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South Sudan Kenya South Sudan Move to Fast-Track Lapsset Project
Juba - President Uhuru Kenyatta and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir have agreed to fast-track the implementation of the Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) project. President Kenyatta and Kiir also said Kenya and South Sudan will jointly source funding for the upgrading of the road linking the two countries for the mutual benefit of their people. The ...
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Kenya Emobilis Helps JKUAT Students Develop Windows Phone APPs
10 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology students have released new applications targeted at Windows Phone users. The students underwent training by eMobilis, who offer training in mobile application development for various ecosystems. The applications were demonstrated over the weekend at the university's Juja campus in a mini-hackathon. eMobilis will later hold a ...
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East Africa East Africa to Set Uniform Standards for Edible Oil
The east African Community (EAC) will harmonise the standards of oil seeds and edible oil made within the region to improve the quality of foodstuffs in the trade bloc, officials have said. "We need to harmonise the processing of edible oil to ensure quality and improve the product's competitiveness," Athanasie Mukeshiyaremye, the director of standards unit at RBS, said in an ...
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How adolescent girls in Africa are shaping their own future
Teenage women are the focus of Forward - the NGO has worked with adolescent women in Africa to tackle issues around their sexual and reproductive health and rights for almost two decades.While its initial projects were carried out in partnership with established civil society organisations, over the years it became apparent that there was a missed opportunity to create change by partnering with ...
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Africa backs Kenya call for Hague court to drop Kenyatta case
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African nations have backed a request by Kenya for charges of crimes against humanity by its president to be referred back to the east African country, African Union documents ...
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Swaziland Anger As South Africa Colludes With Cops
The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) has condemned the action by officials at the South African High Commission in Mbabane, Swaziland, for handing the names of eight CPS activists visiting the offices earlier this week to the Swazi security police. The CPS activists had arranged with the High Commission to deliver a memorandum urging the mission to condemn ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Road Renovation Revitalizes Neighborhoods in DRCs Capital City
Kinshasa - Along the Nlandu road to the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital city Kinshasa, small businesses are springing up and local entrepreneurs are thriving. This is because Nlandu road is newly renovated. "The occupancy rate in our hotel, which was almost zero before the renovation of avenue Nlandu, is now 80 percent," says Adrien, a hotel manager along the main road. ...
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Rwanda Shisha - the New Craze in Kigali
Shisha smoking has of late become very popular in Rwanda especially in Kigali. What is Shisha? How is it smoked? What are the ingredients? How much is a smoking session? Society Magazine's Martin Bishop set out to find the answers. She took a deliberate deep breath of the tobacco smoke from the water pipe, before exhaling. The middle-aged lady in tight fitting jeans passed on the pipe to ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Disease Linked to Cassava Consumption Affects Cognitive Ability
Cape Town - Konzo - an epidemic paralytic disease resulting from the consumption of poorly processed bitter cassava - can also cause impaired cognitive functions even in children who do not show physical symptoms of the disease, a study finds. The study was conducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Bandundu Province, an area severely affected by the disease. It discredits the ...
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Angola Angolan Vice President Travels to Ethiopia
Luanda - The Angolan Vice President, Manuel Domingos Vicente, is leaving this Friday to Ethiopia, where he will represent President Jose Eduardo dos Santos in the commemorations of the 50th foundation anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU). According to a note from the Support Services for the Vice President, Manuel Vicente will also participate in the ...
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Angola Namibia and Angola Sign MOU
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Angola's Ministry of Agriculture to help strengthen the collaborative effects between the two countries to boost the status of animal health and prevent the spread of animal diseases along the common border by vaccinating livestock on both sides of the border. Speaking at the signing ...
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Zambia DRC Sets Free 8 Zambian Fishermen
EIGHT fishermen that were among the 17 arrested on Lake Tanganyika on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) side have been released. Defence Minister Geoffrey Mwamba confirmed the release of the fishermen who were captured two weeks ago. Other fishermen were released earlier and the eight were the last to be set free by authorities in the neighbouring country. Mr Mwamba said on arrival at ...
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Kenya Senate Has No Say in Revenue Bill Says Muturi
Speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi yesterday saidthe Senate has no role in scrutinising the Division of Revenue Bill as required by the standing orders and the Public Finance Management Act. The ruling came after Suba MP John Mbadi sought clarification on Tuesday on whether the Senate has the power to amend the Bill that had already been passed by the National Assembly. Mbadi's ...
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Uganda Lukwago Faces Censure Motion
Eighteen councillors of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) await the Attorney General's legal advice before they can proceed with a censure motion against Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago. The motion, signed by 18 out of the 30 councillors, was given to the minister for the Presidency and KCCA affairs, Frank Tumwebaze, on May 15, 2013. The councillors want to invoke Section 12 (3) (a) and ...
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Uganda Airtel Warid Merge Mobile Money Services
The mobile money landscape, one of the more profitable ventures for telecom companies in Uganda, could witness some serious competition, after Airtel and Warid merged their money transfer services to serve more than seven million subscribers. The merging of the mobile money services - one of the first steps of convergence after Airtel agreed to buy Warid - directly takes the competition to MTN ...
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Rwanda That Era Is Now a Bygone Its Rwandans Time to Reconnect
Of about a dozen-and-half books I have read and documentaries I have watched on the history of the Africa's Great Lakes Region - and Rwanda in particular, none of them, in my humble opinion, so vividly depicts the war-and-Genocide history of Rwanda better than Philip Gourevitch's "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families". Perhaps, just ...
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Uganda How NRM Plotted to Oust Lukwago
The NRM is trying a radical approach in an attempt to resolve the long-running standoff between the lord mayor and the KCCA executive director. The NRM caucus agreed on Monday to let President Museveni step in and take direct control of Kampala Capital City Authority for at least six months. The proposal, if muscled through Parliament, carries ominous job implications, most especially for Erias ...
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Kenya Insurance Firms Prices Not Reflecting Bullish Market
The Nairobi all share rallied 1.744% to close at a fresh all time record high. The all share is +35.916% in 2013. The all share has accelerated +8.075% higher over the last four weeks. The Nairobi NSE20 improved 4.89 points to close at 4983.54 and is within 1% of its 57-month closing high reached in early April. The NSE20 IS +20.5661% this year. The rally has been led by the big cap counters ...
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Cameroon Fuel Transportation - US Investors Interested
A consortium of American investors have manifested interest in constructing a pipeline to transport petroleum products from the oil refinery in Limbe through Douala to the capital city, Yaounde counting for the first phase.The investors led by the Vice Executive President of Govind Development, PLC, Andy Bennet disclosed their intentions during an audience with the Prime Minister, Head of ...
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Uganda Tourism Sector Is Crying Out for More
At the inauguration of a new Uganda Tourism Board (UTB) in Kampala recently, the minister of Tourism, Maria Mutagamba, called on the members to find alternative ways of funding the all-important sector, given that the government's current allocation is insufficient. While the minister is right to advise the sector, which she says has a funding gap of Shs 17bn, to find alternative resources ...
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South Africa to help Nigerias auto industry a milestone in inter-African cooperation
The lack of economic diversification throughout sub-Saharan Africa may stymy South Africa’s pledges to help Nigeria industrialize. And making the automotive sector Nigeria’s flagship industrial target may not be so easy, experts ...
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Waiting for Big Brother Africa housemates
Suspense is in the air again as the 2013 edition of Big Brother Africa will be inaugurated on Sunday. As usual, it will be another season of adventure, sensation, entertainment and, possibly, tongue ...
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Shock move on Zimbabwe pension contributions
In February the government told the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to lend it $40-million because it was unable to fund the referendum. That move left the already struggling fund in deep financial difficulties. Banking sector sources said the decision to raise pension contributions was made to curb "a financial disaster" at the NSSA, which also has to raise about ...
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Angola to start bond market this year
Angola planned to start a publicly traded bond market in the third quarter as it sought to boost investment, Archer Mangueira, the president of the country’s Capital Markets Commission, said ...
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ABB to produce PV inverters in South Africa
ABB, a Switzerland-based power and automation technology group, plans to start production of central PV inverters in South Africa to support the rapidly growing local solar market and local content ...
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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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