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Someone has remarked that Rwanda is becoming a country of firsts and maybe he has a point.
WITH the national registration exercise well in progress, it is important for all well-meaning Zambian citizens to take part to ensure as many people register or renew their cards as possible.
Debate on the national land policy started in Parliament on Wednesday, with MPs displaying rare enthusiasm over it and indicating a real desire to pass it without controversy.
The finding that Kenya's business community pays up to 16 different taxes, and spends a staggering 417 hours to make 41 tax payments is neither amusing nor attractive.
Across Africa, there are growing concerns, which the three of us share, that the continent is being marginalised in the major debates leading up to the COP15 climate-change summit in Copenhagen this month.
Since 1997, Somalia has degenerated into perennial chaos and in effect become a failed state. It has also become a source of insecurity for the African continent and for those who use the Indian Ocean for trade and access to the rest of the world. Somali pirates have made it a habit to hijack fuel tankers and cargo ships destined for Europe and Africa in exchange for ridiculous ransoms.
We wish to commend the national broadcaster, GRTS for its innovative move to renovate the structures and facilities of the national radio. The renovation which is said to be near completion has indeed come at a better time. As the nation's only broadcaster serving for years now, it is important that frequent updating of its facilities is being conducted to ensure effective service delivery, as ...
The Ministry of Works has rushed to seal potholes near the Najjembe campsite in Mabira Forest Reserve where former Budiope MP Joseph Balikoowa met is death on Sunday night.
How much influence does Tanzania wield in the world to justify sending a planeload of delegates to next week's Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change?
Yesterday, the international community commemorated World AIDS Day. In Botswana, the commemoration is not just an event but a major reminder of the colossal challenge that lies ahead.
The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) recently published a list of fake teachers on its pay roll. The commission declared in paid advertisements that 3,248 teachers employed under its Federal Teachers Scheme (FTS) do not have the qualifications they claim to possess, and on the basis of which they were employed.
TUESDAY, December 1 was World AIDS Day. The residents of Mateete sub-county in Sembabule district could not hold back their tears after children and people living with HIV/AIDS told them about their stories.
WE SHOULD all heave a sigh of relief that evidence-based interventions to deal with the scourge of HIV/AIDS are no longer a political hot potato.
NOT all the news on consumers is bad, but most of it is. And the clear message from the data released over the past few days is that SA's economy is definitely not going to bounce out of recession. At best it will climb out at a very modest pace.
PRESIDENT Umaru Musa Yar'Adua last April told his party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and by extension his own aides, that it was time to work and not campaigns. Jobbers started campaigning for a second term for the President before he completed his one year in office.
ZIMBABWE is still very poor and is still climbing out of the economic meltdown we saw last year.
Two years ago, Kigali City announced it was putting in place the necessary amenities that would enable traders, especially within the central business district to operate on a 24hr system.
Foreign trips by Robert Mugabe and other government officials gobbled up US$28 million from state coffers, Finance Minister Tendai Biti revealed in Parliament during his budget presentation. Biti said this 'disproportionate share of foreign travel' was a detriment to overall service delivery.
The worrying trend of selective justice has continued to prevail, with Tuesday's jailing of three MDC activists, including Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's bodyguard.
"This is the world. This is great. This is where all those who matter in football are. This is the World Cup already. It's a special feeling and how painful it would have been for Nigeria not to be part of this."
To many, he was just an ordinary mzungu who was touring Kenya to sample the country's beauty and serenity.
Nairobi resident JCK's November electricity bill is within his average consumption save for the fuel cost adjustment which went up, says KPLC corporate communications officer Kevin Sang. Fuel cost adjustment, he says, is collected by KPLC for the thermal power generators, including KenGen, who supplement hydropower. However, Sang concedes that Dr Bernard Abwoga was over-billed to Sh24,905.77 due ...
The faith Kenyans have that a "good" constitution is the vehicle that will deliver them to Canaan is quite misplaced.
Last Friday, I went for the launch of the 2010 Toyota Prado/Landcruiser, which I am sure will make inroads into very many villages in 2012 as politicians make empty promises and blather their way into the troubled souls and empty stomachs of the long suffering Kenyans.
WHEN President Jakaya Kikwete paid a visit to the prisons in Dar es Salaam four years ago, he promised to ensure prison environment is improved and prisoners treated humanely.
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