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South Africa Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa Launches the Mining and Biodiversity Guideline and Receives Life - State of South Africas Biodiversity Report
The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Mrs Edna Molewa today, 22 May 2013 on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB), launched the Mining and Biodiversity Guideline: Mainstreaming biodiversity into the mining sector, in Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) also handed over the Life: State of South Africa's ...
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Kenya Billboard of Shame to Be Put Up in Eldoret Town
Names of people or companies which engage in corruption in Uasin Gishu county will be put up on a large bill board in Eldoret town. Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago yesterday said corruption is eating up too much revenue meant to improve services in the town and that he will fight the vice. "I have proposed that we put up a large bill board in town so that those we catch engaging in ...
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Kenya Former councillors ask for Uhurus help in send off package stalemate
They lamented that without the gratuity, they were unable to cope with the increasing cost of living, saying they were wallowing in poverty after losing in the March General Elections. Speaking to the press in Kisii town on Thursday, the civic leaders led by former Kisii Deputy Mayor Patrick Siro, they said MPs in the last parliament were each paid Sh3.7 million gratuity but councillors were ...
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Launch of The ONE Campaign 2013 DATA Report Financing the Fight for Africa’s Transformation
Minister Amara Konneh - Minister of Finance, Liberia Minister Ngozi Nkonjo-Iweala - Minister of Finance, Nigeria (TBC) Minister Claver Gatete - Minister of Finance, Rwanda (TBC) Paulo Gomes - Founder, Chairman and CEO, Constelor Investment Holdings, Former Executive Director, World Bank Benoit Chevalier - Head, Resource Mobilization and Allocation, African Development Bank Group Ben Leo - Global ...
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M23 rebels announce ceasefire for U.N. chiefs Congo visit
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rebels in eastern Congo announced a ceasefire on Thursday in fighting with government troops hours before a visit to the conflict-plagued zone by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim. "We've decided to announce this ceasefire to allow His Excellency Ban Ki-moon to visit Goma as he promised," Amani ...
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Rwanda Family Welfare Association Refutes Closure Claims
Rwandan Association for the Promotion of Family Welfare (Arbef) has refuted rumours that its clinics have been closed. "I want to categorically refute these claims; our clinics are operational and have never closed," Arbef board chairman Jerome Mbonirema said at a press briefing yesterday. Claims that Arbef had closed its clinics followed last year's wrangles within the NGO that ...
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Tanzania Mtwara Poised for Gas Glory
ENERGY and Minerals Minister Prof Sospeter Muhongo has expressed optimism that the 400MW gas-fired power project in Mtwara, to provide a big relief to the region's residents, will be successfully implemented. The minister's remarks come in the face of a prolonged tug-of-war pitting residents, security agencies and regional authorities over plans to set up a gas pipeline from Mtwara to ...
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Tanzania Stakeholders for National Fund to Boost Projects
VARIOUS stakeholders have advised the government to introduce a national infrastructure fund to enable the private sector to complement the meagre public budget in developing key projects. Tanzania Shipping Agents Association (TASAA) Chairman Emmanuel Mallya, retired Investment Climate Facility (IFC) Chief Executive Officer, Omari Issa and Rex Attorney's corporate lawyer, Dr Hawa Sinare, ...
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Kenya Lawmaker Seeks More Electricity Distributors
The monopoly enjoyed by electricity distributor Kenya Power may soon end if Parliament passes a motion compelling the government to liberalise the industry. Markwet East MP David Bowen said this will encourage competition in power distribution and reduce inefficiency. "The cost of power in the country scares investors. This House urges the government to find a way to reduce the baggage ...
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Tanzania Dar es Salaam Set to Host Oil Gas Conference
AS the Mtwara and Lindi gas saga rages on, the first ever Tanzania Oil and Gas Suppliers Conference (TOGSC) has been scheduled for late July, aimed at addressing issues pertaining to the value chain. According to a statement issued by the organisers of the event, the conference cum exhibition will bring together key players from the value chain, together with stakeholders from the government ...
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Kenya Equity Bank Kicked Out of Its City Hall Branch
THE county government of Nairobi has ordered Equity Bank to relocate its City Hall branch. In the letter, to the bank City Hall has given Equity six months to move out because it wants open up a restaurant for the County Assembly members. The Star has learnt that Equity Bank chief executive Mwangi has been trying to get an appointment with Nairobi Governor Dr. Evans Kidero. Interim County ...
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Tanzania New Projects Dominate Energy Ministry Budget
Dodoma - THE Ministry of Energy and Minerals yesterday asked the National Assembly to endorse its 1.1tri/- budget estimates for the financial year 2013/14 out of which 90 per cent will be spent on development projects. And in his trademark oratory skill and pomp, the minister, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, drew the attention of the House to the "fact that the estimates are historical as they are ...
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Tanzania ...riots Greet Estimates
Dodoma and Dar es Salaam - MTWARA Municipality was on Wednesday rocked by riots as police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators reportedly opposing the planned construction of a 532-km gas pipeline from the town to Dar es Salaam. There are unconfirmed reports that at least one policeman has died and dozens of other people were injured in the clashes. However, Mtwara Regional Commissioner ...
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Angola Environment Minister Presses for Support for Climate Change Adaptation Plan
Luanda - Angola's minister of Environment, Fátima Jardim, Wednesday in Luanda reiterated the call for support for the climate change adaptation plan, not only as a developing country, but taking into account existing potential. The official said so on the fringes of the workshop for the presentation of the National Plan of Action on Climate Change Adaptation (PANA). The minister ...
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Tanzania Mwambani Port Project to Transform Tanga Economy
TANGA Region is set to benefit immensely from the Mwambani Port and Railway Corridor (MWAPORC) project that envisages transforming the regional economy. The Mwambani project includes the construction of a deep sea and free port as well as a new heavy haul standard gauge railway that will link the Indian Ocean from Tanzania through Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Tanga ...
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Tanzania EPZA Gets Investors With Sh200 Billion Capital
THE Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA) has received 15 new investors with a combined capital of 123 million US dollars (about 200bn/-), with potentials of creating 13,947 direct jobs for Tanzanians. Awarding certificates to the 15 investors at EPZA's Mabibo headquarters in Dar es Salaam, EPZA Director General Adelhelm Meru, implored Tanzanians to grab the incentive rich business ...
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Tanzania Hail Housing Long-Term Loans for Civil Servants
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete early this week announced plans by the government to support civil servants acquire low-cost and decent houses through long-term loans payable by instalments for up to 25 years. Under the 358bn/- project that will initially be executed for five years, 5,000 housing units are to be built in different parts of the country, where 2,500 of them are expected to be ready ...
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Angola Governor Points Agriculture As Development Factor for Province
Caxito - The governor of the northern Bengo province, João Bernardo de Miranda, said on Tuesday in Caxito that the agriculture and livestock will continue to sustain the economic base of the region's development. Speaking to Angop, the official argued that the province has a high agricultural potential which only remains to be explored in order to surpass the stage of traditional ...
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Disturbances that put spell on Middle East North Africa to be long-term most apparently - Lavrov
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Why Africa is luring Gulf bond investors
The lure of sub-saharan Africa, with its geographic proximity and promise of higher returns, is tempting cash-rich Gulf Arab bond investors to look south, a marked departure from the relative comfort and familiarity of the Middle ...
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90 arrested after Tanzania gas pipeline protest
(33 mins ago) Tanzanian police have made sweeping arrests after a day of protests in which one person was killed in a southeastern town over a gas pipeline project, the government said Thursday. "Several houses and a lot of property were badly damaged,'' home affairs minister Emmanuel Nchimbi told parliament Thursday, a day after the riots in the coastal town of Mtwara, close to ...
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Zimbabwe Chinese VP Meets President
VISITING Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang met President Mugabe at State House today where he briefed him on the investment agreements his country signed with various ministries. The agreements are worth US$36 million as the two countries continue to cement their flourishing economic ties. Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting, Vice-Premier Wang expressed gratification on meeting the ...
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Congo-Kinshasa On Joint Visit to DR Congo UN and World Bank Chiefs Voice Support for Latest Peace Effort
In the first visit of its kind, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support a recent peace deal and promote economic development in the long-troubled region. "This is a critical moment for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region," Mr. Ban told reporters in the capital, ...
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Zimbabwe Dj Munya Appears in Court
STAR FM DJ, Munyaradzi Mlimo, accused of killing a man he suspected of having an extra-marital affair with his wife, today appeared in court together with his two accomplices charged with murder. DJ Munya (32) as he is popularly known is jointly charged with Taurai Janhi (34) and Mohammed Matare (31). The trio appeared before Mr Donald Ndirowei who remanded him in custody to June 5. Mr Ndirowei ...
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Tanzania Firms Eye Listing At DSE Alternative Market
THREE companies have shown interest to list on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange's (DSE) second market segment, which has lesser stringent listing requirements. The firms - one from the banking and two from the mining sector - are at advanced stage of listing at the Enterprise Growth Market (EGM), that caters for starter-ups and operational businesses that face working capital constraints. ...
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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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