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Kenya Vetting of All Police Officers Starts Next Month
Nairobi - Vetting of all police officers will begin in June, according to the chairman of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) Johnston Kavuludi. The commission will consult an international security expert, the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board as well as the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission before embarking on the exercise. "The commission in preparation has scheduled a ...
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Nigeria Country to Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2025 Says Alison-Madueke
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said Nigeria will by 2025 bring down its gas flaring by at least two per cent. Alison-Madueke disclosed that by 2010, the country had recorded a downward gas flaring rate of 30 per cent as well as against the current rate of 11 per cent, adding that it aspires to bring it further down to two per cent by 2020 and beyond. The ...
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Ghana Work Now Starts At Permanent Site of Volta Varsity
Ho - Chinese contractors have started work on the permanent site for the University of Health and Allied Sciences at Sokode near Ho. The work being undertaken at the site includes laying of a foundation for the building of temporary accommodation and offices for the foreign workers, pegging and erecting of a security fence wall, surveying, and raising of pillars. Speaking to the media at the ...
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Ethiopia ETH Switch Opens Financial Proposals of Two Firms
The development of a national Electronic Funds Transfer System will make inter-bank processes easier EthSwitch SC is choosing between two companies - BPC Banking Technologies BV and Compass Plus Limited (Great Britain) - for the award of a turnkey contract for the supply and implementation of a National Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Switch Clearing Settlement and Reconciliation System. It ...
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Africa UN Chief Calls for Push to Achieve Millennium Development Goals
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today emphasized the importance of countries stepping up their efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before their 2015 deadline and stressed developing countries like Mozambique have the most to benefit from accelerated action. "The MDGs have mobilized Governments as never before. They have catalyzed dynamic new partnerships. And - most ...
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Gambia Over D1.5 Million Butchery Shop Handed Over to Kotu Communities
The Livestock Horticultural and Development Project (LHDP) last week handed over a newly constructed butchery complex worth over D1.5 million to the mayor of Kanifing Municipal Council for onward transmission to "Group Legaye of Kotu'. The project is jointly funded by the African Development Bank, IFAD and the Government of the Gambia. The handing over ceremony, graced by senior ...
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Rape in South Africa Desperately seeking a political champion
Five years. That's how long it took for President Jacob Zuma to make more than a passing reference to rape in a State of the Nation speech. Until two months ago, he had successfully steered almost entirely clear of what experts have called a crisis in our country. So what changed in February 2013? Anene Booysen. The 17-year-old's horrific death at the hands of her rapists proved to ...
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Nanotechnology Expert Chad Mirkin Selected for Linus Pauling Medal Award
Northwestern University scientist Chad A. Mirkin has been selected to receive the 2013 Linus Pauling Medal Award from the Oregon, Portland and Puget Sound local sections of the American Chemical ...
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Zayed Future Energy Prize Seeks to Enhance Submissions from African Clean Energy Sector for 2014
WAM ABU DHABI, May 21st, 2013 (WAM)-- As part of its outreach campaign to increase the number and quality of submissions from the African continent, the Zayed Future Energy Prize participated at the Clean Power Africa conference at African Utility Week in Cape Town, South Africa, from 14th - 15th May, 2013. Submissions for this year's edition are open until 5th August for all five ...
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South Africa Winnie Mandela forced auction flops
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- An auction to pay off a debt of Nelson Mandela's ex-wife failed to take place because no one would open her home to the ...
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37 Killed as Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma
A tornado with 320 kilometer-per-hour winds has killed at least 37 people and caused massive destruction in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying two schools and entire ...
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Kosmos Comes Up Dry Onshore Cameroon
Kosmos Energy Ltd. said it failed to find commercial reservoirs at an exploration well onshore Cameroon, sending the oil-and-gas company's shares falling after hours. The Sipo-1 exploration well, drilled on the Ndian River Block in the Rio del Rey Basin, was targeting the Miocene Isongo Formation. Oil and gas shows evidenced during drilling indicated a working petroleum system, but no ...
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Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800 million in Sudan
Tue May 21, 2013 7:32am EDT * Arab firms lease farmland in Sudan to secure food for Gulf * Lebanon's GLB to invest up to $800 million in Sudan By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM, May 21 (Reuters) - Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and ...
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Nigerian military calls for civilian support
Authorities of the Nigerian Defense Headquaters (NDH) has solicited the cooperation of the civilian population to ensure the success of military operations in some part of the country.Chief of Defense Staff Adm. Ola Ibrahim made the call in a statement to reporters in Abuja on Tuesday, adding that the cooperation was necessary to minimize friction.Ibrahim said the military seeks the cooperation ...
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DR Congo army says in control of Muntaho in
After having repulsed the attacks from M23 rebels on Monday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Armed Forces (FARDC) have asserted that they are in control of Muntaho locality in North-Kivu Province in the eastern part of DR Congo.The revelations were made to the press on Monday by colonel Olivier Hamuli, the FARDC military spokesman in North-Kivu Province.Hamuli revealed that M23 were ...
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Etisalats Nigeria affiliate signs $1.2 billion loan
DUBAI | Tue May 21, 2013 7:26am EDT DUBAI May 21 (Reuters) - Etisalat's Nigeria affilate has signed a $1.2 billion loan with 13 Nigerian banks, the United Arab Emirates' No.1 telecom operator said on Tuesday. The medium-term facility will be used to refinance an existing $650 million loan and bolster Etisalat Nigeria's network, Etisalat said in a statement to the Abu Dhabi ...
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Human Rights delegation meets in Morocco
Manama, May 21 (BNA) - Bahraini delegation led by Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met with the inter-ministerial delegate in charge of human rights in the Kingdom of Morocco, Dr. Mahjoub Al-Hayba, in response to the invitation received from the Moroccan government to be familiar with the Moroccan experience in the field of human rights and to exchanging experiences in ...
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Deadly SARS-like virus spreads to Tunisia 3 cases confirmed 1 death
Saudi Arabia , according to a Health Ministry statement.The man's two children were also diagnosed with the virus but have since undergone treatment and recovered.It's the first case of the SARS-like virus in Tunisia and shows how the virus is slowly spreading throughout the Middle East, where 30 cases have been reported, AP reported. In this latest outbreak, 9 people have died in ...
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Cross River State Rural Access and Mobility Project in Nigeria
Cross River State has an enviable history in Nigeria, yet until 2008, most rural roads were in poor, impassable conditions. They had a negative impact on the local economy, especially agricultural activities, with poor rural roads resulting in exorbitant vehicle operating costs and unquantifiable travel times. The situation was worse still in far-flung villages where logs of fallen trees often ...
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AfDB Project Integrates Nomadic Peoples into Mainstream Education in Nigeria
Spanning at least 20 different countries across the African continent, nomadic peoples constitute about six per cent of the total African population, or some 50 million people. This large population, categorized into three major groups, as pastoralists, migrant fishing folks and farmers, has a common wandering lifestyle. Shrinking grazing lands, constant blocking of grazing paths, increasing ...
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Tunisia says Sars-like virus killed elderly man
(21 mins ago) Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected with the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered, AP reports. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly ...
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South Africa Under pressure miners union demands 60 percent wage raise
South African employers are bracing themselves for the mother of strike seasons this year. As the end of May beckons, the country is braced for a series of employment negotiations, as sectoral wage contracts come under the spotlight.First to throw the gauntlet is the country's largest and richest trade union, the powerful, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which submitted its wage ...
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Ex-Dolphin Chad Johnson bonds out of Broward jail | Video
Chad Johnson was jailed briefly Monday after he was accused of violating his probation on a domestic violence charge. Johnson, 35, pleaded no contest last year to a battery charge after his wife, reality TV ...
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Ten South African miners hospitalised after chrome mine clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Ten striking miners at a chrome mine in South Africa were admitted to hospital after clashes with security guards, police said. "Ten miners were admitted to hospital. They were injured after security guards fired what are reported to be rubber bullets," police spokesman Thulani Ngubane said. He added that officers had arrived at the mine, owned by chemicals ...
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Tunisia Man back from Saudi Arabia dies from coronavirus 2 children treated and recovered
TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisia's Health Ministry says a 66-year-old man has died after being infected by the new coronavirus following a visit to Saudi Arabia. The ministry's statement reported that his son and daughter were also diagnosed with the virus but have been treated and since recovered. The cases are the first for Tunisia and indicate that the virus is slowly trickling out of the ...
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Liberia gaining the world's attention for the right reasons
When members of the international community, and even many Africans themselves, think of Africa one of a few stereotypes come to mind; poverty, crime, corruption and political instability. Africa is seen as a haven for everything nefarious in the global community, terrorists are trained here, rebels attack their governments, drugs are grown in, and exported from, African soil and many African heads of state preside over a government whose authority does not extend beyond their capital city.
Liberia, not often in the international news for doing well, seems to be making a concerted effort to redress this trend, suggesting that a period of integrity may be ahead for the continent as a whole; South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup, Egypt is cooperating with the international community in opening up its border with Gaza and Liberia’s government is holding its own as an example of the far-reaching effects of good governance and rooting out corruption. Read more
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