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Rwanda She Chose Business Over the Courtroom
Business Times continues to profile successful business women, who will share their success tips and experiences of how they made it in the cutthroat and male-dominated business world. They reveal how they started out, what inspired them and how they have managed to make their business dreams come true. This week, Peterson Tumwebaze caught up with Meledah Twahirwa, a lawyer turned business ...
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Rwanda African Govts Advised to Place Children At the Centre of Post-2015 Development
African leaders and experts have called for children to be at the centre of the post-2015 development agenda.The call comes as the African Union (AU) prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary. According to a statement issued yesterday by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), a panel of distinguished African leaders and thinkers agreed on a number of critical priorities to ensure ...
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Zimbabwe Mutambara Calls for Mineral Database
GOVERNMENT should mobilise funding for exploration to establish a database of the country's mineral reserves to avoid getting raw deals when negotiating with investors, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said. He made the remarks at the 74th annual general meeting of the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe at Troutbeck Resort in Nyanga last week. The meeting was held under the theme: ...
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Rwanda Architects Welcome Online Permit Application System
The Kigali City Council on Monday launched the Online Construction Permit Management Information System that will make obtaining the permits simpler and faster. Mayor Fidele Ndayisaba called the initiative, which involves several stakeholders, a 'landmark achievement' for the city's service delivery. Under the new system, developers wishing to obtain construction permits will be ...
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Rwanda Construction Permits to Be Issued Online
The City of Kigali yesterday launched the online Construction Permit Management Information System that is set to make acquisition of construction permits faster, simpler and easier. In Kigali city, before one embarks on a construction project, they are required to get a permit from the city authorities. However, with the new technology, architects will no longer need to go to the City of ...
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West Africa ECOWAS to Review Protocol On Movement of Persons Goods Services
As part of the review process of the Ecowas Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Goods and Services, the Ecowas Commission will undertake a Mission to The Gambia as a Member State from the 22nd - 25th May 2013, to begin the awareness campaign and information exchange with government authorities and other stakeholders on the subject. The sub-regional bloc has started to review the Regional ...
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Kenya Rutos Office Releases Sh18 Million Jet Invoices
Nairobi - Deputy President William Ruto's office has released documents to support their assertion that a jet which took him on a tour of four African nations was a one-off hire at a cost of Sh18.5 million and not Sh100 million as reported. The documents include an invoice from the charter company whose jet the deputy president used on the trip. The invoice from VistaJet shows the deputy ...
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Kenya Vetting of All Police Officers Starts Next Month
Nairobi - Vetting of all police officers will begin in June, according to the chairman of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) Johnston Kavuludi. The commission will consult an international security expert, the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board as well as the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission before embarking on the exercise. "The commission in preparation has scheduled a ...
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South Africa Under pressure miners union demands 60 percent wage raise
South African employers are bracing themselves for the mother of strike seasons this year. As the end of May beckons, the country is braced for a series of employment negotiations, as sectoral wage contracts come under the spotlight.First to throw the gauntlet is the country's largest and richest trade union, the powerful, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which submitted its wage ...
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Cameroon Defence Officials Share Common Meal
Defence Minister, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o presided over the ceremony at the Military Headquarters in Yaounde on Monday.Officials of various corps of Cameroon's Armed Forces gathered for a common meal at the Military Headquarters in Yaounde yesterday, May 20, 2013 after participating in the colourful military parade presided over by the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed ...
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Rwanda Ntarama a Story of Untold Barbarism
The township of Ntarama is home to a red-brick Christian church, set in a garden and surrounded by trees. It looks like a very quiet place, but that tranquility belies its violent past. At Ntarama Catholic Church, more than 5000 people were brutally killed during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. The church, today a memorial, presents a few particularities compared to other sites: while ...
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Rwanda Battle to Eliminate Child Labor Intensified
One Wednesday morning, Emmanuel Twizerimana looks desperate as he is waiting for someone to buy his bundle of firewood at the roadside of Gatsata, a neighborhood of Kigali city. The 15-year-old has walked for three hours with the heavy load, from Murambi sector in Rulindo to the city's periphery, in the hope of earning some money. Twizerimana, a senior-one student, says he has to resort to ...
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Rwanda Sunset Spa - Walk in Gloomy Walk Out Glowing
Are you tired from the cares of the day, or are you looking to treat your skin or do you wish to be pampered more than even your closest friend would, then Sunset Spa is the place for you. Situated in the magnificent Sunset Apartments in Kibagabaga, the calming Sunset Spa and its interiors offer visitors a day of otherworldly respite from daily life. Open two months ago, the beauty haven offers ...
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Cameroon Nigerian Contingent Showcases Solidarity in Yaounde
The 111 men in a majestic march past held the Head of State and his guests spellbound. Gentle and majestic! This is the description many onlookers gave a contingent of Nigerian army, guest at this year's National Day, as the 111 men marched past the Head of State and other national and international dignitaries at the 20th May Boulevard yesterday May 20. They were unique in everything. ...
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Rwanda How to Create Graduates Adapted to the Labor Market
One of the solutions that politicians propose to under- or unemployed youth and fresh graduates is to be job creators not seekers. The question is, though, whether our universities - in the region in general, and in Rwanda in particular - are also able of creating job creators. Prof Mayunga H. H. Nkunya is a seasoned academic. He is the executive secretary of Inter-University Council for East ...
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Rwanda Budget Shines Spotlight On RRA
As Finance Minister Claver Gatete prepares to unveil the 2013/14 budget early next month, the one institution whose resilience will be tested is the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA). First, the takes into account lower than expected external budget. This means that most of the resources to keep the country's development agenda on course must be domestically generated. Secondly RRA is not ...
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Tanzania Tanzanian Elected Sacau Vice-Chairman
A TANZANIAN, Mr Salum Shamte has been elected Vice-Chairman of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU). Mr Shamte who is also Chairman of the board of Directors of Agricultural Council of Tanzania was elected during the organisation's annual general meeting and will lead for a period of three years. Tanzania hosted this year's SACAU policy conference and its ...
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Cameroon Defence Forces Showcase Ongoing Modernisation
The military parade and civilian march past at the Yaounde 20th Many Avenue on May 20, 2013 marking the 41st edition of Cameroon's National Day remains historic because of innovations the country's Defence Forces demonstrated during the occasion and also the consolidation of democratic institutions. History will have it that the first ever Senators of the country were represented at ...
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Rwanda Customs Process Made Easier for Tax Compliant Traders
Thirteen companies, three of them Rwandan, last week signed a Memorandum of understanding with Rwanda Revenue Authority to be accorded preferential treatment when clearing their goods at customs. The Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) is a regional trade facilitation program recommended by the world customs organization to ease trade and customs clearance for tax compliant and prominent ...
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Kenya ICT AVUs Integral Teaching and Learning Approach
For Africa to compete in the global economies, 12 -15 percent of its workforce need to have access to technical tertiary education. This was the opening remark by Dr. Bakary Diallo, Rector of the African Virtual University (AVU) during the African Virtual University Computer Science and Teacher Education Curriculum Design workshop at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Nairobi. At the end of this ...
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Cameroon Cameroon-Saudi Arabia - New Cooperation Agreement Imminent
Ambassador Mahmoud Bin Hussein Qattan organised a farewell dinner on May 16 in Yaounde. The outgoing Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Cameroon, His Excellency Mahmoud Bin Hussein, on Thursday, May 16, 2013 announced the imminent signing of a bilateral cooperation agreement between Cameroon and Saudi Arabia, expressing hope that it would help in fostering relations. He was speaking at a farewell ...
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Rwanda We Should All Help to Root Out Child Labor
Recently, cabinet approved a new 5-year policy to root out child labor in the country. While the situation is certainly not alarming in Rwanda, this initiative is to be applauded. Every child which spends its time working instead of going to school, is one too many. While according to the law a person can only be employed when he is at least 16 years old (and even then, the work should be ...
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Kenya Strike On As County Pay Talks Collapse
The ongoing strike by county assemblies to force the Salaries and Remuneration Commission improve their salaries is expected to continue after the salary negotiation talks collapsed. The chairman of the the county assemblies speakers forum Nuh Nassir said they had been unable to reach a satisfactory compromise with the commission. "As we speak now, county assemblies remain adjourned until ...
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Kenya Which Way for Kenyas Oil Sector
Nairobi - The National Oil Corporation of Kenya has kicked off a series of stakeholder talks on the future of oil and gas exploration and production in Kenya. The talks seek to inform policy making and the creation of institutional structures needed for effective management of the emerging petroleum upstream sector. National Oil has identified a number of topics in the areas of oil and gas ...
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Rwanda Unauthorized Settlement Led to Evictions - Gasabo Mayor
Gasabo district Mayor Willy Ndayizeye has declared that claims made by evictees in the district (Kimicanga, Gaculiro, Gisozi, etc.) are unfounded because they were evicted because of unauthorized settlement. In the recent past, people living mainly around Gisozi marshland and Kimicanga have been asked to leave those areas for respectively environment protection and not matching the city's ...
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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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