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Sudan Sudan Plans to Curb Unemployment Through Micro-Financing
Khartoum - Sudan intends to establish a specialised micro-finance bank with a capital of $ 5 million to fight poverty, raise standards of living, and curb unemployment. The bank is a joint venture between Zain Telecom, the Gulf Program for Development, and Sudanese and foreign businessmen. Sudan's central bank had previously allocated 12 million SDG in a micro-finance program to fund the ...
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Tanzania Tanzania Commemorates MV Bukoba Disaster
Mwanza - TANZANIA's world famous model, Ms Flaviana Matata, has donated various gear to boost safety in vessels operating on Lake Victoria. Ms Matata presented 500 buoys and life jackets to Mwanza Port Director, Mr Edwin Kasyupa, during the 17th anniversary commemoration of the MV Bukoba accident at Igoma cemetery. She said she had for long been planning to donate the gear but failed due ...
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Zimbabwe Chinese VP Jets in
Chinese Vice Premier Mr Wang Yang arrived in Zimbabwe yesterday on an official visit to boost business and bilateral relations between Harare and Beijing. Mr Wang was welcomed at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Joice Mujuru, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Minister of State in the Vice President's Office Mr Sylvester Nguni. Speaking to journalists soon after ...
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Tanzania Lifting of Food Import Ban Good to Farmers
Dodoma - ALLOWING farmers to sell their products abroad is for their own benefit and acts as a motivation for them to produce more, the Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Mr Adam Malima has said. Mr Malima told the National Assembly that since the government started allowing farmers to freely sell their serials especially maize, their livelihood has improved ...
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Africa Sudan South Sudan Envoys Salute Mbeki
The ambassador of the Republic of Sudan to Nigeria Dr Tagersil Ali and his South Sudan counterpart Mr Makuet Riak on Monday paid tribute to former South African president Thabo Mbeki for his effort resolving key issues between their countries to avoid bloodshed. Speaking during the conferment of the Daily Trust African of the Year 2012 Award on the former South African leader, both envoys said ...
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Sudan Lakes - More Arrests in Rumbek Over Beer Ban
Juba - South Sudanese police and national security personnel continued their crack down on places suspected to be selling alcohol on Tuesday in Lakes state capital, Rumbek. The decision to close bars selling wine, beer and locally brewed alcoholic drinks was announced by Lakes state military caretaker governor Maj-Gen Matur Chut Dhuol in February. Critics of the move have argued that the order ...
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South Sudan UAE Investors Seek to Invest in South Sudan
Juba - Major investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been flocking to the new country in recent months seeking investment opportunities in various sectors. The investors said they were responding to the visits to their country by the South Sudan's vice-president, Riek Machar, in which he assured investors in the rich Arab nation of huge potentials as well as the attractive ...
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Ahmadinejad Criticizes Aides Election Ban
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is speaking out in defense of a close aide whom authorities have barred from running in next month's presidential ...
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Lamy Africa is the growth continent for the 21st century
The world we live in today is one characterized by profound change. The old theories governing the way that countries produce and trade are being replaced. The pattern of trade is being transformed by increasingly sophisticated technology and innovations in transportation; and the topography of actors is shifting to reflect new poles of growth. This is no longer the clearly delineated ...
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Kenya Space strained Kisii court gets facelift
KISII, KENYA: A shortage of courtrooms at the busy Kisii Law Courts is set to be alleviated in the next 20 months after the government allocated Sh10 million towards constructing a new ...
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African Union should prioritize women’s reproductive rights
The 10 worst countries to be a mother are all in sub-Saharan Africa. This editorial by two researchers with the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch urges the African Union, celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, to prioritize the human rights of African women and ...
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Kenya misses out as Obamas Africa tour plays catch-up
As the US president gets ready for diplomatic missions around Africa next month, Obama's Africa tour will leave his ancestral homeland of Kenya as the biggest loser. Meanwhile, the winners are: Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. Each will be rewarded for its democratic virtues when Obama embarks on his first major presidential tour of Africa. Not even a relatively peaceful election ...
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DRC waits on funding for worlds largest hydropower project
The World Bank and other financial institutions are expected to offer finance and South Africa has agreed to buy half of the power generated. French, Belgian, Chinese, Brazilian and African engineers have, over 60 years, all hoped to dam the Congo. But decades of civil war, corruption, and the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) reputation as a failed state have limited the hydropower ...
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Imran Khan leaves Pakistan hospital two weeks after forklift fall
Imran Khan has left hospital more than two weeks after he suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event, a spokesman has said.Khan will remain at his home in the eastern city of Lahore for a while so doctors can monitor his progress, said the spokesman for the ...
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Artists step into Africa
Xu Qinsong, vice-chairman of the China Artists Association, presents an album of paintings to Maurice Kouakou Bandama, a minister of Cote d'Ivoire, May 21, 2013. [Photo provided to China ...
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West Bank pledges $1 billion to aid peace in Africas Great Lakes
KINSHASA (Reuters) - The World Bank on Wednesday announced $1 billion in development funding for Africa's Great Lakes region, where renewed fighting this week between the government and rebels in eastern Congo has raised fears once again of an escalation in conflict. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim unveiled the proposed aid financing for one of Africa's most intractable conflict ...
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High-profile CEO of S.Africas FirstRand retail bank to step down
Wed May 22, 2013 4:23am EDT (Adds details) JOHANNESBURG May 22 (Reuters) - South African lender FirstRand said on Wednesday the high-profile head of its retail arm would step down at the end of this year to be replaced by one of his deputies. FirstRand, South Africa's second-largest bank by value, said Michael Jordaan would step down after a decade at the helm of its First National Bank ...
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Uganda Statement On Closure of Monitor Operations By Police
Daily Monitor staff locked in and not allowed to leave by the police. The management of Monitor Publications Ltd strongly condemns the closure by Uganda Police today of its newspaper, The Monitor, and its Radio Stations, KFM and Dembe FM. About 50 armed men in Police Uniform stormed the company’s premises at Namuwongo at noon with a Search warrant, blocked all exits and insisted they ...
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Zimbabwe President Mugabe to Endorse New Constitution Today
PRESIDENT Mugabe is today expected to sign Constitutional Amendment (No. 20) Bill into law at State House at a function to be attended by Principals to the Global Political Agreement. Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba confirmed the development yesterday. "Once the signing is done, the document goes for gazetting and in terms of coming into force, there are two critical dates, ...
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Somalia Somali Govt Begins Removing Illegal Roadblocks Outside Mogadishu
Mogadishu - The Somali government last week began a three-phase campaign to remove illegal roadblocks set up by militia members on the roads connecting Mogadishu to the Lower Shabelle capital of Marka and the Bay capital of Baidoa. For many years, these roadblocks have made travel costly and dangerous for traders, bus drivers and regular citizens who routinely travel between Mogadishu and the ...
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Africa Jonathan - Africa Must Prevent Illicit Funds Outflow
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has called on governments in Africa to put a stop to the huge funds being illegally taken out of the continent. The president said this while speaking to a delegation of the United Nations' 'High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa,' at State House Monday. He said: "The huge funds being illicitly taken out of Africa can solve ...
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Africa Press Briefing of the AU Commission on the Summit and Celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of the OAU-AU
Africa: Press Briefing of the AU Commission Leadership and Host Country Representative On the 21st AU Summit and the Celebrations of the Golden Jubilee of the ...
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Africa U.S. States Cook On 2012 International Religious Freedom Report
AMBASSADOR COOK: Thank you, Mr. Secretary. It's an honor to serve you. Good morning. The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report provides a factual rendering of the status of religious freedom around the world. Religious freedom is essential for a stable, peaceful, and thriving society. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the freedom of thought, conscience, and ...
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Tanzania It Is Safe to Live Near Communication Towers Says Atomic Body
Zanzibar - THE Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC) has said that people should not get worried about living near communication towers. Dr Mwijarubi Nyaruba from the Commission gave the assurance during a one-day media workshop on the safety of radiation from mobile phones and communication towers, saying that radiation from the equipment cannot harm people. Nyaruba said, "Research has ...
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Tanzania Hundreds Turn Up for TPA Grand Projects
TANZANIA Ports Authority (TPA) has assured prospective investors that the authority will accord them cooperation and continue creating conducive environment for investment. The TPA Acting Director General for Tanzania Ports Authority CEO Mr Madeni Kipande made the remarks while opening an Information Sharing Meeting on Expression of Interest (EOI) for ten major projects advertised by TPA ...
Sudan Spotlight
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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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