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Kenya asks UN to squash ICC case
New York - Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the United Nations Security Council to ';terminate'; International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence in which more than 1 000 people died and 600 000 were evicted from their ...
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Africa’s Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda’s tragic story
Paul Kagame is angrier than I’ve ever seen him. Rwanda’s president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he’s crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis. But now even friends are ...
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Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
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Africa Investing in Africas Women
Cape Town - Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Grace Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her inspiring words were delivered during her keynote address at the Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) symposium in Cape Town, South Africa - attended by some of the continent's most powerful women. ...
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Africa Zim Lags Behind As Africa Marks New Era
Herbert Moyo/Hazel Ndebele - TOMORROW Africa celebrates 50 years since the formation of the African Union (AU), formerly the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), on May 25 1963 withsome countries, including Zimbabwe, reeling from political repression, struggling economies, poverty and instability. It will also be a little more than a decade since the formation of AU, which seeks to promote ...
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Africa The African Union - Is It Time for Cultural Diplomacy to Take Centre-Stage
It is time for the African Union to push for cultural diplomacy in the form of a Museum of African Music, Arts and Culture as an entity for both preservation and a celebration of our similarities as well as the richness of our cultural ...
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Africa Minister Confirms Troop Deployment
Cape Town - Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula confirmed on Friday that South Africa had deployed troops in countries neighbouring the Central African Republic. But this was merely to support the withdrawal of SA National Defence Force troops from the troubled state, she told the Cape Town Press Club. She said after South Africa suffered 13 fatalities in a rebel attack near Bangui in ...
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Its All in the Mind for South African Kirsten
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UN chief challenges African leaders over Congo
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging African leaders to implement a plan that the U.N. hopes will stabilize eastern Congo after years of ...
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Dr. Salah Ali Meets with the Chairman of the Central Authority for the Prevention of Bribery in Morocco
Rabat, May 24. (BNA) - On the sidelines of the on-going visit of the Bahraini official human rights delegation to Morocco, Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met here today with the Chairman of the Central Authority for the Prevention of Bribery Abdesselam Aboudrar. Dr. Salah Ali praised the solid deep-rooted Bahraini-Moroccan ties of fraternity and cooperation, and was ...
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4 Innovative Models Changing Health Care In Africa
By David J. Olson In Tanzania, giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out tuberculosis in human sputum samples. DubbedHeroRATS, the animals can evaluate 40 samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a full day. In northern Kenya, health services–including family planning services–are being brought to 36 remote, underserved communities by ...
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Uganda president ousts army boss amid dispute - NBC40.net
By RODNEY MUHUMUZAAssociated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni fired his top military commander Friday, the ouster apparently linked to turmoil over Museveni's alleged plan to have his son succeed him as head of state. Sacked army chief Gen. Aronda Nyakairima was appointed minister of internal affairs, effectively cutting his links to the army's chain of ...
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Newmont Ghana To Double Gold Production
The General Manager in-charge of Operations at Newmont Ghana's Ahafo Mine, Joep Coenen, has revealed that the company's decision to construct another mill was part of Newmont Africa's growth plan to increase the production of gold in Ahafo. According to him, the mill expansion, if successful, will increase the Ahafo Mine's gold production from the current 550,000 – ...
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Advocacy group Kenyas mental hospital confines drugs patients
NAIROBI, Kenya - An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients. Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section is ...
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Zimbabwe Zim Faces Food Crisis
THIRTEEN years after its fast track land reform programme, Zimbabwe is still importing most of its food and is far from regaining its breadbasket status. Analysts have said the discordant land tenure system ushered in after the reforms remains an albatross around the economy's neck. However, President Robert Mugabe appears to ignore that the country needs a deep relook at land ...
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Zimbabwe Still Rolling Out the Barrel
Delta Corporation Limited, the biggest counter on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) by capitalisation, recently published results for the 12 months ended March 31 2013. Results from the brewer are always much anticipated by the investment community and as such the results presentation is always well-attended. This is because Delta accounts for 30% of the total market capitalisation on the ZSE ...
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Death toll from Guinea opposition march rises to four
CONAKRY (Reuters) - The official death toll from Thursday's clashes between Guinean opposition protesters and police and government supporters rose to four on Friday, meaning at least 22 people have now been killed in unrest since ...
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Nigeria Senate Discusses Urgent Need for Rivers Dredging
This program will include: urgent need for dredging and desilting of the River Niger, the Cross River, River Benue and other inland waterways in Nigeria; and accordingly resolved to mandate the relevant Committees of the Senate to ascertain the level of preparedness of the Ministries in tackling this menace. The Senate commenced the consideration of the NOSDRA amendment Bill Committee Report. ...
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Nigeria Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
Abuja - Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds of ...
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Africa Africa Tempts High-Tech Companies
Multinational High - Tech companies looking for new frontiers and fresh ideas are lining up for a slice of Africa's relatively untapped consumer market. Many experts are saying the continent is poised to be the next hotbed of technological innovation. Others are even more optimistic. "Africa is that frontier right now," said Canada-based New Media marketing strategist Douglas ...
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Africa New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, business and civil society representatives. Among those ...
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Africa AGRA Welcomes African Unions Renewed Commitment to Agriculture
Nairobi - Jane Karuku, President of AGRA, said: "We share the African Union’s vision for an Africa that is free of hunger; an Africa that boasts a strong agricultural sector that provides food, labour and wealth for all groups of society. The theme of this year’s summit - ‘Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance’ - is fitting. We are optimistic about ...
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Zimbabwe Managing Local Content Via Your Websitemag
IN the last instalment TechnoMag had an opportunity to talk to executives behind the wheels of Zimbabwe's technology growth at a broadband forum sponsored by Telecel Zimbabwe and organised by TechZim. Among the notable directors were Zol CEO and Liquid Telecomms director David Behr, chief commercial officer of Africa's largest undersea fibre laying consortium WIOCC, James Wekesa and ...
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Africa Pan-Africanism To Unlock Our Future
Debates by Africans from all walks of life are reaffirming pan-Africanism as a guide to action and the foundation for Africa's renaissance, African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said on the eve of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU). Addressing the 23rd Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council in ...
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Africa Pan African Business Conference Opens in Addis Ababa
Pan African Business Conference organized in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the OAU/AU opens on Friday at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa. Speaking at the opening of the Conference, African Union Commission Deputy Chairperson, Erastus Mwenca said Africa's private sector has a pivotal role in the continent's development. He said Africa ...
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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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