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Kenya Official faults Keino accident theory
However, Mr Oduor explained that failure by pathologists to visit the scene of the accident posed challenges in establishing the real cause of death but noted some evidence casts doubt on the accident ...
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Botswana Botswana Court Sides With San in Ranyane Relocation Case
Gaborone, June 18 - In a major victory for the San in Botswana, a court issued an order today restraining the government from relocating people from Ranyane. The San went to court when it became clear that the authorities were planning to forcibly relocate people from the settlement, which is around 220 km south of Gantsi and houses a community of more than 600 San. "We appeal to the ...
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Congo-Kinshasa A Letter on DRC to the British Prime Minister
London - Dear Prime Minister RE: The G8 Time to Save the Congo! William Hague made history last April that far too few people know about. Britain became the first G8 country to put the wars and human tragedy engulfing the Congo on the G8 agenda; an issue which Save the Congo! as well as MPs and Peers on all sides of both Houses have campaigned for over the past five months. This July, ...
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Rwanda IMF Extends Policy Support Instrument for Rwanda
Washington, DC - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed on June 17, 2013, the sixth review under a three-year Policy Support Instrument (PSI) for Rwanda.1 The Executive Board has also extended the PSI by seven months to end-January 2014. The Executive Board's decision was taken on a lapse of time basis.2 Economic activity in 2012 was resilient despite ...
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Africa African Union Calls for More Investment to Promote Jobs in Africa
GENEVA (ILO News) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has called for more investment to promote job creation, achieve inclusive growth and eradicate poverty in a continent which in the next fifty years will be home to 1.1 billion workers - more than a third of the global workforce. "We are determined to step up our efforts to promote job creation, ...
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Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network Celebrate 25th Anniversary
Cardinal Peter Turkson to Take Part in Upcoming EventsROME, May 29, 2013 (Zenit.org) - With a call to bring justice ministry to the center of Christian life, Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, joins celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network.The Cardinal, who celebrates Mass for the occasion, focuses his ...
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Piracy Victims Endure Harsher Treatment in East Africa
International Maritime Bureau (IMB), however, Somali pirates tend to mete out harsher treatment to their hostages. The report focuses on the human impact of piracy. According to the International Maritime Bureau’s data, the total number of seafarers attacked by pirates decreased significantly in 2012. But it says although the number of attacks decreased, there was a sharp rise in ...
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Kenya Industrial action splits giant union bosses
He said the union has given Government time to consult and dialogue with them even as they ready for a strike. "There cannot be a successful strike if it is not called by Knut," said Sossion. As he spoke, Kuppet national vice-chairperson Julius Korir said the strike has kicked off well and that teachers have absconded ...
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Kenya Midiwo wants Sh53.2 billion for laptop project given to teachers
MP Jakayo Midiwo said he will move an amendment of budgetary allocation by National Treasury so that teachers salaries and allowances are paid once and for ...
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Kenya Students expose more rot at troubled varsity
NAIROBI, KENYA: Fresh revelations of the rot at Presbyterian University of East Africa surfaced yesterday after it emerged that the church-sponsored institution has been mixing students doing the same course but in different years of study in one lecture ...
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Kenya Hard questions for Ntiba at House vetting
Principal Secretary nominee Prof Japhet Ntiba Micheni is this morning scheduled to face the Parliamentary vetting committee where he is expected to respond to at least three sets of ...
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Feingold to serve as envoy to Africa
Former Sen. Russ Feingold is Secretary of State John Kerry’s pick to serve as the first-ever U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region of Africa, Kerry announced Tuesday. "Russ and I served together in the Senate for some 18 years," Kerry told reporters at the State Department. "I have a lot of respect for a lot of qualities of Russ, his intellect, his courage, his ...
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England v South Africa the key clashes
Amla had the Indian sign over the English last year, carrying his eye-catching form from a successful three-Test series (482 runs at an average of 120.50) into the drawn one-day contest that followed (335 at 111.66). There was a career-best 150 rattled up at the Rose Bowl, and an unbeaten 97 accumulated at Trent Bridge, with the opener irresistible and the home side rendered blunt. Anderson, ...
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Tanzania police fire teargas at protesters near blast site
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzanian police fired teargas and warning shots on Tuesday to disperse thousands of people protesting against a weekend bomb attack on an opposition campaign rally, eyewitnesses said. Supporters of the Chadema opposition party gathered in the northern city of Arusha to mourn the three people killed and the more than 50 people injured there in Saturday's blast, ...
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Kerry taps ex-senator Feingold for Africa post
Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Tuesday that he has chosen former Sen. Russ Feingold as the new U.S. special representative for the Great Lakes region of Africa and the ongoing crisis in the Congo. Congo's government and rebels, known as the M23, have been negotiating in Uganda since December under a regional bloc, but the talks have often been set back by accusations over ...
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Officials Kerry to tap former Democratic senator for Africa envoy post
WASHINGTON - Two officials say that Secretary of State John Kerry has chosen Russ Feingold, a former Democratic senator, as the new U.S. special envoy for Africa Great Lakes region. A U.S. official and a congressional aide say Kerry will announce Tuesday that Feingold will assume the post focused, in part, on resolving turmoil in the Congo. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were ...
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MaterCare International Begins Services at Kenya Hospital
Canada-Based Non-Profit Reaching Area Plagued by High Maternal Mortality RateTORONTO, June 13, 2013 (Zenit.org) - On Friday, MaterCare International will begin offering services at its maternity hospital in Isiolo, Kenya, a region facing a high rate of maternal deaths.In 2005, the Canadian based non-profit group, MaterCare International (MCI) developed a Rural Essential Maternity Care project to ...
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Kenya giving laptops to all first graders amid controversy
Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, delivers his speech, during the 50th Madaraka Day celebrations, at the Nyayo National Stadium, in Nairobi, Kenya, June 1. Kenyatta plans to decrease Kenya's digital divide with the rest of the world by giving, with Microsoft's help, laptops to all first ...
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Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film | Rebecca Lowe
Zimbabwe human rights lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, as a young girl with her brother in Swaziland where she was born and raised Photograph: ...
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Kenya Government to Speed Up Completion of Northern Corridor
The government is to speed up the completion of the Northern Corridor road in order to ease movement of goods from the Port of Mombasa to other countries in the region. Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure Michael Kamau says the completion of the road will include a by-pass in Eldoret to cost more than Sh 2 ...
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South Africa Shunting Hectares - Land Reform in South Africa
Greater economic and financial commitment - and a fundamental restructuring of the rural economy - are needed if South African land reform is to progress. Does a raft of new legislation signal renewed vigour on the part of the ANC? On 19th June, South Africa will mark the centenary of the 1913 Natives' Land Act, which effectively excluded the black population from the ownership of some 90% ...
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Kenya MPs to Vote On Sh19 Billion Supplementary Budget
MPs will today decide on whether the national government will be allowed to withdraw Sh19.6 billion to run the country for the now ending financial year. The House will be deciding on whether to approve Supplementary Budget II which among other items proposes that the government be allowed to use Sh700 million to purchase a building to house an office for retired President Mwai Kibaki. Cabinet ...
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Kenya Kitengela Students Block Namanga Road
ANGRY students yesterday blocked the main Nairobi/Namanga road with bonfires and stones to protest the condition of the road linking Kitengela with Ongata Rongai. The over 200 students from Athi River Vocational Centre overpowered the less than 15 police officers from Kitengela as they proceeded to block the Nairobi/Namanga road for about four hours. Their leaders told reporters they took ...
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Kenya Budget Committee Rejects Sh700 Million for Kibakis Office
The Parliamentary Budget Committee has rejected a proposal by Cabinet Secretary for Finance Henry Rotich to purchase a building which will house an office for retired president Mwai Kibaki worth Sh700 million. Rotich had proposed the purchase of a building to house the office of the retired president as a sendoff package to Kibaki. The Sh700 million was part of Sh19.6 billion that national ...
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Kenya Matatu Owners Ask Traffic Boss to Resign Over Extortion
Matatu owners want the traffic boss to take responsibility and resign over bribery claims against traffic police. Speaking to the Star yesterday, chairman of the Matatu Owners Association Simon Kimutai said the traffic boss Samuel Kimaru had failed to stop the rampant extortion rings run by his officers. "Kimaru is unable to explain to us where this money collected by traffic officers who ...
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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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