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| Latest News | Uganda: Karimojong urged to embrace disarmament
Mrs. Museveni (centre) receives documents from an official of Save the Children, Rose Oy By Olandason Wanyama and Steven Candia THE state minister for Karamoja affairs, Janet Museveni, has urged elders in the region to discourage the rearming of the youth and to show them ...
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Libya: AU to shelter Beshir
Sirte, Libya - The African Union has decided not to cooperate with a war crimes warrant against Sudan President Omar al-Beshir and again appealed to the United Nations to delay the case, delegates said on Friday. Two delegates from different countries said the African Union summit had agreed to ...
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Ghana: We disagree with Dr. Duffuor
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor has told Citi FM, an Accra based radio station that the $535 million loan that has been approved for Ghana by the World Bank (WB) has no conditionalities attached to it, because of the prudent financial policies that the Atta Mills administration is ...
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Ghana: …As Hearts tread cautiously to AbrankesseKotoko storm Accra
Asante Kotoko return to Accra a few weeks after stunning their arch-rivals Hearts of Oak 1-0, to battle Liberty Professionals in their Glo premier league week 27 fixture at the Ohene Djan Stadium tomorrow. The visitors have not retreated since coach Hebert Addo took over from young Isaac Opeele ...
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Kenya: A Role For Men in Gender Equality
The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment."Men have a role to play when it comes to ensuring gender equity. It is not just a women’s affair. Gender equality does not mean women are ruling ...
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Algeria: Rai star jailed for abortion bid
| A French court has jailed the Algerian singer Cheb Mami for five years for abducting a former partner and forcing her to undergo an attempted abortion.Cheb Mami, whose real name is Mohammed Khalifati, was found guilty at a trial in Bobigny, a Parisian suburb. He had denied the charges, telling ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Uganda: Migingo to get floating boundary
By Raymond Baguma THE ongoing exercise to redraw the Uganda-Kenya border will involve drilling the Victoria lake-bed in order to set up floating boundary markers, an official in the Ministry of Lands has said. The ministry spokesperson, Denis Obbo, on Tuesday said part of next year’s budget would ...
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South Africa: Jackson rehearsal video released
A video has been released showing Michael Jackson vigorously practicing a song-and-dance routine days before his death, supporting accounts he had been in good health. VIDEO: Micheal Jackson rehearsing with dancers days before death Jackson’s ex wants custody Jackson family scandal (slide-show) How to moon-walk ...
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Uganda: Mao must answer for role in rebellion
By Barbara Among and Bitek Oketch GULU district chairman Norbert Mao has questions to answer, army spokesperson Maj. Felix Kulayigye has said. Kulayigye added that Mao will be summoned for questioning for having known about a new rebel group and and not reporting it to the authorities. ...
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Zambia: SA bank sues Zambian government for millions
The Zambian government is ready to face a leading South African bank in court for $74,3-million dollars sought over the breach of a feedstock contract, the attorney general said on Friday. "They have not yet served us with the summons but we shall wait for them to do so. ...
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Kenya: Fears Over New Land Deal
Concern is mounting in Kenya that the government has leased a big slice of agricultural land to the Qatari foreign investors to produce food for export.Land rights activists are questioning the rationale of such a move, claiming the land could be used for domestic food production. The activists say that ...
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Sudan: African Union in rift with court
| The African Union says it will halt co-operation with the International Criminal Court over its decision to charge Sudan"s leader with war crimes.President Omar al-Bashir was indicted over alleged atrocities in the Darfur region in March. But delegates to an AU meeting in Libya agreed a resolution saying they would ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Tanzania: Zanzibaris kicking the heroin habit
| The former addicts now score on the football field On the dazzling white sands of a Zanzibar beach, a team of footballers is ecstatic, despite losing 5-3.The Muamko Recovery Team are all former heroin addicts and this was their first match in years. "Did you ever ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe court clears UK tycoon
| UK property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten has been cleared of illegal currency dealing and possession of pornography by a Zimbabwe court.The case was thrown out this week at the end of the prosecution case after judges said police had broken the rules when they raided his home. The state-run Zimbabwe ... | Read article at BBC News - Related articles
Nigeria: At Last, Pay Cut for Public Officers Begins
The pay cut for public and political office holders proposed by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in February will take effect at the end of this month.Yar’Adua had, in a proposal to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), requested a downward review of the remuneration packages of public officers ...
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