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Angola Economic Forum to Discuss AngolaRussia Commission Agenda
Luanda - The Joint Commission Angola/Russia will discuss the next agenda during a meeting between the Angolan Foreign Affairs minister, Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti and chairperson of the referred commission, Yuri Trutnev. The fact was announced Wednesday to Angop by the Angolan top diplomat, Georges Chikoti, before leaving for Saint Petersburg city, Russia, to attend on 20- 22 June the 17th ...
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Rwanda Central Bank Reduces Repo Rate
The National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) has reduced the key repo rate from 7.5 per cent to 7 per cent. Central bank governor John Rwangombwa said the rate was reviewed downwards to encourage commercial banks to lend to the private sector. The governor added that they ensured that there were low inflationary pressures and adequate liquidity in banks as well as stable foreign exchange before lowering ...
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Kenya Top Real Estate Investors Developers Meet in Nairobi
A two-day seminar that brings together international real estate investors, developers and lenders with interests across Africa starts in Nairobi today. Africa GRI 2013 is being held for the first time and will be hosted at the Eka Hotel. The organiser - Global Real Estate Institute - runs its activities through a series of annual meetings focused on various regions globally. GRI describes ...
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Rwanda Rethinking Our Spending Habits
A good number of people, including outsiders, have in the past made a few comments on our spending habits, and I wish to add my voice to theirs. We as Rwandans have a propensity to spend big even when we are drawing on very meagre resources. It is obviously pleasurable to spend big when one is earning big, but the problem arises when one has to outstretch him or herself to the limit just to ...
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South Africa prays for seriously ill Mandela
SOUTH Africans prayed for Nelson Mandela as he spent a second day in a hospital yesterday suffering a lung infection that has sparked worldwide concerns for the ailing peace icon. Mandela's latest health scare was splashed across the front pages of local newspapers but government officials have released no updates since announcing he was hospitalized in Pretoria early Saturday in a ...
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Kenya Kisumu Residents Slam the Proposal for 22 Prados
KISUMU residents have rejected the County's budget proposal to purchase 22 Prados at Sh132 million and 14 Land Rovers at Sh98 million. Speaking to The Star yesterday in Kisumu, they cited a number of issues in the statement for the fiscal year 2013-2014 that need to be questioned by the public and the County Assembly. The Director of Community Initiative Action Group Kenya Chris Owala and ...
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Kenya Kamau Adan Tour Western
Cabinet Secretaries Michael Kamau (Infrastructure) and Adan Muhammed (Industrialisation) yesterday made an extensive tour of Eldoret and parts of Western Kenya to asses infrastructure development and other projects aimed at improving trade in the region. They particularly focused on the ongoing construction of the Northern Corridor which leads from the Mombasa Port to Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret ...
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Rwanda Muhanga Coach Eyes Peace Cup Title
AS Muhanga head coach, Ali Bizimungu is confident about his team's chances to win this year's Peace Cup against Malaria when they meet the City of Kigali-sponsored AS Kigali in the final slated for July 4 at Amahoro National Stadium. The Southern Province-based AS Muhanga managed to brush aside favourites Mukura Victory Sports and second division side Bugesera FC in quarter and ...
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Kenya Fusion Invites Investors in Sh1.2 Billion Project in Nairobi
Fusion Investment Management has committed debt and equity in a $15 million (Sh1.26 billion) office block in Nairobi's Upper Hill, it said in a note. It said a portion of the project dubbed Project Panorama - which follows the successful syndication of another dubbed Project Snowdrop that was fully funded in 10 days in April - will be available to professional co-investors, local and ...
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Kenya Gunmen Kill Two Women Police Reservist in Wajir
Gunmen in Wajir County killed a Kenyan police reservist Tuesday night (June 18th) who was investigating a shooting incident that left two civilians dead and two injured on Monday. The police reservist was among a group of security officers investigating an incident in which gunmen from neighbouring Mandera County raided Burmayo village, killing two women and injuring two other people, Wajir ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Set for one University After MPs Certify Bill Seeking Merger
MPs have endorsed a bill that seeks to have some 10 universities in the country merged to form one institution of higher learning. The Senate is now expected to give its approval on the institution set to be called the University of Rwanda in the next few days. Presenting a pertinent report prior to the debate, MP Agnès Mukazibera, Chairperson of the standing Committee on Education, ...
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Rwanda Hello East Africa Comes to Kigali
The weeklong "Hello East Africa" art exhibition, which will showcase the work of eleven of East Africa's best artists, begins tomorrow. The exhibition, which ends on 28 June, will open with a reception at Umubano Hotel in Kacyiru at 6:30 p.m. There will also be an exhibition at Remera's Beausejour Hotel. Entry to the exhibition is free to the public. This event is only ...
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Rwanda Rayon Sports to Battle Chads Electric FC
GUEST SIDE Rayon Sports go into the unknown when they face Electric Sport from Chad in the opening match of Group B of the 2013 Cecafa Kagame Club Championship at Al Fasher stadium, North Darfur, Sudan today. French coach Didier Gomez da Rosa said yesterday that winning the opening match will be crucial as the Blues bid to reach the quarter-finals. Rayon Sports, who won the 2012/13 Primus ...
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Tanzania Farmers Enabled to Access Agriculture Information Easily
THE Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives in a joint venture with Zantel Tanzania and Sibesonke Limited has launched mobile phone services to reach the 33 million Tanzanian farmers with relevant advanced farming information. The services dubbed ZKilimo is an SMS-based application that utilises mobile phone capability and ubiquity to provide farmers in the country access to ...
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Rwanda Why Our Culture Should Be Jealously Preserved
Rwanda has a rich culture, envisaged in the diversity of crafts, dance, and strong traditions. Cultural heritage sites throughout the country offer unique opportunities and are rich in traditional context. This is categorically visible in various museums, memorial and historical sites across the country. One thing we need to bear in mind as Rwandans is to know and understand clearly what ...
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Kenya Treasury Calms Down Nerves On VAT Bill
Nairobi - The National Treasury has downplayed fears that the re-introduced VAT Bill is aimed at raising the costs of basic goods and specifically food items. Speaking to journalists at a forum in Nairobi, Economic Secretary Geoffrey Mwau said the Bill will likely focus on taxing the luxurious goods that may not necessarily affect the a majority of Kenyans. Mwau has maintained that there will ...
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Kenya Kenya to Host Africas Employers Body
Nairobi - Nairobi will now be the headquarters of the continent's employers body Business Africa; formerly the Pan-African Employers' Confederation (PEC) after it was selected during the General Council meeting of Business Africa held in Geneva Switzerland. The Executive Director of the Federation of Kenya Employers Jacqueline Mugo was also elected as the Secretary General of Business ...
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Kenya First Lady Adopts a Baby Elephant
Nairobi - Conservationist have lauded government action in the face of rampant poaching but said a sustained and coordinated approach is require to crush the increasingly sophisticated criminal cartels that threaten the country. "At the current rate of poaching, it is estimated that Kenya's elephants will be gone from the wild within 10 years," said Dr Paula Kahumbu, CEO of ...
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Kenya New Law to Protect Injured Workers
Nairobi - Employees who work under risky conditions will soon have a reason to smile following the establishment of a law that will ensure they get duly compensated for injuries sustained at their places of work. Cabinet Secretary in charge of Labour and Social Services Kazungu Kambi said on Wednesday that a lot of manpower went to waste because of work related accidents that are not ...
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DR Congos Silent Ordeal
According to the diocesan report, this was the third such massacre in a month. Both reports implicate the FDLR militia group-Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda, ideological descendants of the Interahamwe militias responsible for the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. The FDLR is one of several domestic, foreign or foreign-backed armed groups threatening to tear the country apart. ...
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Namibia Botswana connect to 5.12 terabit cable
Last week, the powerful WACS submarine fibre optic cable was landed in Swakopmund, Namibia. Now, the work has started to make WACS provide high-speed telecom services to consumers in Namibia and ...
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Plant to Deliver NutritionallyEnhanced Sorghum to Africa
ST. LOUIS and DES MOINES, Iowa - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and DuPont announced a $4 million grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation to bring healthier sorghum to underserved communities in ...
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Kenya Moore Evicted Real Housewives of Atlanta Stars Eviction Is Official According to Reports
A Fulton County, Ga. judge officially ruled that the reality television star will have to leave her current six bedroom six bathroom mansion in Fulton County, Ga after owing $848 on her $3999 per month rent. Conya Dillon, Moore's landlord who had her evicted, recently spoke about the eviction in a Radar Online report."I am making this statement as a result of the eviction order and ...
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KTF speaks out on attempt to rob Kenyas tourism through budget cuts
(eTN) - The Chairperson of the Kenya Tourism Federation, Mrs. Lucy Karume, wasted no time to go on record and condemn the attempts by the parliamentary budget and appropriations committee to rob the tourism sector by diverting half the allotted budget to other, non tourism related purposes. The Chairman of the Mombasa and Coast Tourism Association, seasoned hotelier Mohammed Hersi, too let fly ...
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Kenya Kenya Revenue Bill Debate Highlights Power Struggle in Parliament
Nairobi - Recent disputes over the powers of Kenya's newly established Senate in relation to the National Assembly have exposed a number of challenges that could scuttle devolution gains and hinder growth countrywide, constitutional lawyers say. Tensions between the two chambers of parliament boiled over June 6th when the National Assembly rejected a Senate amendment to the Division 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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