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Obama Skeptical About Syria No-Fly Zone Potential
In a television interview broadcast late Monday, Mr. Obama said if there was a move to restrict flights by the Syrian air force, that "may not be actually solving the problem." The president also said he will "preserve every option" available to him, and that the U.S. will be involved in a "careful, calibrated way." The White House has not completely ruled out a ...
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South African miners battle with police as unions negotiate with mine bosses
South African police fired on striking Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) miners with rubber bullets, stun grenades, teargas, and water cannons Monday morning after the workers defied an ultimatum to return to work. Amplats had demanded that 12,000 miners at the site in Rustenburg, who had been suspended earlier in the month in retaliation for participating in a wildcat strike, return to work or ...
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Zimbabwe - Journalist in Zimbabwe battling for life after being kidnapped assaulted
Freelance journalist, Paul Pindani, is reportedly battling for life after he was abducted from his home and severely assaulted in Mashonaland West's provincial capital of Chinhoyi on Friday, 14 June 2013.Pindani was assaulted by at least three assailants who are not yet known. Reports say the journalist's attackers, who were wearing masks, went to his home, knocked and upon opening the ...
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Kenyas Maasai tribals go into bat for social concerns
A barefoot Maasai warrior gallops into a sprint and swings his spear arm – delivering a fast-paced cricket ball straight at the wicket in a game of cricket. Dressed in flowing red skirts and draped in colorful bead necklaces, the warriors from the legendary Kenyan tribe are one of the world's most unusual and unlikely cricketing teams. ';It is a sport that at first seemed very ...
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Rwanda gets ready to launch religious tourism circuit in Kihebo
(eTN) - The Tourism and Conservation Department of the Rwanda Development Board will this week launch the country's first religious tourism product, focusing on the Kibeho area in Southern Rwanda. On November 28, 1981 the first apparitions were reported from that little village, with teenagers talking of having seen the images of Mary, mother of Jesus, something that kept occurring time ...
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Kenya Senator Roots for Agriculture
KWALE county senator Juma Boy Juma has urged the government to renew investment in cashew nuts and Bixa farming to boost agriculture at the coast. Speaking during a USAID sponsored governors' workshop on agriculture at Whitesands hotel, Juma said coastal agricultural practices have been neglected. He noted that the two crops were major cash crops in Coast region during the yester ...
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Kenya Lets Reconsider Laptops Project
THE Budget last Thursday confirmed that the project to give laptops to over one million pupils starting primary school will go ahead. The Treasury has budgeted Sh52 billion for the laptop project over the next four years. Virtually no-one has come out publicly to support this almost certainly unworkable project. The average Standard One pupil is seven years old. He or she should be learning ...
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Kenya Surrender Mumias Shares Oparanya Tells Govt
KAKAMEGA governor Wycliffe Oparanya has asked the national government to surrender its shares in Mumias Sugar Company to the county authority. Oparanya said his government wants to have a stake in the company to ensure farmers benefit from the miller. He said the company requires injection of State funds to streamline operations given that it is expected to drive the county's economy. ...
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Kenya New VC Appointed to Head Eldoret University
A new Vice Chancellor has been appointed to head the University of Eldoret. Prof Teresia Akeng'a was appointed after interviews by the university council. Her name will be gazetted as she prepares to take over from Prof Elijah Biamah who has been acting at the position since the university received a charter last year. But a section of leaders have criticised the appointment, claiming Prof ...
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Kenya Union Demands Life Ban for Teso Students
KNUT Teso branch has demanded that students who beat up a secondary school head be banned for life. Angry students of Kekalet Secondary School last Tuesday beat up principal Fredrick Orikodi and destroyed his motorcycle and mobile phone. The union deputy executive secretary Paul Ekwenye warned against allowing the students to repeat in any school and asked the DEO Genetrix Amatha to ensure no ...
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Kenya Violence At Alpha Blondy and Tarrus Riley Show
The much-anticipated Saturday night show headlined by reggae legends Alpha Blondy and Tarrus Riley culminated in violence and looting after the two failed to show up on stage. The show set to celebrate 50 years of Kenya's anniversary was attended by a mammoth crowd at the KICC grounds. However, the deal turned sour when the clock hit 3am and the two publicised acts were a no show. The ...
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Kenya Sh11 Million Medical Finance Given Out
Private health facilities in the country have received Sh110 million as loans from the Kenya Medical and Education Trust in partnership with Medical Credit Finance (MCF). So far, 157 facilities have received loans, the organization's lead quality advisor Lester Chawiyah said during a five-day training of private health managers drawn from Kisii, Nyamira, Migori, Homa Bay. Bomet among other ...
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Kenya Sh15 Million Iten Sewerage Project Stalls
Communities around Iten town have opposed the construction of a Sh15 sewerage system and setting aside land for a cemetery due because cultural beliefs associate such projects with bad omen. Deputy Governor Gabriel Lagat has said the town faces a crisis caused by rapid population growth unless the communities allow the projects to take off. Lagat said the county government was unable to secure ...
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Kenya Cotu Asks AG to Help Police Form Union
THE Industrial Court has given police the right to form a union to agitate for their rights. However, the union has to wait for four months for Article 24 to be amended because it does not currently allow the more than 100,000 officers to go on strike. Kenya Police Union which was formed with the help of Central Organisation of Trade Union has been largely borrowed from unions formed by police ...
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Kenya NHC to Construct 2000 Houses Worth Sh1 Billion
THE National Housing Corporation plans to construct 2,000 at a cost of Sh 1 billion between now and next July, managing director Njuguna Wachira said on Friday. He said Treasury had funded the corporation for the first time in 30 years and they will us the funds to put up at least 50 houses in each county. Wachira said this when he launched the construction of houses using the cheaper Expanded ...
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Kenya Mwafaka Awards to Pay Wining Artistes
The founder of the Mwafaka Gospel Music Awards, Didiero Aaron, has promised that all the winners of this year's awards will not only go home with a trophy or plaque, but will also leave with cash or a music deal to advance their career. The award ceremony is set for September 1 at the KICC. "Mwafaka has grown from a Eastlands award to a Nairobi based award to a national award. With ...
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In a country dominated by English how equal in fact are South Africas languages and how willing are we to fight for our respective tongues
The issue of language has been a sensitive one since June 16 1976, when Soweto pupils rose up against Afrikaans as a primary language in schools. South Africa's Constitution, which came into effect on February 4 1997, recognises 11 official languages, to which the state guarantees equal status. But in a country that is dominated by the use of English, how equal, in fact, are these ...
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US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time
US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time Libya-USA, Politics, 8/26/2011 US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns led the U.S. delegation to the August 25 Libya Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where representatives from 28 countries, the UN, EU, NATO, AU, OIC, Arab League and GCC came together to demonstrate the international community's firm commitment to ...
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Confederations Cup Nigeria thrash Tahiti but Joanathan Tehau dreams
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil // Jonathan Tehau struggled to articulate his joy after becoming the first player to score for Tahiti at a high-profile international tournament in his side's 6-1 defeat to Nigeria at the Confederations Cup. Ranked 138th in the world, Tahiti are making their first appearance in a competition of this level and despite the margin of defeat in Monday's game, they ...
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Tunisia - Net freedom in Tunisia Still a long way to go
announced the end of online filtering -- killing "Ammar 404 (the nickname given to the country's filtering system by its netizens).Just this month, CEO of the Tunisian Internet Agency (ATI) Moez Chakchouk announced that ATI won an appeal against filtering of adult content. The case dates back to May 2011, when a primary court ordered the agency to filter X-rated websites on the ground ...
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Theft from S. Sudan Presidents Office Inside Job
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN -- A spate of alleged thefts from the office of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir may have been an inside job, officials investigating how tens of thousands of dollars went missing from Kiir's office said Monday. Some $70,000 U.S. that was kept in the president's office to pay staff who do not have bank accounts, along with two laptops, went missing from ...
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Gambian president slashes West for killing innocent people in anti-terror war
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Monday slashed some Western countries for killing innocent people in the name of fighting terrorism."The war on terror by the West is a war on innocent people," Jammeh told audiences in the West Coast Region of Gambia."The West has been killing innocent lives overseas in the name of combating terror," he said, citing the employment of the US ...
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NEMA Warns Southern Nigeria of Impending Heavy Rainfall
By SaharaReporters, New York The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned residents of the southern parts of the country to prepare for heavy and potentially-dangerous rainfall. It would be recalled that last year, similar severe weather caused unprecedented flooding in the southern half of the country, resulting in villages being washed away and many people losing their ...
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G8 Leaders World Economic Prospects Still Weak
After the first day of their annual summit in Northern Ireland Monday, the G8 said significant policy actions taken by the eurozone, U.S. and Japan have reduced the risk of an economic downturn. The leaders said promoting growth and jobs remains their priority. They called the fight against long-term and youth unemployment critical. Earlier Monday, the United States and European Union said ...
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South Africa urges Iran to resolve issues with IAEA
South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday urged Iran to give priority to resolving all outstanding issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).Zuma was speaking while congratulating Hassan Rouhani for being elected as Iranian president succeeding current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRC).Resolving the ...
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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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