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Kenya Grannys Quest for 29 Years Worth of Dues
An 89-year-old Kiambu woman has appealed to President Uhuru to help her get her dues. Magdalene Wangui said she worked for presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel Moi at Harambee House and State House Nairobi for 29 years without pay. Wangui, who lives in Riabai village in abject poverty, was sacked after the Kibaki government took over power in 2002. "I have work documents and a State House ...
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Namibia Electricity Up By 12 Percent
ELECTRICITY consumers in Namibia will pay on average 12% more from the beginning of July. The Electricity Control Board (ECB) announced at a media conference yesterday that it had approved an increase of 13% on NamPower's bulk tariff which will lead to an increase of the distribution tariff by an average of 12 %. ECB Chief Executive Officer Siseho Simasiku said the proposed tariff ...
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Africa Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance
The AU is well placed to articulate the Pan-African agenda for the benefit of the people, yet the majority of African presidents are busy with self-preservation and less supportive of initiatives that promote regional and continental integration. When will the Union to stop being a talking and become a serious ...
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Africa AU Coming of Age a Cause for Celebration
The focus of the next 50 years for the African Union should be to move from being a rigid bureaucracy to an agile organisation, which is able to flex and move at speed in a global society On the 25th May 2013 the African Union (AU), the successor of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), will be 50 years of age. This is a milestone and can be seen as a cause for celebration - the golden ...
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Africa Thousands Forego Food to Urge G8 to Take Action On Global Hunger
Thousands of people around the UK - including at least three bishops - are getting ready to go without food to show world leaders their commitment to ending global hunger. As part of the Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign, people will be fasting on Thursday June 6, days before the G8 summit in Northern Ireland on June 17. Churches, and other faith groups, are getting involved and signing up ...
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Africa African Civil Society Calls for AU Action On Eritrea
In a petition, the organisations say the ongoing widespread and systematic nature of human rights violations in Eritrea underlines the need for continued and urgent action by the African ...
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Africa Humanitarian Deadlock in Yida
Yida camp in Unity State, where Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working since late 2011, today covers nearly 1,200 hectares [about 3,000 acres], and hosts a population of nearly 75,000 persons-a five-fold increase in just over a year. Sudanese refugees began streaming across the border into South Sudan in June 2011 when conflict erupted between the Khartoum government and the ...
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Somalia Deadly Battles in Central Somalia Between Al Shabaab and Nomads
Beledweyne - Heavy fighting erupted on Thursday in central Somalia after Al Shabaab militants attacked nomadic communities, Garowe Online reports. Local reports say Al Shabaab militants "killed a number of nomads" in a village approximately 50km west of Beledweyne, capital of Hiran region, after a dispute as Al Shabaab wanted to collect some of the nomad's livestock as ...
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Sudan Sudan Demanded Kiir to Close Business Offices Held By Rebel Groups - Official
Khartoum - Sudan dismissed on Thursday statements by president Salav Kiir saying that Khartoum had asked him to expel all the Sudanese traders working in Juba. On Monday, the South Sudanese president said Khartoum asked him to expel all the Sudanese traders working in Juba. He pointed out that there is no progress in the normalization process with Sudan ,adding that the latter continues to hold ...
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Tanzania Bunda District Touts Cotton Contract Farming
Bunda - BUNDA district authorities has been spreading the concept of cotton contract farming among the people, saying it is the solution to farmers' problems in growing the crop. The Bunda District Agriculture and Livestock development officer (DALDO), Chibunu Lukiko told the 'Daily News' yesterday that the solution to small yields was to engage in contract farming. "You ...
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Tanzania NBC Bank to Support Islamic Women Groups
THE National Bank of Commerce (NBC) through its Islamic Banking Unit will start providing Islamic Group Finance loans to its customers by September, this year. Speaking during a one-day seminar for Muslim women entrepreneurs in Tanga, the NBC Head of Islamic Banking, Mr Yassir Masoud said that the services would adhere to Islamic finance rules. "This will be an opportunity to our Islamic ...
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Africa Diversity and Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are important to almost all non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Beyond this recognition, to what extent do NGOs adequately reflect these values? To find out, I chose to look at the Executive Boards of the 2013 Top 100 NGOs, a list of what the Global Journal considers to be the most impactful, innovative and sustainable NGOs. I looked at Executive Boards because they ...
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Tanzania Treat Fistula Patients Well Urges VP
THE Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, has called for more public education to discourage men from deserting their wives who are suffering from fistula and instead stand by them and give them moral support. Officiating at the function to mark the International Day to end Obstetric Fistula at the Comprehensive Based Rehabilitation Hospital in Tanzania (CCBRT) Grounds in Dar es Salaa, Dr ...
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Central African Republic Is this what our soldiers died for
South African military involvement in the Central African Republic has from the start been entwined with ANC-linked deals, raising questions about the motivation for the disastrous deployment of South African troops to the troubled country. The figure at the centre of the web is the politically connected businessperson and fixer Didier Pereira. Pereira is currently partnered to the ANC ...
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Africa quiz - test your knowledge
To celebrate Africa day on the anniversary of the birth of the Organisation of African Unity, 25 May 1963, we have put together this quiz. No Googling ...
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Eating naartjies in the bioscope a little guide to South African English | Mind your language
The vocabulary and grammar of spoken South African English are coated in a fine layer of Afrikaans dust. It's been there so long that most of us no longer ...
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Somalia Beyond the Famine
The improvement has been attributed to good ongoing 'gu', the March-to-June rains, and the 2012 October-November 'deyr' rains. Successive droughts and poor rains had culminated in a famine in Somalia in ...
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Libya I Cannot Explain How Terrible the Situation Was
Abubaker Ali Osman, a Somali engineer until recently living in Libya, never imagined he would become a refugee. But when violence broke out in the North African country in early 2011, he was forced to flee. He rented a car with his wife and six children and drove to Tunisia, where they lived in a refugee camp for a year. The Osman family now live in Germany, from where Abubaker spoke to Amnesty ...
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Tanzania Domestic Workers Face Abuse
A RECENT ILO report shows that domestic workers around the world, especially in the developing world, are abused, humiliated and exploited almost with complete impunity. This undesirable situation exists in Tanzania, albeit at a smaller scale. Most victims of abuse, humiliation and exploitation never report the matter to legal authorities. They opt to suffer in silence, often in fear of losing ...
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South Sudan Kenya South Sudan Move to Fast-Track Lapsset Project
Juba - President Uhuru Kenyatta and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir have agreed to fast-track the implementation of the Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) project. President Kenyatta and Kiir also said Kenya and South Sudan will jointly source funding for the upgrading of the road linking the two countries for the mutual benefit of their people. The ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Leadership Inspires American Varsity Students
A delegation of 31 students and instructors from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the US has been inspired by Rwanda's leadership policies based on empowerment of citizens. "We chose Rwanda because the country's leadership demonstrates key skills necessary for a transformative leadership and we are really inspired," said Carole Okigbo, one ...
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Rwanda Nyagatare Tragedy - Engineers Form Parallel Probe Team
The Institute of Engineers of Rwanda has announced that it will carry out a parallel investigation into causes that led to the collapse of a four storey building under construction in Nyagatare District. This will be a second team after the Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA) announced a nine-man team to establish the cause of the tragedy on May 14. Fred Rwihunda, the president of the Institute of ...
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Kenya Emobilis Helps JKUAT Students Develop Windows Phone APPs
10 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology students have released new applications targeted at Windows Phone users. The students underwent training by eMobilis, who offer training in mobile application development for various ecosystems. The applications were demonstrated over the weekend at the university's Juja campus in a mini-hackathon. eMobilis will later hold a ...
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East Africa East Africa to Set Uniform Standards for Edible Oil
The east African Community (EAC) will harmonise the standards of oil seeds and edible oil made within the region to improve the quality of foodstuffs in the trade bloc, officials have said. "We need to harmonise the processing of edible oil to ensure quality and improve the product's competitiveness," Athanasie Mukeshiyaremye, the director of standards unit at RBS, said in an ...
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Africa Africa and U.S. Imperialism - Post-Colonial Crises and the Imperatives of the African Revolution
A reflection on five decades since the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), while the Pentagon and NATO escalate their war drive on the continent NOTE: This lecture was delivered at the Africa & U.S. Imperialism Conference held in Detroit on May 18, 2013. The event was sponsored by the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI) and also featured ...
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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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