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Mugabe seeks to delay Zimbabwe election by two weeks
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signs into law the Zimbabwe draft constitution in Harare, on May 22 2013. Mugabe has filed an urgent application with the country's top court to push back crucial elections by two weeks, his justice minister ...
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Shunting hectares Land Reform in South Africa
Agricultural Regions of South Africa (image: Africa Research Institute) On 19th June 2013, South Africa marks the centenary of the 1913 Natives' Land Act, which effectively excluded the black population from the ownership of some 90% of land. The emotive issue of the land reform programme, initiated in 1994 by the African National Congress (ANC) to redress historical injustices, is once ...
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Zimbabwe Why the Opposition Shouldnt Be Distracted By the Election Date
The MDC has been joined by SADC in calling for the election to be delayed slightly, but is this really a victory for the opposition? On 15 June, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Mozambique's capital of Maputo. The main issue discussed was the Zimbabwean elections, currently scheduled for the 31 July. The 31 July date was set by ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabweans Must Sort Out Election Row - AU
The African Union says it is up to Zimbabweans to resolve disputes over election dates. At a press conference in Geneva on Monday, the chair of the commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said that the primary concern is for the elections to be free and fair. President Mugabe proclaimed July 31 for harmonized elections in compliance with a directive from the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe to hold ...
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Angola All Talk and Absolutely No Action
More than seven months on from its high-profile launch Angola's Sovereign Wealth Fund has no investment policy, no chairman and despite its huge press team's best efforts, dwindling credibility. The US$5billion Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA) was launched last October in the capital Luanda, generating no shortage of global headlines. Journalists - I was among them - were flown in ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Chinese Mining Industry Contributes to Abuses in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need to do more to prevent their operations from leading to human rights abuses, Amnesty International warned today in a new report. Profits and Loss: Mining and human rights in Katanga, examines the impact of the mining industry in south-eastern DRC. The report documents a number of serious abuses involving local ...
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Nigeria Refugees from North Crisis Flee to Cameroon
The United Nations refugee agency today reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and insurgents. The Nigerian Government imposed a state of emergency on the Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in the north-east of the country in May. In recent weeks, ...
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South Africa Declaration of Economic War in South Africa
For all the sound and fury of the current fight between poultry producers and meat importers, their dispute may turn out to be only a minor skirmish in what promises to be a war of words and protest action aimed at securing the high ground of economic policy. And central to this will be the question of land. The initial drive started started on Thursday, June 12 at a press conference staged in ...
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Zimbabwe MDC-T Legislators Disrupt Business
MDC-T legislators today temporarily disrupted parliamentary business in the House of Assembly protesting against a decision by the three political parties represented in parliament to indefinitely suspend portfolio committee business from this Friday. Parliament's life comes to an end on Saturday next week at a time most committees have run out of business. Chief whips from Zanu-PF (Cde ...
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U.S. Upgrades Its Relationship with Africa
strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa that seeks to balance long-term interests with immediate future concerns. The long-term strategy is to work closely with an economically strong and resilient Africa as part of a global coalition for inclusive economic growth and international peace and security. The near-term goal is to strengthen the capacity of Africa to address political, economic, social and ...
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Ahmed Sandhu in Australia A tour of Africa
SYDNEY (AFP) - Pakistan-born leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed was on Wednesday named on the Australia A squad for a tour of Africa beginning next month, despite also being in contention for selection for the Ashes series against England.Ahmed was added to the 15-man squad for the July and August tour along with Ashton Agar, who has Sri Lankan grandparents and paceman Gurinder Sandhu, born in Australia ...
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Tanzania Schoolgirls Need Books Not Husbands
PRIMARY school pupils in Sumbawanga municipality have literally accused their parents to the acting Regional Commissioner (RC) for Rukwa, Mr Iddy Kimanta, for withdrawing some of their number in order to marry them off to suitors, for a dowry. The pupils, whose bitterness in connection with the maltreatment was reflected in a message that was read to the RC at a public rally in Kanondo village, ...
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Kenya Devolution a Major Challenge to Budget - World Bank
THE devolution process will continue to pose a great challenge to the national budget for the next three years, according to the World Bank. The government has allocated Sh210 billion to the 47 counties under the new budget but the World Bank says this presents two challenges. First, there is a wide variance in per capita allocations between counties. Second, the devolution formula is ...
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Kenya Kenyans Mobilise Against Taxing the Poor
On a side street in Nairobi's bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians. "Do you know taxes are increasing in Kenya?" he asks, handing out flyers urging Kenyans to say "no to Unga (maize flour) tax" by dialling a phone number that will register their signature on a petition. Ngila is one of 17 ...
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Kenya Orange Customers Can Access Facebook Without Internet
Orange customers with handsets that do not have internet can now access Facebook, for 10, 50 or 100 shillings daily, weekly or monthly respectively. The mobile service provider has unveiled Facebook Bila Net, that can be accessed by dialing *32#. The mobile service provider hopes to tap into the growing internet usage as it grows its customer ...
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Kenya Aviation Worker Union Wants KQ Loss Probed
THE Aviation and Allied Workers' Union wants a parliamentary report that recommended investigations into two companies allied to Kenya Airways be acted upon, claiming there is more than meets the eye over the airline's Sh10.8 billion pretax loss. AAWU chairperson Perpetua Mponjiwa yesterday claimed that the losses were "artificial" saying they could have been occasioned by ...
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Kenya Fertiliser Firm Considering Setting Up Port Terminal
Mea Fertilisers Ltd is considering the construction of a terminal at Kilindini Port to improve supply and storage, the company's logistic officerJoel Mugo has said. "Having a local fertiliser terminal similar to the grain and oil terminals will cost Sh400 million to set up, a cost that Mea and other fertiliser industry players are willing to foot and this investment will save the ...
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Kenya Work On JKIA Railway Line to Start This Year
Construction of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and the city centre railway line is set to start before the end of this year, the Kenya Railways managing director Nduva Muli said yesterday. He said the corporation is finalising on the tender process for contactors. The line will be in two phases one from Embakasi Railway Station to the Syokimau Railway station and the other from ...
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Rwanda British Devt Secretary Visits
British Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening arrives in the country today to assess the impact of the UK's development assistance to the country. A statement from the State secretariat said Greening is expected to tour various projects funded by Britain through the Department for International Development (DfID). She will visit Kigali and Gikomero and also ...
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Kenya Five girls married off in school compound
girls to their respective husbands was held in their school in the full glare of local administrators. World Vision Orwa Integrated Programme Area official Josiah Rotino disclosed that parents of the Standard ...
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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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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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