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Tanzania New Projects Dominate Energy Ministry Budget
Dodoma - THE Ministry of Energy and Minerals yesterday asked the National Assembly to endorse its 1.1tri/- budget estimates for the financial year 2013/14 out of which 90 per cent will be spent on development projects. And in his trademark oratory skill and pomp, the minister, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, drew the attention of the House to the "fact that the estimates are historical as they are ...
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Tanzania ...riots Greet Estimates
Dodoma and Dar es Salaam - MTWARA Municipality was on Wednesday rocked by riots as police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators reportedly opposing the planned construction of a 532-km gas pipeline from the town to Dar es Salaam. There are unconfirmed reports that at least one policeman has died and dozens of other people were injured in the clashes. However, Mtwara Regional Commissioner ...
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Rwanda Rwanda Gets Rwf32 Billion Grant to Support Local Govts
Rwanda has has received a $50m (Rwf32b) grant from the International Development Association of the World Bank (WB) to improve service delivery in local governments. The funds will be channelled through the Quality of Decentralised Service Delivery Department Policy Operation, the Minister of Finanace, Amb. Claver Gatete, said at the signing of the financing deal in Kigali. Gatete added that ...
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Tanzania Mwambani Port Project to Transform Tanga Economy
TANGA Region is set to benefit immensely from the Mwambani Port and Railway Corridor (MWAPORC) project that envisages transforming the regional economy. The Mwambani project includes the construction of a deep sea and free port as well as a new heavy haul standard gauge railway that will link the Indian Ocean from Tanzania through Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Tanga ...
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Tanzania EPZA Gets Investors With Sh200 Billion Capital
THE Export Processing Zones Authority (EPZA) has received 15 new investors with a combined capital of 123 million US dollars (about 200bn/-), with potentials of creating 13,947 direct jobs for Tanzanians. Awarding certificates to the 15 investors at EPZA's Mabibo headquarters in Dar es Salaam, EPZA Director General Adelhelm Meru, implored Tanzanians to grab the incentive rich business ...
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Africa 50 Years of OAUAU
The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was launched on May 25, 1963, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It started its operations on September 13, 1963, when its Charter was adopted. It was founded by 32 countries and, over the years, 22more states have gradually joined, South Sudan being the 54th member two years ago. I was privileged to have met one of those who drafted the OAU Charter, now a ...
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Tanzania Hail Housing Long-Term Loans for Civil Servants
PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete early this week announced plans by the government to support civil servants acquire low-cost and decent houses through long-term loans payable by instalments for up to 25 years. Under the 358bn/- project that will initially be executed for five years, 5,000 housing units are to be built in different parts of the country, where 2,500 of them are expected to be ready ...
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African Unity memories of hope 50 years ago
Fifty years ago, veteran Ethiopian journalist Tsegaye Tadesse was a fresh-faced reporter, covering the historic signing of the charter that would bring African leaders together."For the first time, Africa had come together," said 80-year-old Tsegaye, remembering the heady days in 1963 when he was working for the Ethiopian Herald newspaper, covering the historic inauguration of the ...
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Kerry Continues Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding another round of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders aimed at getting the two sides to restart their stalled peace ...
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Japan Shares Plunge 7 Following Negative Chinese Data
Japanese share prices Thursday experienced their worst one-day decline in two years, following the release of unexpectedly negative Chinese manufacturing ...
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Man charged with selling African elephant tusks
PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A New Mexico man is facing federal charges in the Florida Panhandle after authorities say he sold two African elephant tusks.The U.S. Department of Justice reports that a grand jury in Pensacola indicted Charles Kokesh Tuesday on three counts, including violating the Endangered Species Act and making a false statement.Officials say Kokesh legally imported a sport-hunted ...
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Disturbances that put spell on Middle East North Africa to be long-term most apparently - Lavrov
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Inception Media Group Purchases North American Rights to Trevor Noah African American from Levity Entertainment Group
Inception Media Group, a diversified media company specializing in the production, acquisition and distribution of entertainment content, announced it has acquired North American rights from Levity Entertainment Group (LEG) to distribute African American, a live stand-up performance from Trevor Noah, a South African comedian. According to a release, Noah was discovered by LEG while touring South ...
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Why Africa is luring Gulf bond investors
The lure of sub-saharan Africa, with its geographic proximity and promise of higher returns, is tempting cash-rich Gulf Arab bond investors to look south, a marked departure from the relative comfort and familiarity of the Middle ...
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UN Darfur violence displaced 300 000
Outside El Fasher, Sudan - About 300 000 people have fled their homes due to a surge in fighting in Sudan's Darfur region this year and are now living in terrible conditions and short of food, the United Nations aid chief said on ...
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90 arrested after Tanzania gas pipeline protest
(33 mins ago) Tanzanian police have made sweeping arrests after a day of protests in which one person was killed in a southeastern town over a gas pipeline project, the government said Thursday. "Several houses and a lot of property were badly damaged,'' home affairs minister Emmanuel Nchimbi told parliament Thursday, a day after the riots in the coastal town of Mtwara, close to ...
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CORRECTED-Guinea approves BHP Global Alumina stake sale in refinery project
Thu May 23, 2013 3:48am EDT (Corrects billion to million in paragraph 7) CONAKRY May 22 (Reuters) - The government of Guinea said on Wednesday it has given approval to BHP Billiton and Global Alumina to sell their stake in a bauxite and alumina project to Dubai Aluminium Co (Dubal) and Mubadala Development Co. BHP paid $140 million in 2007 for a 33.3 percent stake in the Guinea Alumina Corp ...
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After 50 years unity is still an African dream | Ngugi wa Thiongo
If one were to ask people in the streets of any African capital to name a union of states that readily comes to mind, they are likely to mention the United Nations, the United States of America and possibly the European Union. And ...
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Zimbabwe Chinese VP Meets President
VISITING Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang met President Mugabe at State House today where he briefed him on the investment agreements his country signed with various ministries. The agreements are worth US$36 million as the two countries continue to cement their flourishing economic ties. Speaking through an interpreter after the meeting, Vice-Premier Wang expressed gratification on meeting the ...
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South Africa Sanef Is Outraged At Reports of a Home Affairs Official Deleting Photojournalists Pictures
The SA National Editors' Forum (SANEF) is outraged at reports that a Home Affairs official, who was photographed outside a police station where immigrants had been detained, had manhandled and deleted pictures taken by Cape Argus photojournalist David Ritchie. The incident took place outside the Cape Town police station yesterday. Ritchie and reporter Yolisa Tswanya were covering a story ...
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Congo-Kinshasa On Joint Visit to DR Congo UN and World Bank Chiefs Voice Support for Latest Peace Effort
In the first visit of its kind, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to support a recent peace deal and promote economic development in the long-troubled region. "This is a critical moment for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Great Lakes region," Mr. Ban told reporters in the capital, ...
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Zimbabwe Dj Munya Appears in Court
STAR FM DJ, Munyaradzi Mlimo, accused of killing a man he suspected of having an extra-marital affair with his wife, today appeared in court together with his two accomplices charged with murder. DJ Munya (32) as he is popularly known is jointly charged with Taurai Janhi (34) and Mohammed Matare (31). The trio appeared before Mr Donald Ndirowei who remanded him in custody to June 5. Mr Ndirowei ...
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Tanzania Firms Eye Listing At DSE Alternative Market
THREE companies have shown interest to list on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange's (DSE) second market segment, which has lesser stringent listing requirements. The firms - one from the banking and two from the mining sector - are at advanced stage of listing at the Enterprise Growth Market (EGM), that caters for starter-ups and operational businesses that face working capital constraints. ...
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Tanzania TCME Riled Over Coal Mine Closure
THE Tanzania Chamber of Minerals and Energy (TCME) has condemned the Ruvuma regional authorities for closing the Ngaka coal mine. The TCME Executive Secretary Emmanuel Jengo said the chamber was concerned that the regional authorities closed the mine in total disregard of the provision under the new Mining Act of 2010. "Such arbitrary and unilateral action has the potential to portray ...
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Tanzania Makala Defends Stadium Deductions
Dodoma - THE government has strongly defended deductions from the gate revenue accrued from matches played at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam. Winding up the Ministry of information, Youth, Culture and Sports 2013/14 budget estimates here on Tuesday, Deputy Minister, Amos Makala said the government deserved a fair share from the stadium earnings. He said in fact, the ministry has already ...
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Sierra Leone has a challenge on its hands
Sierra Leone is relatively unknown on the international stage, it is a tiny country of just 6 million people, perched on the edge of West Africa with its coastline gazing out into the Atlantic, a body of ocean that has played as important a part in the country’s history as the natural resources that have brought the state such infamy.
Sierra Leone, unfortunately, is known abroad, for those that have heard of the country, as a war-torn little state where social cohesion and everything that goes with it has collapsed entirely. World headlines in the 1990s were filled, appropriately, with stories of the civil war raging in the country at a time when the Revolutionary United Front was trying to overthrow the military dictatorship headed by Joseph Momoh. Read more
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