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God has a new vision for Africa – Rev Dadson
Accra, May 19, GNA - The Reverend Frederick Barnacle Dadson, Assistant Head Pastor of Ghana Evangelical Society on Saturday observed that God has a new vision for Africa to reconcile the people with ...
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Microsoft poised to invest in promising ICT experts in Ghana
Accra, May 18, GNA - Microsoft is poised to invest in the young and promising Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts who are willing to transform Ghana through the power of ...
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Arab Aatomic Energy Conf. Opens in Tunisia
Tunisia, May 19 (BNA) - The conference of the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA) started here , with representatives from AAEA member countries participating. In a keynote speech, the head of the conference Abdulrahman Al-Arfaj said to achieve development in Arab countries, fresh reliable energy sources should be found. He said the growth of nuclear energy and nuclear technology applications is ...
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Paul Kagame I asked America to kill Congo rebel leader with drone
A new M23 recruit demonstrates his martial arts skills in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last week. Rwanda denies aiding them. Photograph: James ...
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Is Kagame Africas Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwandas tragic history
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 regarded with suspicion to the point of hostility. Take ...
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South Africa IFP Wants R65 Million Sports Awards Budget Readjusted
"Our nation's sportsmen and women must be celebrated for their achievements and rewarded accordingly. However, spending R65 million on an event is beyond excessive and the department needs to cut down the amount of money used for the Sports Awards", said the IFP spokesperson on Sports and Recreation, Mr. Mkhuleko Hlengwa MP. The IFP's main concern revolves around the fact ...
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Zambia Guy Scott Campaigns in Sinazongwe for Imminent By-Election
Vice President Guy Scott has camped in Sinazongwe District the likely setting for yet another parliamentary by-election where he has been promising development. The Vice President who is usually President Sata's messenger to election areas has traversed Sinazongwe in the company of expelled UPND area MP Richwell Siamunene. Curiously the ministers' spouses led by Scott's wife ...
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Nigeria Gunmen Attack Police Stations Banks in Daura
Gunmen, Thursday night attacked two police stations and four banks in Daura town, carting away millions of naira and a number of weapons. JTF spokesperson, Capt Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed that four of the attackers were killed by soldiers and three soldiers were also killed in the attack. Iweha said soldiers who repelled the assailants had recovered 11 AK-47 rifles, 393 rounds of different ...
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Sudan Appeal to Sudan Government - Fair Trial for Blue Nile Detainees
Damazin - The Human Rights Development Organisation (HUDO) has appealed to the international diplomatic and humanitarian community to put pressure on the Sudanese government "to conduct a transparent and fair trial" for 85 detainees who have been held without trial for more than a year in the Blue Nile state. In a statement on Friday, HUDO said that the detainees are part of a group ...
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Tanzania Some Challenges of Being a Maasai Woman
The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania has long been a beacon of traditional culture to many Africans - and for Westerners on safari through Maasai Mara, Samburu or Amboseli, a familiar face. But familiarity and travels aside, the tribe faces many of the same roadblocks on the path to development as any other marginalised community around the world. William Kikanae, community leader of his ...
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Tunisia Intmin Bans Islamist Group Ansar Al-Chariaa From Gathering in Kairouan
Tunis - The Interior Ministry banned on Friday Salafist movement Ansar al-Chariaa from holding an annual meeting on Sunday in the city of Kairouan. "Whoever tries to cause any harm to the State and its structures, sow chaos and disorder, destabilise the country or incite to violence and hatred, will assume his full responsibility," the Interior Ministry specifies in a communique. It ...
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Tunisia Turkey Pledges to Promote Tunisias Destination
Carthage - Chairmen of Tourism Professional Chambers and the Turkish Travel Agencies Federation pledged on Friday to launch a promotional campaign to better introduce Tunisia's assets, which according to them "is a charming and attractive destination to tourists." During a meeting with President Moncef Marzouki, the Turkish officials expressed will to assist Tunisia in matters of ...
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Tunisia PM to Attend Doha International Forum
Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh will pay a two-day visit to Qatar as of Sunday. He will have a series of talks with Qatari leaders to look at means to strengthen co-operation and partnership relations. Mr. Larayedh will attend the 13th session of the Doha International Forum, according to a Prime Ministry communique released on Friday. Several heads of State and government, political ...
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Zambia Hike of Cement Price Guts Construction Sector
The National Council for Construction (NCC) says the increase in the price of cement is unfortunate especially coming after rises in fuel in other critical sectors. NCC Executive Director Dr Sylvester Mashamba said there is need to probe the widespread increase in the general price of commodities. He said the increase in the price of cement would increase the cost of construction. "On ...
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Angola Role of Information Technology in Development Highlighted
Luanda - The minister of Science and Technology, Maria C'ndida Teixeira, said Saturday in Luanda that the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) play a relevant role in inducing the country's economic and social development. The minister was speaking on the occasion of the Angola Information and Communication Technologies Showroom being held since Thursday on the premises ...
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Tanzania Disparage Affects Innovation Technology in Zanzibar
Zanzibar - THE development of technology and innovation in Zanzibar is largely hampered by deride, lack of assessment and lack of policy, government leaders said on Thursday at the Smart Partnership Dialogue workshop help here on Thursday. When asked to mention challenges facing the growth of technology and innovation in the islands, leaders including regional commissioners, district ...
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Tunisia AD Hoc Commission to Speed Up Recovery of Assets Abroad
Tunis - Speeding up the procedures of the recovery of properties and asserts abroad will be the task of an ad hoc commission created to this effect, a Prime Ministry's statement published on Friday reads. After a meeting of the Higher Council of Fight Against Corruption and Recovery of State's Assets and Properties, under the chairmanship of Interim Prime Minister Ali Laaraydh, it was ...
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Tanzania Biomass Use Is Fuelling Rapid Deforestation
ACCORDING to Bariki Kaale who is Energy and Environmental Specialist based in Dar es Salaam, biomass fuels accounts for over 94 per cent of the total energy used for cooking with no affordable alternative energy sources in the foreseeable future. Kaale argues that dependence on unsustainable biomass fuels for cooking has caused deforestation and degradation of forests leading to environmental ...
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Tanzania Ideas Create Money Not Vice Versa
"IT is an idea that creates money, not money that creates an idea," says Secelela Balisidya when she was recounting on tremendous challenges that she and her friend Christopher Kidanka went through in setting up a media business company. The Company, Regalia Media Limited, now enjoying great respect from government institutions, higher learning institutions, diplomatic missions and ...
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Tanzania Shein Roots for Strong Ties With Indonesia Denmark
President Ali Mohamed Shein has said that Zanzibar needs stronger relations with development partners including Indonesia and Demark to achieve its development goals. In separate meeting with Indonesia ambassador Mr Zakaria Anshar, and Denmark envoy Mr Johnny Flento, Shein said Zanzibar has been recording admirable progress in development programmes but support remains important. According to ...
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Africa Eight Countries Submit Action Plans to Combat Illegal Trade in Elephant Ivory - UN
Eight countries identified as being the most affected by the illegal trade in elephant ivory have submitted national action plans to the United Nations-backed treaty for the conservation of endangered species containing measures to combat the scourge. The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) received plans from China, Kenya, ...
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Kenya Woman kills husband in domestic row
Kisii County on Saturday evening as news of the bizarre incident where the woman killed her husband of 15 years using a new panga spread.? The slain, a medical engineer at the referral hospital identified as Stanley Kipsang lay lifeless at bedsitter in the facility?s staff quarters as members of the public jostled to have a glimpse of what had happened.? Shocked neighbours told The Standard and ...
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East Africa Eastern Africa Standby Force to Have Operational Capacity By 2015
Military experts attending the ongoing field training exercise of 10 Eastern Africa armies held here in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja have said the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) would be ready for operation by 2015. The EASF is one of the five regional multi-dimensional components of the African Standby Force consisting of the military, police and civilian elements. The EASF was ...
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Southern Africa Strengthening National and Regional Associations of Southern African Journalists
"Every day around the world, we hear of how journalists and media workers are being harassed, intimidated, tortured and killed by individuals, governments and forces that wish to censor and silence them. This calls for us to join hands in the safety and protection of journalists because one individual tragedy in any country collectively becomes an assault and infringement on the right of ...
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Tanzania Why Societies Sell Coffee Outside KNCU Cartel
Moshi - A JOINT venture of 32 primary cooperative societies which was established over a decade ago but got legal recognition in 2007 is not a parallel union challenging Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union, but simply a third window to allow coffee farmers sell their commodity at premium prices. G32 General Manager, Gabriel Ulomi dismissed talk of trying to establish a parallel union to KNCU ...
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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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