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Liberia Health Workers On Go-Slow
Finance and Health Ministers Amara Konneh and Walter Gwenigale have been summoned to appear before the Senate plenary Thursday, May 23, 2013 to answer why health workers in Grand Kru County have not received their three months' pay. The decision to summon the two ministers was reached Tuesday, following a complaint by a Grand Kru County Senator, Peter Coleman that health workers in that ...
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Liberia Block the Road
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has ordered the Minister of Public Works to block the Samuel K. Doe (S.K.D) Boulevard road. President Johnson-Sirleaf ordered that the road be blocked to vehicles and other activities to allow speedy construction of the road. "Mr. Public Work Minister, block the roadso you can get the job done; you can't be trying to pave the road and you've ...
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Kenya Sh500 Million Boost for Coffee Farmers
Coffee farmers in Mt Elgon constituency got a major boost after the World Bank gave them a grant of Sh5 million. The funds, which have been channeled through Western Kenya Community Driven Development and Flood Mitigation Program under the Ministry of Special Programmes will be used for the construction of Kitaban Coffee Factory in Kapsokwony division. Addressing coffee farmers during an AGM at ...
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Kenya Strathmore Picked As ICT Conference Partner
Strathmore Business School has been chosen as the analyst and content partner for the four day 2013 Connected Kenya Summit which opens in Mombasa on Monday. Connected Kenya Summit brings together industry leaders in the ICT sector and has become a key ICT event in the region. The summit provides a platform for ICT players to come up with strategies that will deliberate and drive ICT innovations ...
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Kenya Chinua Achebe Remembrance in Nairobi
Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe was a highly acclaimed novelist, poet and professor and critic. Best known for his debut novel Things Fall Apart, Achebe played a pivotal and instrumental role in the development of African Literature. He died in March while in Boston, USA and to celebrate him, the East African educational publishers held a function over the weekend at the Professional ...
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Kenya Omar Unimpressed By Johos Cleanup
Mombasa senator Hassan Omar at the weekend faulted Saturday's cleanup led by Governor Hassan Joho. The exercise began at Kongowea market, Mackinon and Majengo markets then Airport Road in Changamwe and wound up at Mama Ngina Drive. Students, companies, local artists, Mombasa politicians and the US navy took part in the cleanup sponsored by the private sector. Changamwe MP Omar Mwingi, ...
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Zambia Changing Environment in the Zambezi River Basin
Climate and human pressure on resources are significantly changing the environment in the Zambezi river basin, as illustrated in a new 2012 publication, the Zambezi River Basin Atlas of the Changing Environment. The Atlas uses satellite images, high resolution photographs, illustrative text and graphics to present various issues in the Zambezi basin, which encompasses part of eight countries -- ...
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Africa Africas GDP Conundrum - in Conversation With Morten Jerven
The economic performance of sub-Saharan African countries in recent years has been widely documented, and praised. Analysts and commentators regularly posit that after weathering the global economic downturn commendably, Africa is poised to become the next growth miracle. An over-reliance on weak empirical data –specifically gross domestic product (GDP) estimates – characterises such ...
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Kenya Kisumu Hotels Reaping From Seminars Tourists
KISUMU hotels are enjoying booming business since the March 4 elections. Kisumu Hotels Managers Group chairman Robinson Anyal says the influx in guests is due to activities the hotels are engaged in that were postponed during the electioneering period. Anyal told the Star that the first two weeks after the elections and especially during the Cord petition, business was very bad due to fears of ...
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Kenya Counties Should Support Business
ONE senator is proposing a law that investors must pay royalties to the counties where they are situated. She suggested that 20 percent of turnover would be an appropriate amount. This would be a disaster. Firstly, very few companies make 20 percent profit on turnover. Most companies make between five and ten percent. Therefore this new tax would force the company into losses, and it would have ...
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Kenya Muthama Slams Rutos Sh100 Million Luxury Jet Hire
Machakos Senator Johnson Muthama yesterday faulted Vice President William Ruto for using taxpayers money to hire a Sh100 million luxury jet. Muthama accused the government of copious consumption at the expense of millions of poverty stricken Kenyans. "This is shuttle diplomacy aimed at boosting his image in the back drop of ICC charges and has nothing to do with the governments purported ...
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Africa Powerful Leaders Swarm Africa Soon -Stops West Africa and the Great Lake Regions
The development of Africa in the 21st Century, analysts say, rests with the continent's open trade with the developed world. Also they say, it depends on how fast African leaders accede to the tenants of democracy, human rights, and economic propriety. Arguably, most countries on the continent are doing just that; but with no exception, no country has so much to show for that collaboration. ...
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Africa Radical Change Needed in Way World Deals With Ever Increasing Numbers of People At Risk of Calamity
Governments and aid agencies have to tackle the politics and power at the heart of the increasing effects of climate change, rising inequality and people's vulnerability to disasters according to a new report published today by international agency Oxfam. The report, No Accident: Resilience and the inequality of risk, shows that the risk of disaster is being dumped on to millions of people ...
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Kenya CCK Says It Lacks Space for Third Digital Player
The Communications Commission of Kenya has said it does not have broadcasting spectrum to issue to the media owners, despite a government promise allocate them the third digital signal distribution license. The industry regulator, said the spectrum that would have been given to broadcasters was taken away in favor of mobile services through an agreement by International Telecommunication Union ...
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Liberia Ellen Orders SKD Boulevard Closed
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has ordered Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods, to close the SKD Boulevard Road currently under renovation in Paynesville to traffic in order to avoid ongoing works obstructed and delayed by cars and pedestrians. "Mr. Minister [Samuel Kofi Woods], block the road so you can get the work done! You can't be building the road and you have people ...
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Kenya Nyeri to Raise Sh4.2 Billion for Budget
NYERI county government will unveil its Sh4.6 billion budgets for the 2013-2014 financial year. The estimates are yet to be tabled before the county assembly as the County representatives are on an indefinite recess. The budget will cater for both the county executive and the county assembly with the executive comprising of 10 departments. Nyeri county government expects to raise Sh4.2 billion ...
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Africa USAID Releases Its First Water and Development Strategy
Washington, D.c. - Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Rajiv Shah, joined members of Congress - Senator Richard Durbin, Senator Chris Coons, Congressman Earl Blumenauer and Congressman Ted Poe - to release the U.S. Government's first Water and Development Strategy. This strategy recognizes the vital role water plays in ensuring the health and economic ...
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Africa Vice Premier Wang Yang to Pay an Official Visit to Zimbabwe and Attend the African Unions Special Summit
At the invitation of Zimbabwean Vice President Joyce Mujuru, Rotating Chairman of the African Union (AU) and Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Dessalegn as well as Chairman of the AU Commission Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, Vice Premier Wang Yang of the State Council will pay an official visit to Zimbabwe and attend the AU's special summit for the celebration of the 50th anniversary ...
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Kenya Ojaamong Tables Sh5 Billion Budget for Busia County
Busia county will receive an estimated revenue of Sh5 billion during the financial year 2013-14. Addressing assembly members after presenting the first budget policy statement for the financial year 2013-14 in Busia yesterday, governor Sospeter Ojaamong said the county will govern itself and manage its political and socio-economic affairs independently. He said the focus of the budget estimates ...
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Africa Tax On the Private Billions Now Stashed Away in Havens Enough to End Extreme World Poverty Twice Over
At least $18.5 trillion is hidden by wealthy individuals in tax havens worldwide, representing a loss of more than $156 billion in tax revenue, according to new figures published today by international agency Oxfam. The missing money is twice that required for every person in the world to be living above the $1.25-a-day "extreme poverty" threshold. Oxfam's Kevin Roussel said: ...
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Kenya Five Killed in Uthiru Crash
Five people were killed yesterday after a saloon car ploughed into them while they waited for a matatu in Uthiru. Scores of other commuters were also injured in the gory 4.30pm accident. The driver of the car lost control after a tyre burst, he hit a tree and the impact sent the vehicle hurtling towards the commuters waiting for rush hour traffic after work. The mangled wreckage was towed to ...
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EU Leaders Hold Energy Summit
European energy costs are high, in contrast with those in the United States where new shale oil and gas resources have sent prices tumbling. EU President Herman Van Rompuy, the host of the summit meeting, says Europe risks becoming the only continent to depend on imported energy. However, shale oil and gas production present a potentially high environmental risk. Critics say hydraulic ...
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French Writer Commits Suicide at Notre Dame in Paris
French policemen cordon off in front of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral following the evacuation of the after a man shot himself dead in front of the altar, May 22, ...
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Kenyas truth report Killings land grabs graft
NAIROBI, Kenya -; Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that says his father, the country's first president, presided over a government that was responsible for numerous gross human rights violations, political assassinations and illegal allocation of ...
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Revealed Government Documents Show Vaccine Injured Children in Small African Village Used Like Lab Rats
Vac Truth May 22, 2013 In December 2012, vaccine tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, Chad, Africa, situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert. Five hundred children were locked into their school, threatened that if they did not agree to being force-vaccinated with a meningitis A vaccine, they would receive no further education. These children were vaccinated without their parents' ...
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