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• in Politics
  Eurozone is Struggling While East Africa Insists on its Monetary Union
  Despite recent and persistent problems of Euro, a prediction of its collapse, the East African Community continues its journey toward union monetary union.
  by michetrab / on Jan 12, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “east africa”

 

• Rural women’s bank ease tough times in Uganda

  
  Newstime Africa — Authority: 419
  WAKISO, Uganda, (IPS) – For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. Many do not have the required collateral of land title deeds and many cannot... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Egypt council mulls speeding up presidential vote

  
  Inside Africa — Authority: 103
  (CAIRO (Reuters)) – A civilian council that advises Egypt’s ruling army will consider a proposal to hold a presidential election earlier than a June deadline, council members said on Monday, a move that could speed up the transition of power to civilians. Egypt’s generals, who took over from ousted President ...
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• African Union Summit Opens in Ethiopia

  
  VOA News: Education — Authority: 729
  African Union leaders opened a two-day summit in Addis Ababa Sunday with the election of a new chairman for the pan-African organization. Benins President Thomas Yayi Boni was selected chairman for the next year, taking over from Equatorial Guineas President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ...
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• Sudanese Rebels Claim Capture of Chinese Workers

  
  VOA News: Education — Authority: 729
  Sudanese rebels say they are holding nearly 30 Chinese workers following a battle with Sudans army in the state of South Kordofan, which borders newly independent South Sudan. A rebel spokesman for the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement-North says 29 Chinese are being held for their own safety and are in good health. ...
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• DRC cops seal off Tshisekedi home…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursdaysealed off the Kinshasa residence of self-appointed "president-elect"Etienne Tshisekedi and dispersed his supporters with tear gas. Tshisekedi, 79, is a veteran opposition leader who lostan election to the incumbent President Joseph Kabila last year but ...
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• Ethiopia: "JOURNALISTS ARE NOT TERRORISTS"

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Reporters Without Borders has just visited Ethiopia,where two Swedish journalists, Kontinent news agency reporter Martin Schibbyeand photographer Johan Persson, were sentenced to 11 years in prison on 29December on charges of entering the country illegally and supporting terrorism. During the visit, from 9 to 12 ...
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• Navy SEALs rescue aid workers in Somalia…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  US Navy SEALs swooped into Somalia early yesterday andrescued two aid workers, an American woman and a Danish man, after a shootoutwith Somali gunmen who had been holding them captive in a sweltering deserthide-out for months. Under a cloak of darkness, a couple of dozen SEALsparachuted in, stormed the hide-out, ...
  5 days ago

• Grenade Blast in Rwanda Wounds 10…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Police in Rwanda say they have arrested two suspects inconnection with a grenade blast that wounded at least 10 people in the southernpart of the central African country. The blast happened late Tuesday near a publictransportation facility in the central Rwandan town of Muhanga. Earlier this month, a ...
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• Kenyan president suspends judge over gun threat…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  President Mwai Kibaki suspended Kenyas deputy chiefjustice on Wednesday and named a tribunal to investigate an incident in whichshe allegedly threatened a shopping mall security guard with a pistol. Kibakis move came after the senior judge called for hisdeputy to be suspended while under investigation in a case ...
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• Kenya: Uhuru, Muthaura can remain in office, AG…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  A day after ICC pre-trial chamber confirmed the chargesagainst Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Head of Public Service FrancisMuthaura, Eldoret North MP William Ruto and Kass FM presenter Joshua arap Sang,Attorney-General Githu Muigai said that appeal against the indictments willhave to be exhausted before the ...
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• ICC says four senior Kenyan figures to stand trial…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled thatfour senior Kenyan officials are to stand trial over violence after the 2007election. The four men charged are Uhuru Kenyatta, Joshua Sang,Francis Muthaura & William Ruto. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and ex-ministerWilliam Ruto are accused ...
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• South Sudan sues Khartoum over confiscated oil…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  South Sudan said on Sunday that it is taking thegovernment of neighboring north Sudan to court over what Juba describes as the“stealing” of its oil. Stephen Dhieu Dau, the country’s oil minister said in aninterview with Sudan Tribune that his ministry has filed a lawsuit againstKhartoum in “specialised ...
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• Nairobi, Addis in landmark 400MW power purchase deal…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Details of the high-stakes negotiations before Kenyasigned a 400MW electricity deal with Ethiopia two weeks ago are emerging,revealing that Nairobi managed to talk down the initial charges proposed byAddis Ababa as too high. The deal, which analysts say ushers in a new era ofpower trading in the region, was ...
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• Al-Shabaab remnants finally pushed out of Mogadishu…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Pro-government forces have pushed out Al-Shabaabmilitants out of the capital Mogadishu in a dawn offensive Friday backed byAfrican Union peacekeepers. Al-Shabaab fighters had abandoned most of theirpositions in the city in August but have continued waging hit-and-run assaultsfrom locations in the outskirts. ...
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• Somaliland: 25 Journalists Arrested, TV Station Closed…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Reporters Without Borders is worried by events of thepast week affecting the media in the breakaway northwestern territory ofSomaliland, in which a total of 25 journalists were arrested and a televisionstation, HornCable TV, was closed in Hargeisa, the territory’s capital. Theorganization accuses the authorities to ...
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• Rwanda: 4 Military Officers Arrested…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  The government has placed four senior military officersunder house arrest on counts of indiscipline and illegal business dealings ineastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said Thursday. The arrests,which were made Wednesday, include Rwanda’s chief of military intelligence andchief of external ...
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• Europeans killed, kidnapped in Ethiopia attack…

  
  filtre — Authority: 133
  Gunman killed five European tourists and kidnapped twoother foreigners as they visited the famed Erta Ale volcano in the remotenortheast of Ethiopia, the government said on Wednesday. Officials in Addis Ababa said the attack on Monday hadbeen carried out by gunmen who had been armed by Eritrea, an ...
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• East Africa Apps4Africa winners announced

  
  ITNewsAfrica.com - IT news, Telecom news and Mobile news from an African perspective — Authority: 533
  The East Africa winners of the Apps4Africa: Climate Challenge has been announced in Uganda.The contest is a regional competition to address local climate change challenges through the development of...
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• Delayed response to Somalia famine cost thousands of lives

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  A hesitant response by the international community likely led to thousands of unnecessary deaths in last years famine in East Africa finds a new report released by Oxfam and Save the Children. The report, entitled A Dangerous Delay, says that early warning systems worked in informing the international community about ...
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• Thousands Of East African Children Die From Hunger, International Community Blamed

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 707
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thousands of people, more than half of them children, died needlessly and millions of dollars were wasted because the international community did not respond to early warnings of an impending famine in East Africa, aid agencies said Wednesday, even as they warned of a new hunger crisis in West ...
  1 week ago

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