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Rwanda Indian Investors Eye Rwanda Opportunities
A delegation of Indian investors will today jet into the country to explore potential investment opportunities. According to Clarence Fernandes, the representative of Rwanda Development Board (RDB) in India, the team will be in the country under the platform India - Rwanda Show 2013 and they will tour potential areas where they can invest their money. The delegation has been co-organised ...
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Tanzania TBS Intensifies Surveillance On Fake Industrial Goods
THE Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) has announced that this week it plans to meet its partners undertaking the Pre-shipment Verification of Conformity to Standards (PVoC) system to verify its implementation status. TBS Acting Director General Mr Joseph Masikitiko says the meeting is crucial since it is through gathering views from different stakeholders, the Bureau will be in the picture to ...
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East Africa EAC Countries Can Learn From Kenyas Machakos
With devolution in high gear as the counties take root in Kenya, competition for business and investment just got fierce for Rwanda and other EAC member states. Take the investor conference recently hosted in Machakos County hosted, some mused, with a display of naked ambition by its new Governor, Dr Alfred Mutua, formerly spokesperson for the national Government. The conference aimed to ...
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Rwanda Vocational Schools Again Take Lions Share of Education Budget
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) will again be allocated a huge chunk of the Ministry of Education (Mineduc) budget due to its recognised capacity to promote skills development and bridge the labour market skills gaps, Education minister Vincent Biruta has said. Dr Biruta was on Monday presenting the ministry's 2013/2014 Budget Estimates and Medium Term Expenditure ...
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Central Africa World Bank PledgesU.S. $1 Billion to Great Lakes Region
On the first day of a joint United Nations/World Bank Group mission to the Great Lakes region, the World Bank Group announced $1 billion in proposed new funding to help countries in the region provide better health and education services, generate more cross-border trade, and fund hydroelectricity projects in support of the Great Lakes peace agreement that was signed by 11 countries in ...
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Tanzania Emirate Funds Construction of 50 Boreholes in Isles
Zanzibar - RESIDENTS in some parts of Unguja and Pemba islands currently facing water shortage will have the problem minimised by August, this year, when a project to construct 50 boreholes/wells will be completed. Ras-Al-Khamah, one of the countries comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has agreed o fund the USD 1.5 million project, which aims at supplying the people in water deficient ...
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Malaysian Student Activist Charged with Sedition After Calling for Protests
A Malaysian student activist has been charged with sedition after he called for protests against the results of an election that the opposition says was ...
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Fee income boosts S.Africas Investec FY earnings by 18 pct
Thu May 23, 2013 3:04am EDT JOHANNESBURG May 23 (Reuters) - South African investment bank and asset manager Investec reported an 18 percent rise in full-year profit on Thursday, boosted by strong income from fees and commissions. Investec, which is also listed in London, said diluted headline earnings per share totalled 30 pence in the year to end-March, compared with 25.4 pence a year ...
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Latam Africa surges ensure SABMiller profit growth
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - SABMiller, the world's second biggest brewer, reported profit growth in line with expectations thanks to a surge in earnings in Latin America and Africa and said its markets should be broadly unchanged in the coming months.The maker of Grolsch, Peroni and Pilsner Urquell, said on Thursday adjusted earnings per share rose 11 percent to 238.7 U.S. cents in the year to the ...
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Thousands to pay tribute to Chinua Achebe at memorial
buried in his small hometown on Thursday in a ceremony expected to draw crowds of mourners. Achebe, who died in the United States in March aged 82, is viewed worldwide as an iconic figure and his death lead to tributes worldwide. Nigerian leaders, foreign dignitaries, fellow writers and the Archbishop of Canterbury were expected to be among those arriving in the town of Ogidi in south-eastern ...
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Nigeria Tender opens for oil sales
Nigeria had opened a tender to sell its oil through multibillion-dollar annual contracts starting in August, Africa’s top oil producer said in an official notice yesterday. State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) invited refiners, trading houses and local Nigerian oil companies to submit bids by June 18. The NNPC did not specify the volume of oil to be awarded in the ...
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Chinua Achebes body arrives in Nigeria ahead of burial
The body of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday ahead of his burial in his home ...
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MentorMob Is Making a Difference In the U.S. And Uganda Join Us To Be Inspired
MentorMob have found a model for improving online education for everyone and at the same time they're working to rescue victims of trafficking and abuse in Uganda through ...
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Kenya Probe Moi Biwott Over Ouko Death Says TJRC
TRUTH, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has recommended the questioning of former President Moi over the1990 murder of former Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko. In their final report handed to the President yesterday, TJRC said former minister Nicholas Biwott and TJRC chair Bethuel Kiplagat should also be questioned on the death. "In addition to Biwott, former President Daniel ...
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Sudan Breaking - Renewed Gimr-Beni Halba Clashes in South Darfur Eight Dead
Katayla - At least eight people have died and dozens more have been injured as gunmen from the Beni Halba tribe attacked the city of Katayla, stronghold of the Gimr tribe, at 8.30am on Wednesday. Witnesses told Radio Dabanga that most of the city has been destroyed by fire, including houses and the entire market. The tribes signed a ceasefire agreement at the beginning of May - the fourth ...
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Sudan UN Report - Ban Ki-Moon Disturbed About Darfur Displacement in 2013
New York - "I find it disturbing that significantly more people were displaced by clashes in the first three months of this year than during all of 2012," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an April report on Unamid. The secretary-general also stated that the risk to the civilian population of physical violence increased, in particular in parts of North, Central and South ...
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Tanzania Ministry Promises to Avail Subsidised Fertiliser
Dodoma - THE government has promised to supply subsidised fertiliser to farmers by July 1, this year. The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives, Mr Adam Malima told the National Assembly that his ministry had reached an agreement with the Treasury to release funds by July 1, this year, ready to procure organic fertilizer for supplying to farmers. Mr Malima was responding to a ...
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Kenya Sh800 Million to Train Teachers On Computers
ABOUT 80 per cent of the primary school teachers in Kenya are computer illiterate. Knut national executive council member Karinga Munuhe has called for teachers to be trained before the free laptops promised by the Jubilee government are distributed next year. "Many of the teachers mostly from the rural areas have little knowledge on the use of computers," he said. Munuhe said more ...
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Tanzania Inefficiency At Dar es Salaam Port Costs Billions of Dollars World Bank Says
Bureaucracy and inefficiency at Dar es Salaam port cost Tanzania and neighbouring countries more than $2.6 billion (4.3 trillion shillings) annually, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday (May 21st). Bringing the port's efficiency on par with nearby Mombasa port could save the government $1.8 billion (2.9 trillion shillings), said World Bank lead economist in Tanzania Jacques ...
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Tanzania Fastjet Wins Brand Strategy of the Year Award for African Grey Parrot
FASTJET, Africa's low-cost airline and its branding agency, SomeOne, have won the prestigious "Brand Strategy of the Year" award at the recent Drum Marketing Awards in London. The win for the airline's African Grey Parrot brand is the latest award for the airline which picked up three honours at the Transform Brand Awards earlier this year. Commenting on the various awards ...
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Tanzania More Investment Needed to Bridge Skilled Labour Gap in Tanzania - VP
VICE-President Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal hinted that Tanzania should produce 80 000 skilled graduates annually to meet the demand for skilled workforce. "This calls for enormous additional investment in the higher education infrastructure to double the current intake of 40,000 students on an immediate basis," Dr Bilal said in Dar es Salaam, while officiating at the 8th exhibition of ...
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Africa Ory Okolloh Departs Google for Omidyar
Omidyar Network today announced that Ory Okolloh has joined as a director, investments within the philanthropic investment firm's government transparency initiative. Okolloh will help drive the organization's work in supporting innovative organizations that use technology and media platforms to provide access to information and the tools necessary for citizens to participate in the ...
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12 Killed in Pakistan Blast
Officials in southwest Pakistan say an explosion has ripped through a vehicle used by security forces, killing at least 12 people and wounding nearly two ...
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Octogenarian Reaches Top of Everest
Yuichiro Miura, whose website says he climbed Mount Everest twice in his 70s, reached the top of the 8,850-meter-high mountain on Thursday. But his record could be short lived because an 81-year-old Nepalese man is right behind him, preparing to climb to the top of Mount Everest next week. Min Bahadur Sherchan, a former Gurkha soldier in the British army, began mountaineering in 1960. The ...
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Kenya Uhuru to attend AU summit in Ethiopia
Sudan counterpart President Salva Kiir. The AU summit coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the OAU-AU. During the AU Jubilee celebrations, member states will take stock of the past fifty years, acknowledge the contribution of the founding fathers of OAU towards ...
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South Africa's small but growing cruise industry
The South African cruise industry has grown considerably in recent decades, recording an expansion of over 100% in recent years. The greatest growth came between the 1990s and 2010, led predominantly by Starlight Cruises, a household name in South Africa and the owner of the market share in the South African cruise industry.
The South African cruise industry is a growing one, in comparison to more developed countries it is tiny, with just one ship (sometimes two) that grace the coasts of South Africa once a year between November and April. Read more
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