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Uganda says to build 30000 bpd refinery by 201617
barrels per day refinery by 2016/17 and double this capacity two years later in a move towards commercial output of the country's oil. Explorers struck oil in east Africa's third largest economy in 2006 and Uganda estimates its crude reserves at 3.5 billion barrels but wrangling over taxes and the viability of a ...
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Opposition MPs held in Tanzania
Arusha - Tanzanian police arrested four deputies of the main opposition Chadema party and 60 supporters in the northern city of Arusha on Tuesday as they gathered to pay tribute to murdered ...
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Zimbabwe Rebuilding Zimbabwes Health System
Masvingo - A newborn baby lets out a feeble cry as midwife Anna Mungara tends to a small wound on its head, at the provincial hospital in Masvingo, a town in southeast Zimbabwe. With utmost care, Mungara cleans the cut, wraps the baby in two sets of warm blankets and makes cooing sounds to soothe him. When the infant calms down, she gently places him into an incubator. Mungara, a trainee at ...
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Central African Republic Insecurity in Bangui Increases Food Prices Lay-Offs
Bangui - A security crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) - which began on 10 December 2012, when the rebel Seleka Alliance attacked the capital, Bangui, and continued after Seleka ousted former President François Bozize on 24 March - is ratcheting up food prices, causing unemployment and salary payment delays, and throwing the banking system into turmoil. Food prices have risen ...
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Tanzania MP Calls for Rehabilitation of Mt Kilimanjaro Roads
Dodoma - A MEMBER of Parliament has appealed to the government to complete rehabilitation of four roads leading to Mount Kilimanjaro to unlock more potential of the mountain as the leading foreign exchange earner in the tourism sector. Dr Cyril Chami (Moshi Rural, CCM) said in Parliament that completing rehabilitation of the four roads, incidentally as promised by President Jakaya Kikwete in ...
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Central Africa Head of State Rwandan Minister Discuss Situation in Great Lakes
The Angolan head of State, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Tuesday in Luanda discussed with the visiting Rwandan Foreign minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, the situation prevailing in the Great Lakes region, Angop learned. Speaking to journalists at the end of the audience, Louise Mashikieabo confirmed that the meeting touched on the Greate Lakes situation as a matter that concerns the stability in the ...
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Tanzania IPTL Partner Demands Sh776 Billion in Damages
THE legal battle involving Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) shareholders - VIP Engineering and Marketing Company Limited and Mechmar Corporation - took a new turn earlier this month with the minority shareholder demanding 485 million dollars (776 bn/-) in damages from Standard Chartered Bank (SBC). VIP Engineering and Marketing Company, which owns a 30 per cent stake in IPTL, has filed ...
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Tanzania CTI Urges More Taxes for Imported Cement
THE Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI) wants the government to slap more taxes on imported cement to create a level playing field with local cement producers. At a news conference in Dar es Salaam, the CTI Chairman, Mr Felix Mosha, expressed concern that highly subsidised imported cement is unfairly competing with locally-made cement, thus threatening local producers. "Local ...
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Kenya MPs Cut Kibaki Kitty for Teachers Pay
THE Budget and Appropriations Committee has reduced the Sh700 million set aside for retired President Mwai Kibaki's office to pay teachers. Tourism and Industrialisation ministries will lose Sh4 billion to raise more than Sh21 billion for teachers and lecturers. Committee chairman Mutava Musyimi said the amount meant to acquire Kibaki's office is extravagant at a time when teachers ...
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Tanzania Minerals Exploration Underway in Lindi Region Says Masele
Dodoma - THE Geological Survey of Tanzania (GST) is conducting exploration in Lindi Region to establish the amount of minerals found in the area. Deputy Minister for Energy and Minerals, Mr Stephen Masele told the National Assembly here that after completion of the exploration, a detailed survey will be done to establish if the minerals can be commercially exploited. Mr Masele was answering, ...
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Angola Interior Ministry Gains New Infrastructures
Huambo - Four new infrastructures for the Ministry of Interior (MININT), built and rehabilitated in central Huambo province, will be inaugurated Wednesday by the incumbent minister, ngelo de Barros Veiga Tavares. This is part of the celebrations of the 34th anniversary of MININT, on June 22. While in the province, minister Tavares will also inaugurate the new prison for 820 inmates, in ...
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Tanzania Legislators Decry Uplifting of Imported Cars Prices At Dar es Salaam Port
Dodoma - Members of Parliament have decried a tendency by Tanzania Revenue Authority officials to uplift the price of imported vehicles at the Dar es Salaam Port to increase import duties and other levies. The legislators said the uplifting of buying prices for imported vehicles as a measure to increase government revenue was counterproductive as it fuelled corruption. "It is a zero sum ...
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England win toss choose to bowl vs South Africa
LONDON (Reuters) - England won the toss and elected to bowl in their Champions Trophy semi-final against South Africa amid overcast conditions at The Oval on ...
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England v South Africa - live
BST Anthems have been sung, action is totally imminent. England's record in ODI semi-finals: P8 W4 L4. Can they win a third on the spin today? Will they swing the ball? When? How suspiciously? Answers on their ...
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Kenya dismisses investor worries over capital gains tax plan
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:20am EDT NAIROBI, June 19 (Reuters) - Kenya sought to assuage concerns over a planned review of capital gains tax, saying it was too early to say what asset classes will be targeted in a measure aimed at compelling the rich to fund development. Finance Minister Henry Rotich told lawmakers in his budget speech last week there would ...
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South Africa Current-Account Deficit Narrows on Rand
current-account deficit unexpectedly shrank to 5.8 percent of gross domestic product in the first quarter as the weaker rand helped boost revenue for exporters. The gap on the current account, the widest measure of trade in goods and services, narrowed to 191 billion rand ($19.1 billion), ...
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Mugabe seeks to delay Zimbabwe election by two weeks
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signs into law the Zimbabwe draft constitution in Harare, on May 22 2013. Mugabe has filed an urgent application with the country's top court to push back crucial elections by two weeks, his justice minister ...
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Shunting hectares Land Reform in South Africa
Agricultural Regions of South Africa (image: Africa Research Institute) On 19th June 2013, South Africa marks the centenary of the 1913 Natives' Land Act, which effectively excluded the black population from the ownership of some 90% of land. The emotive issue of the land reform programme, initiated in 1994 by the African National Congress (ANC) to redress historical injustices, is once ...
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Zimbabwe Why the Opposition Shouldnt Be Distracted By the Election Date
The MDC has been joined by SADC in calling for the election to be delayed slightly, but is this really a victory for the opposition? On 15 June, the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) held an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe in Mozambique's capital of Maputo. The main issue discussed was the Zimbabwean elections, currently scheduled for the 31 July. The 31 July date was set by ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabweans Must Sort Out Election Row - AU
The African Union says it is up to Zimbabweans to resolve disputes over election dates. At a press conference in Geneva on Monday, the chair of the commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said that the primary concern is for the elections to be free and fair. President Mugabe proclaimed July 31 for harmonized elections in compliance with a directive from the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe to hold ...
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Angola All Talk and Absolutely No Action
More than seven months on from its high-profile launch Angola's Sovereign Wealth Fund has no investment policy, no chairman and despite its huge press team's best efforts, dwindling credibility. The US$5billion Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA) was launched last October in the capital Luanda, generating no shortage of global headlines. Journalists - I was among them - were flown in ...
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Congo-Kinshasa Chinese Mining Industry Contributes to Abuses in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need to do more to prevent their operations from leading to human rights abuses, Amnesty International warned today in a new report. Profits and Loss: Mining and human rights in Katanga, examines the impact of the mining industry in south-eastern DRC. The report documents a number of serious abuses involving local ...
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Nigeria Refugees from North Crisis Flee to Cameroon
The United Nations refugee agency today reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and insurgents. The Nigerian Government imposed a state of emergency on the Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in the north-east of the country in May. In recent weeks, ...
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South Africa Declaration of Economic War in South Africa
For all the sound and fury of the current fight between poultry producers and meat importers, their dispute may turn out to be only a minor skirmish in what promises to be a war of words and protest action aimed at securing the high ground of economic policy. And central to this will be the question of land. The initial drive started started on Thursday, June 12 at a press conference staged in ...
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Zimbabwe MDC-T Legislators Disrupt Business
MDC-T legislators today temporarily disrupted parliamentary business in the House of Assembly protesting against a decision by the three political parties represented in parliament to indefinitely suspend portfolio committee business from this Friday. Parliament's life comes to an end on Saturday next week at a time most committees have run out of business. Chief whips from Zanu-PF (Cde ...
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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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