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Angola Festibengo Pays Homage to Artist Minguito
Caxito - The 2nd edition of "FestiBengo" festivity taking place in the northern Bengo province pays tribute to the late singer Minguito. The information was released Thursday by the provincial director of Culture in Bengo Moises Kafala who stressed the important contribution of the musician to development of the Angolan cultural music. Speaking to Angop, Moises said that the homage ...
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Angola Stock Market Capitalisation May Reach 10 Percent of GDP
Luanda - The capitalization of future stock market in Angola may stand at about 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), said Thursday the Chairman of the Capital Market Commission (CMC) Archer Mangueira. The estimate comes during a press conference on CMC activity. Archer Mangueira said it was premature to predict the level of capitalisation of the future stock market in Angola. The ...
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Jonathan Manthorpe Zimbabwes ray of hope with a new constitution
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe (left) signs into law the Zimbabwe’s new constitution next to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (right) at the State House in Harare, on May 22, 2013. The 89-year-old, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, signed the document two months after it was overwhelmingly approved by Zimbabweans in a ...
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The World Today podcast Zimbabwes new constitution
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signs draft constitution. Zimbabwe's president of 33 years, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday signed a new constitution which many believe offers the southern African country its first real hope for political and economic revival. Zimbabwe’s people have suffered more than a decade of murderous repression by the regime, collapse of the country's once ...
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Extra UN troops for D R Congo
Peace may finally be on the way for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon announced 3000 more UN troops will be deployed in the area, during a visit to the eastern city of Goma. He said their mandate will now allow them to enforce peace if necessary. ';The intervention brigade will address all this violence and will try their best to ...
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Tanzania Community Leader Attacked With Acid in Zanzibar
Zanzibar - IN yet another shocking incident in Zanzibar a local leader, popularly known here as sheha, has been attacked with acid. The elderly man, Mr Mohammed Omar Said, was until Thursday morning undergoing treatment at Mnazi Mmoja hospital. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mkadam Khamis confirmed the Wednesday night attack on the sheha of Tomondo area, adding that a hunt for the ...
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Uganda Uganda Now Drug Hub Admits Police
The police admit that drug trafficking is becoming a problem in Uganda, with many travellers frequently arrested for the offence in foreign countries. The Police Commissioner in charge of Narcotics, James Kyomukama, told Zurah Nakabugo that Uganda had become a drug trafficking ...
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Rwanda UN Chief and World Bank Head in Rwanda
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim have arrived in Rwanda today. A statement from the Office of the Government Spokesperson says Ban and Kim's visit to Rwanda is part of a regional tour which will also take them to Mozambique, DR Congo, Uganda and Ethiopia. The tour is aimed at coordinating their efforts in building peace and ...
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Tanzania TRA Considers Evaluation of Personal Corporate Income Taxes
THE government is contemplating evaluation and design of administrative issues related to individual and corporate taxes to achieve equity, economic efficiency, revenue growth and adequacy as well as stability and administrative simplicity. Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) Commissioner General Harry Kitilya said in a statement in Dar es Salaam that, Tanzania was within the performance benchmark ...
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Kenya Laikipia Wants Tourist Dollars
Local leaders are demanding that the Kenya Revenue Authority and the Laikipia county government do thorough tax collection audit of the mushrooming conservancy hotels. The leaders said residents have been shortchanged by the owners of the hotels who do not pay revenue to the county government. Women's representative Jane Apollos said tourists staying at these hotels are never taxed. ...
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Uganda Mulago Goes Digital to Catch Conmen Absentee Medics
Mulago hospital has installed two electronic display boards at both the causality (accidents and emergency ward) and Labour suite 5C. The boards are meant to shine a light on quacks and thieves that are on the prowl in the hospital. The boards display names of doctors, nurses and interns on duty to help patients indentify who is and is not a medical practitioner and avoid being conned. Enock ...
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Central Africa Lets Back the Great Lakes Peace Deal
Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbours, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women, and create economic opportunities that will help the countries forge a path to prosperity, good governance, and lasting stability. In the ...
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North Africa Instability Affects European Energy Security
According to the International Energy Agency, Algeria's oil is still suffering from the four-day siege on the In Amenas gas plant in January. (Photo: ...
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Tanzania Road Engineers Promotion Splits Council Down the Middle
Rorya - PROMOTION of the former Rorya District Council Acting Road Engineer, Mr Julias Kahena, to head of the department has divided a council meeting. While some councillors described Mr Kahena as a hard working and competent engineer, others rejected the proposal and wanted the official to be transferred to another part of the country for good. The debate became hotter after Rorya District ...
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Tanzania Membe Touts Dollar Week As 700 Accompany Obama
BIG businesses and small and medium entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam should brace for a windfall of profits come July 1. It is on that day when the leader of one of the world's powerful nations, US President Barack Obama is set to jet into the country. He will be accompanied by a delegation of 700 people. And that is not all. Another 500 delegates, including a dozen heads of state and ...
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Kenya Speaker Defends Sh90 Million Busia Governors House
BUSIA deputy Speaker yesterday came in defense of the Sh90m planned house for Busia governor Sospeter Ojaamong. Moses Ote said the design of governors' houses is uniform in all the 47 counties. Speaking to the press in Katakwa yesterday, Ote said no governor was being given the money to buy the house and wondered why Barasa was crying wolf instead of appreciating the kind gesture. Ote was ...
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Kenya Two More Courts to Be Put Up in Kisii
The judiciary yesterday started the construction of two more courts at the Kisii law courts. Resident judge justice Ruth Sitati said the Sh10 million project will enable the judges and magistrates deliver justice. "We have had a problem in terms of space so the construction of two more courts will help us quickly deal with the backlog of cases in the high and lower courts," Sitati ...
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Kenya Give the Disabled More Jobs-Legislators
Four MPs have threatened to sue unless people with disabilities are fairly represented in senior public appointments. They said the government is not properly constituted because people with disabilities were left out of recent Cabinet appointments. The Kenya Disability Parliamentary Association's Timothy Wanyonyi (Westlands), Rose Museu (Makueni MP) and nominated MPs Isaac Mwaura and ...
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East Africa Lamy Says EAC Way Ahead in African Trade Integration
THE outgoing World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy has rated the East African Community trading block as the most important in the African continent ahead of similar blocks in West and South Africa. He said EAC is three times more integrated than the West and South Africa. "This region is a clear case that I think deserves a lot of attention...I have no doubt that this ...
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Rwanda UN Admits It Failed Rwandans Applauds Govts Progress
The United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki- Moon has admitted that the United Nation did not do enough to stop the genocide against the Tutsi. Touring the Kigali Genocide Memorial upon arrival in Rwanda, Ban said the UN regrets not having done enough to stop genocide. "We've learnt the lesson and such acts will never happen anywhere gain," he said. Ban Ki- Moon Predecessor ...
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Kenya PSC - Hiring of Principal Secretaries Unsoiled
Nairobi - The Public Service Commission (PSC) has defended itself from accusations that it did not follow proper procedure in recruiting individuals to be appointed as Principal Secretaries. The commission's Chief Executive Officer Alice Atieno, in an affidavit lodged in court argues that there was no reason to stop the process of appointing the PSs as demanded in court by Consumers ...
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Uganda Johnnie Walkers Black Tie Dinner - a Showcase of Exclusivity
When Kampala's elite choose to drink, they do it in style. Last Friday evening at the Pearl of Africa Restaurant with in the Kampala Serena Hotel saw some Kampala elite do just that. It was a black tie dinner for an exclusive group, invited to witness the launch of a new whisky in the Johnnie Walker family - Platinum Label. They were also meant to taste five other brands of whisky in the ...
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Nigeria VP Receives Committee Report On Bakassi
Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo has assured Nigerians that government will look at the Bakassi Report with a view to implementing the relevant areas that are of benefit to Nigeria. He was speaking while receiving the report of the committee chaired by the Deputy Governor of Cross-River State Efiok Cobham at the State House Abuja, on Thursday, May 23. The Vice President remarked that ...
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Kenya Kenyatta Moi Seized 17 Percent of White Farms - TJRC
PRESIDENT Jomo Kenyatta and his successor President Daniel arap Moi grabbed 17 percent of white owned land after independence, according to the TJRC report released on Tuesday. "One sixth of the settler lands were found to have been sold intact to the emerging African elite comprising Kenyatta, his wife, children and close associates. These elites did not even need much money to buy ...
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Kenya Ping-Pong Over Rutos Controversial Jet Continues
Nairobi - The back-and-forth between the Office of Deputy President William Ruto and the Daily Nation over the jet hired for his four-nation Africa tour continued on Thursday, with further denials. The Permanent Secretary in his office Mohamed Isahakia released a statement rebutting fresh reports by the newspaper that they dealt with a firm known as VistaJet Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH in hiring ...
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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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