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East Africa Arusha-Singida Power Project Ushers in EA Energy Sector Integration
The East African Community plans to speed-up the Arusha Singida power interconnection project which will also link Arusha to Nairobi at the Isinya point of Kajiado District. "It is necessary to fast track the funding for implementing the Singida-Arusha-Nairobi (Isinya) interconnector so that Tanzania can also be interconnected with the other EAC Partner States," reads a statement from ...
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Tanzania Inadequate Funds Fail Railways Sector
INSUFFICIENT funds to support railways sector is to blame for the disconnection of the bulk means of transport between countries in East Africa, it has been revealed. To address that shortfall, a summit will be held next month to discuss among other issues pertaining Railway transportation in the region particurally thinking on areas of investments that can effectively uplift the economy of the ...
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Ethiopia Ethiopia Lifts 10 Million Out of Extreme Poverty in a Decade
GPS recently published a thoughtful piece on how global poverty rates are falling fast. It argued that one country in particular is almost solely responsible for this dramatic trend: China. Regarding the rest of the world, however, it said progress "has been much, much slower - if there's been progress at all." It's true that China's case is remarkable - both in terms ...
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Africa Dlamini-Zuma Confirms AU Ban On NGOs At Summit
African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma confirmed on Sunday that civil society organizations, partners and delegations will, for the first time, be denied access to the AU conference centre during a summit this week, Business Day has reported. The gathering will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity, the AU's predecessor. ...
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Uganda police shut down newspaper radio stations
published a private letter by General David Sejusa calling for an investigation into allegations of a plot "to assassinate people who disagree with this so-called family project of holding onto power in perpetuity". Uganda's media regulator warned it would "penalise" excessive coverage about the Sejusa letter and a court ordered the Daily Monitor to hand over the ...
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Nigeria Investment in Sovereign Wealth Fund Starts June With U.S.$200 Million
Barely seven months after the inauguration of the board of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the organisation has said it would commence investment of the $1 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund with initial $200 million from next month. The managing director the NSIA, Dr Uche Orji, stated yesterday in Abuja that the NSIA is now fully operational and that the board has already met ...
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Ethiopia Sweden Wants to Reinforce Relation With Ethiopia
Sweden seeks partnership with Ethiopia to build its relation with Africa on a new foundation, Swedish Ministers said on Monday. The remark came up while Sweden's Minister of Finance Anders Borg and Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson held discussion with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa. The Ministers said the economic growth of Africa and ...
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Africa Commodity Slump Clouds Africas Economic Outlook
Sliding prices for commodities are threatening to check economic progress in the world's poorest continent, Africa. This is a report by Bloomberg. African leaders including South Africa's Jacob Zuma and Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan, policy makers and executives of companies such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Coca-Cola Co. (KO) are meeting in Cape Town at the World Economic Forum. ...
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Ethiopia Ministry to Plant Six Billion Tree Seedlings
The Ministry of Agriculture has said preparations are underway nationwide to plant six billion tree seedlings in the upcoming rainy season. According to the Ministry, 70 percent of the 3.6 billion tree seedlings planted in the previous season is in a well condition. Tree seedlings are planted every year to assist the soil and water conservation works undertaken by farmers through biological ...
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Ethiopia Ethiopian to Fly to Seoul
The Ethiopian Airlines is to begin four flights per week to Incheon International Airport of Seoul, Republic of Korea as of 18 June 2013. Seoul is the fourth largest metropolitan economy in the world, after Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles. It is home to four UNESCO World Heritage Sites, known for a number of modern landmarks including Lotte World, the world's largest indoor theme park, ...
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Kenya Partnerships to Pave Way for Solar Technology in Kenya
Solar energy provider BBOXX has partnered with Brighterlite Kenya and Rural Development Solutions (RuDeSo) in order to help it provide 2.5 million off-grid customers in Kenya with an on-grid experience by 2018, African Review reported. The partnerships will lead BBOXX to provide the technology, on-the-ground training and service support, while also enabling the company to extend its reach into ...
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Africa AU Highlights Progress in Africa
Africa is facing a variety of problems, but over the last 50 years has witnessed substantial progress in economic growth, a consolidation of peace and improved democracy, stressed African Union authorities in Addis Ababa today. In the second and final day of the 26th Ordinary Session of ambassadors, attendees continued their examination of an agenda that has as its frame of reference the report ...
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Ethiopia Melaku Fenta Et Al.-3rd Day in Court
Melaku Fenta, former Director General of the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority, revoked his claim for legal immunity on Friday. In the previous hearing, Melaku's lawyer had claimed that his client was still protected by legal immunity as a member of the Addis Ababa City Cabinet. The Court said Melaku's right to legal immunity was not corroborated by evidence and ordered proof ...
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Africa Experts Group Meet On Inclusive Growth in Africa Underway
Ensuring inclusive growth is desirable whereby people from all walks of life participate in economic life and benefit from the development outcomes, Finance and Economic State Minister, Dr. Abraham Tekeste said. Addressing an Experts' Group Meeting on Inclusive Growth in Africa is being held in Addis Ababa from 6-7 May 2013, Dr. Abraham said Ethiopia has policies recognizing the ...
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Africa Remittances Into Africa Soar to U.S. $40 Billion Study Shows
Remittances represent a rising source of finance for the continent and hold immense potential as drivers of economic growth and development. A recent study, Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments, conducted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) in collaboration with the World Bank shows that remittance flows into Africa reached US $40 billion in 2010 and have ...
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South Sudan South Sudan Constructing Roads
South Sudan has prioritized the construction of several roads and bridges in the country in the wake of increasing trade talks with its neighbouring countries. This is according to reports by African Review. The country's Economic Cluster of the Council of Ministers reviewed the road priorities during a recent meeting and reiterated the pressing demand for roads network in the new country ...
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Uganda How Mayiga Took Buganda Top Job
At 3:05pm on Monday, May 13, Buganda kingdom Katikkiro (prime minister) JB Walusimbi officially stepped aside to make way for his successor Charles Peter Mayiga. Walusimbi gave a small speech that carried a word of caution for Mayiga: "It is not easy to serve this kingdom." His retirement comes during the year of the 20th coronation anniversary of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II. For ...
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Ethiopia Renaissance Dam Expected to Start Pre-Generation Work in August 2014
The Metal and Engineering Corporation said on Wednesday the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is expected to start pre-generation work in August 2014. Director General of the Metal and Engineering Corporation Brigadier General Kinfe Dagnew while presenting the nine-month report of the Corporation to the Industrial Affairs Standing Committee of the House of People's Representatives said the ...
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Africa African Davos to Plot Continents Rise
The World Economic Forum (WEF) provides a good opportunity to promote the African continent, South African President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. South Africa is hosting the 23rd World Economic Forum on Africa 2013 in Cape Town on May 8-10. This is according to AFP. The great and good of global commerce descended on Cape Town on Wednesday 8 May, 2013 to take part in "Africa's ...
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Uganda Narcotics - Uganda Under Tight Scrutiny
More international arrests of people from Entebbe International airport with narcotic drugs have put Uganda under pressure to control the drugs trade in the country. A crackdown on drug dealers has taken on greater urgency as the number of arrests and convictions climb monthly in Uganda and abroad. Just this month, a woman carrying narcotics collapsed and died on arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta ...
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Africa International Religious Freedom Report 2012 Executive Summary
Foremost among the rights Americans hold sacred is the freedom to worship as we choosewe also remember that religious liberty is not just an American right; it is a universal human right to be protected here at home and across the globe. This freedom is an essential part of human dignity, and without it our world cannot know lasting peace. President Barack ...
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Africa Health in Africa Has Improved Significantly - Minister
Geneva - The health situation in Africa has significantly improved over the last decade, despite the various challenges awaiting solution with help of World Health Organisation (WHO) and international partners. This was said Monday in Geneva, Switzerland, by Angolan Health minister, Jose Van-Dúnem. The minister was addressing the 66th World Health Assembly that opened Monday in Geneva, ...
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Ethiopia World Bank AfDB to Fund U.S. $1.26 Billion Ethiopia-Kenya Power Line
The World Bank and African Development Bank will provide 80 percent of the funds needed for a $1.26 billion line that will take power to Kenya from Ethiopia, Bloomberg reported. The World Bank will lend the countries $684 million for the 1,070-kilometer (665-mile) line that will run from Wolayta-Sodo in Ethiopia to Suswa, 100 kilometers northwest of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, African ...
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Ethiopia Germany Supports Ethiopias Agriculture Sector
Germany will further strengthen ongoing support through knowledge and technology transfer towards growth of Ethiopia's agricultural productivity, the Federal Minister of Agriculture of Germany, llse Aigner has said. A German-Ethiopian advanced training center with the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center was inaugurated by Aigner and Agriculture State Minister Wondyirad Mandefro. The ...
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Kenyas CFC Stanbics pretax profit soars in first quarter
NAIROBI | Tue May 21, 2013 3:34am EDT NAIROBI May 21 (Reuters) - Kenya's CFC Stanbic Bank posted a 79.5 percent jump in pretax profit for the first quarter from a year ago to 1.46 billion shillings ($17.41 million). Banks in east Africa's biggest economy have reported higher earnings for the first three months of this year, buoyed by the growth of lending on the back of a ...
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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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