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Tunisia Ban On Ansar Al-Chariaa Congress Still in Force - Interior Ministry
Tunis - "The ban on holding the "Ansar al-chariaa" congress is still in force across the country" Interior Ministry's spokesman asserted, on Monday, during a meeting with the press. The rally this formation had attempted to organise on Sunday in Ettadhamen district, was illegal, Mohamed Ali Laroui specified. He added that "the security forces had enforced the ...
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Nigeria Nine Minor Informants to Kidnappers Assassins Nabbed
Sapele - Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants to kidnappers and assassins in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were Tuesday arrested and paraded in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, by men of the Nigeria Army, Koko Barrack, in conjunction with the Joint ...
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Zimbabwe Supreme Court to Hear Petition On Election Date On Thursday
A court application compelling President Robert Mugabe to announce the date for elections will be heard as an urgent matter in the Supreme Court this Thursday. This comes after chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku threw out Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's appeal against a High Court application made by a Harare man, Jealousy Mawarire, that forces Mugabe and his coalition partners to ...
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Tanzania LTE Insurgent Challenger Smile Does a Hard Launch and Will Open Its Network On a Wholesale Basis to Other Operators
London - Smile Communications has put in place the first public roll-out in Africa of LTE in 800 MHz spectrum in Tanzania and has ambitious plans to roll out in the same spectrum in three more countries. This week it moved from soft to hard launch status in Tanzania and the other 3 countries will follow. Russell Southwood spoke to founder and CEO of the company Irene Charnley. Smile ...
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Africa Africa Should Put Basics in Place
Windhoek - The Governor of the Bank of Namibia, Ipumbu Shiimi, says although the goal of Africa to share a common currency is sound - the basics such as road and other infrastructure need to be addressed first. His remarks follow a call by Founding President and Father of the Namibian Nation, Dr Sam Nujoma, for a single African currency and passport to advance the ideals of Pan-Africanism and ...
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Gambia WAAPP Convenes National Farmers Dialogue
The West African Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) under the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), on Monday began a two-day farmers' dialogue in the country. Over one hundred participants are taking part in the two-day meeting being held at the Paradise Suites Hotel in Kololi. According to organizers, the purpose of ...
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Tanzania IBM Says ICT Investment Inevitable for Efficiency Productivity in Economy
INCREASED investment in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is inevitable for enhanced efficiency and productivity in the national economy. According to IBM Africa Country General Manager David Sawe, "There is huge demand for ICT in organisations that aim at improving efficiencies and boosting profit." Giving a keynote address to the opening of a three-day training for ...
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Tanzania Banks Sector Register Improved Performance
BANKS in Tanzania posted impressive results in the first quarter of this year, painting a positive trend in the monetary sector since the 2008 global financial crisis that greatly affected their performance. The sector since the crisis had to deal with a non-debt-payment problem as clients were affected by the crisis and hence failed to honour their obligation. Many banks saw the increase of ...
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President Karzai to Discuss Enhancing Defense Ties with India
Afghan President Hamid Karzai receives an honorary degree from his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, second right, at the Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, India, May 20, ...
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South Korea See Norths Threats at Unprecedented Levels
SEOUL -- South Korea says it will never accept rival North Korea as a nuclear-weapons state. But there appears to be no international consensus on how to prevent that. Speaking Tuesday in Seoul, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se characterized Pyongyang's recent belligerent threats as more diverse, frequent and intense than previously seen. He told a forum organized by ...
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Rubber bullets fired at South African mine strikers several hurt
By Wendell RoelfCAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Ten striking South African miners were taken to hospital on Tuesday after being hit by rubber bullets, police said, as labour strife swells in mines and factories ahead of mid-year pay negotiations.Auto maker ...
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Vodacom seeks African acquisitions
Vodacom, which is aggressively seeking to acquire new operations on the African continent, could expand into as many as three new countries by the end of next year, Shameel Joosub, the group chief executive, said ...
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Self Help Africa Why Only Profits Can Cure Poverty
The importance of profiting from one's efforts ought to be an easy concept to embrace. It is why humans no longer live in caves. If an endeavor--any endeavor--produces more value than it consumes, it will not only pay for itself, but create the means for growth. In contrast, endeavors that persistently generate losses are destined to wither and die. Africa has long been a place where ...
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Kenya fine with Obama snub
Kenya said Tuesday it was "fine" with US President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its leaders.Obama will leave on a first African tour in late June, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses Kenya, where his father was born."America, just like ...
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Zimbabwe Mutambara Calls for Mineral Database
GOVERNMENT should mobilise funding for exploration to establish a database of the country's mineral reserves to avoid getting raw deals when negotiating with investors, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara has said. He made the remarks at the 74th annual general meeting of the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe at Troutbeck Resort in Nyanga last week. The meeting was held under the theme: ...
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Nigeria Shell Community Disagree Over Cause of Bayelsa Oil Spill
The Ikarama Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has disagreed with Shell Petroleum Development Company over the cause of the reported oil spills from nearby oil wells. The spill has contaminated the Taylor Creek in Yenagoa; and residents of Biseni/JK4 Road told the News Agency of Nigeria that they disagreed that the spills were caused by oil theft. Officials of ...
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Rwanda Invest in Productive Sectors to Reduce Trade Deficit - Experts
More investment in the productive sectors of the economy and increased consumer expenditure could play a big role in reducing the trade imbalance Rwanda experiences, Mohamed Mazimpaka, the director of Chamber of Commerce at the Private Sector Federation, has said. Mazimpaka noted in an interview with Business Times that manufacturers were not innovative enough and many sectors lacked technical ...
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West Africa ECOWAS to Review Protocol On Movement of Persons Goods Services
As part of the review process of the Ecowas Protocol on Free Movement of Persons, Goods and Services, the Ecowas Commission will undertake a Mission to The Gambia as a Member State from the 22nd - 25th May 2013, to begin the awareness campaign and information exchange with government authorities and other stakeholders on the subject. The sub-regional bloc has started to review the Regional ...
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Kenya Rutos Office Releases Sh18 Million Jet Invoices
Nairobi - Deputy President William Ruto's office has released documents to support their assertion that a jet which took him on a tour of four African nations was a one-off hire at a cost of Sh18.5 million and not Sh100 million as reported. The documents include an invoice from the charter company whose jet the deputy president used on the trip. The invoice from VistaJet shows the deputy ...
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Ethiopia Construction of Ethio-Kenyan Electric Highway to Commence
Miherete Debebe CEO of EEPCo, Guang Z Chen, WB Country Director for Ethiopia, Alemayehu Tegenu, minister of Water and Energy and Lamin Barrow, resident representative of the African Development Bank after the signing ceremony at the Hilton Hotel. The construction of the Ethiopia - Kenya interconnector high-voltage electric highway line will start in September 2013. The project has secured ...
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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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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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