All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) need to be empowered to adapt to, and survive, climate change, a report by a humanitarian organisation says.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Pastoralists in East Africa's arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) need to be empowered to adapt to, and survive, climate change, a report by a humanitarian organisation says.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Four years after the signing of the East African Community Customs Union protocol, inter-regional trade volumes among EAC member states are yet to pick up.
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Former Tanzanian prime minister Joseph Warioba warned here today that corruption was rife in East Africa and that it poses a serious governance problem.
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The event night at the first edition of SuperBrands in East Africa: From left Ephraim Mafuru, Vodacom Acting Managing Executive: Marketing; Samuel Poghsio - Minister for Information and Communications; Dick Omondi - Outgoing Vodacom Managing Executive: Marketing and David Nalo - Permanent Secretary, East African Cooperation. Vodacom Tanzania receives a Superbrands status in East Africa for the year...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Africa's future prosperity hinges on its commitment to engage in robust exploitation of its farming to boost production. This is what the continent has the comparative advantage for and readily available resources.
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Up to 10 people have been killed while more than others were injured in a heavy mortar shelling on the main Bakara market on Thursday eyewitnesses said.
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The decision of the Prosecutor in charge of Darfur, Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to file 10-point accusations at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, to most watchers of the morbid drama in that region, is long overdue. But for it to achieve the desired objective of bringing justice and peace to that traumatised area, this new development must be handled with...
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In a teleconference he held for the local media on Wednesday night Sheikh Moqtar Robow Abu Mansur has avowed that the Djibouti peace deal jointly signed by Somali government and the major opposition group, Alliance for the reliberation of Somalia was "futile"
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The other day, Kenyans witnessed a Cabinet minister join a group protesting at the closure of abattoirs in her constituency that had defied orders by the National Environment Management Authority to meet specified sanitation and waste disposal standards.
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The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights in Somalia has welcomed Monday's signing of a peace agreement between the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and an opposition group, calling it "a hopeful sign" in the war-torn nation.
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The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Mr Jean Ping, welcomes the signing in Djibouti, on 19 August 2008, of the Agreement between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS).
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The debate over Zanzibar's status raged in Parliament yesterday with legislators from the Mainland calling for the formation of a single government as the permanent solution to conflicts arising from the current union structure.
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A joint communiqué issued by delegations representing Somalia's transitional federal government and the opposition faction - Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) - has condemned violent attacks and called for the "urgent deployment" of United Nations peacekeepers.
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Fighting between clan militias and the Islamist group al Shabaab in southern Somalia killed at least 20 people, Radio Garowe reported Thursday.
