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Kenya Counties Should Support Business
ONE senator is proposing a law that investors must pay royalties to the counties where they are situated. She suggested that 20 percent of turnover would be an appropriate amount. This would be a disaster. Firstly, very few companies make 20 percent profit on turnover. Most companies make between five and ten percent. Therefore this new tax would force the company into losses, and it would have ...
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Kenya Muthama Slams Rutos Sh100 Million Luxury Jet Hire
Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama yesterday faulted Vice President William Ruto for using taxpayers money to hire a Sh100 million luxury jet. Muthama accused the government of copious consumption at the expense of millions of poverty stricken Kenyans. "This is shuttle diplomacy aimed at boosting his image in the back drop of ICC charges and has nothing to do with the governments purported ...
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Rwanda Multimedia Students Urged to Shape Industry
Africa digital media students have been urged to study hard so as to acquire skills that will help them transform the country's digital media industry. The Ministry for Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana, who was on Monday presenting to the students and the school partners the award Rwanda won from the International Telecommunication Union, lauded Africa Digital Multimedia Academy ...
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Kenya CCK Says It Lacks Space for Third Digital Player
The Communications Commission of Kenya has said it does not have broadcasting spectrum to issue to the media owners, despite a government promise allocate them the third digital signal distribution license. The industry regulator, said the spectrum that would have been given to broadcasters was taken away in favor of mobile services through an agreement by International Telecommunication Union ...
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Kenya Nyeri to Raise Sh4.2 Billion for Budget
NYERI county government will unveil its Sh4.6 billion budgets for the 2013-2014 financial year. The estimates are yet to be tabled before the county assembly as the County representatives are on an indefinite recess. The budget will cater for both the county executive and the county assembly with the executive comprising of 10 departments. Nyeri county government expects to raise Sh4.2 billion ...
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Kenya Ojaamong Tables Sh5 Billion Budget for Busia County
Busia county will receive an estimated revenue of Sh5 billion during the financial year 2013-14. Addressing assembly members after presenting the first budget policy statement for the financial year 2013-14 in Busia yesterday, governor Sospeter Ojaamong said the county will govern itself and manage its political and socio-economic affairs independently. He said the focus of the budget estimates ...
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Angola Angolan and Cuban Authorities Discuss Strengthening of Relations
The minister of State and head of the President's Civil Office, Edeltrudes Maurício da Costa, on Monday in Luanda analysed with the vice president of the Cuban Council of Ministers, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, matters linked to the strengthening of the bilateral relations. Speaking to the press after the meeting, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz said that aims to reinforce the co-operation between ...
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Kenya Five Killed in Uthiru Crash
Five people were killed yesterday after a saloon car ploughed into them while they waited for a matatu in Uthiru. Scores of other commuters were also injured in the gory 4.30pm accident. The driver of the car lost control after a tyre burst, he hit a tree and the impact sent the vehicle hurtling towards the commuters waiting for rush hour traffic after work. The mangled wreckage was towed to ...
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Kenyas truth report Killings land grabs graft
NAIROBI, Kenya -; Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that says his father, the country's first president, presided over a government that was responsible for numerous gross human rights violations, political assassinations and illegal allocation of ...
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Tanzania Tanzania Pegs Growth On Farming Research
Dar es Salaam - President Jakaya Kikwete has said economic growth in most African countries hinges on increased agriculture production based on more scientific research. This is because the majority of the people get their livelihood from farming. He was speaking during the official opening of a new International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) research centre in Dar es Salaam last ...
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Uganda Publisher Appointed to Tourism Chair
Kampala - James Tumusiime, the Managing Director of Fountain Publishers Limited and founder of the Igongo Cultural Centre in Biharwe, western Uganda, has been appointed the new Chairman of the Uganda Tourism Board. He replaces William Byaruhanga who was the chairperson until his tenure ended in 2011. The new chairman together with his board will serve for the next three years. A new Board of ...
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Kenya Floods Wreak Havoc in Kenya
Nairobi - Raging floods in Kenya as a result of heavy rains pounding most parts of the country have left a trail of destruction death and displacement in their wake. It is estimated that close to $10 million has been lost nationally in terms of property and missed business opportunities. The Kenyan government and aid agencies are currently grappling with the challenge of providing relief ...
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Tanzania Smile Injects U.S. $10 Million in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam - Smile Communications (Tanzania), a subsidiary of Smile Telecoms Holding Limited has invested over $10m for the first commercial fourth generation long term evolution (4G LTE) broadband network. This will substantially speed up internet services in Tanzania. In less than four months, Smile successfully rolled out Africa's first such network in Dar es Salaam during the first ...
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Cameroon South West - Kumba CPDM Celebrates Senator Mukete
An outburst of joy led Kumba party supporters to a spontaneous rally in Njuki on May 14, 2013. As the pioneer Senators of Cameroon were poised to take their honorable sashes last week in the Nation's capital, Yaounde, supporters and sympathizers of the Kumba I (A) Section of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) took to the Njuki Party House chanting glorious praises for ...
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East Africa Kenyans Rwandans Reject Permits
Kampala - Kenya and Rwanda mutually do not charge any fees for work or residence permits. Nor do the governments prevent qualified citizens from the other country from competing for jobs in their domestic labour market. A report released in Dar es Salaam last week, reveals that the two are the only East African Community (EAC) countries who have made free movement of people a reality under the ...
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East Africa EAC Ponders Joint Oil Pool
Arusha - A suggestion has been made to pool regional natural resources to catapult the East African Community into the league of industrialised countries by 2063. "If we use our bumper natural resources jointly and wisely, our countries will be joining the 'First World' ranks in five decades from now," President Yoweri Museveni, the Chairman of the Summit of the East African ...
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Kenya Kenyan Gets Nod for Top UN Job
Nairobi - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week announced the nomination of former Kenyan trade minister, Dr Mukhisa Kituyi as Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). His term is expected to begin on September 1st 2013. The nomination has already been forwarded to the UN General Assembly for discussion and if approved, Dr Kituyi ...
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Central African Republic Emergency Measles Vaccination Campaign to Protect 125000 Children in Central African Republic
Bangui - UNICEF and its partners are mounting an emergency measles vaccination campaign in Bangui, the conflict-hit capital of the Central African Republic, after eight children tested positive for the disease in April. Working with the Ministry of Health, World Health Organization and NGO partners Merlin, IMC, ACF, PU-AMI and COOPI, UNICEF aims to reach 125, 000 children during the 22-26 May ...
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Kenya Kenya Devolution Budget Under Siege
Nairobi - The national government has allocated $2.5 billion for the 47 county governments to share during the 2013/14 financial year. Critics from several quarters and led by the new County Governors however, have described the amount as too little. They said no meaningful start towards devolved units can take off and this will adversely affect the country's economic growth. "This ...
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South Africa Opening Up Debates We Need
The trade union movement is in a state of flux, with concepts such as centralised bargaining and the "winner takes all" approach of majority -- 50 per cent plus one -- unionism now being challenged. "Agency shop" agreements whereby majority unions take a slice of the subscriptions paid by members of smaller unions, let alone the much bigger question of party political ...
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Cameroon Voters Registration Resumes This May 22.
Cameroonians of voting age who missed the first round of biometric registration on voters' lists are expected to have another chance as from today, May 22, 2013 according to a press release by the Director General of Elections, Mohaman Sani Tanimou signed on May 16, 2013. The release specifies that all council branches across the country will restart the exercise that will only fold up with ...
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Burundi Burundi Pushes More Business Reforms
Bujumbura - Burundi will continue to push for reforms at all indicators of Doing Business to make the country attractive for investment which sustains economic development. Burundi ranked among the world's top 10 reformers in the latest edition of the International Finance Corporation/World BAnk Doing Business ...
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Uganda Students to Compete for Microsoft Spot
Kampala - Two Ugandan secondary school students will compete in this year's Certport Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship set to begin on July 31 and end on August 3 in Washington D.C. Majaso Limited, a long standing partner of Certport Inc the lead organizers, said students from twelve secondary schools will sit a qualifying Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Microsoft W0rd ...
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Uganda Museveni Invites Investors in Medical Services
Kampala - Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has suggested investors go into provision of high quality health services to limit medical tourism. Currently, India is the leading provider of these services. "You should also consider investing in specialized medical facilities to stop medical tourism," Museveni said recently while meeting potential tourism investors in London. He ...
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The vice-regal couple on tour in South Africa
The Governer-General participates in a Cape Town luncheon discussion May 20, focusing on how CIDA is helping South African officials manage the development of a local fishing port.(Cpl. Vincent Carbonneau/Rideau ...
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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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