. Rebel group M23 had announced a temporary cease-fire before Ban arrived in Goma, the capital of war-torn North Kivu province. Congo's government says 19 people were killed in three days of fighting between the army and M23 north of ...
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Africa Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational High - Tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa's relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more optimistic. "Africa is that frontier right now," said Canada-based New Media marketing strategist Douglas ...
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Africa New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, business and civil society representatives. Among those ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Civilians Must Be Spared the Fighting in Goma
Geneva/Kinshasa - Inhabited areas north of the city of Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were hit by shelling on 21 and 22 May. Fighting with heavy weapons resumed at the beginning of the week in the hills of Mutaho, Rusayo and Muja, barely 10 kilometres north-west of Goma. "Thousands of people, including people displaced from other parts of the province ...
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Africa AGRA Welcomes African Unions Renewed Commitment to Agriculture
Nairobi - Jane Karuku, President of AGRA, said: "We share the African Union’s vision for an Africa that is free of hunger; an Africa that boasts a strong agricultural sector that provides food, labour and wealth for all groups of society. The theme of this year’s summit - ‘Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance’ - is fitting. We are optimistic about ...
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Zimbabwe Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag
IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and organised by TechZim. Among the notable directors were Zol CEO and Liquid Telecomms director David Behr, chief commercial officer of Africa's largest undersea fibre laying consortium WIOCC, James Wekesa and ...
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Africa Pan African Business Conference Opens in Addis Ababa
Pan African Business Conference organized in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/AU opens on Friday at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa. Speaking at the opening of the Conference, African Union Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwenca said Africa's private sector has a pivotal role in the continent's development. He said Africa ...
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ABB to Commence Production of Central Photovoltaic Inverters in South Africa
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local photovoltaic (PV) market and local content ...
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Zimbabwe activist Prisoners denied Aids drugs
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS ...
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Zimbabwe Mugabe Trip to Tokyo to Gobble Millions
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will next week gobble millions of dollars when he takes a huge entourage of more than 50 government officials to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) from June 1 to 3, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Top government sources said Mugabe is expected to take a high-powered delegation of cabinet ministers, directors of ...
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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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