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Nigeria Passengers Stranded At Lagos Airport As Aviation Workers Begin Strike
Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) embarked on an indefinite strike. The workers, who spoke to our correspondent, said the strike was to press home their demand for the implementation of the salary structure approved by the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages ...
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Tanzania Tanzanian Elected Sacau Vice-Chairman
A TANZANIAN, Mr Salum Shamte has been elected Vice-Chairman of the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU). Mr Shamte who is also Chairman of the board of Directors of Agricultural Council of Tanzania was elected during the organisation's annual general meeting and will lead for a period of three years. Tanzania hosted this year's SACAU policy conference and its ...
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Kenya ICT AVUs Integral Teaching and Learning Approach
For Africa to compete in the global economies, 12 -15 percent of its workforce need to have access to technical tertiary education. This was the opening remark by Dr. Bakary Diallo, Rector of the African Virtual University (AVU) during the African Virtual University Computer Science and Teacher Education Curriculum Design workshop at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Nairobi. At the end of this ...
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Liberia Multi-Million Dollar Medical College in Sight
A former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan has disclosed plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar medical college in Tappita, Nimba County. Dr. Sullivan who is also president emeritus of Moore House School of Medicine said his visit to Liberia is geared towards working with Doctor Karteh in the development of a medical college in the country. He ...
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Kenya Strike On As County Pay Talks Collapse
The ongoing strike by county assemblies to force the Salaries and Remuneration Commission improve their salaries is expected to continue after the salary negotiation talks collapsed. The chairman of the the county assemblies speakers forum Nuh Nassir said they had been unable to reach a satisfactory compromise with the commission. "As we speak now, county assemblies remain adjourned until ...
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Kenya Which Way for Kenyas Oil Sector
Nairobi - The National Oil Corporation of Kenya has kicked off a series of stakeholder talks on the future of oil and gas exploration and production in Kenya. The talks seek to inform policy making and the creation of institutional structures needed for effective management of the emerging petroleum upstream sector. National Oil has identified a number of topics in the areas of oil and gas ...
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Rwanda Environment Projects Threatened By Financial Constraints
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), an international fund which among others sponsors projects in Rwanda, has warned that financial constraints might affect it programs. Based in Washington, GEF normally sponsors projects related to biodiversity, international water management systems, climate change, the ozone layer, land degradation, as well as persistent organic pollutants. During a ...
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Africa Mbeki - Continent Can Solve Its Problems
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday that Africans can solve the numerous problems affecting the continent without giving room for external interference which usually comes with interests. Mbeki, who stated this shortly after receiving the Daily Trust African of the Year 2012 Award at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja last night, said the success which the panel he led to ...
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Kenya Asus Vivobook Laptop Is a Touch Above the Rest - Review
The first impression you get about the Asus VivoBook is how sleek and stable it looks despite its 1.8kg weight. The S400 notebook has a metallic finish on the top and a smooth velvet feel on the battery-pack side, making it comfortable to use. With an i7 Intel Core processor, the S400 is an upgrade of its predecessor, the core i3 S200 but still in the reasonably affordable range. The VivoBook ...
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Afriforum opposes Zimbabwe helicopter deal
reported on the dea l in which the South African Defence Force (SANDF) is to donate Alouette III helicopters and spares to the Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF). This afternoon Afriforum lodged an appeal at the North Gauteng High Court asking for an interim interdict prohibiting the defence force from delivering any helicopters or spares to the ZDF pending an application for a review of the decision ...
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Seven Muslims Charged for Killing Buddhist Monk in Burma
A court in Burma has convicted seven Muslims for the killing of a Buddhist monk during deadly sectarian riots in a central town earlier this ...
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Wave of Violence Continues in Iraq
New attacks in three Iraqi cities have killed at least seven people and wounded more than 60 others. Officials say a suicide bombing followed by clashes between militants and Iraqi troops left three soldiers dead Tuesday in Tarmiyah, north of the capital, Baghdad. Farther north, two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khormato, killing three people, while car bombs in Kirkuk killed at least one ...
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Nigerias military takes back five rebel strongholds
Several thousand troops were last week deployed across three states where Islamic insurgents seized territory in the volatile region, and fighter jets have pounded Boko Haram camps as the military tried to rid the country of "terrorist activities". The military has "secured the environs of New Marte, Hausari, Krenoa, Wulgo and Chikun Ngulalo after destroying all the ...
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Algeria ‘in limbo’ before polls
Before the president's latest illness, supporters within the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) had made known their desire to see him seek a fourth term in the election scheduled for next ...
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China says its legal ivory trade not to blame for African poaching
21 May 2013 CHINA'S small traditional trade in carving uses ivory acquired through legal auctions and in no way encourages or worsens the problem of elephant poaching ...
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Ghana’s Voter Register Appears Bloated
In Ghana today much of our political discourse has been reduced to a shouting match and who can make the most ridiculous pronouncements to an ever ready media overly absorbed by sensationalism. Amidst all the noise, however, certain truths or better still facts cannot be ignored. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) tables, as part of its contention, the notion that Ghana’s Electoral Commission ...
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Ghana Beyond The Supreme Court
Arthur Kobina Kennedy What will happen when the Supreme Court rules in the election dispute? Will there be peace or violence? That we were a divided country before December ...
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Toyota Ghana Supports Kaneshie Polyclinic
Takahiko Takabayashi (left) presenting the items to Mawutowu Kwesi Brese (right) with health officials. TOYOTA Ghana Company Limited has donated assorted items worth GH6,000 to the Kaneshie Polyclinic in Accra to refurbish the Tuberculosis and Human Immune Deficiency Virus Unit (TB/HIV). The items included 20 bags of cements, 20 packs of floor tiles, 10 gallons of oil and emulsion paint, a 32 ...
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Tunisia’s premier vows action after unrest
Tunis - Tunisia's Islamist premier Ali Larayedh on Monday vowed tough action against Ansar al-Sharia after bloody clashes between police and members of the radical Salafist group, hinting at a shift in government ...
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Security guards fire rubber bullets at South Africa strikers
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Security guards at a South African chrome mine owned by chemicals group Lanxess fired rubber bullets at stone-throwing workers on an illegal strike, a spokeswoman for the company said on ...
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Zimbabwe Tsvangirai promises salary hikes ahead of polls
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai has revved his election drive, promising restive civil servants salaries that are at par with the private sector, once he comes into ...
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Churches desecrated in Central African Republic Christians flee to countryside
In recent weeks, Islamist rebels who assumed power in the Central African Republic in March have kidnapped the rector of the cathedral in the nation's capital as well as the archdiocesan chancellor. Calling members of the new regime "religious extremists with evil intentions," Bishop Albert Vanbuel of Kaga-Bandoro decried "the deliberate program of desecration and ...
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South African bishops criticize police presence at private wedding
The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference has criticized "the deployment of the police flying squad and other elements of the security forces" and "the use of an air-force base by a privately-chartered jet" during a recent wedding of prominent Indian entrepreneurs. "The South African Police Services should busy itself with combating crime, for which there ...
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Death in Zimbabwe results in unusual charge against US government worker
This image released by U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., shows the damage to the car that allegedly hit and killed Alois Pedzisai Matyoramhinga in Zimbawbe. Unusual circumstances have left federal prosecutors pursuing vandalism charges against Andrew Pastirik, a U.S. government worker accused of killing the Zimbabwe man in a drunken driving collision. Much of the case against Pastirik is ...
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Africa Africa Loses $50bn Annually to Illicit Fund Flow - Mbeki
The Chairman of the United Nations High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, Thabo Mbeki, has said that the continent loses, at least, $50 billion annually through illicit fund flows. Mr. Mbeki, a former President of South Africa, made the fact known in Abuja on Monday when he led a delegation of the UN panel on a courtesy visit to President Goodluck Jonathan. He said the panel ...
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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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