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East Africa East Africa Budgets Seek Self-Reliance
In their budgets read out on Thursday last week, East African states differed in the sectors they targeted for revenue, but they shared common ground when it came to reducing their reliance on external support, preferring to rely on domestic resources to finance their expenditures. Uganda and Rwanda, which suffered aid cuts during the previous year, had the biggest burden finding finances for ...
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South Africas Cipla Medpro appoints joint acting CEOs
JOHANNESBURG, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 3:17am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Reuters) - Cipla Medpro South Africa , the drug firm being taken over by India's Cipla Medpro , said on Thursday it had promoted its two deputy chief executives to serve as joint CEOs on a temporary basis. Skhumbuzo Ngozwana and Mark James van Lill Sardi will take over as joint acting chief executives from ...
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Chinese Astronaut Gives Live Video Lesson From Space
Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut, is one of three crew members sent to space last week on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. She delivered her lecture from the Tiangong-1 experimental space lab, which China views as a prototype for a full-fledged space station. Wang participated in a question-and-answer session with students in a Beijing school. She also conducted a series of ...
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Namibia Lending rate held at 5.5
Namibia’s central bank kept its main lending rate unchanged at 5.5 percent for the fifth consecutive meeting yesterday, saying inflation was stable but the economy needed guarding from the impact of the euro zone recession. ';Global economic conditions remain weak with the pace of contraction in the euro area increasing and commodity prices declining, which is a concern,'; Bank ...
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Tanzania No to Sex Workers Please
IT has been reported in the press that the so-called commercial sex workers, sex minorities and narcotic drug addicts in this nation of upright people complain that they are not treated like human beings. They say they are discriminated, stigmatized and scoffed at. They also complain that there is a high level of gender abuse among commercial sex workers (prostitutes), perpetrated by their ...
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Kenya Past Winner to Contest the 2013 Total Quartz Economy Run
Mike Anderson--a past winner of the Total Quartz Economy Run--is among the competitors who will contest this year's event scheduled for Saturday. He will be driving a 1984 made Alfetta GTV6 over the 84km route. Instead of the two litre 155 which previously steered him to victory, Anderson's choice of using his immensely powerful three litre sports racing coupe for Saturday's ...
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Tanzania Bilal Trumps Public-Private Partnership for Development
THE Vice-President, Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal, has described publicprivate partnership as a key weapon for improved and reliable transportation systems in the country, saying he was optimistic that the sector would grow rapidly in the near future. Dr Bilal said this in Dar es Salaam while opening a three day-Regional Africa and Middle East Freight Forwarders Conference (RAME 2013) held under the ...
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Kenya Rent Dont Buy Office for Former Presidents
YESTERDAY MPs shot down government plans to purchase an office for former President Mwai Kibaki at a cost of Sh700 million. An ex-president enjoys many benefits including a golden handshake of one year's salary for each term; a monthly pension of 80 percent of the current President's salary; an entertainment allowance of Sh200,000 per month; a housing allowance of Sh300,000 per month; ...
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Kenya New Sh250 Million Stadium for Kapsabet Town
Kapsabet will have a modern sports stadium to be constructed at a 25-acre plot at a cost of Sh250 million through the support of the International Olympics Committee. Nandi governor Cleophas Lagat said the facility is expected to replace the dilapidated Kipchoge Keino stadium and give training facilities to the huge number of athletes using the old facility. Lagat said the stadium will be ...
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Kenya Probox Taxis Kicked Out of Kirinyaga Route
TWO groups of public service vehicle operators clashed in Kirinyaga county yesterday.Probox operators were forced out of major bus parks after members of Kukena Matatu Sacco accused them plying their routes illegally. Kukena drivers and touts forced passengers out of the Proboxes. At least four cars were damaged during the incident.The saloon car operators said the sacco members behaved like ...
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Kenya Kwani Trust British Council Host Writing Workshop
Kwani Trust and British Council will collaborate with Granta to host a week of literary events in Nairobi between June 19-23. The joint week of literary programming will include a launch of the latest Granta issue, Best of Young British Novelists 4, a three-day writing workshop, readings by visiting writers Nadifa Mohamed and Adam Foulds at Daystar University and a symposium based on related ...
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Kenya Export Zones Offer Huge Incentives for Investors
The Export Processing Zones Authority has licensed one project and is assessing several others lined up from proposals by developers seeking to build in EPZs. The EPZA invited potential investors to a real estate developers' day in late 2012 where it briefed them on existing opportunities and the benefits of building in EPZs countrywide. "The authority has received many enquiries and ...
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Africa Draw for Final African WC Qualifiers Set for September
Fifa has announced that the draw for the third and final round of African World Cup qualifiers will be made on 16 September 2013. The Confederation of African Football will host the draw in Cairo. The matches will take the form of two-legged play-offs, with the aggregate winners going through to Brazil 2014. Fifa has also stated that the five best-placed sides in the world rankings, as of 12 ...
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Kenya Top Real Estate Investors Developers Meet in Nairobi
A two-day seminar that brings together international real estate investors, developers and lenders with interests across Africa starts in Nairobi today. Africa GRI 2013 is being held for the first time and will be hosted at the Eka Hotel. The organiser - Global Real Estate Institute - runs its activities through a series of annual meetings focused on various regions globally. GRI describes ...
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MG Hangout All the news from the sixth SA Aids ConferenceJoin our MG Hangout this week Friday as we discuss the latest news and research from the South African Aids Conference.
This week saw South Africa's leading health experts and most vocal activists flock to Durban for the sixth South African Aids Conference. Researchers released findings from their latest research and advocacy groups called for better interventions to improve the health outcomes of people living with HIV and Aids. There was robust discussion on what role the World Health Organisation ...
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Militants storm United Nations compound in Somalia 20 killed
Somali soldiers walk through rubble after insurgents blasted into the U.N. compound in Mogadishu. IPTC: Somali National Government (SNG) soldiers are pictured after Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations (UN) compound in Mogadishu on June 19, 2013. It is the most serious attack on the UN in the troubled country in recent years. Three foreigners and ...
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South Africa prays for seriously ill Mandela
SOUTH Africans prayed for Nelson Mandela as he spent a second day in a hospital yesterday suffering a lung infection that has sparked worldwide concerns for the ailing peace icon. Mandela's latest health scare was splashed across the front pages of local newspapers but government officials have released no updates since announcing he was hospitalized in Pretoria early Saturday in a ...
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China Sentences Uighurs to Jail on Religious Extremism Charges
Chinese courts in the predominantly Muslim, northwest region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uighurs to prison for inciting religious extremism and other related ...
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BRIEF-African Bank Investments issues a 1 billion rand three-year bond
JOHANNESBURG, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:34am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Reuters) - African Bank Investments Ltd : * Says successfully issued a 1 billion rand three-year bond * Says the issue is part of its 25 billion rand domestic medium term note programme for general funding ...
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Kenya Kisumu Residents Slam the Proposal for 22 Prados
KISUMU residents have rejected the County's budget proposal to purchase 22 Prados at Sh132 million and 14 Land Rovers at Sh98 million. Speaking to The Star yesterday in Kisumu, they cited a number of issues in the statement for the fiscal year 2013-2014 that need to be questioned by the public and the County Assembly. The Director of Community Initiative Action Group Kenya Chris Owala and ...
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Somalia Five Foreigners Including Three South Africans Confirmed Dead in the Mogadishu Attacks
Mogadishu- - Almost 10 armed men belonging to the Alshabab militia attacked UN headquarters in Mogadishu today. the gunmen battled with the UN guards for almost 30 minutes before federal government troops and AMISOM troops came to their rescue. A local who was arround when the incident occured told Shabelle radio station in Mogadishu that a suicider detonated a bomb at the gates of the UN ...
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Kenya Kamau Adan Tour Western
Cabinet Secretaries Michael Kamau (Infrastructure) and Adan Muhammed (Industrialisation) yesterday made an extensive tour of Eldoret and parts of Western Kenya to asses infrastructure development and other projects aimed at improving trade in the region. They particularly focused on the ongoing construction of the Northern Corridor which leads from the Mombasa Port to Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret ...
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Somalia Somaliland Turns Away Airplane Cleared By Somali Govt
The Somaliland regional Ministry of Civil Aviation and Air Transport Tuesday (June 18th) denied a small private charter plane to land at Hargeisa International Airport because it had been cleared by the Somali federal government. "The plane, which was an SS34, tried to land in Hargeisa International Airport in the early morning, but when the tower discovered that it had permission from ...
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Kenya Fusion Invites Investors in Sh1.2 Billion Project in Nairobi
Fusion Investment Management has committed debt and equity in a $15 million (Sh1.26 billion) office block in Nairobi's Upper Hill, it said in a note. It said a portion of the project dubbed Project Panorama - which follows the successful syndication of another dubbed Project Snowdrop that was fully funded in 10 days in April - will be available to professional co-investors, local and ...
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Kenya Gunmen Kill Two Women Police Reservist in Wajir
Gunmen in Wajir County killed a Kenyan police reservist Tuesday night (June 18th) who was investigating a shooting incident that left two civilians dead and two injured on Monday. The police reservist was among a group of security officers investigating an incident in which gunmen from neighbouring Mandera County raided Burmayo village, killing two women and injuring two other people, Wajir ...
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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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