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Tanzania Biomass Use Is Fuelling Rapid Deforestation
ACCORDING to Bariki Kaale who is Energy and Environmental Specialist based in Dar es Salaam, biomass fuels accounts for over 94 per cent of the total energy used for cooking with no affordable alternative energy sources in the foreseeable future. Kaale argues that dependence on unsustainable biomass fuels for cooking has caused deforestation and degradation of forests leading to environmental ...
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Tanzania Ideas Create Money Not Vice Versa
"IT is an idea that creates money, not money that creates an idea," says Secelela Balisidya when she was recounting on tremendous challenges that she and her friend Christopher Kidanka went through in setting up a media business company. The Company, Regalia Media Limited, now enjoying great respect from government institutions, higher learning institutions, diplomatic missions and ...
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Tanzania Shein Roots for Strong Ties With Indonesia Denmark
President Ali Mohamed Shein has said that Zanzibar needs stronger relations with development partners including Indonesia and Demark to achieve its development goals. In separate meeting with Indonesia ambassador Mr Zakaria Anshar, and Denmark envoy Mr Johnny Flento, Shein said Zanzibar has been recording admirable progress in development programmes but support remains important. According to ...
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Africa Eight Countries Submit Action Plans to Combat Illegal Trade in Elephant Ivory - UN
Eight countries identified as being the most affected by the illegal trade in elephant ivory have submitted national action plans to the United Nations-backed treaty for the conservation of endangered species containing measures to combat the scourge. The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) received plans from China, Kenya, ...
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Kenya Woman kills husband in domestic row
Kisii County on Saturday evening as news of the bizarre incident where the woman killed her husband of 15 years using a new panga spread.? The slain, a medical engineer at the referral hospital identified as Stanley Kipsang lay lifeless at bedsitter in the facility?s staff quarters as members of the public jostled to have a glimpse of what had happened.? Shocked neighbours told The Standard and ...
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East Africa Eastern Africa Standby Force to Have Operational Capacity By 2015
Military experts attending the ongoing field training exercise of 10 Eastern Africa armies held here in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja have said the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) would be ready for operation by 2015. The EASF is one of the five regional multi-dimensional components of the African Standby Force consisting of the military, police and civilian elements. The EASF was ...
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Southern Africa Strengthening National and Regional Associations of Southern African Journalists
"Every day around the world, we hear of how journalists and media workers are being harassed, intimidated, tortured and killed by individuals, governments and forces that wish to censor and silence them. This calls for us to join hands in the safety and protection of journalists because one individual tragedy in any country collectively becomes an assault and infringement on the right of ...
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Tanzania Why Societies Sell Coffee Outside KNCU Cartel
Moshi - A JOINT venture of 32 primary cooperative societies which was established over a decade ago but got legal recognition in 2007 is not a parallel union challenging Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union, but simply a third window to allow coffee farmers sell their commodity at premium prices. G32 General Manager, Gabriel Ulomi dismissed talk of trying to establish a parallel union to KNCU ...
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North Africa Instability Affects European Energy Security
According to the International Energy Agency, Algeria's oil is still suffering from the four-day siege on the In Amenas gas plant in January. (Photo: ...
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Life under Zims mutilated rule of law
Mtetwa was arrested in March when she went to represent clients during a raid of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office. But she has refused to buckle under in the face of ...
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Has the EU lifted sanctions against Zimbabwe too soon
A leading human rights lawyer spends eight days in jail; the prime minister's office is raided, six of his staff arrested and three computers allegedly go missing; civil society groups warn of rising political violence and intimidation tactics. Plus ça change in Zimbabwe. Yet thousands of miles away that is not, apparently, how things look from Brussels. On Monday the EU dropped ...
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Vicious smear campaign to oust law-abiding judge in Zimbabwe
There is an orchestrated plan to hound out high court judge Charles Hungwe, who has recently made rulings that are not favourable to the government and Zanu-PF, ...
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Japan pledges 2 bln USD in support of African resource development
The Japanese government on Saturday pledged to provide 2 billion US dollars to support resource development projects by Japanese companies in Africa over the next five years, local media reported.The plans were announced during a meeting that brought together ministers and representatives from Japan and 15 African countries in charge of resource issues. The event was held ahead of a summit- ...
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Nigerian northern governors support emergency
The Northern States Governors' Forum (NSGF) has expressed support for the state of emergency rule imposed on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa in the northeast of the country.The forum expressed the hope that the imposition of emergency rule would complement the federal government's offer of amnesty to the members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect to restore peace to the affected states.The ...
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Sudanese defense minister reiterates armys
Sudanese Defense Minister Abdul- Rahim Mohamed Hussein reiterated on Saturday the army's ability to defeat the rebels in all parts of the country, the official Sudan Radio reported."The army is able to defeat the rebels and the agents at all locations in the country," Hussein said.He added that the Sudanese armed forces supported by the security forces and other regular forces ...
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3 abducted in Sudans Darfur official
Three people, including a policeman, have been kidnapped at Al-Kuma town in Sudan's North Darfur state, a local official said Saturday."An armed group belonging to the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)/Jibril Ibrahim faction on Saturday abducted three people, including a policeman belonging to the central reserve forces at Al-Kuma town in North Darfur state," Suleiman ...
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3 killed 5 injured by blast in Syrian capital TV
At least three people were killed and five others wounded when a car bomb ripped through Damascus' district of Ruken Addien Saturday night, Syria's state TV said.A "big" explosive device was planted under a car in the northeastern district of Ruken Addien, the state media said, adding that bomb squads are dismantling another explosive device in the same area.Earlier in the ...
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Nigerian troops arrest 65 rebels in northeast state
Nigerian troops operating in northeast Borno State said on Saturday that 65 rebels had been apprehended so far by officers of the Special Task Force (STF).Spokesperson for the defense headquarters Brig.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja, saying the rebels were caught while attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri as they fled their various camps now under attack.The ...
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Negotiations with kidnappers of Egyptian soldiers halted sources
Egyptian authorities halted negotiations with kidnappers of seven soldiers due to the kidnappers' "excessive demands," military intelligence sources in North Sinai told Xinhua Saturday.The kidnappers, mostly Jihadists, demanded a swap deal to release over 30 Jihadists and others convicted in previous terrorist attacks, including six facing execution, in return for the seven ...
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Roadside bomb goes off near church in Damascus killing 4
A roadside bomb went off near a church in the Syrian capital of Damascus on Saturday, killing four people, witnesses told Xinhua.The bomb was attached to a bicycle that was abandoned near a security forces' vehicle near Marlias Church in the Damascus suburb of Dwaila, reports and witnesses said, adding that the blast killed three security men and a young man.Many people, including a child, ...
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Rebels kidnap Syrian deputy FMs father
Armed groups kidnapped the father of Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in the southern province of Daraa on Saturday, the pro-government Sham FM radio reported.The armed men stormed the house of the 80-year-old man in Daraa city and snatched him, the report said, giving no further details.Targeting government officials and their relatives have become increasingly common in Syria ...
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Egypt police close Gaza border crossing point for 2nd day to
A main Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip has been closed for the second day on Saturday by the Egyptian police who were protesting at the abduction of their colleagues in Sinai, a local official told Xinhua.Hundreds of travelers on both sides are stuck in the Rafah crossing point, Gaza's only gate to the outside world, due to the closure, the sources said.The Islamic Hamas ...
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German FM visits Algeria to boost ties
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Saturday that his visit to Algeria aims at deepening the bilateral relations both on the political and economic levels between Algiers and ...
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The Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwanda’s Technology and Digital Ambitions
Credit: CIAT International Center for Tropical Agriculture/ flickr By Sean Obedih As Rwanda day 2013 comes to London for the first time, let me take this opportunity to talk about the role that the Rwandan business community in the diaspora can playing by embracing the creation of Rwanda startup culture and make a difference in creating much needed jobs at the same time benefiting from the ...
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Americans Dream of Riches as Powerball Lottery Hits $600 Million
Saturday night's Powerball lottery jackpot climbed to an astronomical $600 million for a single winner, and may be even higher by the time the numbers are drawn. Winners must match five numbers picked from machines holding 59 white balls, and a special Powerball pulled from a machine filled with 35 red balls. Even if the chances of winning are tiny -- one in 175 million -- those ...
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