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Gambia Trade Ministry U.S. Embassy Poised to Improve Bilateral Trade Investment
The US Embassy Wednesday organised a seminar on Franchise at the Sunswing Hotel in Kololi. The seminar was designed to educate interested Gambian private sector operators on the procedures for acquiring a US Franchise and the rules and regulations of operating such a business. Speaking at the occasion, the US ambassador, Edward Alford, said that his embassy and the Gambia Ministry of Trade have ...
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Kenya Nurses and midwives trained on safe abortion methods to curb high mortality rate
Executive Director of KMET the training is to enhance the capacity of health providers to offer quality abortion related services within the confines of the law in Kenya. Monica said health providers need to understand provision of Comprehensive Abortion Care services such as the use ...
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Gambia Eight km Ballangharr-Jimbala Feeder Road Rehabilitated
Janjangbureh - Over two hundred people from Ballangharr and Kaur wards in the Central River Region (CRR) recently embarked on a rehabilitation of eight-kilometer feeder road linking Ballangharr and Jimbala, in Lower Saloum District of the region. Until this self-help project by the rural dwellers, this feeder road had been badly damaged by last year's torrential rains. The rehabilitation ...
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Ghana TOR Crashes Out in Oil Deals
One of the reasons why the Ghanaian Italian Petroleum Company (GHAIP), which later became known as Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), was established in 1960, was to process crude oil for the Ghanaian domestic market. But, 53 years down the line, the refinery is in a sorry state as a result of mismanagement and failure to procure modern machines to replace the obsolete ones. As a result of this, many of ...
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Ghana TWN Blames Scale Mining Menace On Weakling Economy
Third World Network-Africa (TWN), an Accra-based a research and advocacy non-governmental organisation (NGO), has blamed the recent gangsterism and other challenges in the artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) in Ghana on a weakling economy. The NGO argued that if the Ghanaian and African economies were creating enough jobs, no citizen of African would have engaged in illegal scale small ...
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Liberia Secrecy in Oil Gas and Mining Conspires Against Economic Development
The lives of over a billion citizens could be transformed if their governments managed their oil, gas and minerals in a more open, accountable manner, according to the Resource Governance Index released by the Revenue Watch Institute. The Index measures the transparency and accountability in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries worldwide and finds that the vast majority surveyed fail ...
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Ghana Ghana to Use UK Technology for Street Naming
Ghana will use Intelligent Addressing (IA) technology from the UK to name streets and properties in Ghana. Mr. Tony Black, an IA Consultant who participated in a recent workshop in Accra, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview at the weekend, that a national address gazetteer will be built alongside the street-naming project. He said IA employs the technique of Unique Property Reference ...
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South Africa Guptagate Report whitewash Reinforces Need for an Independent Investigation
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. The final Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Cluster Report of the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft at Air Force Base Waterkloof reinforces the need for an independent investigation into "Guptagate". The final report was deliberately and cynically withheld from ...
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South Africa Agang Response to the Release of the Gupta Report
Aircraft parked at South Africa's Waterkloof Air force Base which is considered a national key point. Johannesburg - ‘We note with interest the Government's report into the failures of governance that led to the landing of the Gupta family's aircraft at Waterkloof Air Force base. ‘The report confirms that ‘a culture of undue influence, underpinned by poor ...
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Ten dead in Somalia after al-Shabaab clash with Ethiopian troops
About 10 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian troops and al-Shabaab insurgents in the Somali city of Beledweyn, officials say. The fighting began after al-Shabaab fighters opened fire on residents of a small town on the outskirts of the city, Shabelle Media Network reported Thursday. Ethiopian troops quickly arrived, causing the insurgents to retreat, said Isaq ...
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Indonesia Papua New Guinea plan joint exploration
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea are planning joint exploration for potential oil and natural gas reserves in border areas. "The border possesses a huge amount of unexplored oil and gas reserves, according to data obtained by our team," Indonesian Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik was quoted as saying by The Jakarta Post after meeting this week with Papua New ...
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Ghana cabinet approves $1 bln Eurobond for July - fin min
ACCRA | Thu May 23, 2013 12:45pm EDT ACCRA May 23 (Reuters) - Ghana's cabinet has approved a Eurobond issue of up to $1 billion which is tentatively scheduled for July, Finance Minister Seth Terkper said on Thursday. "Based on anticipated market conditions and financing needs, a transaction size of up to $1 billion was recommended to, and approved by, cabinet," Terkper told ...
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Syrian Opposition Figure Offers Transition Plan
A prominent Syrian opposition figure has proposed a transition plan for the war-torn country, requiring President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a senior aide and leave the country with 500 ...
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US One Drone Victim Was Intent on Anti-American Terrorism
U.S. law enforcement officials say that one of the four Americans it now acknowledges killing in drone strikes was a young man who left the country for Pakistan intent on engaging in violent terrorism against the United States. Jude Kenan Mohammad had not been previously identified in news media reports as being killed by a U.S. drone attack, unlike three other Americans the government on ...
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Florida FBI Shooting May Be Linked to Boston Area Triple Slaying
U.S. news reports say a Chechen man killed in an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that may have been connected to dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan ...
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Whats Behind the Drop in Syrian Refugees to Jordan
A Syrian refugee woman carrying her son is reflected a puddle of rain water as she stands outside her tent after heavy rain at al-Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the Syrian border, January 10, ...
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Religious Award Sparks Indonesia Protest
JAKARTA -- Leading religious figures in Indonesia have come out against a U.S.-based interfaith group's plan to award President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's support for religious freedom. They said it sends the wrong message about a country where religious minorities face increasing violence and persecution. Minority faiths in Indonesia are under attack. Local governments have been ...
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Doctors Without Borders Shuts Clinic in Northern Nigeria
ABUJA -- Aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended emergency health care in Borno State, Nigeria, - the heart of an insurgency now under assault by government troops. The decision comes after five gunmen hijacked an aid vehicle on Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, Doctors without Borders moved into Baga, a town where thousands of homes were burnt to the ground and hundreds ...
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Violence in Somalia scares investors aid workers
MOGADISHU, Somalia -; A spate of attacks by Islamic insurgents in Somalia's capital is forcing investors, businessmen and aid workers to have second thoughts about expanding operations in ...
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Togo police fire tear gas at protesters
LOME, Togo -; Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the latest confrontation between the ruling party and Togo's increasingly active opposition. Demonstrators were gathering to protest the death of an opposition member, who died in ...
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WTO Leader Criticizes Trade Costs and Corruption in Africa
Nairobi, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Pascal Lamy, questioned today the negative impact of the high cost of cross-border trade and corruption for consumers in East Africa. "Due to these scourges the region pays 40 percent higher market prices," Lamy told local reporters in this capital. "If you are a consumer in Rwanda, you ...
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Kenya - Witnesses describe police killings of protesters bystanders in Kenya
The Kenyan authorities should promptly investigate and prosecute those responsible for shootings by the police in Kisumu on March 30, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. Five people died and at least twenty-four were injured.The shootings occurred in the wake of demonstrations against the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling on March 30 upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory on March ...
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Regional Integration for Africa’s Structural Transformation
structural transformation " in order to take the bulk of its population out of poverty.Critical to the attainment of this structural transformation is without a doubt ...
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UPDATE 2-S.Africa holds rates but cut was on table
Thu May 23, 2013 12:15pm EDT * Bank discusses rate cut "extensively" * Concerned about steep wage settlements * Cuts growth forecasts (Adds analyst comment, writes through) By Xola Potelwa JOHANNESBURG, May 23 (Reuters) - South Africa's Reserve Bank left its repo rate unchanged on Thursday, while admitting for the first time in nearly a year that it had considered a cut to try to ...
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Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Soldiers In Niger Republic Nigeria Mounts Troops Across Borders With Niger
By SaharaReporters, New York Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), an Islamic group which claims to be committed to the enforcement of Shariah law in West Africa, has claimed responsibility for a twin suicide bombing attack this morning at the Nigerian/Niger border in which over 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed. A journalist in transit in the area told SaharaReporters that the ...
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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