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Zimbabwe Global Fund Project in Zimbabwe Uses Technology to Improve Data Collection
A project being implemented under a Global Fund grant will improve Zimbabwe's health information systems by providing Internet connection infrastructure for 82 urban and rural sites. The Zimbabwe project is just one of many similar projects around the world where modern communications technology is being used to enhance data collection. The project is part of a Round 8 health systems ...
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Angola Governor Happy With Healthcare in Bengo
Caxito - The governor of northern Bengo province, João Bernardo de Miranda, said Tuesday in Caxito that the health sector in the region has social infrastructures that ensure a personalised medical care to residents. The governor who was speaking to Angop, added that the region has a health network with more than 96 units among hospitals, health centres and posts. The head of Bengo ...
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South Africa Western Cape Minister for Finance Economic Development and Finance Alan Winde Announces Spaces for Broadband Networks Pilot Phase
The Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) area in Khayelitsha has been selected as one of the first spaces to be linked to the broadband network. The Western Cape Government's broadband network will play a major role in transforming residents' lives, says Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism, Alan Winde. "As a major business hub in one of our ...
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Namibia Namibia Strikes Oil Deposit
Windhoek - After spending millions of dollars on exploratory drilling, Brazilian oil and gas exploration company High Resolution Technology (HRT) and local businessman, Knowledge Katti, announced yesterday they found a liquid oil presence off the Namibian coast. However, the drilling results for this first well show that the rock penetrated does not contain commercially viable oil reserves. The ...
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Zimbabwe PM Chinese investment welcomed
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday said Chinese investments are welcomed and he hopes the economic ties can be further strengthened after Zimbabwe's elections.Tsvangirai told visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang that Zimbabwe's new constitution, which was signed into law Wednesday, provides strong protection for foreign investments.Chinese businesses form ...
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France beefs up Africa Middle East embassy security
PARIS, May 22 (Reuters) - France will invest about 20 million euros ($25 million) to increase security for diplomats and embassies in the Middle East and Africa after its mission in Libya was targeted by a car bomb in April, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Spokesman Philippe Lalliot confirmed an email sent by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to staff on Tuesday saying the measure ...
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U.N. says elephant ivory funds violence in Africa
The illegal trade in elephant ivory may constitute an important source of funding for armed groups, including the Lord's Resistance Army, threatening peace and security in central Africa, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report to the Security ...
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Kenya truth report shows assassinations land grabs corruption plagued its past governments
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report whose findings show that his father, the country's first president, presided over a government responsible for numerous human rights violations, including political assassinations and illegal allocation of land. The report released late Tuesday also finds that two ...
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Kenya Govt to Renegotiate EU Trade Deal
The government will in the next two months conclude a deal that will ensure goods from Kenya continue enjoying tax-free market in European Union countries. Deputy President William Ruto said the government will ensure the Economic Partnership Agreement is signed. He said Kenya will negotiate with East African countries over the same agreement. "It is our responsibility as a government to ...
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Uganda Sri Lanka Uganda Agree to Stronger Links
Kampala - Uganda signed a bilateral trade partnership with the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka last week. President Mahinda Rajapaksa was in Uganda to hold talks with President Yoweri Museveni and meet a cross section of the business community. He also officially opened the new Sri Lanka High Commission in Kampala. This is expected to strengthen the diplomatic and business ...
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Kenya TSC Operations to Be Crippled Next Month
Operations at the Teachers Service Commission may grind to a halt next month when the term of current members expires in June.The Commission on Administration of Justice says the TSC faces a crisis as a majority of those shortlisted were rejected by parliament and their appointment stopped.The commission wants the president to consider forwarding a fresh list of ...
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Gambia Gambia Cameroon Reinforce Ties
A special envoy of the Cameroonian president dispatched to Banjul has said that his mission in was to deliver a special message to the president of the Republic, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, from his Cameroonian counterpart, His Excellency Paul Biya. Speaking to journalists shortly after his closed-door meeting with the Gambian leader, Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, Minister ...
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Congo-Kinshasa South African Peacekeepers Chase Away Refugees - Report
Dozens of crying children and women have been locked out of a UN base manned by South African peacekeepers outside Goma in eastern Congo, despite a barrage of shooting and bombing close by. Since Monday, DR Congo Government forces have been using helicopter gunships to bomb bases of M23 rebels around Mutaho - some 17Km from Goma. Other areas have been engulfed as well, as fighting escalates. In ...
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Chad Wave of Arrests in Chad
Chad has Africa's largest contingent of troops in Mali. It is fighting alongside French forces to flush out Islamist groups. But at home, the government is cracking down on opposition activists and journalists. Chadian President Idriss Deby suddenly declared last Monday (13.05.2013) to be a public holiday to mark the return home from Mali of the first 700 Chadian soldiers. In the capital ...
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Uganda Housing Teams Up With Umeme
Kampala - Housing Finance Bank Limited (HFBL) has gone into partnership with Umeme, the electricity distributor to ease payment of bills. HFBL is offering its MCash electronic platform for more customer convenience. Its attraction is that it allows you to save and transfer money to other people or make payments at participating outlets. MCash is an electronic wallet of money that you can ...
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East Africa EA Drug Plan On
Kampala - East African Community (EAC) member countries are getting ready to come out with a blueprint that will drive the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector forward. Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda have started implementing the EAC Regional Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan of Action (EACPMPOA 2012-2016) by setting up a project steering committee. The committee is made up of ...
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Kenya Fake Doctor Found in Nakuru Hospital
A man who has been pretending to be a doctor at the Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital in Nakuru was yesterday arrested. The hospital's medical superintendent, John Murema, said the "fake doctor", Francis Kadaya has been attending to patients during night shifts for the past week. He said Kadaya had a doctor's coat and a fake name tag that he used to enter the hospital. ...
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East Africa EAC Eyes Capital Markets for Development Funds
Kampala - East African Community (EAC) partner states have been discussing the possibilities of raising more money from international capital markets and reduce donor dependency. The plan is to use this money for financing infrastructure projects to improve the EAC competitiveness as an investor destination. Most recently Rwanda managed to sell a $400 million Eurobond which was quickly snapped ...
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Gambia President Jammeh Receives Cameroonian Envoy
President Yahya Jammeh yesterday received at State House a special envoy of President Paul Biya of Cameroon. Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, Minister Delegate at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cameroon, told waiting reporters shortly after a closed-door meeting with the Gambian leader that he was in Banjul as a special envoy of President Biya to President Jammeh. He told reporters that his ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Gets U.S. $58 Million for Vision 2020 Plan
Kigali - Rwanda's ambitious strategy to achieve middle income status by 2020, as spelt out in its Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2) received a $50 million backing from the World Bank. The Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved the grant recently. It is meant to support the government's efforts to improve decentralized service delivery through the ...
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Kenya Citi Profits Dip 36 Per Cent to Sh800 Million
CITIBANK NA Kenya has reported a 35.9 per cent drop to Sh801 million for the first three months of this year, down from Sh1.2 billion posted in a similar period last year. The period saw the bank's interest income on loans and advances dropping by close to 50 per cent to Sh536 million from Sh1 billion the previous year. This is after its loans and advances to customers, primarily ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Howard G. Buffett Foundation Renews Support for the United Nations World Food Programme Work in Eastern DRC
The Howard G. Buffett Foundation has announced three new grants to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) worth nearly US$350,000. The funds will support a "green initiative" to reduce fuel costs associated with WFP operations and facilitate airport rehabilitation projects allowing greater humanitarian access. Howard G. Buffett, President and CEO of the Foundation and a WFP Ambassador ...
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Uganda Uganda Hot On Turkish Airlines List
Kampala - Turkish Airlines, the two time winner of Europe's Best Airline Award and the people behind the popular ad of Lionel Messi dueling with Kobe Bryant, say they are ready to work with Uganda's Ministry of Tourism and other stakeholders to promote the country's attractions. Speaking to the East African Business Week in an exclusive interview last week, Erbil Akgun, the ...
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Rwanda China Grants Kigali Tax Free Access
Kigali - China has dropped all import duties on most Rwandan-made products entering its domestic market of just over one billion people. Not long ago, China became the second largest economy in the world with a GDP of about $7 trillion which is half of that of the US. "We would like to take this opportunity to appreciate the commitment made by the government of China to extend duty free ...
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Kenya Investors Pledge Sh56 Billion for Machakos County
Machakos county has received a commitment of Sh56.3 billion from investors. This follows the signing of an MoU between governor Alfred Mutua and investors after a two day conference at Maanzoni lodge in Machakos at the weekend. "As an incentive to our investors, Machakos county will provide land free of charge to investors who are ready to start work," Mutua said. The governor was ...
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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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