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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 ...
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Africa Lecture On Habits Costumes in Africa
Luanda - A lecture on African habits and costumes will take place on May 25 in Luanda, focussing on the retrieval of moral values in the Angolan society, announced the Evangelic Church in Angola (IEA). According to the IEA member, Chiminha Eduardo Dambe, the event serves to welcome the celebration of the Africa Day, on May 25, adding that Africans preserve their habits and costumes in order to ...
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Africa Commonwealth Conference Addresses Decentralisation As Key to Local Development
"While national governments will always remain important, the onus is even greater on local governments to deliver the fruits of development" - Amitav Banerji, Commonwealth ...
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Ghana Ghana Pledges Support for Somalia
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has pledged his country's support for Somalia's reconstruction period, Ghana's Graphic Online reported Monday (May 20th). Mahama said he would raise issues related to Somalia at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa later this month. Mahama made the announcement during a meeting at the airport in Accra with Kenyan Deputy President William ...
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Will London Respond to Somalias Needs
I met Fatuma in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, late last year. A few days before we met, she had been raped by an armed militia man while she slept in one of the city’s camps for displaced people. She told me that she had nowhere to turn for redress. Months earlier, 13-year old Abdi told me how he had been kidnapped from school by armed Islamists from al-Shabaab and forced to serve in ...
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US Homeland Security Secretary to Survey Tornado Response
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano travels to Oklahoma on Wednesday to assess recovery efforts in the city of Moore, where a devastating tornado killed at least 24 people and injured 240 ...
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Notre-Dame de Paris suicide a political act – far-rightist Marine Le Pen
France's far-right party leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to the man who killed himself in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying it was a "political ...
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Kenya unfazed by Obama’s ‘snub’
Nairobi - Kenya said on Tuesday it was ';fine'; with United States 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 ...
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Ghana hires Barclays and Citigroup for bond
By Sudip Roy Wed May 22, 2013 3:18am EDT LONDON, May 22 (IFR) - Ghana has appointed Barclays and Citigroup as lead managers on a planned Eurobond, likely in dollars, according to banking sources away from the deal. The sovereign, which is rated B by Standard & Poor's and B+ by Fitch, would be the latest African sovereign to issue a bond in recent months, following sales by Rwanda, Tanzania ...
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Nigeria seeks help against Boko Haram
Niamey/Maiduguri - Nigeria has asked its northern neighbour Niger for help in an offensive against Boko Haram insurgents, as West African states try to cooperate against a spread of Islamist ...
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South Sudan initiative aims to keep young girls in primary school | Mark Tran
Pia Philip Michael and Bridget Nagomoro visited the UK to discuss the challenges to girls' education in South Sudan. Photograph: Leapfrog Public ...
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Tanzania VP Touts Phone Firms to Serve Rural Subscribers
EFFORTS by the government to promote employment opportunities and subsequently reduction of poverty will bear fruits if the third generation of mobile telecommunication technology (3G) becomes accessible in rural and densely populated areas. To address the challenges facing the services, a workshop was held in Dar es Salaam for two days to discuss, among other issues, growth of the Information ...
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Zimbabwe Mutasa On Indiginisation
Zimbabweans living in the United States have appealed to Government to ensure they also benefit from the indigenisation programme that has seen many people venturing into areas previously dominated by foreigners. Speaking at the Zimbabwe Diaspora Engagement conference held in Washington DC on Monday, the diasporans said were eager to engage the Government on the matter. This comes at a time ...
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Tanzania Unscrupulous Cashew Nut Buyers Set to Lose Licences
Dodoma - THE government will not renew licences for private cashew nut buyers who have been underpaying farmers, the Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives, Mr Adam Malima has said. Mr Malima also warned some cooperative leaders whom he said have been conspiring with such buyers to deprive farmers. He was responding to a question by Ms Faith Mitambo (Liwale-CCM), who wanted to ...
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Tanzania Dar Port Woes Cost Over Sh4.2 Trillion
BUREAUCRACY and inefficiency at Dar es Salaam Port is costing the country and six landlocked countries some 2.6 billion US dollars (over 4.2tri/-), a World Bank report has established. Presenting the report titled "Tanzania Economic Update; Opening the Gates," the Bank's Lead Economist in Tanzania, Mr Jacques Morisset, said in Dar es Salaam that if the country's prime port ...
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Rwanda Issuing Construction Permits Online Is a Milestone
On Monday, the City of Kigali unveiled an online system that is aimed at making acquisition of construction permits faster, simpler and easier. The online construction permit management information system could not have come at a better time. The innovative intervention will go a long way in boosting the expanding construction and real estate sectors in the city. The initiative will also ...
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Zambia Growing Trade Key to Poverty Alleviation Says Chenda
Government has said growing the economy through increased trade is one way that can help the country to address issues of poverty. Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industry Emmanuel Chenda said in Lusaka yesterday that one of the biggest challenges Zambia was faced with was dealing with issues of poverty. Mr Chenda was speaking during the Zambia-Finland business forum held at Radisson Blue ...
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Africa Innovative Financing Partnership to Deliver Essential Health Supplies More Quickly and Efficiently
Africa: Global Health, Development and Business Leaders Announce New Innovative Financing Partnership to Deliver Essential Health Supplies More Quickly and ...
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Nissan restructures as it revs up to boost Africa sales
Japanese motor manufacturer Nissan has restructured its operations in Africa into two regional business units to position the company for significant growth on the continent, as part of its mid-term business ...
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Nigeria $1bn fund to start investing
Nigeria would begin investing the initial $1 billion (R9.4bn) allocated to a new sovereign wealth fund by June, a statement from the fund showed, after it delayed the start date twice. Africa’s biggest oil producer is one of only three Opec member states that do not yet have a wealth fund (SWF) set up. Global markets and investors are closely watching Africa's second-biggest ...
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Haitian govt alerts residents to tropical wave
Haitian authorities Tuesday called on communities in western Haiti to stay alert to possible downpour and thunderstorms caused by a tropical wave over the southeastern region.Haiti's National Meteorological Center (CNM) announced Monday night the formation of the year's first tropical wave, located south of the Caribbean Basin, saying it could lead to heavy rains in three provinces -- ...
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African-American Integration in U.S ‘A Model for Muslims’
ROB L. WAGNER: They provide an easy scapegoat for right-wing politicians looking to attribute blame for economic woes. Assimilation or integration? ...
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Tanzania MPs Tout Greater Press Freedom
Dodoma - SEVERAL MPs have defended Tanzania's record on press freedom, saying it was not true that the concept has fallen apart in the country. The Minister of State President's Office (in charge of Social Relations and Coordination), Mr Stephen Wassira, told the National Assembly here yesterday that Tanzania is among the leading nations in the region and in Africa where there is ...
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Uganda Uganda Criticised for Wildest Media Attack
Uganda police abused its power and the law by closing two independent newspapers and radio stations in the wildest media attack, The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has said. Armed police raided and closed down The RedPepper, a tabloid, Uganda's largest independent newspaper, The Daily Monitor, and its sister radios, KFM and Dembe FM, following reports that the President was ...
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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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