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DR Congo In Goma Secretary-General hails regional accord as Âbest chance for peace in years
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) is greeted on arrival in Goma by the Commander of the UN intervention brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) General James Mwakibolwa. Photo: MONUSCO/Clara ...
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Kenya Relief as surgeons re-attach mans severed private organ
Surgeons at the hospital have successfully reattached his partially severed organ. However, experts at the hospital Thursday indicated it is not possible to determine if the victim will regain full sexual function of his ...
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Kenya Mother claims nurse watched her newborn die
The couple had prepared to welcome their newborn baby and when Ann went to labour on January 17, this year, they knew that the moment they had prepared for had ...
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Kenya Police arrest former councillor for piracy
• Secondary school set books analysed, recorded and saved in DVDs which were later sold to bookshops • Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2012 marking schemes for different subjects • Heavy duty printers, DVD burners which Gitimu told the police officers were used in the production of the copies of DVDs at night • Others were theatre books and anthology of poems for ...
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Kenya Weather pushes inflation food prices down
inflation eased significantly from 14 per cent in 2011 to 9.4 per cent in 2012 with the country's reliance on rain-fed agriculture paying out. The drop ...
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Kenya Report shows jobs in formal sector declined
jobs in the 2008/2009 financial year, a period following the post-election violence. This year, the firms that employed the highest number of people were in ICT, education, health and building and construction sectors. A vibrant property market stimulated by a reduction in the cost of borrowing lifted the building and construction sector to a growth of 4.8 per cent in 2012 compared to a growth ...
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Kenya County chief vows to grow tourism sector
County Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said he is determined to create thousands of jobs for the youth through the tourism industry besides other sectors. To realise this dream, the Governor said he would devise ways of promoting local tourism and convince residents to visit tourist resorts in the county beginning with Lake Nakuru National Park. "Other tourist resorts worth visiting are Hells Gate ...
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Kenya I found broken IEBC seals court told
William Oduol , the court heard that he first discovered the broken seals at the tallying centre when he went to pay agents under him. The green seals were brought as exhibits before the court presided over by Justice Aggrey Muchelule.? ? "I saw a lot of broken seals at the school. They were lying on the ground outside the hall where tallying was taking place," he said.? Omondi said he ...
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Kenya TNA stopped from ejecting six committee members
On Wednesday evening, Speaker Mwangi Mugo stopped a bid by the TNA core team to replace six TNA members from all the 12 assembly committees. Majority leader Mwangi Kibuu (Gatitu/Muruguru Ward) sought to replace the six members from Kieni Constituency with new nominees claiming they had shown marked indifference to their party agenda. The six are Duncan Gituanja (Kabaru), Mwaniki Kanyiri ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Kenya Farmers fault States deal with the EU
Through the Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum, they told a Nairobi Court yesterday that the Government had not complied with some requirements before sealing the ...
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Kenya Kibor wins land case 20 years later
The High Court in Eldoret ordered Samuel Rono, who had bought the land from Kibor to leave the farm. High Court Judge Festus Azangalala gave Rono 30 days to vacate the farm failure to which he would be evicted. This followed failure by Rono to pay Kibor the full amount agreed for the land. In 1991, Kibor entered into a sale agreement with Rono to purchase the land at Sh22.5 million, a price that ...
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Kenya Uhuru submits nominee list to Parliament
House Speaker Justin Muturi noted that the National Assembly is required to conclude the process of approval or rejection of the nominees within 14 days from the date of notification. "I now direct that the nominees' names and Curriculum Vitae be forwarded to the Committee on Appointments for the necessary approval hearings to be conducted," said Muturi. Uhuru nominated Joseph J ...
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Business Kenya rises to second spot as conference tourism leader
The two countries had previously dominated top spots. The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) also rated Kenya at 58th position globally in the 'Country& City rankings 2012' Ruth Solitei, Permanent ...
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Business Agriculture Secretary outlines plan to raise Kenyas share of meat market
Coffee stakeholders are working on strategies to enhance the industry competitiveness by expanding the market share locally and ...
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South African Miners Demand Salary Increases
Pretoria, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa has demanded a wage increase of 15 percent for employees and skilled miners who work both underground and on the surface, local television published today. The request, which implies a minimum salary of 7.000 rand ($ 750 USD) for gold and coal miners, increased the fears that the strikes spread to the rest of the ...
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Ten hurt in Guinea protest
Opposition supporters gather during a protest in Conakry. One person was shot dead and several others were wounded in clashes between security forces and demonstrators after the protest on ...
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Kenya seeks African help to drop Hague charges against Kenyatta
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Kenya has asked other African countries to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop crimes-against-humanity charges against its new president and his deputy, according to an African Union document seen on ...
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One dead around 10 injured in Guinea opposition protest
CONAKRY (Reuters) - One person was killed and around 10 injured when security forces and supporters of Guinea's president clashed with protesters marching in the capital on Thursday against planned legislative ...
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Rwanda’s Festival of the Gorillas becomes annual tourist destination
(eTN) - When the Rwanda Development Board's (RDB) Tourism and Conservation Department holds their annual Kwita Izina Gorilla Naming Ceremony on Saturday, June 22, at Kinigi, outside Volcano National Park, exactly a dozen newborn gorilla babies will be named this year. One of them was only born two days ago to the joy of the park staff and the conservation and tourism fraternity at large. It ...
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15 injured in clashes with security forces in Guineas capital
CONAKRY, Guinea - A government spokesman says at least 15 people were injured, four of them by bullet wounds, during a protest in Guinea's capital between opposition parties and security forces. The clashes are the latest iteration in the ongoing fight between the country's opposition and the ruling party over the details of a much-delayed parliamentary election. Albert Camara, ...
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Hydropower megaproject to dam River Congo
Africa's greatest river is about to be tamed. The River Congo is set to succumb to a series of giant hydroelectric dams with twice the generating capacity of the world's most powerful hydro-plant, ...
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Cardinal Onaiyekan Nigeria is in Jeopardy
Nigerian Prelates Meet With European Union Representatives to Discuss Rise in Corruption and ViolenceBy John NewtonROME, May 03, 2013 (Zenit.org) - NIGERIA'S leading bishop has told the European Parliament and other politicians that his country is being jeopardised by "the twin monsters of corruption and insecurity".In a meeting organized by Aid to the Church in Need, Cardinal ...
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DR Congo shelling kills three
SHELLING has killed three people in the flashpoint Democratic Republic Congo city of Goma ahead of a visit by UN leader Ban Ki-moon. Three shells were fired into the Goma district of Ndosho late on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 10, according to the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for DR Congo Moustapha Soumare. He did not say whether rebel or government forces were behind the ...
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Report At Least 1 London Terror Suspect is of Nigerian Descent
A picture of victim Drummer Lee Rigby, of the British Army's 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers is displayed with flowers left by mourners outside an army barracks near the scene of his killing in Woolwich, southeast London May 23, ...
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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