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Kenya TNA stopped from ejecting six committee members
On Wednesday evening, Speaker Mwangi Mugo stopped a bid by the TNA core team to replace six TNA members from all the 12 assembly committees. Majority leader Mwangi Kibuu (Gatitu/Muruguru Ward) sought to replace the six members from Kieni Constituency with new nominees claiming they had shown marked indifference to their party agenda. The six are Duncan Gituanja (Kabaru), Mwaniki Kanyiri ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Kenya Farmers fault States deal with the EU
Through the Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum, they told a Nairobi Court yesterday that the Government had not complied with some requirements before sealing the ...
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Kenya Kibor wins land case 20 years later
The High Court in Eldoret ordered Samuel Rono, who had bought the land from Kibor to leave the farm. High Court Judge Festus Azangalala gave Rono 30 days to vacate the farm failure to which he would be evicted. This followed failure by Rono to pay Kibor the full amount agreed for the land. In 1991, Kibor entered into a sale agreement with Rono to purchase the land at Sh22.5 million, a price that ...
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Kenya Uhuru submits nominee list to Parliament
House Speaker Justin Muturi noted that the National Assembly is required to conclude the process of approval or rejection of the nominees within 14 days from the date of notification. "I now direct that the nominees' names and Curriculum Vitae be forwarded to the Committee on Appointments for the necessary approval hearings to be conducted," said Muturi. Uhuru nominated Joseph J ...
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Business Kenya rises to second spot as conference tourism leader
The two countries had previously dominated top spots. The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) also rated Kenya at 58th position globally in the 'Country& City rankings 2012' Ruth Solitei, Permanent ...
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Business Agriculture Secretary outlines plan to raise Kenyas share of meat market
Coffee stakeholders are working on strategies to enhance the industry competitiveness by expanding the market share locally and ...
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Kenya seeks African help to drop Hague charges against Kenyatta
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Kenya has asked other African countries to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop crimes-against-humanity charges against its new president and his deputy, according to an African Union document seen on ...
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Hydropower megaproject to dam River Congo
Africa's greatest river is about to be tamed. The River Congo is set to succumb to a series of giant hydroelectric dams with twice the generating capacity of the world's most powerful hydro-plant, ...
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DR Congo shelling kills three
SHELLING has killed three people in the flashpoint Democratic Republic Congo city of Goma ahead of a visit by UN leader Ban Ki-moon. Three shells were fired into the Goma district of Ndosho late on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 10, according to the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for DR Congo Moustapha Soumare. He did not say whether rebel or government forces were behind the ...
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HRW Mozambique Families Displaced by Foreign Mining
Rio Tinto's "Benga" coal mining operation in Tete province in central Mozambique. Arid, coal-rich Tete has been at the epicenter of a coal mining boom that has attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment. Without adequate safeguards, this surge ...
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UN warns DR Congo rebels it will intervene
The UN Secretary General has warned armed rebels in eastern Congo that the organisation's new "intervention brigade" would prevent any repeat of the fighting that has driven thousands of refugees out of camps this ...
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Kenya AGOA’S unexploited opportunities
http://www.africanpress.me/ A facilitator addressing the African Growth & Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum in Kisumu this morning. (photo by Alal) This is the irony of people laying emphasis on value addition as the sure way to lift the business fraternity in Kenya ...
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UN World Bank Say Development is Key to Congo Peace
GOMA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo’s conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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S. Sudan leader Intl court humiliates Africa
JUBA, South Sudan -; South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African ...
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Democratic Republic of Congo - Congolese journalist’s body found in river 12 days after disappearance
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn of radio journalist Guylain Chandjaro's death in Bunia, a city in the eastern region of Ituri. He was a Swahili-language journalist with Radio Canal Rvlation, a community radio station, and freelanced for the Bunia branch of the national broadcaster RTNC.His body was found in the bed of the River Ngezi - which crosses the city - on 17 May, 12 ...
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Kenya South Sudan and Uganda Pipeline poker
IN MARCH last year the heads of state of Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan met among mangroves in Lamu, a Kenyan town on the Indian Ocean, to launch the construction of a port and oil pipeline together costing $16 billion that would serve all their countries and vastly enrich them. Taxpayers were billed $350,000 for the celebratory meal, according to local officials, though it actually cost only ...
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Kenyan police clear truckers blocking east Africas main trade route
MOMBASA (Reuters) - Kenyan police cleared the only highway from the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi on Thursday, two days after striking truck drivers blocked it and threatened to choke the main trade artery in east ...
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Kenya Nurses and midwives trained on safe abortion methods to curb high mortality rate
Executive Director of KMET the training is to enhance the capacity of health providers to offer quality abortion related services within the confines of the law in Kenya. Monica said health providers need to understand provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care services such as the use ...
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South Africa Guptagate Report whitewash Reinforces Need for an Independent Investigation
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. The final Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Report of the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft at Air Force Base Waterkloof reinforces the need for an independent investigation into "Guptagate". The final report was deliberately and cynically withheld from ...
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South Africa Agang Response to the Release of the Gupta Report
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. Johannesburg - ‘We note with interest the Government's report into the failures of governance that led to the landing of the Gupta family's aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force base. ‘The report confirms that ‘a culture of undue influence, underpinned by poor ...
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UN chief visits Goma Congo
The town of Kanyaruchinya is seen from the last United Nations peacekeeper outpost along the road leading north, into M23 rebel territory, from Goma in eastern Congo, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon arrived in Congo's capital far to the west for a two-day visit expected to take him to Goma, where a new U.N. military brigade is being formed to attack rebel groups ...
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WTO Leader Criticizes Trade Costs and Corruption in Africa
Nairobi, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, questioned today the negative impact of the high cost of cross-border trade and corruption for consumers in East Africa. "Due to these scourges the region pays 40 percent higher market prices," Lamy told local reporters in this capital. "If you are a consumer in Rwanda, you ...
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Kenya - Witnesses describe police killings of protesters bystanders in Kenya
The Kenyan authorities should promptly investigate and prosecute those responsible for shootings by the police in Kisumu on March 30, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Five people died and at least twenty-four were injured.The shootings occurred in the wake of demonstrations against the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling on March 30 upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory on March ...
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Regional Integration for Africa’s Structural Transformation
structural transformation " in order to take the bulk of its population out of poverty.Critical to the attainment of this structural transformation is without a doubt ...
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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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