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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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Officials Kerry to tap former Democratic senator for Africa envoy post
WASHINGTON - Two officials say that Secretary of State John Kerry has chosen Russ Feingold, a former Democratic senator, as the new U.S. special envoy for Africa Great Lakes region. A U.S. official and a congressional aide say Kerry will announce Tuesday that Feingold will assume the post focused, in part, on resolving turmoil in the Congo. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were ...
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MaterCare International Begins Services at Kenya Hospital
Canada-Based Non-Profit Reaching Area Plagued by High Maternal Mortality RateTORONTO, June 13, 2013 (Zenit.org) - On Friday, MaterCare International will begin offering services at its maternity hospital in Isiolo, Kenya, a region facing a high rate of maternal deaths.In 2005, the Canadian based non-profit group, MaterCare International (MCI) developed a Rural Essential Maternity Care project to ...
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Kenya giving laptops to all first graders amid controversy
Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, delivers his speech, during the 50th Madaraka Day celebrations, at the Nyayo National Stadium, in Nairobi, Kenya, June 1. Kenyatta plans to decrease Kenya's digital divide with the rest of the world by giving, with Microsoft's help, laptops to all first ...
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Report Piracy in West Africa outstrips Somalia
The report drawing on data from the International Maritime Bureau said nearly 1,000 seafarers and fishermen were attacked by pirates armed with guns or knives in the Gulf of Guinea. More than 200 people were taken ...
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Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film | Rebecca Lowe
Zimbabwe human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, as a young girl with her brother in Swaziland where she was born and raised Photograph: ...
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Kenya Government to Speed Up Completion of Northern Corridor
The government is to speed up the completion of the Northern Corridor road in order to ease movement of goods from the Port of Mombasa to other countries in the region. Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure Michael Kamau says the completion of the road will include a by-pass in Eldoret to cost more than Sh 2 ...
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South Africa Shunting Hectares - Land Reform in South Africa
Greater economic and financial commitment - and a fundamental restructuring of the rural economy - are needed if South African land reform is to progress. Does a raft of new legislation signal renewed vigour on the part of the ANC? On 19th June, South Africa will mark the centenary of the 1913 Natives' Land Act, which effectively excluded the black population from the ownership of some 90% ...
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Kenya MPs to Vote On Sh19 Billion Supplementary Budget
MPs will today decide on whether the national government will be allowed to withdraw Sh19.6 billion to run the country for the now ending financial year. The House will be deciding on whether to approve Supplementary Budget II which among other items proposes that the government be allowed to use Sh700 million to purchase a building to house an office for retired President Mwai Kibaki. Cabinet ...
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Kenya Kitengela Students Block Namanga Road
ANGRY students yesterday blocked the main Nairobi/Namanga road with bonfires and stones to protest the condition of the road linking Kitengela with Ongata Rongai. The over 200 students from Athi River Vocational Centre overpowered the less than 15 police officers from Kitengela as they proceeded to block the Nairobi/Namanga road for about four hours. Their leaders told reporters they took ...
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Kenya Budget Committee Rejects Sh700 Million for Kibakis Office
The Parliamentary Budget Committee has rejected a proposal by Cabinet Secretary for Finance Henry Rotich to purchase a building which will house an office for retired president Mwai Kibaki worth Sh700 million. Rotich had proposed the purchase of a building to house the office of the retired president as a sendoff package to Kibaki. The Sh700 million was part of Sh19.6 billion that national ...
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Kenya Matatu Owners Ask Traffic Boss to Resign Over Extortion
Matatu owners want the traffic boss to take responsibility and resign over bribery claims against traffic police. Speaking to the Star yesterday, chairman of the Matatu Owners Association Simon Kimutai said the traffic boss Samuel Kimaru had failed to stop the rampant extortion rings run by his officers. "Kimaru is unable to explain to us where this money collected by traffic officers who ...
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Kenya We Are Not Going On Strike Say Secondary Principals
Newly elected Kenya Secondary School Heads Association chairman John Awiti yesterday denied that secondary school teachers will go on strike. Awiti said teachers cannot down their tools while their respective school principals are away. He said secondary school heads are part of the unions including Kuppet and Knut. Awiti was addressing journalists at the Wild Waters complex where about 7,000 ...
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Zimbabwe election date tussle gets serious
Opposition politicians say President Robert Mugabe is using a constitutional court's call for an early date to achieve an unconstitutional ...
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The US Diaspora of Terror in Africa
latest updates from TomDispatch.com . The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of US Africa Command’s big success stories. The Gulfof ...
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Mozambique restarts coal trains to Beira following attack
’s Moatize coal mine after suspending them following an attack on an arms depot in the Savane region yesterday, the police said. Extra troops have been deployed to the area, Joaquim Nido, police commander for Sofala Province, said in an interview today. At least six soldiers died and two were injured in the attack, Maputo-based STV television reported yesterday, citing survivors. STV ...
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A closer look at how Zimbabwes cattle bank works
MARONDERA, Zimbabwe -- HOW A CATTLE BANK WORKS:- The bank sends a veterinary official to inspect a farmer's cattle and assesses their monetary worth.- Based on that, owners can get loans up to the value of the cattle they are banking as collateral. -The bank pays 10 percent interest a year on the value of the cattle deposited, which can be paid out in cash or additional cows.- Owners ...
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UPDATE 1-Gunvor signs $500 mln deal to create Gabon fuel hub
Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:02pm EDT * African fuels market one of world's fastest growing * Gunvor seeks to support trading ops with new assets (Recasts, adds detail and context throughout) By Jean-Rovys Dabany and Emma Farge LIBREVILLE/GENEVA, June 18 (Reuters) - Switzerland's Gunvor has signed a deal with Gabon to create a joint venture to sell refined oil products along the western coast ...
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S.Africa platinum industry at risk
Up to 145,500 jobs and 60 percent of South Africa's platinum output could be at risk in coming years amid unrest and upheavals in the sector, economists at Nomura bank warned on Tuesday.Analysts at the Japanese bank said that rising mining costs as well as political risks would force mines to cut their ...
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6 killed in Mozambique clashes
Mozambique's president on Tuesday condemned an attack by alleged fighters loyal to an opposition group that killed six government troops and injured three ...
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Alrosa to Spend $10-20M Yearly on Angola Diamond Prospecting
MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s largest diamond miner Alrosa plans to spend $10-20 million annually on diamond prospecting in Angola as part of a new joint venture to look for deposits in the Central African country, Alrosa said Tuesday. The firm said it planned to sign a JV agreement soon with Angola’s national diamond company, Endiama. It did not specify a date. ...
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Has the US lost Africa to terrorism
TomDispatch . The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of U.S. Africa Command's big success stories. The Gulf… of Guinea.Never mind ...
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Six killed in Mozambique clashes
Six government troops were killed and three injured in the raid on an arms depot on Monday in Sofala province in central Mozambique, state radio and television ...
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Seven soldiers killed in Mozambique weapons store assault
MAPUTO (Reuters) - Seven soldiers were shot dead when gunmen raided a weapons depot in Mozambique, local newspapers and a security source said on Tuesday, the latest ambush and attack on security forces to rekindle memories of the 1975-1992 civil ...
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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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