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Kenya USAID offers Kenya Sh4.2 billion for counties
USAID ), East Africa Regional Mission, will disburse the funds under Ahadi (Agile and Harmonised Assistance for Devolved Institutions) project. The funds will be used to help strengthen governance systems of county governments, one of areas identified to be key in making ...
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Kenya Efforts to initiate talks unfruitful
Numerous letters written by the group to governments of Kenya and Britain, Sultan of Oman, United Nations, East African Assembly and legislators from the Coast from as far as 2005 have gone unanswered. Top officials ...
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Opinion President Obamas tour of Africa is in line with countrys foreign policy
Africa n heritage and doubt his commitment to Kenya and the continent. Others see it as a direct jab at the recently elected government of President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. Certainly, many Kenyans expected him to visit his 'ancestral home' immediately after winning re-election last year. But those familiar with American politics and the workings of the US Department ...
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Nigeria Islamic extremist inmates to be released
ENUGU, Nigeria -; Nigeria's military says the West African nation is prepared to release some of the prisoners it has taken in the country's fight against Islamic ...
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African Cities Test The Limits Of Living With Livestock
chicken diapers , as we reported this month. For a bit of a reality check, let's consider what it means to raise urban livestock in the developing world, where people are poorer and hungrier and cities are much more densely populated. It's a starkly different picture of people and animals living together, and the question of how it's done has major implications for improving food ...
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Kumasi Fans To Boycott Ghana’s World Cup Qualifier Against Zambia
Some Kumasi fans plan to boycott Ghana's potential World Cup decider against Zambia in protest against a Ghana FA ban on Kumasi Asante Kotoko following recent violence at their home match. The Porcupine Warriors have been in the news for all the wrong reasons after the Baba Yara stadium was temporarily shut down by the Ghanaian FA due to crowd violence. Irate fans of the club attacked ...
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Algerias Bouteflika convalescing in France
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika listens to the speech of Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi at the start of the third European Union-Africa summit in Tripoli November 29, ...
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Mauritius tourism revenues down
(eTN) - Figures just out about Mauritius' tourism revenues, which show a decline of arrivals during Q1 of 2013 by 12.4 percent, have caused a storm of outrage across the island's tourism sector, and from calls and emails it is clear that the knives are now out for those thought responsible for the reverse of fortunes of the Indian Ocean's erstwhile tourism giant. While arrivals ...
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Algerias president recovering in undisclosed location after leaving Paris military hospital
PARIS - Officials say Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has left the French military hospital where he has been treated for nearly a month and transferred to another facility. Tuesday's brief statement by the defence ministry health service said Bouteflika "left Val-de-Grace hospital today to go to another establishment to continue his recovery." The statement didn't ...
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Africa Seizing Opportunities Delivering Products As African Markets Expand - PG
Manoj Kumar, Vice President for Proctor & Gamble West Africa, and Temitope Iluyemi, government relations director for Proctor & Gamble in sub-Saharan ...
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REFILE-UPDATE 3-South Sudan cuts oil output sees new problems with Sudan
Tue May 21, 2013 4:07pm EDT (Fixes slugging) * Cuts in production bad news for both Sudans * Neighbours agreed in March to resume crude exports By Hereward Holland and Khalid Abdelaziz JUBA/KHARTOUM, May 21 (Reuters) - South Sudan has almost halved its oil production as it faces new "problems" exporting crude to Sudan, it said on Tuesday, suspecting its long-time rival had closed a ...
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New Hope for Better Internet Access in Africa
WASHINGTON -- A non-profit technology company based in Kenya has created a wireless internet router that it says will help people living in places where electricity is spotty and internet service is unreliable. Founded in early 2008, Ushahidi is known primarily for its open-source software applications, but is now launching its first piece of hardware, called the BRCK. One of the BRCK's ...
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Nigeria’s $1-billion wealth fund to start investing in June
Nigeria will begin investing the initial $1-billion allocated to a new sovereign wealth fund by June, a statement from the fund showed, after it delayed the start date twice.Africa's biggest oil producer is one of only three OPEC member states that do not yet have a wealth fund (SWF) set up. Global markets and investors are closely watching Africa's second-biggest economy's plans ...
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Kenya How MRC funds its activities
The separatist group has a network of over 30,000 registered members spread across 97 branches at the Coast. The 30,000 membership is based on signatures raised to support one of its court petitions. However, it is also understood that the members could be more and the group may have thousands of sympathisers. At the top is the 'president' or chairman, who runs a government of about 14 ...
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Kenya ICC changes judge in Rutos case
The court also changed the Presiding Judge who will oversee the trial of Deputy President William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua arap Sang as the Kenyan suspects await the court's decision on the date of the crucial trial. The ICC Presidency appointed Judge Olga Herrera Carbucci as the new presiding judge on a temporary basis replacing Judge Kuniko Ozaki in the Ruto and Sang Case in ...
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Kenya MPs chide Senators over supremacy
MPs insisted they were superior to their Senate counterparts thanks to the Constitution. Debate started when Suba MP John Mbadi said taking the Division of Revenue Bill 2013 to the Senate was unconstitutional. He argued the Senate only has powers to handle revenue touching on county governments and not national revenue. House Speaker Justin Muturi thanked Mbadi for raising the matter and said he ...
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Kenya 50 years later political union evades East Africa
President Kenyatta said the prosperity of the continent lay in the economic integration of the 54 countries to mirror the European Union, and cited the current fragmentation of Africa as largely responsible for soaring poverty. African countries were competing amongst themselves rather than working together to enhance trade and investment, according to Mr Kenyatta, which compounded a problem ...
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Sports Under-19 squad to compete in ICC Africa qualifiers
Emmanuel Bundi has been named captain of the team. The Kongonis all rounder will be supported by Kanbis Sports Club youthful batsman who has been named vice captain. The squad also has Raj Savala who turned up for Kenya in the 2011 ICC Under-19 World Cup Global Qualifiers in Ireland. The rest of the members are new to the team but have turned up for the country at the both the Under-15 and 17 ...
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South African court acquits brother of Oscar Pistorius
One Pistorius brother is free of charges - acquitted today of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his girlfriend. Carl Pistorius cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitted him of culpable homicide and negligent driving for the ...
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Namibia finds oil for first time
The Namibian government and a Brazilian energy firm on Tuesday announced the first discovery of oil off the coast of Namibia, although not in commercial volumes.Reporting findings from an exploratory well in the Walvis Basin off the southwest African country's central coast, Rio de Janeiro-based HRT said there were promising signs.The company discovered "two well-developed source ...
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Tunisia - Tunisian feminist Amina Tyler arrested for immoral gestures
Tunisian activist Amina Tyler was arrested on Sunday (19 May), after allegedly attempting to stage a topless protest in the central Tunisian city of Kairouan.Tyler, who heads Tunisia's branch of feminist movement FEMEN, ...
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UPDATE 2-Algerias Bouteflika convalescing in France
Tue May 21, 2013 3:38pm EDT * Speculation about health since rushed to hospital in Paris * France says Bouteflika still in France (Adds statement by French army's medical wing) By Myra MacDonald ALGIERS, May 21 (Reuters) - Algeria's prime minister, reacting to reports that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is seriously ill, said the 76-year-old was recovering in France but had been ...
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Nigeria to release all women held for ‘terrorism’
Abuja, Nigeria - Nigeria announced on Tuesday it will release a number of suspects held for ';terrorist activities,'; including all women in custody, in what it called a peace bid as an offensive targeted ...
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Madagascar’s political rivals summoned
Antananarivo - Madagascar's security forces have summoned the island's rival political leaders to an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss their controversial candidacies for upcoming presidential ...
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Nigeria says to free all female Boko Haram suspects
LAGOS, Nigeria, May 21 - Nigeria said on Tuesday it would free a number of detained Islamists, including all female ones, in what a senior security source called a move to build popular support for its offensive against Boko Haram militants entrenched in the ...
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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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