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Zimbabwe Still Rolling Out the Barrel
Delta Corporation Limited, the biggest counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by capitalisation, recently published results for the 12 months ended March 31 2013. Results from the brewer are always much anticipated by the investment community and as such the results presentation is always well-attended. This is because Delta accounts for 30% of the total market capitalisation on the ZSE ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN World Bank Say Development Is Key to Congo Peace
Goma - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo's conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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Congo-Kinshasa UN Chief Goes to Eastern DRC After Clashes
U.n. Chief Ban Ki - moon flew into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday, just hours after a halt in fighting between rebels and government troops. Rebel group M23 had announced a temporary cease-fire before Ban arrived in Goma, the capital of war-torn North Kivu province. Congo's government says 19 people were killed in three days of fighting between the army and M23 north of ...
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Africa Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational High - Tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa's relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more optimistic. "Africa is that frontier right now," said Canada-based New Media marketing strategist Douglas ...
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Africa New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, business and civil society representatives. Among those ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Civilians Must Be Spared the Fighting in Goma
Geneva/Kinshasa - Inhabited areas north of the city of Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, were hit by shelling on 21 and 22 May. Fighting with heavy weapons resumed at the beginning of the week in the hills of Mutaho, Rusayo and Muja, barely 10 kilometres north-west of Goma. "Thousands of people, including people displaced from other parts of the province ...
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Africa AGRA Welcomes African Unions Renewed Commitment to Agriculture
Nairobi - Jane Karuku, President of AGRA, said: "We share the African Union’s vision for an Africa that is free of hunger; an Africa that boasts a strong agricultural sector that provides food, labour and wealth for all groups of society. The theme of this year’s summit - ‘Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance’ - is fitting. We are optimistic about ...
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Zimbabwe Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag
IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and organised by TechZim. Among the notable directors were Zol CEO and Liquid Telecomms director David Behr, chief commercial officer of Africa's largest undersea fibre laying consortium WIOCC, James Wekesa and ...
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Africa Pan African Business Conference Opens in Addis Ababa
Pan African Business Conference organized in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/AU opens on Friday at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa. Speaking at the opening of the Conference, African Union Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwenca said Africa's private sector has a pivotal role in the continent's development. He said Africa ...
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ABB to Commence Production of Central Photovoltaic Inverters in South Africa
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local photovoltaic (PV) market and local content ...
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Zimbabwe activist Prisoners denied Aids drugs
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- A Zimbabwean human rights activist says he wants the nation's highest court to order prison authorities to ensure suspects in jail can receive their life-prolonging HIV/AIDS ...
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Zimbabwe Mugabe Trip to Tokyo to Gobble Millions
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will next week gobble millions of dollars when he takes a huge entourage of more than 50 government officials to attend the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (Ticad) from June 1 to 3, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal. Top government sources said Mugabe is expected to take a high-powered delegation of cabinet ministers, directors of ...
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Africa Africas Dream of Unity
The African Union is turning 50. It was established as an organization to fight for African unity and initially fought against colonialism. Today it seeks African solutions for African problems. An African continental union which is economically strong and politically autonomous - that was the vision Kwame Nkrumah had back in 1958, just one year after he had led the British colony of the ...
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South Africa Research and Policy Brief - Mamphela Ramphele
The launch of the 'political party platform' Agang in February 2012 has shifted Dr Mamphela Ramphele from being a commentator on South African politics to being an active participant in the months leading up to the national election in 2014. This article draws together some of Dr Ramphele's views on issues affecting South Africa and ...
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Africa Amnesty International APP for Protecting Activists Up for Technology Award
A mobile alert app designed by Amnesty International to help protect human rights activists in danger is in the running for the prestigious Global Impact Award. The Panic Button app, which allows activists to secretly disclose their location to key contacts in an emergency, is among 10 finalists vying for four £500,000 development grants from Google. Three winners will be selected by a ...
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Tanzania Indian Diabetes Drug Sparks Controversy
Zanzibar - AS the controversy over the efficacy of an Indian-made diabetes drug, Wosulin, hots up at Zanzibar's Mnazi Mmoja main hospital, patients are being put in danger. Some 6,000 diabetics have refused to use Wosulin drug made by the India-based company, Wockhardt Limited, resolving to find other optional medicines to survive. "We have vowed not to use the medicine until our ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Support for Press Freedom Day Debates in North Kivu
Reporters Without Borders provided funding for two round-table meetings that local journalists' groups organized for media personnel in the cities of Butembo and Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern province of Nord-Kivu, on 3 May, World Press Freedom Day. The subject for debate at the meetings was "Speaking without fear and guaranteeing press freedom in all the ...
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Namibia Electricity Up By 12 Percent
ELECTRICITY consumers in Namibia will pay on average 12% more from the beginning of July. The Electricity Control Board (ECB) announced at a media conference yesterday that it had approved an increase of 13% on NamPower's bulk tariff which will lead to an increase of the distribution tariff by an average of 12 %. ECB Chief Executive Officer Siseho Simasiku said the proposed tariff ...
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Kenya SMS Service to Stop Coffee Theft Set Up
Coffee Management services has put a mobile alert that will ensure curbing of coffee theft. Coffee management services project manager Catherine Ng'ang'a said that the decision was reached at after a series of coffee theft in Central Kenya. She said that they have set up alarm system gadgets that will give an alert to the person incharge of the dispatch store,chairman of the society ...
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Kenya Grannys Quest for 29 Years Worth of Dues
An 89-year-old Kiambu woman has appealed to President Uhuru to help her get her dues. Magdalene Wangui said she worked for presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi at Harambee House and State House Nairobi for 29 years without pay. Wangui, who lives in Riabai village in abject poverty, was sacked after the Kibaki government took over power in 2002. "I have work documents and a State House ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Censorship Reigns in Nord-Kivu Areas Under M23 Rebel Control
Fighting between M23 rebels and government forces has intensified near Goma, the capital of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, since 20 May. As well as causing new civilian casualties, the clashes and the actions of some rebels are endangering many journalists and the availability of diverse, freely-reported news and information. Reporters Without Borders has conducted a series of interviews ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Journalists Body Found in River Bed 12 Days After His Disappearance
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn of radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro's death in Bunia, a city in the eastern region of Ituri. He was a Swahili-language journalist with Radio Canal Revelation, a community radio station, and freelanced for the Bunia branch of the national broadcaster RTNC. His body was found in the bed of the River Ngezi - which crosses the city - on 17 May, ...
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Tanzania Bunda District Touts Cotton Contract Farming
Bunda - BUNDA district authorities has been spreading the concept of cotton contract farming among the people, saying it is the solution to farmers' problems in growing the crop. The Bunda District Agriculture and Livestock development officer (DALDO), Chibunu Lukiko told the 'Daily News' yesterday that the solution to small yields was to engage in contract farming. "You ...
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Tanzania NBC Bank to Support Islamic Women Groups
THE National Bank of Commerce (NBC) through its Islamic Banking Unit will start providing Islamic Group Finance loans to its customers by September, this year. Speaking during a one-day seminar for Muslim women entrepreneurs in Tanga, the NBC Head of Islamic Banking, Mr Yassir Masoud said that the services would adhere to Islamic finance rules. "This will be an opportunity to our Islamic ...
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Tanzania Treat Fistula Patients Well Urges VP
THE Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, has called for more public education to discourage men from deserting their wives who are suffering from fistula and instead stand by them and give them moral support. Officiating at the function to mark the International Day to end Obstetric Fistula at the Comprehensive Based Rehabilitation Hospital in Tanzania (CCBRT) Grounds in Dar es Salaa, Dr ...
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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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