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Salafists clash with police in Tunisia after rally is banned
10/10/2012 19:23 CET Police have clashed with hardline Islamists in Tunisia after the government banned their annual rally. The Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, who openly support Al Qaeda, were due to hold the gathering in the central city of Kairouan but told their Facebook followers to gather in the Ettadamen district of Tunis instead, where tensions boiled over. As some 500 protesters ...
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South Africa Govt Issues the Gupta Wedding Investigation Report
South Africa: Press Statement of the JCPS Ministers On the Report of the Investigating Team Examining the Landing of a Chartered Commercial Aircraft At Air Force Base Waterkloof On 30 April ...
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Zimbabwe Bulawayos Water Woes Deepen
BULAWAYO residents have resorted to hoarding water to deal with the many days they go without supplies as the water situation in the city remains critical. The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) introduced water shedding last year, resulting in water supplies being cut off for 72 hours a week. The move however, is doing little to save water since residents are filling up many containers, whenever ...
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Namibia Inflation Slows Down to 61 Percent
ANNUAL inflation was estimated at 6,1 percent in April 2013, compared to 6,4 percent recorded during the same period last year, the Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) said yesterday. The monthly inflation rate for April stood at 0,2 percent, compared to the March figure of 0,4 percent, a difference of 0,2 percentage points. The main driver of inflation for both March and April was housing, water, ...
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Zimbabwe Govt in Dilemma Over Illegal Chinese Mining Activities
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development says it is in a dilemma over how to deal with some Chinese nationals who are carrying out mining activities without licences and destroying the environment. Deputy mines minister, Gift Chimanikire said some Chinese nationals were illegally carrying out mining activities. He said the Chinese claimed they had been given the green light to do so by the ...
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Zimbabwe Tempers Flare in Mutare Over Diamond Looting
Mutare - Tempers flared at a mines and mineral policy workshop held in Mutare last week when participants expressed anger at the alleged looting of diamonds in Chiadzwa. Participants at the workshop who included Zanu PF youth groups and war veterans said the former ruling party would lose elections unless President Robert Mugabe intervened to stop the looting. Small-scale miners and ...
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Zimbabwe Chinas Vice-Premier to Visit Zimbabwe
Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang is expected in the country this week for an official visit, it has emerged. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Friday the vice-premier will make the visit at the invitation of Vice-President Joice Mujuru. Minister in VP Mujuru's office, Sylvester Nguni yesterday confirmed to The Standard Yang's visit, but could not give details as he was ...
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Kenya Mueke Supports Ward Representatives Demand for Higher Pay
Nairobi - Nairobi Deputy Governor Jonathan Mueke has supported the County Ward Representatives' (CWRs) demand that their gross pay be increased to Sh275, 000. Mueke argued that the current CWRs gross pay of Sh79,000 is not commensurate to the work they are expected to do and does not reflect the current cost of living. Mueke was insistent that County Ward Representatives should not still ...
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Zimbabwe Patient Disappears From Hospital
Chinhoyi - A patient admitted at Chinhoyi hospital, Melody Masuwa has mysteriously disappeared from the health institution with authorities and family members unaware of her whereabouts. Chinhoyi hospital superintendent Collet Mawire confirmed the disappearance of Masuwa from the female ward almost a month ago under unclear circumstances. "It is the first case of a disappearance, although ...
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Zambia Zambia Chamber of Mines Role Questioned
IT is difficult to believe that the Chamber of Mines in Zambia airs its views or opinions only through the voice of the chief executive of the organisation. Seeing that the mining industry in Zambia has citizens or nationals from every continent holding key positions in it, it is doubly difficult to accept that where these people come from there is no national provision for checking on foreign ...
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Zambia RTSA Responds to the Logicians Article
WITH reference to the said article in Sunday Times of May 12, 2013 citing several inadequacies in road safety management by the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA), it is now clear that The Logician believes that the functions of the RTSA are an academic exercise that needs to perpetually be expounded in public media rather than focus on bringing change in human behaviour with regard to the ...
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Zimbabwe No Respite for Burley Tobacco Farmers
SEASONAL burley tobacco prices were averaging US$1,48 per kg at the auction floors last week amid fears that low prices obtaining would drive away farmers from growing the crop. Statistics from the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) showed that total seasonal sales were 55 499 kg on Friday, up 83% on last year's figures. The value of the burley tobacco auctioned so far was US$82 ...
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Zambia Forcing Employees to Work Double Shifts Unlawful
LABOUR and Social Services Deputy Minister Ronald Chitotela has advised security guards who are being forced to work double shifts to report their employers to district officers so that Government can take action. And Mr Chitotela has condemned the practice by some security firms who are in the habit of letting their guards work double shifts. Mr Chitotela said the practice was against Zambian ...
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South Africa E-Tolling - Sanral Misleading Public About Lack of Funds
Two independent studies by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) and the Southern African Bitumen Association (Sabita) confirm that the South African Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) is misleading the public. SANRAL has argued that a fuel levy to fund road infrastructure and maintenance is insufficient, and that e-tolling is therefore necessary. However, two independent studies confirm ...
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Zambia Workers Compensation Fund Scam Uncovered
A SCAM in which some employees at the Workers Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB) have allegedly been tampering with employers' contributions has been laid bare. The fraudulent employees have allegedly been declaring less contributions from companies, while others have been delaying to bank the money which led to embezzlement of the pension funds. WCFCB commissioner Elizabeth ...
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Angola Benguela to Host Inventor Fair
Benguela - The province of Benguela will host from 2 to 4 August the Angolan Inventor/Creator Fair, as part of the implementation of promotion of scientific culture program and transfer of technology and entrepreneurship of technologic basis. According to a press release from the Ministry of Science and Technology that Angop had access to, for the first time from 15 to 17 May, fairs were ...
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Syrian TV Troops Enter Rebel Stronghold of Qusair
Syrian state television says government troops have entered the rebel town of Qusair as part of a weeks-long offensive to recapture the strategic area connecting Damascus to the Mediterranean ...
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Paul Libya like Iraq
The guarding of U.S. diplomatic outposts like the consulate Benghazi in Libya should be treated like Baghdad with more military force, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Kentucky Republican said his focus isn't on the Benghazi talking points, but on not guarding the outpost more heavily. That decision was a "tragic error," he ...
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Zimbabwe Tsvangirai Lays Out Vision
The MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai has laid out his vision for a new Zimbabwe under his rule, promising citizens justice, freedom and happiness. Launching the MDC's Agenda for Real Transformation at the party's policy conference in Harare yesterday, Tsvangirai, who is also Zimbabwe's Prime Minister, said his party would ensure that Zimbabweans enjoyed their country. "We ...
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Zimbabwe Villagers Urban Developers Clash Over Land
Villagers from Goromonzi's Yafele area have said their livelihoods are under threat following the encroachment of urban developments into their area. The residents have formed Simukai Rural Residents Trust, a platform through which they were fighting for land allocation and utilisation programmes which do not disturb communal farmers' lives. "Simukai was registered at a time ...
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Zimbabwe Teenage Girls Dying of Pregnancy Complications
Adolescent girls aged between 15 and 19 constitute a quarter of the 960 women that die as a result of pregnancy-related complications in Zimbabwe, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said. UNFPA country representative, Basile Tambashe said there is need to place a special focus on young people's sexual and reproductive health and rights. She was speaking during the handover of ...
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Zimbabwe Ten Years in Jail for Stealing Zesa Transformer Oil
Chipinge - Two notorious oil dealers, who have been wreaking havoc in and around Chipinge draining electricity transformer oil, finally met their fate last week when they were jailed for an effective 10 years. The duo, Michael Mudzamiri and Phillip Mandizvidza appeared before Chipinge magistrate Makamera Waini facing charges of contravening Section 6 of the Electricity Act. The State led by ...
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South Africa IFP Sends Condolences to the Family of Vuyo Mbuli
It is with shock and sadness that the IFP has learned of the passing of the popular and renowned SABC journalist, Mr Vuyo Mbuli. The IFP's National Council said that his untimely passing is a loss to the entire journalism fraternity. "Mr Mbuli deserves to be praised. He was always a true professional; talented, insightful and passionate. Mr Mbuli was an admired and respected ...
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Zimbabwe Lira Alexio to Share Stage At 7arts
Alexio Kawara is anxiously looking forward to sharing the stage with South African diva Lira, who performs at 7Arts Theatre in Avondale on June 7. The Shaina hit-maker is fast becoming a "ladies man" following various collaborations and stage performances with female artists. On two occasions, he shared the stage with South Africa's Zahara whose last tour of the country was in ...
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Zimbabwe Harare Airport Road to Be Completed By Year-End
Augur Investments (Pvt) Limited, the company constructing the Harare Airport Road hopes to complete the dualisation of the road this year, the company's managing director has said. In an interview with The Standard, Michael van Blerk said a lot of unfair criticism had been lumped upon his company which was doing its best to complete the "complex project". "I want to ...
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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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