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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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Somalia Multiple Fatalities As Al Shabab Attack UN Somalia Base
Soldiers and emergency personnel search through rebels at the UN office in Mogadishu after an Al-Shabaab attack. Militants linked to al Qaeda have caused multiple deaths after breaking into the United Nations' main compound in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu. The rebel group al Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. Islamist rebel gunmen were reported to have detonated explosives ...
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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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Ghana China Ghana Work Closely to Tackle Illegal Mining
Accra - China and Ghana are working closely to properly handle the issue of Chinese nationals engaged in illegal gold mining in the West African country, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday. Gong Jianzhong, the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, told a press conference that the issue of Chinese nationals involved in illegal mining activities in Ghana was a disharmony in the course of ...
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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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Africa Dybul Responds to Questions On the NFM
On 6 June, Executive Director Mark Dybul responded to a letter from the NGO and Communities delegations on the Global Fund Board that asked for more information on the transition process for the new funding model (NFM) and related matters. The delegations' letter was sent on 3 May (see GFO article). In his response, Dr Dybul provided a diagram depicting the criteria for determining which ...
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Africa USAID Speech Highlights Global Surge in Gavi-Supported Vaccine Introductions
Addressing USAID's Distinguished Speaker series, GAVI Alliance CEO Dr. Seth Berkley today highlighted this year's global acceleration in the delivery of life-saving vaccines to developing countries. In 2013, an estimated 600 million doses of life-saving vaccines will reach children in the world's poorest countries thanks to GAVI funding - testimony to the Alliance's ...
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Africa The Beginning of the End of Corporate Secrecy G8 Strikes a Blow Against Corruption - but Still More to Do
The G8 has started a rollback in corporate secrecy by beginning the process of eradicating anonymous shell companies that enable corruption, tax evasion and state looting, said Global Witness today. However, the majority of G8 countries have not yet matched the ambitions of the UK and the US to propose legislation to create registers of who ultimately owns companies. "Anonymous shell ...
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Africa Maternal and Paediatric Tuberculosis Still Overlooked
Kuala Lumpur - The global target of a 50 percent reduction in tuberculosis (TB) by 2015 may already have been achieved, but TB remains a neglected disease among women and young children, say health experts. In 1993 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB a global public health emergency. "About one third of the global population is infected with TB, with an estimated three million ...
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Africa Developing World Bucks Decline in Green Energy Funding
Spending on renewable energy is undergoing a geographic shift, with developing countries investing more last year despite an overall 12 per cent drop in global spending since 2011, according to two reports published this week (12 June). The reports found that developing countries invested a total of US$112 billion in renewable energy in 2012, up 19 percent from 2011. Just under four per cent ...
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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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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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Africa Simon Bland Receives Royal Honour
Simon Bland, the outgoing Chair of the Global Fund Board, has been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), an honour bestowed by Queen Elisabeth II, for his services to global health. Mr Bland's name was included on the Queen's Birthday honour's list for 2013. Mr Bland is Head of the Global Funds Department in the UK's Department for International ...
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The protests exploding worldwide over financial inequality is a warning that South Africas government should take seriously says Khaya Dlanga.
ANC leaders in government, be warned: the people are restless. The people are patient, but they will never stay patient forever. The people can tolerate a lot, but they will never tolerate it forever. A day will come when they say: "Enough of this shit." Their anger will be felt and the nation will be shaken. This time they won't be fighting against an enemy; they will be facing ...
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China Vietnam Agree on Hotline to Resolve Maritime Disputes
China and Vietnam have agreed to set up an emergency hotline to help quickly resolve territorial disputes that have occasionally strained relations between the two ...
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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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India’s Exim Bank lends Ethiopia $300m for rail to Djibouti
- Export-Import Bank of India will lend $300 million to Ethiopia to help construct a railway to a planned port on the Red Sea in neighboring Djibouti. Exim Bank will open the credit line once technical studies are completed on the 210-kilometer (130-mile) link from Asaita in northeastern Ethiopia to Tadjourah, Managing Director T.C.A. Ranganathan said in an interview yesterday in Addis Ababa. ...
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Champions Trophy Bowling powers England to final past South Africa
Cricket News: London: It was complete team effort by England as all the bowlers played a part in demolishing the South African top and middle batting order. Such was the domination of the England bowlers that AB de Villiers and Co found it difficult to buck the trend of faltering in major ICC ...
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Nigeria Nigerians Support Anti Same-Sex Bill - Poll
A new weekly poll has revealed that 92 per cent of Nigerians are in support of the proposed Anti Same-Sex Bill. The weekly poll conducted by NOI Polls Limited from June 4 - 6 in Nigeria also revealed that the reason behind their support revolve around morality and religion. According to results of the poll, most Nigerians are of the opinion that the proposed bill is not an infringement on the ...
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Nigeria Condemned Criminals - Waiting for Governors and Hangmen
The call by President Goodluck Jonathan last Sunday on state governors to sign death warrants of condemned inmates in prisons across the country has again brought to the fore the lingering controversy on the issue. At a special ceremony to mark the 2013 Fathers' Day organized by the Aso Villa Chapel, President Jonathan urged governors not to run away from their statutory responsibility by ...
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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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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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