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Rwanda Kagames Address At Said Business School Oxford University May 18 2013
President Paul Kagame on Saturday was in the UK, where he addressed the Rwanda Day 2013. Earlier in the day, he attended the Fifth Annual Oxford Africa Business Conference at Said Business School. There, he became the inaugural recipient of the Distinction of Honour for African Growth Award, for presiding over Rwanda's rebirth. Below is the speech the President delivered at the varsity: ...
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Africa UN Economic and Social Body Urges Stronger Global Governance to Achieve Anti-Poverty Goals
A more effective and inclusive global governance system will be necessary to ensure that the international community achieves the Millennium Development Goals and establishes an actionable post-2015 agenda, the head of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today said, while urging a review of the UN body to meet new demands. Nestor Osorio, the President of ECOSOC, opened the informal debate ...
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Nigeria seeks help with tackling oil theft
The U.S. and British governments are willing to help Nigeria address rampant crude oil theft from the Niger Delta, the petroleum minister said from London. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta rebel group in April said it was launching a new campaign this year. More than 80 percent of the government's revenue comes from crude oil exports and groups like MEND tried to stop ...
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BUAV answers to Mauritius campaign reporting
The UK activist group BUAV, which is running a campaign against alleged mistreatment of monkeys by Mauritian breeders, threatens afrol News with "legal consequences" over its reporting of the ...
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Mass FGM ceremonies planned in Tanzania
While Tanzania outlawed female genital mutilation (FGM) in 1998, mass FGM ceremonies are still going on, in particular in the November-January season. Activists expect over 5,000 girls to be cut "this holiday ...
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How African land deals override locals
A new study into current land lease and sale contracts in Africa shows how local land users are mostly not even consulted in the process. When consulted, they are often ...
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Coral deaths reach Mayotte Comoros
Scientists find that the corals on the Comoran island Mayotte are rapidly bleaching, which leads to a death of the reef. The situation on Mayotte was "the worst seen in the Indian Ocean," they ...
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Libya rebels hold key city Ajdabiya
Despite a further advance eastward by Ghaddafi troops, the Libyan rebels claim to be able to hold the city of Ajdabiya, which is key to stop an advance to Benghazi and ...
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Pedal power may clean up Tanzania slum
The slums of the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam, are an unhealthy and smelly place due to freely flowing sewage. Now, a researcher has found a low-threshold technology without needing electricity that could clean up the ...
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UN report revisionist on Rwanda genocide
A recent UN report looking into Rwandan war crimes in Congo Kinshasa (DRC) legitimises a "double genocide theory", confusing victims and perpetuators to the Rwandan genocide, according to Fulvio Beltrami in ...
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Central African Rep clamps down on poachers
An operation by special police forces earlier this week in the Central African Republic led to the arrest of a key wildlife smuggler and seizure of elephant tusks and cat ...
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Seychelles negotiates pirate returns with Somalia Somaliland
The government of Seychelles has entered into negotiations with ministers from Somalia and the breakaway republics of Somaliland and Puntland to secure the repatriation of convicted Somali ...
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African dreams of Egypt-like revolt
All over Africa, the dramatic events in Tunisia and Egypt are followed, with opposition groups and dissidents hoping the same could happen in their country. Mostly, these are only dreams, but some could come ...
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African leaders in Ethiopia land grab
Several African leaders have bought lands in Ethiopia to develop agricultural projects or tourism resorts. They are let to bypass a 2007 ban on export of cereals, still in place for other ...
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Africa to see rise in investments
According to IMF analyst Shawn Ladd, Africa is to see a strong rise in investment this year and in the years to come. Mr Ladd however foresees the strongest rise in investments in Africa to originate in Asia, above all China. African trade is already shifting toward the dynamic emerging markets, notably China. Trade between China and Africa has been expanding rapidly, growing by an average of 30 ...
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Every 2nd African has mobile subscription
Africa this year crossed the 500 million active mobile subscriptions mark. By now, every second person of Africa's 1,033 million inhabitants can be reached by phone, making Africa a sizable ...
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Ethiopia rejects Banyanas request
The South African Football Association's request for a postponement of Banyana Banyana's second leg 2012 London Olympic qualifying match against Ethiopia in Addis Ababa on September 11 has been rejected by their opponents who are insisting that the game should go ahead as fixture by the Confederation of African Football.When CAF and Fifa drew the fixture list of the 2012 London Olympic ...
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Tunisia enters semifinal in Junior Handball worlds
Tunisia reached the semifinals of the World Junior Handball Championship held from July 17 to 31 in Thessaloniki, Greece, beating Spain 31-30 in a quarterfinal match on Tuesday, the official press agency TAP reported on Wednesday. Tunisia's Amine Bennour topped the scoring list with 10 goals to help his team grab the narrow victory. Tunisia will play against Denmark on Thursday, while Egypt ...
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Ghana slips in FIFA world rankings
Ghana dropped further three places in the latest FIFA world ranking, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) announced here on Wednesday. A statement on the website of the country's footbal association said Ghana had slipped three places to 36th position in the world ranking from the previous 33rd position it was ranked in last month, on the world stage, while ranking 3rd on the continent ...
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National Bank of Kenyas Q1 pretax profit edges up 3 pct
NAIROBI | Mon May 20, 2013 5:50am EDT NAIROBI May 20 (Reuters) - National Bank of Kenya's pretax profit rose 3.3 percent year on year in the first quarter to 508.1 million shillings ($6.06 million), thanks to a fall in loan loss provisions. The lender, which is 70 percent owned by the government and Kenya's state pension fund, will raise funds from the market next year to ...
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Proximity Of Fast Food Restaurants Has Impact On Body Mass Index Of Low Income African-Americans
BMI ) than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and this association was particularly strong among those with a lower income. A new study published online in the American Journal of Public Health indicates higher BMI associates with residential proximity to a fast food restaurant, and among lower-income ...
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Zimbabwe mines reject state control
The Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe, which represents companies including Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., rejected a proposal for the state to control mineral production and prices, a draft response from the industry organization obtained by Bloomberg News ...
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How to Save a Fish … a Lake and a People
Nguwo village committee chairperson Ibrahim Kachinga on the shores of Lake Malawi. And for the past five years the village committee has been going to local gatherings to educate residents about the need to protect the lake. Credit: Mabvuto ...
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Will U.S. Designate Egypt Pakistan Iraq and Nigeria As Religious Freedom Violators on Monday
Pakistani Christians protest against the country's blasphemy laws and violence targeting their minority community. An independent U.S. watchdog has urged the executive branch every year since 2002 to designate Pakistan as a "country of particular concern" over religious freedom violations. (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - As the State Department prepares to release its annual report on ...
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Middle East and Africa join luxury brands markets
Laura Chesters is digital, consumer and luxury goods reporter at The London Evening Standard, i, The Independent and The Independent on ...
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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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