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Uganda CAA annouces plans to remodel departure area of Entebbe airport
(eTN) - Travelers using the Entebbe International Airport have for long been suffering the inconvenience of being made to walk long distances from the car parking to the main terminal, often subjected to pouring rain, as a result of the security requirement to keep vehicles away from the terminal. 'Entebbe is the only airport in the region where you cannot drive up to the terminal and ...
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International Institute for Peace through Tourism announces launch of Peace Tours Morocco
STOWE, Vermont; TORREMOLINOS, Spain & CASABLANCA, Morocco - The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is pleased to announce the launch of Peace Tours Morocco as its second "Legacy Project" commemorating the 25th anniversary since its first global conference, "Tourism - A Vital Force for Peace," held in Vancouver in 1988. Peace Tours Morocco is a ...
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Nigeria struggles to shift maternal care to tackle mortality rate
At large public hospitals in Nigeria, overworked nurses snap at crowds of pregnant women, who wait hours to receive quality care. With 630 deaths for every 100,000 live births, Nigeria has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Government officials urge women to seek care at local clinics, but expecting mothers say they are unaware they ...
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Safe Rooms Saved Lives in Tornado Disaster
WASHINGTON -- The scattered ruins of Moore, Oklahoma, a town devastated for the fourth time in 14 years by a major tornado, are a grim reminder that current building codes can’t do much to prevent property destruction and loss of life, especially when a powerful twister cuts through town. But the death toll can be dramatically reduced when people take shelter in underground storm bunkers ...
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Obama Renews Pledge to Close Guantanamo Prison
In a speech addressing U.S. national security and counter-terrorism strategy, U.S. President Barack Obama announced additional steps to reaffirm his pledge to close the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He said Guantanamo "has become a symbol around the world for an America that flouts the rule of law." In a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in ...
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Kenyan Cooperation with ICC Questioned
An April 2011 Combination picture shows Kenya's Uhuru Kenyatta, who was finance minister, and William Ruto, former Higher Education Minister at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The ...
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Pyongyang Willing to Take Chinas Advice on Talks
A North Korean envoy has told a senior Chinese official that Pyongyang is willing to take China's advice to start talks aimed at resolving tensions on the Korean peninsula. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported that envoy Choe Ryong Hae made that remark to a high-ranking member of China's Communist Party, Liu Yunshan, during talks in Beijing Thursday. Liu told Choe that China ...
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Telescopes Spot Colliding Galaxies
Several telescopes have teamed up to discover a rare and massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was just 3 billion years old (its current age is about 14 billion years). (Photo: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC ...
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WTO to East Africa Improve Your Infrastructure
NAIROBI -- World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy said East African governments must improve roads, ports and trade procedures if the region is to meet its full economic potential. He said specifically that border administration must be improved and there has to be cross-border recognition of technical standards. The call of the WTO chief comes as trade partners across ...
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African leader says Intl court designed to humiliate
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.Salva Kiir spoke Thursday during a visit by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces ICC charges related to Kenya's post-election violence in 2007-08 that killed more than 1,000 people.Kiir said that South Sudan — the ...
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DR Congo In Goma Secretary-General hails regional accord as Ābest chance for peace in years
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) is greeted on arrival in Goma by the Commander of the UN intervention brigade in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) General James Mwakibolwa. Photo: MONUSCO/Clara ...
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Kenya Relief as surgeons re-attach mans severed private organ
Surgeons at the hospital have successfully reattached his partially severed organ. However, experts at the hospital Thursday indicated it is not possible to determine if the victim will regain full sexual function of his ...
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Kenya Mother claims nurse watched her newborn die
The couple had prepared to welcome their newborn baby and when Ann went to labour on January 17, this year, they knew that the moment they had prepared for had ...
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Kenya Police arrest former councillor for piracy
• Secondary school set books analysed, recorded and saved in DVDs which were later sold to bookshops • Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education 2012 marking schemes for different subjects • Heavy duty printers, DVD burners which Gitimu told the police officers were used in the production of the copies of DVDs at night • Others were theatre books and anthology of poems for ...
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Kenya Weather pushes inflation food prices down
inflation eased significantly from 14 per cent in 2011 to 9.4 per cent in 2012 with the country's reliance on rain-fed agriculture paying out. The drop ...
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Kenya Report shows jobs in formal sector declined
jobs in the 2008/2009 financial year, a period following the post-election violence. This year, the firms that employed the highest number of people were in ICT, education, health and building and construction sectors. A vibrant property market stimulated by a reduction in the cost of borrowing lifted the building and construction sector to a growth of 4.8 per cent in 2012 compared to a growth ...
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Kenya County chief vows to grow tourism sector
County Governor Kinuthia Mbugua said he is determined to create thousands of jobs for the youth through the tourism industry besides other sectors. To realise this dream, the Governor said he would devise ways of promoting local tourism and convince residents to visit tourist resorts in the county beginning with Lake Nakuru National Park. "Other tourist resorts worth visiting are Hells Gate ...
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Kenya I found broken IEBC seals court told
William Oduol , the court heard that he first discovered the broken seals at the tallying centre when he went to pay agents under him. The green seals were brought as exhibits before the court presided over by Justice Aggrey Muchelule.? ? "I saw a lot of broken seals at the school. They were lying on the ground outside the hall where tallying was taking place," he said.? Omondi said he ...
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Kenya TNA stopped from ejecting six committee members
On Wednesday evening, Speaker Mwangi Mugo stopped a bid by the TNA core team to replace six TNA members from all the 12 assembly committees. Majority leader Mwangi Kibuu (Gatitu/Muruguru Ward) sought to replace the six members from Kieni Constituency with new nominees claiming they had shown marked indifference to their party agenda. The six are Duncan Gituanja (Kabaru), Mwaniki Kanyiri ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Kenya Farmers fault States deal with the EU
Through the Kenya Small Scale Farmers Forum, they told a Nairobi Court yesterday that the Government had not complied with some requirements before sealing the ...
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Kenya Kibor wins land case 20 years later
The High Court in Eldoret ordered Samuel Rono, who had bought the land from Kibor to leave the farm. High Court Judge Festus Azangalala gave Rono 30 days to vacate the farm failure to which he would be evicted. This followed failure by Rono to pay Kibor the full amount agreed for the land. In 1991, Kibor entered into a sale agreement with Rono to purchase the land at Sh22.5 million, a price that ...
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Kenya Uhuru submits nominee list to Parliament
House Speaker Justin Muturi noted that the National Assembly is required to conclude the process of approval or rejection of the nominees within 14 days from the date of notification. "I now direct that the nominees' names and Curriculum Vitae be forwarded to the Committee on Appointments for the necessary approval hearings to be conducted," said Muturi. Uhuru nominated Joseph J ...
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Business Kenya rises to second spot as conference tourism leader
The two countries had previously dominated top spots. The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) also rated Kenya at 58th position globally in the 'Country& City rankings 2012' Ruth Solitei, Permanent ...
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Business Agriculture Secretary outlines plan to raise Kenyas share of meat market
Coffee stakeholders are working on strategies to enhance the industry competitiveness by expanding the market share locally and ...
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