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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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Kenya Hard questions for Ntiba at House vetting
Principal Secretary nominee Prof Japhet Ntiba Micheni is this morning scheduled to face the Parliamentary vetting committee where he is expected to respond to at least three sets of ...
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Feingold to serve as envoy to Africa
Former Sen. Russ Feingold is Secretary of State John Kerry’s pick to serve as the first-ever U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa, Kerry announced Tuesday. "Russ and I served together in the Senate for some 18 years," Kerry told reporters at the State Department. "I have a lot of respect for a lot of qualities of Russ, his intellect, his courage, his ...
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England v South Africa the key clashes
Amla had the Indian sign over the English last year, carrying his eye-catching form from a successful three-Test series (482 runs at an average of 120.50) into the drawn one-day contest that followed (335 at 111.66). There was a career-best 150 rattled up at the Rose Bowl, and an unbeaten 97 accumulated at Trent Bridge, with the opener irresistible and the home side rendered blunt. Anderson, ...
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Tanzania police fire teargas at protesters near blast site
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian police fired teargas and warning shots on Tuesday to disperse thousands of people protesting against a weekend bomb attack on an opposition campaign rally, eyewitnesses said. Supporters of the Chadema opposition party gathered in the northern city of Arusha to mourn the three people killed and the more than 50 people injured there in Saturday's blast, ...
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Kerry taps ex-senator Feingold for Africa post
Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday that he has chosen former Sen. Russ Feingold as the new U.S. special representative for the Great Lakes region of Africa and the ongoing crisis in the Congo. Congo's government and rebels, known as the M23, have been negotiating in Uganda since December under a regional bloc, but the talks have often been set back by accusations over ...
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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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