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Liberia A Big Blow to Liberia - Death of Archbishop Francis Hits Nation Catholic Church
Monrovia - Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, an outspoken clergy renowned for his fiery sermons and stance against brutal regimes of former presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Ghankay Taylor is dead. Archbishop Francis who never fully recovered since he suffered a stroke in 2004 has been ailing for quite some time. His death leaves a major vacuum in the Catholic Church of Liberia. Born ...
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Liberia Ellen Defends Record
Despite a recent independent audit, which cast doubt on good governance and transparency here, amidst a media rage, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency. The Reuters news agency quotes president Sirleaf as saying that audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Stephens had been commissioned to fix, and not ...
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Rwanda Help On the Way for Disabled Beggars
Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) who are street beggars may soon be integrated into various cooperatives to engage them in income generating activities as opposed to begging. During the 3rd General Assembly of the National Council of Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) yesterday, the Executive Secretary of the Council, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, said that one of their key priorities this year is to ...
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Nigeria Anti-Terror War Gulped N372 Billion in 2012 - Report
The latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), based in Sweden, shows that in 2012, Nigeria ranked as the 6th highest spender on the military in Africa, and this is because of the increase in insurgency across the country. The war against terror in Nigeria raised military expenditure to a staggering $2.327 billion (N372.3 billion) in 2012 alone, ranking ...
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Rwanda Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwandas Technology and Digital Ambitions
AS RWANDA Day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the Rwandan business community in the diaspora can play by embracing the creation of Rwanda startup culture and make a difference in creating much needed jobs at the same time benefiting from the growth of the ICT sector. Rwanda Day is a periodical event that is held in different ...
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Rwanda At Last the Planning Phase Is Done EDPRS II Is Endorsed...
FINALLY a sigh of relief and wide smiles as what one would see at the jubilant faces of the staff in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning especially those that were primarily tasked to foresee the preparation of the document following cabinet's approval of the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy, EDPRS 2, on Wednesday May 8, 2013. It was a rigorous exercise, ...
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Nigeria Our Husbands Didnt Know They Were Going On Death Mission - Widows of Slain Policemen
In the past couple of weeks, security operatives have come under series of brutal, calculated attacks, which have claimed almost 150 lives in different parts of the country, with the worst case being in Nasarawa State last week. As bitter reactions still trail the killings, DONATUS NADI spoke with some widows, who gathered in protest of alleged neglect by the police and the delay in releasing ...
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Liberia Our Tribute to Bishop Michael K. Francis
The Most Outspoken personality in contemporary Liberia has been silenced permanently by the power of death. Catholic Archbishop Michael K. Francis has finally given up the ghost following a prolonged illness. His Demise Was announced on state radio Sunday, May 19, 2013 by the Archbishop of the Diocese of Monrovia Lewis Jerome Zeigler. According to Archbishop Zeigler, Bishop Francis died at ...
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Uganda Govt Releases Sh1.2 Trillion for Last Quarter
The Government has released money to ministries, departments and local governments for the last quarter of this financial year. The release is in line with the 2012/13 budgetary allocations endorsed by Parliament last year. The commissioner in charge of budget and evaluation in the Ministry of Finance, Kenneth Mugambe, disclosed that the total release for the quarter was sh1.2 trillion. ...
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Tanzania Dar es Salaam Bourse Record Outstanding Performance
THE Dar es Salaam bourse recorded outstanding performance last week with turnover rising to 2.43bn/-, which is 514.7 per cent high compared o 395m/- of the previous session. The increased trading activity at the market was buoyed by the banking and industrial segments. The Tanzania Securities Limited (TSL) weekly market report shows that shares which changed hands at the bourse rose to ...
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Africa Commonwealth Makes Case for Small Vulnerable Countries At G20 Meeting in Moscow
The contribution by the Commonwealth at this meeting has been timely, relevant and productive - Andrei Bokarev, chair of the Russian G20 Development Working ...
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Rwanda New Artel Donates ICT Equipment
Internet service provider New Artel Friday donated internet cafe equipment worth over Rwf 7 million to a Kimironko Genocide survivors' association known as "Tubeho". The equipment include computers and their accessories as well as wireless internet connection for a period of one year which, according to the New Artel Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Francis Karemera, will be ...
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Rwanda Continental Forum to Strengthen Public Service
Rwanda will on Monday host a high level African meeting that seeks to strengthen the capacity of public service to respond to the global economic and financial crisis. The two-day forum expects to examine and propose concrete measures African governments need to implement in order to enable public service function that supports the economic and social transformation of Africa. The conference, ...
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Kenya Bomet County Reps Reject Budget
County representatives in Bomet have refused to approve the county supplementary budget for a second time over a stalemate on the county assembly allocation. The representatives on Thursday forced the Committee on budget and appropriation to withdraw a motion to debate and approve the budget saying their earlier calls to have the budget amended have not been factored. They said the budgetary ...
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Africa Guide to Immunisation Topics On 2013 World Health Assembly Agenda
Thousands of health experts, Member State delegations and international organisations will gather in Geneva from 20-28 May for the WHO's 66th World Health Assembly. In this preview, we highlight topics on the agenda that will help shape the future of global ...
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Ethiopias Ogaden rebels issue famine alert
Rebel groups in Ogaden fighting the Ethiopian government warn of a "severe drought" in the region, which could develop into famine. They claim government is withholding ...
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Ethiopia crackdown on opposition to prevent protests
The Ethiopian opposition reports that over 250 of its central members have been arrested during the week. The arrests are seen in connection with a planned mass ...
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Concerns over Congos ill-prepared elections
Congo Kinshasa (DRC) authorities plan to hold the 5 December constitutional deadline to hold elections, but observers warn the vast country is in no way prepared to do ...
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Uganda opposition wins Kampala mayor vote
In the first-ever significant opposition election victory, Erias Lukwago was declared winner of the polls in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. But the powers of the mayor's office have been ...
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Huge Uganda election funding questioned
A 3 February press statement by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that a team from the Fund would visit Uganda in June 2011 to examine an economy that has experienced skyrocketing prices and hard currency shortage in a dash for Mr Museveni to win elections. Several government and donor sources suggest President Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party may have ...
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Police troops stop Equatorial Guinea protests
After banning the planned mass protests in Equatorial Guinea, government sent out massive police forces to prevent the opposition from taking to the streets ...
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Tanzania cultural sector to get major boost
A well-funded "major programme" to support the cultural sector is close to be approved. The programme would fund Tanzanian entrepreneurs in the cultural field and help conserving national ...
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Calls for protests in Equatorial Guinea
One of Equatorial Guinea's major opposition parties is planning a protest in favour of pro-democracy reforms and basic human rights in one of Africa's most dictatorial ...
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Uganda Presidents campaign still soft-handed
Foreign election observers may hold the Ugandan President back from the typical intimidation during elections, many Ugandans hold. The European Union (EU) is among those having an observer mission in the country. According to Graham Elson, deputy European election observer mission leader for the Ugandan polls, the EU is spending euro 4 million on it mission. Ugandans on 18 February are to choose ...
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Congo halts oil exploration in Virunga Park
The government of Congo Kinshasa (DRC) has suspended the highly controversial oil exploration programme in the unique Virunga National Park, a World Heritage ...
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Security and Soccer in the City of Gold
In 1991, on the 11th of February, South Africa celebrated an immense moment of change as Nelson Mandela walked free from prison, then on the 25th of June 1995, the Springboks defeated the All Blacks and South Africa became the winners of the rugby world cup. These two events were indicative of the country’s potential, especially when set against the pessimism of the public and the global community at large.
South Africa has become a country used to exceeding expectations. When the ANC came to power in 1994 many South Africans expected violent reprisals, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda did nothing to allay these fears and South Africans flocked in numbers to the greener pastures of Australia, but the massacre never came, the reprisals never occurred, the white-owned property was never confiscated by the government. Read more
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