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Zimbabwe Principals Meet Over Amendments Poll Date
PRINCIPALS in the inclusive Government, negotiators to the Global Political Agreement and legal experts from all the sides met at State House yesterday to discuss issues surrounding the promulgation of amendments to the Electoral Act and proclamation of the election date. The meeting followed debate in Cabinet on Tuesday on the same issues. Presidential spokesperson Cde George Charamba ...
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Tanzania Police Accused of Raping Torturing Sex Workers Drug Users and Homosexuals
Nairobi - Tanzanian police torture, rape and assault sex workers, sexual minorities and drug users, while medical staff deny them healthcare, undermining efforts to reduce HIV infection, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday. Homophobia is widespread across Africa and men who have sex with men in Tanzania face a jail sentence ranging from 30 years to life. But the Tanzanian ...
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Zimbabwe Poll Date Case Urgent Says Govt
GOVERNMENT yesterday filed an urgent chamber application to have the constitutional case it filed on Tuesday for the extension of the election date beyond July 31 heard on an urgent basis and the Constitutional Court will today hear arguments on the fresh application. Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa - through Government lawyer Mr Fred Gijima of FG Gijima and Associates - ...
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Zambia Govt Releases KR238 Million for UNWTO
GOVERNMENT has so far released KR238 million towards the hosting of the 20th United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) General Assembly in August this year, Tourism Minister, Sylvia Masebo has told Parliament. In a ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday on the preparations to host the general assembly, Ms Masebo said the KR15 million budgeted in the Yellow Book had been released ...
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South Africa Two SA Somalia Attack Victims Named
Soldiers and emergency personnel search through rebels at the UN office in Mogadishu after an Al-Shabaab attack. Johannesburg - Denel has released the names of two of three employees who were killed after an attack on a United Nations facility in Somalia on Wednesday. They were Morne Lotter, 42, of Oudtshoorn and Alan Simpson, 35, of Port Elizabeth, spokeswoman Vuyelwa Qinga said on ...
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Zimbabwe Politburo Endorses Aspiring Candidates List
ZANU-PF'S Politburo has approved the final list of aspiring candidates who will contest the party's primaries next Monday ahead of harmonised elections slated for July 31. Addressing journalists after the decision-making body's meeting in Harare last night, Zanu-PF national chairman Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said the Politburo had made a few alterations to the list submitted by the ...
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South Africa Jobs Construction Boom At Coega
Building projects at the Coega Industrial Development Zone outside Port Elizabeth have injected over R1.2-billion into South Africa's Eastern Cape construction industry over the past two quarters, in the process creating over 2 500 jobs, the state-owned Coega Development Corporation (CDC) said last week. Six major construction projects are currently under way in the Coega IDZ, including ...
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Zambia Statutory Instrument Not Meant to Kill Mines - Veep
THE introduction of Statutory Instrument No.32 is not meant to "kill" the mining sector but to ensure that proceeds from mineral resources benefit majority Zambians, Vice-President Guy Scott has said. Dr Scott said Government would ensure that taxes remitted by companies were thoroughly scrutinised so that they could fully benefit the nation. "Some sectors feel we are going ...
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South Africa SA to Stand By Africa Force Deployments
South Africa will continue to play a role in an all-African reaction force because like other leading countries it is determined that there should never again be a process of colonisation, or a forceful takeover of sovereign countries of the continent. In response to questions in the National Assembly President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday that each country would in time contribute at least one ...
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Zambia FQM to Lay Off 500 Workers
FIRST Quantum Minerals (FQM) will lay off 500 workers at Sentinel Mine at Kalumbila in Solwezi which is under construction. But Labour Deputy Minister Ronald Chitotela said Government would not allow the laying off of workers whenever a company was faced with challenges as there were other options to explore. FQM's decision to lay off the workers follows Zambia Environmental Management ...
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Zambia Solicitor General Reacts to K1.4 Billion EU Funds Scandal
Solicitor General Musa Mwenye has reacted to the K1.4 billion European Union fund that PF cadres have shared denying some of the original beneficiaries in the Market Development Committee who spearheaded the construction of the New Soweto Market. Mwenye said this in a letter replying to a call for a meeting that was suggested by the 38 Market Development committee members in order to iron out ...
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Kenya Suspected thugs kill Chinese national
Nairobi and police are grappling on how they can handle them. Elsewhere, three motorists were separately robbed of their motor vehicles in attacks in The first incident happened in Kasarani area, the second one in Starehe and the other one in Kilimani area. Police say they are yet to recover the stolen vehicles and that the gunmen escaped with them in the separate attacks. And a suspected thug ...
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Angola Promoters of Illegal Immigration Arrested
Cabinda - The crew of the national Chiloango ship, comprised by its captain Antonio Manuel and 11 seamen, was indicted for promoting illegal immigration, after being detected with 25 foreign citizens on board in illicit migration situation, Angop has learnt. The head of the Migration and Foreigners Services (SME) in the port of the northern Cabinda province, Carlos Leopoldo, explained on ...
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Zimbabwe AU Poll Observer Team Holds Meeting With Civil Society Groups
A 10-member African Union (AU) team arrived in Zimbabwe this week to assess prevailing conditions ahead of the country's elections. Idrissa Kamara is leading the AU pre-observer mission whose members are drawn from Zambia, South Africa, Lesotho, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Republic of South Sudan, according to state media reports. Kondwane Chirambo of Zambia will be coordinating the ...
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Kenya Cotu Denies Misusing Donor Funds
The Central Organisation of Trade Unions has dismissed reports that its secretary general Francis Atwoli diverted donor funds to politics in the run-up to the March 4 general election. While admitting there were attempts to defraud the organisation out of undisclosed amounts of money, Cotu chairman Rajabu Mwondi exonerated Atwoli from blame. Mwondi said two former employees fraudulently opened ...
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Zimbabwe Chinamasa Ordered to Resubmit Court Application
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has been ordered by the Principals to sit down with Finance Minister Tendai Biti and MDC President Welshman Ncube to craft a 'document by consensus', which will reflect the position of the government in its inclusive nature. This will then be filed before the Constitutional Court (ConCourt). The latest development comes a day after Chinamasa ...
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Kenya Govt to Cushion the Poor On VAT Bill
The government will ensure that you are cushioned from high commodity prices when the VAT Bill is reintroduced in parliament. According to the economic secretary Geoffrey Mwau, the bill will target the rich. He says other than raise the much needed revenue for the government, the Bill will seek to address other challenges arising from the current Bill among them tax ...
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Uganda Kiwanuka Explains Her Budget but Private Sector Unconvinced
A breakfast meeting between Finance minister Maria Kiwanuka and private sector players reignited debate over who 'eats' the taxpayers' money that is allocated in every budget. The Observer has learnt that during the June 14 meeting, private sector businessmen asked the minister to explain why government keeps postponing major projects yet in most cases the money to complete such ...
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Angola Cunene Govt Analyses Development Plan for 20132017
Ondjiva - The government of the southern Cunene province is discussing Wednesday the economic and social development plan for 2013/2017 period during its 3rd extraordinary session of Social Council, chaired by the local governor Antonio Didalelwa. At the opening ceremony, the governor said that the meeting is intended to accomplish the recommendation from the previous session of the council ...
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Uganda Elephants Killing Farming in North - Ogenga Latigo
Farmers in the northern district of Nwoya are losing their entire annual crop to marauding wild animals from national parks, former Leader of Opposition Morris Ogenga Latigo, who is a farmer himself, has said. Latigo, who has suffered heavy losses, urges the government to help farmers fight off elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals from the park that are doing all the damage. During a ...
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East Africa East Africa Budgets Seek Self-Reliance
In their budgets read out on Thursday last week, East African states differed in the sectors they targeted for revenue, but they shared common ground when it came to reducing their reliance on external support, preferring to rely on domestic resources to finance their expenditures. Uganda and Rwanda, which suffered aid cuts during the previous year, had the biggest burden finding finances for ...
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South Africas Cipla Medpro appoints joint acting CEOs
JOHANNESBURG, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:17am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Reuters) - Cipla Medpro South Africa , the drug firm being taken over by India's Cipla Medpro , said on Thursday it had promoted its two deputy chief executives to serve as joint CEOs on a temporary basis. Skhumbuzo Ngozwana and Mark James van Lill Sardi will take over as joint acting chief executives from ...
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Namibia Lending rate held at 5.5
Namibia’s central bank kept its main lending rate unchanged at 5.5 percent for the fifth consecutive meeting yesterday, saying inflation was stable but the economy needed guarding from the impact of the euro zone recession. ';Global economic conditions remain weak with the pace of contraction in the euro area increasing and commodity prices declining, which is a concern,'; Bank ...
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Rwanda Tax Cuts in Transport Sector Will Spur Growth Say Experts
The move by the government to reduce or scrap taxes on selected categories of motor vehicles will encourage economic activity and spur growth, Herbert Gatsinzi, the Ernst & Young director for tax advisory services, has said. The government reduced common external tariffs on motor vehicles for transport of goods with between five tonnes and 20 tonnes capacity to 10 per cent, down from 25 per ...
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Kenya Past Winner to Contest the 2013 Total Quartz Economy Run
Mike Anderson--a past winner of the Total Quartz Economy Run--is among the competitors who will contest this year's event scheduled for Saturday. He will be driving a 1984 made Alfetta GTV6 over the 84km route. Instead of the two litre 155 which previously steered him to victory, Anderson's choice of using his immensely powerful three litre sports racing coupe for Saturday'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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