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Angola will Participate in Conference on African Development
Luanda, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The Angolan Foreign Minister, George Chikoti, will represent the country in the next Summit of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), official sources said. The event, to be held from next June 1 to 3 in Yokohama, Japan, will examine issues such as sustainable economy, inclusive society, peace and stability and development associated ...
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Botswana Govt At War With Indigenous San People
Despite court defeats and international condemnation, the government of Botswana is continuing its assault on the San by attempting to forcibly relocate another community from land they have occupied for decades, says the Khwedom Council, a non-governmental organisation advocating for the rights of the San (or Basarwa) people. "It is another sad season for the San in Botswana as the ...
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Zimbabwe Civil Society Condemns Mobile Voter Registration
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensively failed to reach all prospective registrants. In a joint statement, the civil society groups lists some key concerns about the process that ran ...
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Mozambique UN Chief Promotes Education Gender Empowerment
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today commended the Government and people of Mozambique for steady progress in political development, but urged greater efforts to overcome human rights challenges, including discrimination and violence against women, through education and awareness-raising. At a visit to the Samsão Muthemba secondary school, Mr. Ban highlighted his UNiTE to end violence ...
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Congo-Kinshasa DRC Education Coalition Graduates to Regional Role
As everyone knows, the education system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is beset with enormous challenges - challenges that often seem insurmountable. But only a few people know that progress is slowly being made thanks to the dedicated work of the National Coalition for Education for All (CONEPT). With institutional support from the DRC office of the Open Society Initiative for ...
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Angola Deafening Silence After Corruption Report
It has been a month since the release of a damning report into a massively corrupt Angola-Russia debt deal. A month since it explained in forensic detail how more than US$700 million ended up in the pockets of arms dealers and senior Angolan officials, including President dos Santos. A month since a group of courageous Angolan anti-corruption campaigners used its new evidence to file criminal ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN Envoy Proposes Set of Principles to Guide Peace Efforts
The United Nations Envoy for Africa's Great Lakes Region today proposed a set of principles to guide immediate peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, while voicing concerns over renewed fighting in the eastern part of the country. "The suffering and displacement of the people, especially women and children, in eastern DRC and beyond have gone on for too long and cannot ...
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The G-8 and Africa in Partnership for Global Food Security
In the same spirit of sharing and making official data easily accessible to the public, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack opened the two-day G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture in Washington, DC. Held on Monday, April 29 and Tuesday, April 30, 2013, the Conference was, and still is, definitely one of the most significant global events in contemporary ...
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World Briefing | Africa Democratic Republic of Congo Rebel Clashes Resume
Two days of clashes between rebel fighters and ...
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Nigeria take on Libya in Africa beach soccer
All eight teams participating at the African qualifiers that are taking place in El Jadida in Morocco from May 22 to 26 have the same goal: to reach the final match and grab one of two tickets for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup later this year in ...
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Chinese vice premier starts official visit to Zimbabwe
Vice Premier Wang Yang arrived in Harare on Tuesday, starting an official visit to Zimbabwe, the first leg of his African trip from May 21 to 25 to boost China's relations with the continent.During his visit to Zimbabwe, Wang is expected to pay a courtesy call to President Robert Mugabe, hold talks with Vice President Joyce Mujuru and pay a courtesy call to Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, ...
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Ban Ki-Moon praises progress in Mozambique says resource income must be put to good use
MAPUTO, Mozambique - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon says Mozambique has made tremendous progress in 20 years of peace but must put to good use the new natural resources income of an impoverished nation with one of the world's fastest growing economies. Ban Ki-Moon told reporters after meeting President Armando Guebuza that "new-found resources create new opportunities but generate ...
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Libya war weapons may be killing central Africa elephants UN
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - The carcasses of some of the 22 elephants slaughtered in a helicopter-bourne attack lie on the ground in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Garamba National Park, in this undated handout ...
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Kenya National slum upgrading and prevention policy aims to improve livelihoods
Vision 2030 which aspires for a slum free nation. Currently it is estimated that more than 34% of Kenyan's total population lives in urban areas with this number projected to hit 63% by 2030 in not well addressed. It s also estimated that 71% of the urban population lives in slums and are facing various challenges such as social, political and economic exclusion. Other vital problems ...
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Central African Republic UN measles vaccination campaign to protect 125000 children
an emergency measles vaccination campaign that will aim to reach 125,000 children in the Central African Republic (CAR). The five-day campaign, which begins tomorrow, will take place in the conflict-hit Bangui, the country’s capital, after eight children tested positive for the disease last month. ';Measles is one of the leading causes of death among young children. Mass violence ...
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Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened
Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Militias Spread Fear of Voting
- For the last month Gibson Severe and his wife, Merjury Severe, known opposition supporters from Hurungwe district in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland West Province, have been hiding out in the country's capital ...
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Gabon and CAR Colloborate on Effective Management of Protected Areas
The following statement was released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society President and CEO ...
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Clashes in Congo continue as U.N. chief prepares to visit
Ban Ki -moon. Fighting between the Congolese Army and the rebel group M23 was again centered near Mutaho, 12 kilometers (7 miles) north of the city of Goma, Voice of America reported. Government spokesman Lambert Mende said 15 rebels and four army soldiers were killed in the fighting. Speaking in Mozambique, Ban said he will travel to Goma Thursday, and called for faster deployment of a U.N. ...
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How Congress Is Using the Congo to Weaken Dodd-Frank
Lawmakers expressed what appeared to be heartfelt concern Tuesday over an obscure provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, the major financial reform bill President Barack Obama signed into law in 2010, and how it has affected the people of the Democratic Republic of ...
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Kenya Patrol cars top police priority list
The team supposed to spearhead modernisation of the National Police Service said officers are incapacitated in several other ways but they urgently need vehicles, protection gear and houses. They met Tuesday at the Treasury as directed by ...
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Kenya Over 69 cases pave way for poll petitions
This follows enactment of new election rules, which provides that a judge or a magistrate handling petitions should not be engaged in any other court matter until the conclusion of election ...
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Kenya Governor appoints rivals to Cabinet for peaces sake
Dado's long awaited cabinet includes one of his competitors in the gubernatorial race in an effort, he says, will bring cohesion among communities living in the county.?? He has ...
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Kenya Coast residents suffered most land injustices
The Mijikenda, Taita and Pokomo communities in the Coast have suffered the worst land-related injustices since independence and successive governments did little to solve the problem, ...
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Kenya TJRC blames State for massacres
TJRC ) report wants President Uhuru to apologise for the failure of the State to avert the killings. The report, released yesterday also recommends that all the victims be compensated within two years of the issuance of the report. ...
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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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