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Uganda Entebbe Express Way Diverted Over Compensation
Parts of the proposed Kampala-Entebbe expressway route have been diverted to avoid paying off expensive property owners and ease the weight on a constrained compensation budget. The affected areas are between 6km to 11km (Katale-Bukwenda and Katale-Busawula) and 14km to 19km (Lumuli and Kiryamuli/Ssekiwunga) The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) says the realignments in these areas were ...
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Uganda Shilling Up On Inflows From Exporters Charities
Kampala - The Uganda shilling strengthened on Friday due to dollar inflows from commodity exporters, charities and sell-offs by offshore investors betting on a weaker greenback. At 0932 GMT commercial banks in Kampala quoted the currency of east Africa's third-largest economy at 2,560/2,570, stronger than Thursday's close of 2,575/2,585. "The market has inflows from the usual ...
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Zambia police arrest 31 students protesting over food subsidies
"We have so far apprehended 31 students and they have not yet been charged," Lusaka provincial police chief Joyce Kasosa told Agence France-Presse on Saturday. Hundreds of students from the University of Zambia marched to President Michael Sata's office on Friday, demanding an audience with him. But Sata, who was away from the capital, ordered the police to arrest them. He also ...
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Africa The Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwandas Technology and Digital Ambitions
As Rwanda day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the Rwandan business community in the diaspora can playing by embracing the creation of Rwanda startup culture and make a difference in creating much needed jobs at the same time benefiting from the growth of the ICT sector. Rwanda Day is a periodical event that is held in different ...
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Rwanda Genocide Suspect Extradited From Norway to Stay in Custody
Arusha - A Rwandan court on Wednesday granted a prosecutor's request to keep in custody a genocide suspect extradited from Norway. Charles Bandora, the first genocide suspect extradited to Rwanda by a European country, was handed over to the Rwandan authorities in Kigali on March 10 this year. The judge reasoned that there was a risk the accused would flee, according to Rwandan daily New ...
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Angola Arrest of Traffickers By Foreign Forces Has Implications for Countries Sovereignty - Specialist
Luanda - The capture by foreign forces of drug traffickers in the region of the Guinea Coast was considered Thursday, in Luanda, as worrying as the implications that may put the sovereignty of member states at stake. Speaking to ANGOP, Kahumba Martins, an International Relations said that it should up to the countries of the region to develop coordinated actions for the protection of their ...
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Angola Fire in Foreign Affairs Ministry Building
Luanda - A fire broke out Friday morning in the Foreign Affairs Ministry building in Luanda, Angop learned from the institution's spokesperson, Mário Augusto. According to the source, the low proportion fire whose origin is still to be established, partially destroyed the minister's office that remained without electricity and communication as a result. Mário Augusto ...
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Angola Museum Issues Experts for Use of New Technologies
Luanda - The Angolan museum experts suggested Thursday, in Luanda, the need to create an internet site about the national museums and use of new communication and information technologies, known as advanced models of interaction with the public. According to a press release from the Ministry of Culture sent to ANGOP, in the ambit of the celebrations of the International Museum Day (May 18), the ...
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Angola Social Policy Commission Analyses Copyrights Draft Law
Luanda - The members of the Social Policy Commission of the Cabinet Council last Thursday in Luanda, analysed Copyrights Draft Law, which is aimed at changing the Law number 4/90 of 1990 for being out of tune with the country's Constitution and international legal instruments on the issue. According to a communique distributed to the press in the end of the commission's first ...
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Nigeria Jonathan Secures Release of Nigerian Prisoners in Equatorial Guinea
Abuja - President Goodluck Jonathan has secured the release of 10 prisoners held by Equatorial Guinea for various immigration offences, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. It said the release of the prisoners was the outcome of the two-day official visit of Jonathan to the country between March 21 and 22. "The host Minister of National Security disclosed that ...
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Mozambique Vietnam - Mozambique Business Forum
Maputo - The Embassy of the Republic of Mozambique and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a Vietnam-Mozambique Business Forum, which will be held in the cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, on June 11 and 13, 2013, respectively. The Centre for Promotion (CPI), in coordination with the CTA, the Cabinet of Accelerated Development Economic Zones (GAZEDA), the Institute for Export ...
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Kenya Herders Disobey Police Orders Against Trading in Tseikuru
HERDER who had previously clashed with residents of Tseikuru district in Kitui, have defied measures put in place by local security authorities and ventured into area. A district security committee and peace meeting on Monday outlawed the use of panya routes by the pastoralist in taking their livestock for sell in Tseikuru markets. It was chaired by deputy County Commissioner Stephen Momanyi ...
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Kenya Kenya May Soon Reap Millions From Its Forests Says Kefri Researcher
A scientist at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute has said the forests may soon earn Kenya millions of shillings when the carbon offset scheme begins. Researcher Chemuku Wekesa said the scheme will start once the development policies are set by the Environment ministry and discussions take place at the national and international levels. "The carbon trading business is big and will soon ...
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Kenya Kengen to Increase Power Output
Power producer Kengen plans to increase output to the national grid by 70mw by December this year to address the high national demand, managing director Eddy Njoroge said on Wednesday. The power will be supplied by the new Olkaria IV geothermal power plant which is part of the 280mw Olkaria complex, the biggest geothermal plant in the world. Njoroge said construction is on course with 50 per ...
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In Zimbabwe Will Next Election Be More Peaceful
Host Scott Simon talks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton about Zimbabwe's upcoming presidential election and efforts to alleviate its international ...
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Chad UN Agency Prepositions for Darfur Refugees in Chad Ahead of Rainy Season
With tens of thousands of Darfur refugees in eastern Chad, the United Nations refugee agency today said it is "in a race against time" to deliver aid before heavy rains cut off access to the group escaping violence linked to tribal conflicts. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has prepositioned enough aid in the area to cover the needs of 3,000 families and additional supplies are underway ...
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Five held for explosives in Tanzania
Arusha, Tanzania - Tanzanian police said Saturday they have arrested five people in possession of explosives in the economic capital Dar es ...
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Angola Ministry Runs Productive System Innovation Contest
Luanda - A contest called "Innovating in the Angolan productive sector" for local and foreign companies operating in Angola will be held this year in the country, Angop learned. This was announced Thursday in Luanda by the minister of Science and Technology, Maria C'ndida Teixeira. The minister made the announcement at the opening of a cycle of lectures under the 2nd edition of ...
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Angola Govt to Increase Power Capacity to 8400 Mw Until 2025
The Ministry of Energy will increase the country's electricity production capacity to 8,400 megawatt until the year 2025, against the current 1,200. This was said Friday in Luanda by the minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges. The minister was speaking about "Energy and growth: world tendencies in Angola", at the International Conference on Energy and ...
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Angola National and International Specialists Debate Energy Efficiency
Luanda - Domestic and foreign experts are gathered today, Friday in Luanda International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development, to discuss about fuel efficiency and the influence it has in relation to the development of the country. According to the president of the International Energy Agency, Maria Van Der Hoeven, efficiency offers clean energy, improving health, the ...
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Angola Council Enables to Learn of Kuando Kubango Potentials
Menongue - The minister of Agriculture, Pedro Canga, admitted Thursday in the city of Menongue, the holding of the 1st Consultative Council of the Ministry, which runs until today, Friday, serves as the occasion for many entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs to know the potential of Kuando Kubango, in various fields, particularly agriculture, livestock and forestry. The holding of the 1st ...
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Workers on illegal strike at chrome mine in S.Africa-union
By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG | Sat May 18, 2013 5:56am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 18 (Reuters) - Operations at a chrome mine in South Africa owned by chemicals group LANXESS have been suspended since Thursday after workers started an illegal strike over bonus payments, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Saturday. The dispute at the mine in Rustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) ...
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Angola Agricultural Transport Fisheries Subsidies to Continue
The Government will make adjustments to the fuels subsidies, but some sectors like agriculture, transport, fisheries and butane gas will continue to benefit due to their social importance. This was said to Angop by the Oil minister, Jose Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos. The minister was speaking on the fringes of the first "International conference on taxes in the annual cycle, efficacy of ...
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Angola Govt Engaged in Strategies Connecting Country to ICTs
Luanda - The minister of Science and Technology, Maria C'ndida Pereira Teixeira, said Friday that the Angolan Executive continue to implement the strategy connecting the country, in order to turn the information and communication technologies (Internet and broad band)' goals into reality. The Cabinet minister said so at the opening of series of lectures, ahead of the 2nd edition of ...
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Angola Oil Minister Stresses Global Development Related to Energy
Luanda - The global development necessarily depends on the supply and use of energy, said Friday in Luanda the Oil minister, Botelho de Vasconcelos. The Cabinet minister, who was speaking at the opening of the International Conference on Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development, also said that this requires not only the balance between supply and demand for the product, but also, and ...
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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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