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Tanzania Oil Gas Exploration Bids to Open Next Year
Dodoma - THE Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, has said the government will open bids for gas and oil exploratory licences on May 9, 2014 at a time when the country will have the Natural Gas Policy and legislation. He told Members of Parliament here during a seminar on the sector that it would be ready after Parliament would have approved both policy and legislation. He ...
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Kenya Elgeyo Marakwet Top in Brews Abuse
Elgeyo Marakwet county has been rated as one of the leading in consumption and manufacture of chang'aa and busaa. The government has threatened to arrest parents who allow their children to engage in brewing and consumption of traditional brews. County deputy commis- sioner Moses Lilan said numerous children have dropped out of school in many parts of the region. "We will round up ...
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Rwanda Tax Body Firms Sign Deal to Reduce Border Delays
The Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) and selected businesses, including importers, transporters and clearing agents, have signed a deal that seeks to reduce delays at border posts. The selected group will be part of the authorised economic operator pilot project, a regional trade facilitation initiative, Richard Tusabe, the RRA deputy commissioner general, said. He said the initiative was in ...
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Ethiopia Farmers Co-Op Seat Auction Postponed At ECX
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has postponed the bid opening date of the auction of thirty membership seats it floated exclusively for farmers' cooperatives, to May 16, 2013. The initial bid opening date was April 31, 2012. ECX has stated that it wants more participation by farmers' cooperatives, which is the reason for the extension. The ECX is expecting around 200 ...
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Tanzania Dar es Salaam Loses Sh15 Billion Annually On Cement Tax Evasion
THE government suffers over 15bn/- loss annually in revenue due to smuggling and improperly taxed cement imports through Zanzibar, an industry source said in Dar es Salaam over the weekend. The Tanga Cement Company Limited (TCCL) Managing Director, Mr Erik Westerberg, made the revelation while presenting a report at the firm's Annual General Meeting (AGM) and urged for intervention of ...
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Kenya Rent Payment Should Be Made By 10th
If your landlord harasses you for not paying your rent before the 10th of every month he/she will be breaking the law. Ephraim Murigo from the tenants association says residential tenants must also be issued with a 30 day notice before eviction and 60 day notice for commercial business ...
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Zimbabwe Zimbabwes Chief Executives Fail to Pass On the Baton
ANNOUNCING the "shock" departure of then group chief executive officer Nyasha Makuvise last year, CBZ Holdings board chairman Luxon Zembe told analysts that while the group regretted his resignation, leadership was like a relay where one had to pass on the baton. "He [Makuvise] has worked well, we are proud and in fact, regret that a very good runner [is leaving] but in a relay, ...
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Africa The Curious Tale of the Missing MDGs and Africas Progress
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have driven the global development agenda since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 191 member states surprised the world by unanimously agreeing and making, the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Declaration was both a surprising and encouraging outcome for global progress. Not long before the ...
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Kenya Bandits strike kill two in Mandera despite heavy security presence
The attacks that renewed fears of inter-clan feuds in the county, sent hundreds of panic-stricken villagers fleeing from their homes for fear of more attacks. Banisa ward County representative Yakub Hassan said in the first incident, which occurred at Urille village in Lulis sub-location some three Kilometres from Banisa town, an elderly woman was killed and four others injured. He said those ...
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South African mines cannot afford pay rises - Implats
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Boosting Ethiopias economy one soft-soled step at a time
Specifically, building a successful shoe manufacturing business that creates jobs, empowers employees, like the one she founded -- SoleRebels, the first ever global footwear company to come out of a developing country. "You don't build your economy based on aid, you want to build your economy based on the way SoleRebels built its business, so that it's sustainable," Bethlehem ...
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Kuwait giant said to win $930m payout in Libya dispute
The largest private business in Kuwait has reportedly won a $930m case against Libya over breach of contract in what is being described as a landmark ...
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Clashes leave casualties in Tunisia as radical Islamists defy protest ban
One protester has died and several others have been injured in Tunisia after radical Islamists defied a ban on their demonstration and clashed with police. The 27-year-old man was killed in the capital; there was also trouble in the central city of Kairouan. In Tunis police arrested dozens of people in one district. In the midst of the clashes some of the protesters reportedly lowered the ...
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Somalia IGAD Delegation Begins Fact-Finding Mission On Jubbaland State Formation
A delegation from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) visited officials in Mogadishu and Kismayo following controversial elections that resulted in two men claiming victory as Jubbaland regional president. Ras Kamboni militia leader Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Islam Madobe was declared president of the nascent Jubbaland regional administration on May 15th, but shortly thereafter ...
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Uganda Sejua Dossier Author Fears for Her Life
The woman who allegedly first published the letter that eventually got Gen David Sejusa in trouble says she is scared for her life. Emerging from Sejusa's shadow, Catherine Ddembe, spoke to The Observer on Saturday, and told of deep-seated fears that some people were following her and could try to kill her. Ddembe became famous among internet users three months ago when a letter, ...
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Nigeria Need to Halt the Tinted Glass Acts Amendment
The senate was upbeat recently when one of its members, Senator Ita Enang (Akwa Ibom North-east), stood before his colleagues to lead the debate on a Bill he sponsored that seeks to liberalise the process of granting permit to Nigerians to enable them use vehicles with tinted glass. Entitled "A Bill for an Act to Amend the Motor Vehicles (Prohibition of Tinted Glass) Act CAP M21, Laws of ...
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Kenya Uhuru Maintains No Salary Increase for MPs
PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta has today called upon the members of the national assembly who are pushing for the increment of their salaries to first deliver services. Kenyatta who was speaking at Nyeri Golf Club this evening when he started a three day visit in Nyeri county maintained that the MPs should deliver on the mandate they were given by Kenyans two months ago.He said their salaries will be ...
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Sudan Eritrean Youth Face Most Harrowing Atrocities - Activist
Khartoum - Renowned Eritrean activist Meron Estefanos has told an international conference in Oslo that of all the atrocities taking place in the repressive Red Sea nation, the plight of its youth is the most harrowing. In an eloquent and quietly emotive speech at the fifth annual Oslo Freedom Forum in the Norwegian capital earlier this week, Estefanos said the aspirations of an entire ...
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Sudan SRF Conquest of Khartoum Just a Matter of Time - Rebels
Darfur - The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) claims that they will "reach and enter Khartoum through deeds not words". The SRF is an alliance of rebel forces recruiting primarily in Darfur and Kordofan whose objective is topple the Sudanese regime "by all means". Abdel Wahid Al Nur, the head of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA-AW) and Vice President of the SRF said in an ...
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Sudan Mayom Commissioner Denies Aiding Youth That Attacked Police
Bentiu - Calm has returned along the county border between Koch and Mayom in Unity state when inter-clan fighting broke out between two branches of the Nuer ethnic group last week. Thirteen civilians and eight police officers died in the fighting according to local officials. Jageay Nuer residents in Koch county, including some government sources, accused Bol Mayak the Mayom commissioner of ...
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Kenya NSSF Discards Fingerprints System
Nairobi - Social Security Provider National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has officially withdrawn the use of fingerprints based registration system following the integration of cutting edge information technology based systems. The obsolete manual fingerprints registration system synonymous with NSSF has now been retired in favour of modern registration systems with a capacity to save the fund ...
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Sudan UN Concerned Over Khartoums Suspension of Local NGOs Activities
Khartoum - The United Nations (UN) has expressed its concern over suspending activities of the Sudanese aid group Al- Manar which provides food for about 528 malnourished children in Khartoum's neighbourhoods of Mayo and Mandela as well as Omdurman women's prison. A report issued by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday, pointed that Al- Manar was ...
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Sudan Militiamen Terrorise Darfurs El Salam Camp - Sheikh
El Salam Camp - Displaced people from El Salam camp in Nyala are concerned about continuous militia attacks against them saying that the militiamen fire gunshots at night in the air. Sheikh Mahjoub Adam Tabaldiya told Radio Dabanga that the incidence of attacks by armed militiamen against displaced people and then terrorising them by firing shots at night, is still frequent. The most recent ...
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Somalia Iranians Convicted of Illegal Fishing in Puntland State Waters
Bossaso - A Bossaso court convicted on Sunday, 78 Iranians who were caught in April illegally fishing in Puntland state waters, Garowe Online reports. On Sunday, Judge Sheikh Adan Ahmed handed out fines of 100,000 US dollars to the owners of the five illegal fishing boats and up to 5,000 US dollars to the captains of the illegal fishing boats apprehended near Bossaso. The 73 other Iranian ...
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Kenya Govt Says Rutos Jet Hired for Sh18.5 Million
Nairobi - The government has denied reports that it spent Sh100 million in hiring a private jet for Deputy President William Ruto to use on his four African nation tour. In a statement read by the Communication Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo, the government also stated that the jet was hired on a one-off basis and not for a year. "There is no contract of one-year lease between Kenya ...
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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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