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Putting Ugandas child labourers back in school
Over half of Uganda's children are not just forced to work, says a recent report, but they must do so in hazardous jobs. Ugandan NGO Kids in Need hopes to put an end to this. Along with local community members, they're helping give the country's future generation opportunities to get off the street or out of the quarry and return to ...
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England S. Africa face off in Champions Trophy semis
England's Joe Root (2nd R) celebrates during the Champions Trophy match against New Zealand on June 16, 2013. England were lucky the weather favoured them on Sunday as the hosts squeezed out a 10-run win over New Zealand in a game reduced to 24-overs-a-side due to ...
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Kenya Widows of Slain Terror Suspects Arraigned in Court
Mombasa - The widows of two terror suspects who were shot dead by police in Mombasa on Monday have been charged with possession of firearms. Salim Mohammed's widow, Rehema was charged for being in possession of an AK-47 and 147 rounds of ammunitions before a Magistrate's Court in Shanzu on Tuesday but denied the accusations and was released on a Sh500,000 bond. Fatma Masoup, widow of ...
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Kenya MPs Committee Rejects Sh700 Million Kibaki Office Plan
Nairobi - The National Assembly's committee on Budget and Appropriations on Tuesday rejected proposals by the government to spend Sh700 million to purchase an office building for immediate former President Mwai Kibaki. The Committee has instead re-allocated part of the funds for the teachers' salary to end the looming strike occasioned by demands dating back to 1997. The Committee on ...
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Uganda Another Couple Slaughtered in Rakai
The alarming spate of senseless murders continues to rock the country with the latest victims being a married couple in Rakai that was slaughtered on Sunday night, the day a New Vision journalist, Thomas Pere, was killed in Kampala. Charles Yiga 34, a coffee dealer who owned a hardware store in Kyotera was slaughtered together with his wife, Maureen Namaato, 30, and their heads taken when thugs ...
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Rwanda Best of East African It Implementations to Be Showcased At CIO 100 in Kigali
Oracle, Coseke, Cyberoam and Compulynx have come in sponsors in the CIO 100 Symposium and Awards. The four firms confirmed their commitment at a press briefing held Tuesday morning at a Nairobi hotel. At the event, CIO 100 announced that over 320 applications had been received, from which the best 100 will be shortlisted. The top implementations will be awarded at a gala dinner during the event, ...
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East Africa Double Taxation Pinches East African Businesses With Regional Reach
Nairobi - Paul Ouma imports and sells second-hand Japanese cars and spare parts in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The 37-year-old Kenyan started his business ten years ago and expanded to the two other East African Community (EAC) member-states within the first five years of operation. But now he may close his branches in Tanzania and Uganda because of "unfriendly" taxation rules. ...
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Uganda Ugandans Have to Dig Deeper
Kampala - East African governments have all tightened the noose around their citizens to raise the percentage of domestic tax collection as a percentage of total annual returns. Uganda is no exception. This sends a clear signal for a tough and challenging financial year 2013/14. This was vindicated in the reading of respective budgets for the financial year 2013/14 amidst dwindling foreign aid ...
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Tanzania TANESCO in Rush to Cater for New Users
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) will spend Tsh4.24 billion (about $2.5 million) for electric poles. The move is expected to boost the company's capacity to connect more customers. The state owned power utility said last week over 55% of their customers who applied for electricity, have been connected to the national grid. This development comes after the company ...
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Tanzania Govt Hooks 1994 Children Out of Child Labour
TANZANIA has managed to remove 1,994 children from child labour in various sectors in Zanzibar and mainland. This was said yesterday by the Minister for Labour and Employment (MP), Hon. Gaudentia Kabaka during the 102nd session of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Conference which is being held in Geneva, Switzerland from June 5 to 20th. She said that the process was successful ...
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Uganda GOtv to Spread Further
MultiChoice, under one of its brand segments, GOtv, is spreading its digital television services to the rest of Uganda as the country embarks on digital migration. "We have been operating within Kampala and Entebbe for the past two years but we are soon moving to several other parts of the country," said Patricia Kiconco, GOtv Uganda Segment Manager, during a luncheon to update the ...
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Tanzania Tanzania Draft Constitution Stirs Land Rights Debate
Dar es Salaam - Tanzanians are debating whether the new federal government should give up ownership and control of all of the country's land as framed under the draft constitution. Unveiled by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) on June 3rd, the first draft blueprint of Tanzania's new government structure has left some wondering if the new constitution would guarantee citizens ...
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Tanzania Donors Lose Interest in Isles Economy
DEVELOPMENT partners are now reluctant to support Zanzibar because they have lost their trust, some Members of the House of Representatives have said when discussing the 2013/14 annual budget estimates. "Donors are turning away because of rampant corruption in government and the unjustifiable share Zanzibar has been receiving from the 'General Budget Support (GBS) controlled by the ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Burundi Defence Chiefs Meet
Burundi Defence Forces Chief of General Staff, Maj Gen Prime Niyongabo is in the country on a three-day official visit. The Chief of General Staff is leading a delegation that arrived in the country on Monday. The visit is aimed at strengthening the cordial relations between the two nations. The CGS who inspected a Guard of Honour at Rwanda Defence Forces headquarters yesterday was received by ...
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Rwanda Man Sentenced to Life for Killing Three Muhanga Residents
A 31-year-old man who killed three people in Muhanga District late last month has been sentenced to life in jail. Jean Uwihoreye, who was better known in his home village as Bisazi, was found guilty of aggravated murder by a judge at the High Court in Nyanza District. The verdict was pronounced yesterday afternoon. The convict was not in court when the sentence was announced. While delivering ...
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Tanzania Zanzibar Legislator Commissions Buses for Students Transport
HASSAN Mussa, a Standard Seven student was seriously injured in his left eye by a commuter bus (Daladala) conductor when trying to stop the student from boarding the bus. The conductor (or utingo) slapped the student in the face injuring the eye. The incident sparked anger from people and activists, prompting them to call on the police to prosecute and punish the 'utingo.' They also ...
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Tanzania Review TMAA Role Govt Urged
Dodoma - A FORMER commissioner of minerals wants the Tanzania Minerals Audit Agency (TMAA) be reviewed as its mandate and responsibilities overlap with that of other agencies. Mr Dalaly Peter Kafumu, a Member of Parliament of Igunga Constituency in Tabora Region said in Parliament on Monday that TMAA roles and responsibilities overlapped those of other institutions, such as the Tanzania Revenue ...
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Rwanda Govt Moves to Upgrade Meteorology Facilities
About $450,000 (Rfw292 million) has been earmarked by the Ministry of Natural Resources and its sister agencies, with the support of development partners to upgrade meteorological and hydrological stations to boost climate data management and service delivery. The project aims at providing investment and technical support to improve the hydrological observation and data management systems in ...
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Fawad Ahmed to tour Africa at same time as Ashes
Pakistan-born spinner Fawad Ahmed is being sent to Africa on an Australia A tour at the same time as the Ashes series.But Ahmed remains in contention for the Ashes should his Australian citizenship be approved in time, the chairman of selectors John Inverarity says.Ahmed and fellow spinner Ashton Agar were on Wednesday named in a 15-man Australia A squad for an African tour next ...
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Rwanda Guyana Courts Rwanda Ties On Environment ICT
The minister for environment and natural resources from Guyana, Robert M. Persaud, is on a working visit in Rwanda to explore possibilities of cooperation between the two countries. The visit which was organised by the UN in Guyana in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda, aims at exchanging knowledge and experiences related to public policies for environmental management, information and ...
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Rwanda MPs Give Nod to Foods Medicines Authority
Lawmakers on Monday approved the establishment of a new agency that will ensure that fortified foods like cereals and milk products, as well as food supplements on the local market, meet national or international standards. The authority will also be in charge of enforcing regulations relating to food safety in public food service establishments. MP Ignatienne Nyirarukundo, the deputy ...
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Rwanda Cancer Hospital Hosts Debate On Smoking
Health officials, government leaders and representatives of different NGOs last week convened at Butaro Hospital, in Burera District to discuss issues pertaining tobacco smoking. During the discussion, participants also commended efforts by government to deal with other drugs such as marijuana and illicit beers among others and requested for the total ban on tobacco due to its health ...
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Rwanda The Inside Story of 16 Fleeing Students
On the chilly dawn of Sunday, June 2, 16 students crossed the border into Uganda. They arrived in Kampala in the evening and proceeded to Kololo, an upscale suburb of the capital. The students knew their destination all too well as if they had been briefed on where to go and what to say. All they had to do was seek direction to the office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. At ...
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World Briefing | Africa 9 Students Killed at School in Nigeria
Militants opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the troubled northeast, killing at least nine of them, witnesses said Tuesday. The attack on Monday at a private school in Maiduguri was the second on a school in recent days. On Sunday, 13 people, including high school students and teachers, were killed during a five-hour shootout when extremists attacked a boarding school in ...
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Tanzania Japan seal $32m agreement on flyover project
Tanzania and Japan on Tuesday signed an agreement of more than $32 million to finance a flyover project in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital of the East African country.The two countries sealed the grant agreement of 52.5 billion Tanzanian shillings ($32.8 million) on the project in Dodoma, where Japanese Ambassador to Tanzania Masaki Okada said the initiative is meant to de-congest Dar es ...
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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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