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Kenya Nairobi County Officials Warn Over Fake Building Approvals
Nairobi - Residents of Nairobi County are being urged to follow laid down procedures in obtaining approvals for building plans and occupational certificates. This follows the arrest of an impostor who was caught red handed as he conned a member of the public of Sh60,000 before issuing him with fake documents. The County Clerk in charge of Administration Daniel Masetu told reporters that such ...
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Kenya Equity Makes Visa Cash Transfers Easier
Nairobi - Equity Bank customers will now be able to transfer funds through their Visa cards without the recipients of the money being charged unlike in other money transfer services. Equity Bank launched the new money transfer service dubbed Visa Personal Payments in partnership with Visa Kenya. Equity bank Chief Operating Officer Julius Kipng'etich said it will help consumers send funds ...
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Uganda Saturday Is Laba Street Art Festival
On Saturday, Mackinnon Road in Nakasero will turn into one big festival showcasing our arts and culture at LaBa! Street Art festival. The festival, organised by Goethe-Zentrum Kampala and the Uganda-German Cultural Society, started in 2006. Sponsored by the German, Swedish and Norwegian embassies, and WBS TV, among others, LaBa! festival will have Ugandan artists display their works in tents. ...
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Kenya UNHCR Microsoft and HP to Boost Refugee Education in Dadaab
The UN Refugee Agency in partnership with Microsoft and HP, and with the support of the Innovation and Education units, has officially launched the Community Technology Access (CTA) project in Dadaab, a comprehensive initiative to harness the potential of ICT for the improvement of teaching and learning in the world's largest refugee settlement at the Kenya-Somalia border. Ensuring quality ...
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Africa African Liberation Day Toronto
Toronto, ON -The Toronto chapter of the Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa (GRILA), will commemorate the African Liberation Day 2013 on Saturday, May 25th 2013 at 5:00 p.m. This will mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the OAU (Organization of African Unity). This public education event will take place at A Different Booklist which is located at 746 Bathurst ...
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AU condemns suicide attacks in Niger
The African Union (AU) on Thursday condemned the suicide attacks in Arlit and Agadez in Niger. In a statement AU announced that Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the AU Commission has strongly condemned the two suicide attacks that took place Thursday's morning in Arlit and Agadez in Niger. The Chairperson expressed AU's full support to the Niger authorities' resolute ...
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UN chief condemns deadly suicide bombings in Niger
Ban Ki- moon on Thursday strongly condemned two deadly suicide bombings happening in northern Niger in the same day. "The Secretary-General reiterates the support of the United Nations to the efforts of the Government of Niger and other countries in the Sahel region to combat the scourge of terrorism and transnational crime, in close collaboration with ...
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Nigeria ETF Gets Good News on Glum Day For Global Markets
ETFs tracking a plethora of global markets closed lower. Predictably, emerging markets sagged with the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF ...
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Police crackdown on radical Islamists tests stability in Tunisia
Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with police Sunday after Tunisia's Interior Ministry banned their annual conference that was to be held in Ettadhamen, near ...
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New Strife in Darfur Leaves Many Seeking Refuge
ZAM ZAM CAMP, Sudan ...
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1497 Illegal Routes Into Nigeria – Interior Minister
By SaharaReporters, New York ??There are no fewer than 1,497 illegal routes that lead into Nigeria. The startling disclosure was made earlier today by Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Abba Moro. Mr. Moro spoke in Abuja while briefing the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the party's national headquarters.??In order to curb the security crisis ...
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NOAA forecasts active or extremely active 2013 hurricane season
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast Thursday for an active or extremely active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, in its hurricane season outlook, forecast a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher) -- of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including ...
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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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Ghana to begin GMO Testing
Although the politicians in Ghana’s parliament have done their bit and have allowed Monsanto lobbyists and scientists influenced by this corporate giant to pass the Bio-Safety Bill in Ghana, that does not stop conscientious objectors from continuing to point out the gross error these politicians in parliament have ...
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World Briefing | Africa Congo U.N. Leader on Peace Mission
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow his visit to proceed, said Thursday that security must go hand in hand with development in the Democratic Republic of ...
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Jodi Arias Jury Fails to Reach Decision on Death Penalty
An Arizona jury tasked with determining whether convicted killer Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal murder of an ex-boyfriend failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Thursday, and a judge ordered a retrial in the penalty phase. Arias, 32, was found guilty earlier this month in the murder of Travis Alexander, whose body was found slumped in the shower of his Phoenix-area home in ...
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Kenya asks UN to terminate ICC crimes against humanity cases against president and VP
Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the U.N. Security Council to "terminate" International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died and 600,000 were evicted from their homes. President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto ...
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Kenya Crisis talks at Kitale Governors office as ghost of tribalism rears its ugly head
County Governors office with a ghost of tribalism and doubtful documents rocking the recruitment of officials. According to documents to weekly citizen,it is alleged that theTransitional Authority in charge of deployment Mr. Makori working under Kinuthia Wamwangi ...
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Kenya Executive Cabinet Nominees represent the face of Kisumu County says Elders
nomination have invariably reflected and represented the faces of the entire County. The Forum Chairman Walter Adel Kitoto said the nominated candidates have the academic qualifications and technical skills required to implement the county's development agenda. "The nominees have wide, long and solid working experiences and commitment in their respective dockets," said Kitoto. ...
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Kenya to Venture in Sports Tourism
By Thomas Ochieng API Kenya 21/5/2013 Kenya is in pursuit of harnessing sport tourism and the honor of underscoring this initiative has been bestowed on the Sotokoto Safari Marathon. The ...
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UPDATE 2-One dead about 10 injured in Guinea opposition protest
Thu May 23, 2013 7:07pm EDT * Protest against June election plans turns violent * Opposition says president plans to rig the poll * Election meant to complete transition to civilian rule By Saliou Samb CONAKRY, May 23 (Reuters) - One person was killed and about were 10 injured when security forces and supporters of Guinea's president clashed with protesters marching in the capital on ...
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UN troops in DR Congo within months
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has pledged that UN troops will be in place within "one or two months" to battle armed rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, as he toured the flashpoint city of Goma. Ban's visit on Thursday came after three days of sometimes deadly fighting between rebels and government forces that ended a precarious calm spell in the mineral-rich east ...
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US Forecasters Predict Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday there is a 70 percent chance that 13 to 20 named storms will form in the Atlantic Ocean this season. It says as many as 11 of them could strengthen into hurricanes -- storms with winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher. The forecasters say they cannot predict if any of those storms will strike land. NOAA says warmer than ...
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Forcast Above-Average Storm Activity Likely During 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season
The 2013 Atlantic Hurricane season could be busier and deadlier than average, according to predictions released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. The six-month seasonal outlook for Atlantic storms will be above average says Jerry Bell, lead Atlantic hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. "The outlook is calling for 13 ...
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And now Africa rises to unite in prosperity
Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana, envisioned an Africa united by necessity. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi made a half-hearted attempt at subverting traditionalism to have himself crowned the continent's king of kings. And, when the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was constituted in 1963, several of the founders considered stronger ties between themselves as a ...
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