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Tanzania Community Leader Attacked With Acid in Zanzibar
Zanzibar - IN yet another shocking incident in Zanzibar a local leader, popularly known here as sheha, has been attacked with acid. The elderly man, Mr Mohammed Omar Said, was until Thursday morning undergoing treatment at Mnazi Mmoja hospital. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Mkadam Khamis confirmed the Wednesday night attack on the sheha of Tomondo area, adding that a hunt for the ...
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Nigeria Natures Fury Coming
A building collapse in Bangladesh killed more than 1, 100 people. In Lagos, Owerri, Calabar and a few other Nigerian cities, buildings have also collapsed, killing many. A 300-year-old tree fell at a market in Umudagu Ihitte Mbieri village, Mbaitoli LGA of Imo State, and killed more than 30 people. Those were perhaps man-made accidents - each happened because somebody was reckless. However, ...
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Uganda Uganda Now Drug Hub Admits Police
The police admit that drug trafficking is becoming a problem in Uganda, with many travellers frequently arrested for the offence in foreign countries. The Police Commissioner in charge of Narcotics, James Kyomukama, told Zurah Nakabugo that Uganda had become a drug trafficking ...
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Tanzania TRA Considers Evaluation of Personal Corporate Income Taxes
THE government is contemplating evaluation and design of administrative issues related to individual and corporate taxes to achieve equity, economic efficiency, revenue growth and adequacy as well as stability and administrative simplicity. Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) Commissioner General Harry Kitilya said in a statement in Dar es Salaam that, Tanzania was within the performance benchmark ...
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Kenya Laikipia Wants Tourist Dollars
Local leaders are demanding that the Kenya Revenue Authority and the Laikipia county government do thorough tax collection audit of the mushrooming conservancy hotels. The leaders said residents have been shortchanged by the owners of the hotels who do not pay revenue to the county government. Women's representative Jane Apollos said tourists staying at these hotels are never taxed. ...
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Uganda Mulago Goes Digital to Catch Conmen Absentee Medics
Mulago hospital has installed two electronic display boards at both the causality (accidents and emergency ward) and Labour suite 5C. The boards are meant to shine a light on quacks and thieves that are on the prowl in the hospital. The boards display names of doctors, nurses and interns on duty to help patients indentify who is and is not a medical practitioner and avoid being conned. Enock ...
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North Africa Instability Affects European Energy Security
According to the International Energy Agency, Algeria's oil is still suffering from the four-day siege on the In Amenas gas plant in January. (Photo: ...
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Tanzania Road Engineers Promotion Splits Council Down the Middle
Rorya - PROMOTION of the former Rorya District Council Acting Road Engineer, Mr Julias Kahena, to head of the department has divided a council meeting. While some councillors described Mr Kahena as a hard working and competent engineer, others rejected the proposal and wanted the official to be transferred to another part of the country for good. The debate became hotter after Rorya District ...
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Tanzania Membe Touts Dollar Week As 700 Accompany Obama
BIG businesses and small and medium entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam should brace for a windfall of profits come July 1. It is on that day when the leader of one of the world's powerful nations, US President Barack Obama is set to jet into the country. He will be accompanied by a delegation of 700 people. And that is not all. Another 500 delegates, including a dozen heads of state and ...
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Kenya Speaker Defends Sh90 Million Busia Governors House
BUSIA deputy Speaker yesterday came in defense of the Sh90m planned house for Busia governor Sospeter Ojaamong. Moses Ote said the design of governors' houses is uniform in all the 47 counties. Speaking to the press in Katakwa yesterday, Ote said no governor was being given the money to buy the house and wondered why Barasa was crying wolf instead of appreciating the kind gesture. Ote was ...
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Kenya Two More Courts to Be Put Up in Kisii
The judiciary yesterday started the construction of two more courts at the Kisii law courts. Resident judge justice Ruth Sitati said the Sh10 million project will enable the judges and magistrates deliver justice. "We have had a problem in terms of space so the construction of two more courts will help us quickly deal with the backlog of cases in the high and lower courts," Sitati ...
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Kenya Give the Disabled More Jobs-Legislators
Four MPs have threatened to sue unless people with disabilities are fairly represented in senior public appointments. They said the government is not properly constituted because people with disabilities were left out of recent Cabinet appointments. The Kenya Disability Parliamentary Association's Timothy Wanyonyi (Westlands), Rose Museu (Makueni MP) and nominated MPs Isaac Mwaura and ...
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East Africa Lamy Says EAC Way Ahead in African Trade Integration
THE outgoing World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy has rated the East African Community trading block as the most important in the African continent ahead of similar blocks in West and South Africa. He said EAC is three times more integrated than the West and South Africa. "This region is a clear case that I think deserves a lot of attention...I have no doubt that this ...
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Africa Conservationist Roots for Wildlife
A wildlife conservationist have said local communities should be empowered to fight poaching. Speaking yesterday in Nakuru during a walk aimed at sensitising the public on the need of fighting poaching, Jim Nyamu a conservationist said the local community has a role to play in safe guarding wildlife. "Poaching cannot be overcome without the support of the community. The balancing of the ...
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Kenya PSC - Hiring of Principal Secretaries Unsoiled
Nairobi - The Public Service Commission (PSC) has defended itself from accusations that it did not follow proper procedure in recruiting individuals to be appointed as Principal Secretaries. The commission's Chief Executive Officer Alice Atieno, in an affidavit lodged in court argues that there was no reason to stop the process of appointing the PSs as demanded in court by Consumers ...
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Uganda Johnnie Walkers Black Tie Dinner - a Showcase of Exclusivity
When Kampala's elite choose to drink, they do it in style. Last Friday evening at the Pearl of Africa Restaurant with in the Kampala Serena Hotel saw some Kampala elite do just that. It was a black tie dinner for an exclusive group, invited to witness the launch of a new whisky in the Johnnie Walker family - Platinum Label. They were also meant to taste five other brands of whisky in the ...
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Africa On a human rights mission
Alioune Tine, the secretary general of the African Assembly for the Defence of Human, says now is not the time to say things have improved sufficiently in Senegal. ...
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August Wilson Center for African American Culture needs to play ball
The Downtown facility recently laid off half its staff and is behind on payments on a $7 million loan. Foundations that have been the center's lifeblood are skittish about providing more money because the center hasn't completed a required audit or submitted a recent business ...
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Kenya Kenyatta Moi Seized 17 Percent of White Farms - TJRC
PRESIDENT Jomo Kenyatta and his successor President Daniel arap Moi grabbed 17 percent of white owned land after independence, according to the TJRC report released on Tuesday. "One sixth of the settler lands were found to have been sold intact to the emerging African elite comprising Kenyatta, his wife, children and close associates. These elites did not even need much money to buy ...
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Kenya Ping-Pong Over Rutos Controversial Jet Continues
Nairobi - The back-and-forth between the Office of Deputy President William Ruto and the Daily Nation over the jet hired for his four-nation Africa tour continued on Thursday, with further denials. The Permanent Secretary in his office Mohamed Isahakia released a statement rebutting fresh reports by the newspaper that they dealt with a firm known as VistaJet Luftfahrtunternehmen GmbH in hiring ...
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Kenya Meet Moses Muihia - the Man Who Beat President Uhuru in 1997
Moses Muihia has in various forms been described as the unknown political dwarf who miraculously defeated Uhuru Kenyatta when the latter first attempted his hand at national politics by contesting the Gatundu parliamentary seat in 1997. But many do not know that by the time he faced President Kenyatta in 1997, Muihia, who is a practising quantity surveyor, was an accomplished politician who ...
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Kenya Narok Girl Asks Rutos Wife for Help
A girl in Narok county with a heart condition has appealed to Deputy President William Ruto's wife Rachel to give her financial help. Sharon Chepkemoi, 17, a class seven pupil of Mogoiyuet Primary School said for her to survive, she has to undergo a surgery in December at the Mater Hospital. Speaking to the press at the school yesterday, Chepkemoi said she needs Sh500,000 for the operation ...
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Kenya Dont Buy Kenyas Ivory MPs Tell China
The National Assembly has urged the Chinese government to demonstrate its true friendship by not buying ivory from the country. This came after MPs passed a motion compelling the government to tighten measures to curb wildlife poaching.They include increasing the number of rangers in game parks and introducing more punitive measures to deter the illegal trade. The MPs asked the Chinese and Thai ...
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Kenya Women Reps Should Earn More Than MPs-Nangalo
Trans Nzoia women representative Janet Nangabo has said women representatives should be paid higher salaries than other members of Parliament. Speaking in Kitale on Monday, Nangabo said women representatives cover larger geographical areas while MPs concentrate on constituencies. "Women representatives incur a lot of expenses because they move around counties. Some counties have five to ...
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Kenya Kagame Got Me UN Job Says Kituyi
Former Trade and Industry minister Mukhisa Kituyi yesterday said nobody from western or central province lobbied for him to be the Secretary General of the UN trade and development body. Kituyi was speaking during a funeral fund raising of Steve Wamalwa, Eugene Wamalwa's brother, at Railways Club in Nairobi. He said he was nominated by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon to lead Unctad. ...
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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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