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Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual charge against US government worker
This image released by U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., shows the damage to the car that allegedly hit and killed Alois Pedzisai Matyoramhinga in Zimbawbe. Unusual circumstances have left federal prosecutors pursuing vandalism charges against Andrew Pastirik, a U.S. government worker accused of killing the Zimbabwe man in a drunken driving collision. Much of the case against Pastirik is ...
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Africa Africa Loses $50bn Annually to Illicit Fund Flow - Mbeki
The Chairman of the United Nations High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has said that the continent loses, at least, $50 billion annually through illicit fund flows. Mr. Mbeki, a former President of South Africa, made the fact known in Abuja on Monday when he led a delegation of the UN panel on a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan. He said the panel ...
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Libya Security Crisis Intensifies
Gunmen block a street near Libya's Ministry of Justice with military trucks in Tripoli (file photo). Tripoli - Libyan security services defused several car bombs and other explosives in the past two days, Prime Minister Ali Zidan said on Sunday (May 19th). The prime minister's press conference came in the wake of a string of bombings in both Benghazi and Tripoli. The attacks ...
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Zimbabwe Mining Firms to Engage Govt
INCOMING Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe president and Zimplats chief executive Mr Alex Mhembere says constant dialogue with Government is key to maximising the mining industry's contribution to national economic development. Mr Mhembere said this after he was elected the chamber's new president at a closed council meeting during the 74th annual general meeting at Troutbeck Resort in ...
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Kenya Elgeyo Marakwet County Tops in Changaa Busaa 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 commissioner Moses Lilan said numerous children have dropped out of school in many parts of the region. "We will round up ...
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Africa Eminent African Leaders Call for Children to Be At the Centre of the Post-2015 Development Agenda Ahead of AU Summit
Addis Ababa - As the African Union (AU) prepares to celebrate its 50th Anniversary at a time when consultations on what will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are gathering pace, African leaders and experts were united in calling for children to be at the centre of the post-2015 development agenda at a High Level Dialogue organised by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) - a ...
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Tanzania Kikwete Mourns Veteran Politician Sykes
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has mourned the sad demise of a veteran politician and one of the champions of Tanganyika's independence struggles, Mr Ali Abdallah Kleist Sykes, who passed away in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday. A statement issued by the Directorate of the Presidential Communications said that the president received the death of Mzee Sykes, who was also one of the founders of the ...
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Kenya Copyright Board Raids Local Pay TV Company
The Kenya Copyright Board has today impounded equipment used by a local Pay TV Company to illegally redistribute the Indian Premier League cricket matches on its cable television platform.The Board says the pay TV firm has continued to unlawfully redistribute, the cricket matches to its subscribers, initially in Nairobi and until today, in ...
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South Sudan Juba Summons Chinese Ambassador Over Oil Blockage
Juba - South Sudan on Monday summoned the Chinese ambassador to Juba to complain over an alleged blockage of the flow of its oil to international markets through Sudanese territory, government sources have said. Chinese companies dominate the South Sudanese oil industry having been welcomed into Sudan before the South seceded from the north in 2011 taking with 75% of the country's 500,000 ...
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Kenya Airtel Losses Case Against Former Employees
AIRTEL has lost a case against its former 63 customer service executives who were protesting their transfer to outsourcing company Spanco Raps Kenya. Industrial court judge Monica Mbaru has now ordered Airtel to compensate the employees for wrongful dismissal in a ruling that will see the mobile phone company spend millions. According to the employees' lawyers, Rachier and Amollo ...
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Africa Rwanda and the New Lions of Africa By Paul Kagame
As the world economy continues to stagnate, a story of hope is unfolding on my continent. Nine out of 15 of the world's fastest growing countries today are African. Over the past decade, the continent's economies have grown at an average 5% per annum. Foreign direct investment, which stood at $9 billion at the turn of the millennium, last year exceeded $80 billion. Far from being a ...
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Africa The 2012 Africa Progress Panel Report
The 10-member Africa Progress Panel (APP) chaired by former Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Kofi Annan, and charged with monitoring the continent's socio-economic development and proffering advice, presented its 2012 report in Cape Town, South Africa, during the recent conference of the World Economic Forum on Africa. Titled "Jobs, Justice and Equity: Seizing Opportunities ...
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Tanzania Kikwete to Lead Talks On Fast-Tracking Growth
AS Tanzania is implementing its five-year development plan spanning 2011 to 2016, some 300 local experts will this Friday present their recommendations on how the country should implement effectively six key result areas that have been identified to fast-track growth. The six national key result areas include boosting of domestic revenues, agriculture, energy, education and transport, ...
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Tanzania Justices Refuse to Bow Out of Dispute
THREE Justices of the Court of Appeal have refused to disqualify themselves from hearing an application for review in a commercial dispute surrounding payments of over 137bn/- involving the East African Development Bank (EADB) and Blueline Enterprises Limited. In the application, Blueline Enterprises Limited is asking Justices Edward Rutakangwa, Nathalia Kimaro and Salum Massati to review their ...
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Tanzania CRB Annual Consultative Meet to Be Held in Dar es Salaam
CONTRACTORS are scheduled to attend their annual Consultative Meeting in Dar es Salaam effective Thursday, this week that will go parallel with exhibition of construction technology, services and products. Speaking with reporters in Dar es Salaam, the Contractors Registration Board (CRB) Registrar, Engineer Boniface Muhegi said the meeting would also assess their achievements realized in the ...
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Easing Africas Pain The Need for Palliative Care
"I am in pain 24 hours a day", Mamadou* told a Human Rights Watch researcher. "The pain I have all over my body…it is in my bones." Mamadou, a 47-year-old man from rural Senegal, has advanced prostate cancer that has spread throughout his body. He can no longer be cured, but with morphine, a strong painkiller, he could live his last months in dignity. However, ...
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Attacks Kill 7 in Iraq
Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one person. Both cities are in an area that Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous ...
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10 Police Killed in Afghanistan
Authorities say a vehicle the police were riding in was destroyed when it hit the bomb Tuesday in the Obe district of Herat province. The police were assigned to work as guards on a dam project. There was no claim of responsibility, but similar assaults often are blamed on the Taliban. Meanwhile, a Taliban offensive in southern Afghanistan has killed four police officers. Officials say a ...
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Burmese President to Meet with US Lawmakers Sign Trade Deal
In front of a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr., Burma's President Thein Sein meets with President Barack Obama, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, May 20, ...
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Kenya Squatters evicted in night demolition
GILGIL , KENYA: Tens of squatters were forced to sleep in the open after hired youths demolished their house in the controversial Oljorai farm in Elementaita in ...
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Ghana Church Stampede 4 dead as 30 others dozens injured in the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Accra Africa News
The church is the branch of the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria which is owed by Prophet TB Joshua. The incident occurred on Sunday morning around 10:00 local time when the church was reportedly to be distributing free holy water in their normal church service. The holy water is believed to have the ability to cure spiritual problems and driving demons and evil spirit away. ...
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African youths hone acrobat skills in N China
Students from Nigeria practice acrobatics in Wuqiao county, North China's Hebei province, May 20, 2013. Eight Nigerian students, 14 to 18 years old, began a one-year training course at a local acrobat school, where more than 300 African students have been studying since 2002. Wuqiao county is known as the "home of acrobatics" with more than 1,500 acrobats and 60 troupes. ...
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In Africas Great Lakes region peace dividend must follow peace deal
Africa's Great Lakes region today has the chance to achieve something that has eluded its war-weary people for several decades. It can silence the guns, boost trust and trade between neighbours, educate millions of out-of-school children, empower women, and create economic opportunities that will help the countries forge a path to prosperity, good governance, and lasting stability.In the ...
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Mauritius warns tax crooks promises support to India
Bullion traders say the refining of these impure gold bars will be a new line of business in India and jewellers may also look at setting up refineries to ensure a steady supply of the ...
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Nigeria IMF Okays PIB - Calls for Early Passage
Global financial watchdog, the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has commended Nigeria's Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, saying, it "would boost investment, government revenue, and fiscal transparency." The commendation was given in spite of varied criticisms by oil majors and other interest groups against some of the fiscal propositions in the bill. It was the first international ...
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Kenya leading the world on credit access
Kenya has been hailed by the World Bank as a world leader in financial innovation, revamping its financial services sector in such a way that access for the poor to micro-loans is made easier, providing the means to independence and future prosperity.
Proponents of micro-loans argue that they are a significant means of lifting the poor out of poverty and providing them with the means by which to develop financial independence. When one considers that Kenya has a population in which around 56% of people live below the poverty line, the government’s efforts to increase access to credit and financial services for the poor becomes poignant. Read more
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