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African-American Integration in U.S ‘A Model for Muslims’
ROB L. WAGNER: They provide an easy scapegoat for right-wing politicians looking to attribute blame for economic woes. Assimilation or integration? ...
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Tanzania MPs Tout Greater Press Freedom
Dodoma - SEVERAL MPs have defended Tanzania's record on press freedom, saying it was not true that the concept has fallen apart in the country. The Minister of State President's Office (in charge of Social Relations and Coordination), Mr Stephen Wassira, told the National Assembly here yesterday that Tanzania is among the leading nations in the region and in Africa where there is ...
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Uganda Uganda Criticised for Wildest Media Attack
Uganda police abused its power and the law by closing two independent newspapers and radio stations in the wildest media attack, The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has said. Armed police raided and closed down The RedPepper, a tabloid, Uganda's largest independent newspaper, The Daily Monitor, and its sister radios, KFM and Dembe FM, following reports that the President was ...
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Rwanda A Cow Is Just a Cow Until You Meet Nyaruguru Residents...
Until about six years ago, Etienne Mungwakunzwe lived a deplorable life, regularly failing to meet his family obligations. The father of one says he could not sustain his life as poverty was haunting him. "I was very desperate," Mungwakunzwe confesses. "Because I could not afford a mituelle de Sante (health insurance), I just assumed that I would never fall ill, just to give my ...
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Liberia Govt Publishes Landmark Resource Audit but Needs to Address Findings
Publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, said campaigning watchdog Global Witness today. ...
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Rwanda Iseta Postponed New Venue to Be Announced Soon
Due to the recent closure of Ishyo theatre hall, Goethe-Institut's film screening on Tuesday May 21 was postponed to next Tuesday. Peter Stepan, the director of Goethe-Institut, Kigali confirmed earlier reports that the movie was postponed due to the closure of the Kacyiru based theatre hall in the building owned by RSSB, which the German cultural centre was renting with Ishyo Arts ...
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Libya Vast Borders Still a No-Mans Land for Most
Sharara oil fields . They, along fighters from the town of Zintan further north, are spearheading efforts - under the auspices of Libya's defence ministry - to secure the oil installation's vast perimeter from sabotage. They want to protect against attacks such as those last January at ...
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Kenya County ICT Infrastructure Tops Matiangi Agenda
Nairobi - The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology will work with county governments to develop key infrastructure in counties to enhance growth of ICT in the country. ICT Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i said the ministry is willing to offer support to the county governments, to establish the required infrastructure in counties. "There is need to build ICT ...
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Uganda Insurer Says Fraud Halted Sh1.1 Billion LC Bicycle Payment
NIKO Insurance has reiterated that suspicions of fraud halted payment of sh1.1b that it undertook to pay as performance guarantee bond to Government in the supply of 70,000 bicycles meant for LC officials. The insurer's chief executive officer, Ronald Zaake, voiced the firm's stance Tuesday afternoon at the Commercial Court in Kampala. He was in court presided by Justice Christopher ...
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Africa Report Calls for a Radical Shift Towards Reducing Inequality
Nairobi - The hunger afflicting millions of people in the world's poorest regions will not end unless there is radical shift in governance and development work toward narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, says a ...
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Africa African Countries Must Improve Livestock Data
Nairobi - Africa still suffers from a lack of good quality data on livestock that could be used to measure and improve progress as well as inform policymaking processes, scientists have said. Good data are crucial for identifying effective public and private sector investment opportunities, and in helpling to improve the livelihoods of smallholder livestock producers in Africa, according to ...
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Afghan Interpreters to Receive British Visas
The British government says about 600 Afghan interpreters who worked with the British troops in Afghanistan will be allowed to settle in ...
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Britain’s victims during Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising expect compensation
Thousands of Kenyans are expecting to receive reparations for the abuses they suffered at the hands of British imperialism, during the suppression of the Mau Mau resistance movement.Negotiations with the British Foreign Office are reported to be near completion.Gitu wa Kahengeri, the spokesman for the Mau Mau War Veterans Association, explained, "They have offered to negotiate out of court. ...
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World South Africa rising A country of contradictions
South Africa 's economy - buffeted by labour unrest, political uncertainties and the seemingly endless aftershocks of racial apartheid - is not roaring ahead like some of its neighbours. In the context of the much touted and much questioned theme of "Africa ...
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South Africa intensifies protection of wildlife
As South Africans join the world in commemorating the World Wildlife Protection Day on May 22, the South African National Parks (SANParks), is calling on all the people in the country to double their efforts in protecting the country's ...
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Pakistans Imran Khan leaves hospital after fall
Imran Khan hospitalised after falling at election rally Pakistani cricket-hero-turned-politician Imran Khan left hospital on Wednesday after treatment for back injuries suffered in a fall in Lahore, television stations said. Khan, who has been fitted with a spinal brace to aid recovery, fell from a fork-lift taking him to a poll campaign podium on May 7. A general election four days later ...
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South Africa Adverts Target Rhino Horn Consumers
"Rhino horn is made of the same stuff as human nails. Still want some?" Conservation organisations WWF and TRAFFIC, as part of their campaign against the illegal wildlife trade, are running a series of myth-busting adverts aimed at encouraging Vietnamese citizens to stop buying or consuming rhino horn. According to the latest figures from South Africa's Department of ...
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Africa The Power of School Meals - Three Lives That Prove It
Giving children food while they are in school has long been a key strategy for aid organizations like WFP, which see it as an investment in the future of a child and of a country. As global experts meet in Brazil to discuss ways to improve this type of programme, we highlight three people who have already felt the benefits in their own ...
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Sudan Horror Accident Kills 12 Sudanese Footballers in Chad
Umm Garas - A vehicle carrying a Sudanese refugee football team collided with a water tanker in eastern Chad on Sunday leaving 12 dead and eight others wounded. The men were returning from a friendly football match against a Chadian team on Sunday. The accident happened in the Umm Garas area, 30 kilometres from Kariari refugee camp. According to witnesses, fire broke out following the collision ...
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Kenya Khaemba to Get Top Team
TRANS NZOIA The public service board in Trans Nzoia will be in place next month, governor Patrick Khaemba has said.Speaking in Kitale on Friday, Khaemba said the process of getting men and women who will constitute the board is at its final stage. Khaemba said once in place, the board will help in recruiting civil servants who will help to transform the county economically.He said the team will ...
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Kenya Orange Kenya Wants Google to Share Content Revenue
Orange Kenya CEO, Mickael Ghossein, has called on search giant Google to consider sharing revenues accrued from traffic which runs on other providers' networks in order to enhance partnerships and the development of the digital ecosystem. Speaking during a panel discussion on digital ecosystem evolution at the 9th East Africa Com conference held at Nairobi's Safari Park Hotel, ...
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Africa Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013 Kicks Off in Brazil
Brasilia - Close to 300 delegates from 37 countries are converging today on Costa do Sauípe, Brazil, to exchange experiences and debate options to strengthen school feeding programmes for millions of children worldwide at the Global Child Nutrition Forum 2013. Ministers from across Africa, including Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Liberia and Sudan, are attending the ...
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Africa Indigenous Culture Youth Among Key Topics As UN Permanent Forum Opens
Around 2,300 indigenous participants are expected to discuss culture, education and health during the 12th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which will include a special focus on youth, indigenous groups in Africa and the importance of strengthening ties with international financial institutions. "We must have a better understanding of the views and values ...
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Angola will Participate in Conference on African Development
Luanda, May 22 (Prensa Latina) The Angolan Foreign Minister, George Chikoti, will represent the country in the next Summit of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), official sources said. The event, to be held from next June 1 to 3 in Yokohama, Japan, will examine issues such as sustainable economy, inclusive society, peace and stability and development associated ...
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Botswana Govt At War With Indigenous San People
Despite court defeats and international condemnation, the government of Botswana is continuing its assault on the San by attempting to forcibly relocate another community from land they have occupied for decades, says the Khwedom Council, a non-governmental organisation advocating for the rights of the San (or Basarwa) people. "It is another sad season for the San in Botswana as the ...
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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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