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MG Hangout All the news from the sixth SA Aids ConferenceJoin our MG Hangout this week Friday as we discuss the latest news and research from the South African Aids Conference.
This week saw South Africa's leading health experts and most vocal activists flock to Durban for the sixth South African Aids Conference. Researchers released findings from their latest research and advocacy groups called for better interventions to improve the health outcomes of people living with HIV and Aids. There was robust discussion on what role the World Health Organisation ...
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Militants storm United Nations compound in Somalia 20 killed
Somali soldiers walk through rubble after insurgents blasted into the U.N. compound in Mogadishu. IPTC: Somali National Government (SNG) soldiers are pictured after Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents shot and blasted their way into the United Nations (UN) compound in Mogadishu on June 19, 2013. It is the most serious attack on the UN in the troubled country in recent years. Three foreigners and ...
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South Africa prays for seriously ill Mandela
SOUTH Africans prayed for Nelson Mandela as he spent a second day in a hospital yesterday suffering a lung infection that has sparked worldwide concerns for the ailing peace icon. Mandela's latest health scare was splashed across the front pages of local newspapers but government officials have released no updates since announcing he was hospitalized in Pretoria early Saturday in a ...
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China Sentences Uighurs to Jail on Religious Extremism Charges
Chinese courts in the predominantly Muslim, northwest region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uighurs to prison for inciting religious extremism and other related ...
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BRIEF-African Bank Investments issues a 1 billion rand three-year bond
JOHANNESBURG, June 20 | Thu Jun 20, 2013 1:34am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 20 (Reuters) - African Bank Investments Ltd : * Says successfully issued a 1 billion rand three-year bond * Says the issue is part of its 25 billion rand domestic medium term note programme for general funding ...
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Kenya Kisumu Residents Slam the Proposal for 22 Prados
KISUMU residents have rejected the County's budget proposal to purchase 22 Prados at Sh132 million and 14 Land Rovers at Sh98 million. Speaking to The Star yesterday in Kisumu, they cited a number of issues in the statement for the fiscal year 2013-2014 that need to be questioned by the public and the County Assembly. The Director of Community Initiative Action Group Kenya Chris Owala and ...
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Somalia Five Foreigners Including Three South Africans Confirmed Dead in the Mogadishu Attacks
Mogadishu- - Almost 10 armed men belonging to the Alshabab militia attacked UN headquarters in Mogadishu today. the gunmen battled with the UN guards for almost 30 minutes before federal government troops and AMISOM troops came to their rescue. A local who was arround when the incident occured told Shabelle radio station in Mogadishu that a suicider detonated a bomb at the gates of the UN ...
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Kenya Kamau Adan Tour Western
Cabinet Secretaries Michael Kamau (Infrastructure) and Adan Muhammed (Industrialisation) yesterday made an extensive tour of Eldoret and parts of Western Kenya to asses infrastructure development and other projects aimed at improving trade in the region. They particularly focused on the ongoing construction of the Northern Corridor which leads from the Mombasa Port to Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret ...
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Somalia Somaliland Turns Away Airplane Cleared By Somali Govt
The Somaliland regional Ministry of Civil Aviation and Air Transport Tuesday (June 18th) denied a small private charter plane to land at Hargeisa International Airport because it had been cleared by the Somali federal government. "The plane, which was an SS34, tried to land in Hargeisa International Airport in the early morning, but when the tower discovered that it had permission from ...
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Kenya Fusion Invites Investors in Sh1.2 Billion Project in Nairobi
Fusion Investment Management has committed debt and equity in a $15 million (Sh1.26 billion) office block in Nairobi's Upper Hill, it said in a note. It said a portion of the project dubbed Project Panorama - which follows the successful syndication of another dubbed Project Snowdrop that was fully funded in 10 days in April - will be available to professional co-investors, local and ...
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Kenya Gunmen Kill Two Women Police Reservist in Wajir
Gunmen in Wajir County killed a Kenyan police reservist Tuesday night (June 18th) who was investigating a shooting incident that left two civilians dead and two injured on Monday. The police reservist was among a group of security officers investigating an incident in which gunmen from neighbouring Mandera County raided Burmayo village, killing two women and injuring two other people, Wajir ...
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Tanzania Farmers Enabled to Access Agriculture Information Easily
THE Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives in a joint venture with Zantel Tanzania and Sibesonke Limited has launched mobile phone services to reach the 33 million Tanzanian farmers with relevant advanced farming information. The services dubbed ZKilimo is an SMS-based application that utilises mobile phone capability and ubiquity to provide farmers in the country access to ...
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Kenya Treasury Calms Down Nerves On VAT Bill
Nairobi - The National Treasury has downplayed fears that the re-introduced VAT Bill is aimed at raising the costs of basic goods and specifically food items. Speaking to journalists at a forum in Nairobi, Economic Secretary Geoffrey Mwau said the Bill will likely focus on taxing the luxurious goods that may not necessarily affect the a majority of Kenyans. Mwau has maintained that there will ...
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Kenya Kenya to Host Africas Employers Body
Nairobi - Nairobi will now be the headquarters of the continent's employers body Business Africa; formerly the Pan-African Employers' Confederation (PEC) after it was selected during the General Council meeting of Business Africa held in Geneva Switzerland. The Executive Director of the Federation of Kenya Employers Jacqueline Mugo was also elected as the Secretary General of Business ...
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Kenya First Lady Adopts a Baby Elephant
Nairobi - Conservationist have lauded government action in the face of rampant poaching but said a sustained and coordinated approach is require to crush the increasingly sophisticated criminal cartels that threaten the country. "At the current rate of poaching, it is estimated that Kenya's elephants will be gone from the wild within 10 years," said Dr Paula Kahumbu, CEO of ...
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Kenya New Law to Protect Injured Workers
Nairobi - Employees who work under risky conditions will soon have a reason to smile following the establishment of a law that will ensure they get duly compensated for injuries sustained at their places of work. Cabinet Secretary in charge of Labour and Social Services Kazungu Kambi said on Wednesday that a lot of manpower went to waste because of work related accidents that are not ...
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Ethiopia World Bank - Ethiopia Can Achieve Middle-Income Status By 2020
The World Bank Ethiopia Office released a report on Tuesday (June 18th ) detailing the country's current economic situation and forecasting future prospects. According to the report, the World Bank acknowledged that Ethiopia had the capability to achieve its target of becoming a middle income country by 2020. The report said that in spite of all the challenges, if Ethiopia continued its ...
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DR Congos Silent Ordeal
According to the diocesan report, this was the third such massacre in a month. Both reports implicate the FDLR militia group-Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda, ideological descendants of the Interahamwe militias responsible for the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. The FDLR is one of several domestic, foreign or foreign-backed armed groups threatening to tear the country apart. ...
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High-ranking South African police officer found slain
The only items missing from the body of a top South African police officer found slain in a field were his cellphones, investigators said Wednesday. Major-General Tirhani Maswanganyi disappeared Monday while he was driving to Johannesburg, where he lived during the work week, Brigadier Neville Malila, a spokesman for the Gauteng police reported. A search began when his car was found parked ...
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Durban port leads way for African trade
Transporting goods by sea remains the most common way to trade globally, but in Africa cargo spends an abnormally long time in ports before it is moved inland, presenting a serious obstacle to the successful integration of sub-Saharan economies in worldwide trade networks. The port of Durban, however, has managed to buck the trend. A World Bank study, titled Why does cargo spend weeks in ...
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Namibia Botswana connect to 5.12 terabit cable
Last week, the powerful WACS submarine fibre optic cable was landed in Swakopmund, Namibia. Now, the work has started to make WACS provide high-speed telecom services to consumers in Namibia and ...
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Plant to Deliver NutritionallyEnhanced Sorghum to Africa
ST. LOUIS and DES MOINES, Iowa - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and DuPont announced a $4 million grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation to bring healthier sorghum to underserved communities in ...
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Star of Acclaimed TV Series The Sopranos Dies
U.S. film and television actor James Gandolfini, who portrayed an emotionally vulnerable crime boss on the groundbreaking television drama "The Sopranos," has died at the age of 51. Statements issued by the actor's managers and U.S. cable television network HBO, which aired the series from 1999 through 2007, said Gandolfini died while on vacation in Italy from a possible heart ...
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Champions Trophy South Africa concede choking again
Jonathan Trott ensured there were no gremlins in England's batting as they chased down South Africa's modest target of 176 at The Oval. ?Ian Kington / ...
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Attack will not end Somalia mission UN
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has expressed outrage at a "despicable" Islamist attack on a UN compound in Somalia which left 16 dead but has vowed the organisation won't end its work in the troubled country.Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents killed nine people as they shot and blasted their way into the UN compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday, the most serious attack on the UN there in recent ...
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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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