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Google planning to operate wireless networks in African Asian markets using balloons
Google is believed to be deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets, including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. An article in The Wall Street Journal said that the effort is part of a plan that could connect a billion or more new people to the internet. According to the article, Google is making efforts to build wireless networks ...
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On Africa Day UN chief says continents future full of opportunity and hope
25 May 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today declared that while Africans forge ahead with "a new narrative" for their continent, the United Nations will support them as they faced any challenges that remain on the path towards a prosperous future. In his message to mark Africa Day, which commemorates the founding in 1963 of the Organization of African Unity, now known as the ...
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Kerry US Working with AU to Reduce Sudan Violence
ADDIS ABABA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he is working with the African Union to end violence along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. America's top diplomat met separately with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Ethiopia. Kerry says Sudan and South Sudan "are in a very delicate place right now" and it is important ...
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Kerry Calls on Nigeria to Stop Human Rights Abuses
ADDIS ABABA U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Nigerian authorities are working to stop human rights abuses by security forces in their fight against Boko Haram militants. The U.S. top diplomat made the remarks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he took part in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Secretary Kerry said there is no denying the ...
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Hezbollah Chief Confirms Fighting in Syria
The chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria. The speech was ...
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US Defense Chief Calls for End to Military Sex Assaults
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called for an end to sexual assaults in the military Saturday in a commencement speech to graduates of the West Point military academy in New York state. Hagel called sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military a "profound betrayal" of sacred oaths and trusts and a "scourge" that must be stamped out. A day earlier, President Barack Obama ...
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Maoists Attack India Congress Party Convoy
Police say suspected Maoist rebels have attacked a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding many others. Suspected insurgents fired at the vehicles on Saturday in the Sukma area of Chhattisgarh state. View Larger Map Local reports say some senior party leaders were among ...
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Russia Cracks Down on Gay Activism
Russian police arrested at least 30 gay rights activists and their opponents in the capital, Moscow, Saturday, enforcing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations. The arrests coincided with the first-ever gay rights rally in neighboring Ukraine, which was allowed by authorities and protected by police. The demonstrators in Russia gathered in front of the nation's lower house of ...
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Leadership Questions Could Hamper Syria Peace Talks
ISTANBUL Next month's Washington - Moscow talks to end the Syrian conflict appear in doubt. The Syrian opposition, at a meeting in Istanbul, remains divided on electing new leadership and it is still unclear if the opposition will attend the talks. Western backers of the opposition are pushing for a broader and more diverse leadership. But attempts to weaken the power of the Islamist ...
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French Soldier Attacked Near Paris
A man wielding a knife or box cutter has stabbed a French soldier in the neck near Paris. Police union spokesman Christophe Crepin released a description of the suspect to the public Saturday. ''We know that he is tall, athletic, we think he was wearing a white tunic and sneakers. Things are evolving, in any case everything has been recorded on video and we will find him.'' French ...
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African Leaders Condemn Ongoing Use of Cluster Bombs
Thirty-six African countries have formally condemned the use of cluster bombs and urged all of Africa to join a global ban on the deadly weapons. Delegates at a conference in Lome, Togo say they are gravely concerned about the ongoing use of cluster munitions and the mounting number of victims, including women and children. They say 14 African countries have a cluster bomb problem, ...
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INSIGHT- Nigerias war on terror wins tentative support
"We are pleased the president has finally recognised our peril and we pray his plan works," Mohammed said, frying fish by the roadside as a crowd of young children looked on hungrily and trucks packed with troops rumbled past. President Goodluck Jonathan took a gamble when he launched a big offensive this month on Boko Haram's four-year-old attempt to establish an Islamic state in ...
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Tanzania Optimism Surrounds Voters Registration in Isles
Zanzibar - POLITICIANS in the islands say transparency and developing a credible voter register is one sure way of enhancing the integrity of all future elections. At a familiarisation meeting with the "new Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC)," stakeholders including politicians raised their voice to demand for reliable Permanent Voters Register (PVR) before the 2015 general ...
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Nigeria Nigeria Working to Stop Abuses By Security Forces
Addis Ababa - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Nigerian authorities are working to stop human rights abuses by security forces in their fight against Boko Haram militants. The U.S. top diplomat made the remarks in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he took part in ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Secretary Kerry said there is no denying the ...
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Zimbabwe Acting President Mujuru Lives to Her Word
ACTING President Joice Mujuru has donated two laptops to two form one pupils and has also unveiled a one year school fees bursary scheme for them as part of her efforts to encourage youths to value education. The handover of the laptop was a fulfilment of a commitment which she made during a handover of a hostel at Eiffel Flats primary school constructed by Chegutu businessman Mr Dexter Nduna. ...
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Tanzania Health Ministry Plans Traditional Medicine Plant
THE Ministry of Health and Social Welfare is planning to build a traditional medicine manufacturing plant and buy machines worth 800m/- to cater for over 60 per cent of the population that relies on traditional medicine. Speaking in Dar es Salaam on Friday, the Ministry's Director of Health Quality Assurance, Dr Mohamed Ally Mohamed said that due to the high number of users, the government ...
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Zimbabwe Confirmations and Primary Elections Underway in Harare
Confirmations and primary elections have kicked off in most of Harare's districts. Presiding teams were dispatched to the different constituencies after undergoing an orientation exercise which specified code of conduct on handling the elections on Friday. The presiding teams were armed with information packs which clearly outlined their roles and responsibilities in the confirmation ...
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Tanzania Muhongos Move On Restructuring Tanesco - Solution to Power Outages
THE news that Tanesco, the country's power utility is to be restructured and broken into separate entities that would be responsible for power supply, distribution and generation appears to be a welcomed move. Surely, this message was received with mixed feelings as people are now sick and tired of these promises. I remember when this country was embarking on hydroelectric power generation ...
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Tanzania Social Service Institutions to Get Electricity
Dodoma - THE government is committed to provide electricity to all social service institutions in the country, a move calculated at improving the services provided as well as boost people's living standards. The Deputy Minister for Energy and Minerals, George Simbachawene told legislators on Friday that all electrification projects in the pipeline would be implemented as planned. He was ...
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Tunisia Tunisian and Libyan Officials Confirm Imperative to Vitalise Bilateral Co-Operation
Kasbah - Minister in Charge of Economic issues Ridha Saidi and Minister of Vocational Training and Employment Nawfel Jammali met, on Friday in Tunis, a Libyan delegation led by Libyan Minister of Labour and Training Mohamed Soualem. The meeting turned on the implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed by the two governments in matters of expertise in the field of administration and ...
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Zambia Chitotela Lauds Subsidy Removal
LABOUR and Social Services Deputy Minister Ronald Chitotela has said only by removing fuel and maize subsidies can the Government shift the notion of investing in consumption to infrastructure development. Mr Chitotela said it was a dangerous status for an individual or Government to invest in consumption, because such a move stunted meaningful development, yet infrastructure development grew ...
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Tanzania Trade Ministry Budget Has Something for Small Enterprises
UNTIL February this year, Industry and Trade ministry had received only 23 per cent of the total budget approved by the Parliament in the last fiscal year (2012/13), according to the chairman of the parliamentary Industry and Trade standing committee, Mr Mahmoud Mgimwa. A total of 170 bn/- was approved for the ministry in the 2012/13 financial year, but only 39bn/- was disbursed by February ...
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Angola Inapem Has Conditions to Assure Companies
Luanda - The National Institute of Support to Micro, Small and Medium Companies (INAPEM) is in better condition to quickly assure and answer doubts from prospective entrepreneurs on the projects, said Friday in Luanda, the minister of economy, Abrahão Gourgel. The minister who was speaking at the inauguration of the new Institute's headquarters, also stressed that the institution is ...
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Libya peace very fragile warns UN
The newest report on the situation in Libya concludes on dramatic challenges for the North African country. State-building reforms are going to slow, endangering stability, and the Mali conflict may spill over to Libya, the UN ...
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Africa Purposeful Action to Unleash Africas Full and Latent Potential
In accordance to the request forwarded to all African leader to share their views and messages on the occasion of 50th anniversary of the establishment of OAU/AU, here follows the full text of President IsaiasAfwerki's message to the Chairperson of AU Commission. Purposeful action to unleash Africa's full and latent potential As we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the OAU/AU under ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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