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- Zimbabwean authorities have warned the leadership of the labour movement that they will deal ruthlessly with anyone preventing people from going to work on the eve of a two-day stayaway called to protest the country's economic collapse. |
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- In a country where more than half of the children are out of school earning extra cash to take home or because families cannot afford the fees, some 15,000 Liberian child labourers aged between five and 18 are to be sent back into classrooms. Instead of walking to school in the morning, 10-year-old Mamie Turay walks several kilometres from the eastern outskirts of Monrovia into downtown just to sell peanuts, bringing in a profit of about $25 Liberian, or the equivalent of US $0.50. |
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- September 2007 will mark the mid-point on the road to 2015, the date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were adopted by world leaders at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 as part of the Millennium Declaration. |
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- THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the largest labour grouping in the country, has called for a two-day stayaway this week, citing the failure by the government to act on their ultimatum. |
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- INDUSTRY may wail endlessly about the unviable exchange rate but the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is resolved not to review it, as stated in the recent monetary policy. |
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- The government has set up a Commission of Inquiry into the 1994 plane crash that killed former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira. |
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- COSTS arising from the temporary suspension of the national lottery could run into hundreds of millions of rands, with as much as R340m likely to be forfeited in earnings after Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa suspended the lottery at the weekend. |
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- In a last-minute rush to meet their 2006-07 tax deadline, corporate taxpayers transferred about R11bn into South African Revenue Service (SARS) bank accounts on Friday, contributing to the total R3bn extra revenue collected over the February budget projection. |
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- ONLY days after the Competition Tribunal, in a groundbreaking ruling, found Mittal Steel SA guilty of charging its customers excessive prices, the steel group announced it would increase them again - the second price adjustment this year. |
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- Kenya and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia share historical ties that date back many centuries. My visit is an effort to further strengthen the historical ties and sound relations between our nations and peoples. Kenya is well positioned as the gateway to the eastern Africa region. As a member of the East African Community and Comesa, we offer investors a large market for their products. |
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- Kenya will benefit from a $164.5 million World Bank financed project to lower prices of telecommunication services in the region. The project will seek to influence private sector participation in improving access to international communications connectivity in East and Southern Africa. |
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- The planned sale of a further 19 per cent of Government's stake in Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) through the Nairobi Stock Exchange kicks off this month. The director of reforms at the Treasury, Mr Solomon Kitungu, further disclosed that Kenya Reinsurance Corporation (KenyaRe) Initial Public Offering (IPO) that has been slated for May would closely follow the issue. |
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- The concessionaire running the Kenya-Uganda railways is besieged from all sides. Are things really falling apart or is the train just about to pull out? |
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- Selebi-Phikwe Town Council (SPTC) is worried by empty Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) factory shells, which have developed into white elephants. |
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- When he joined Debswana Letlhakane and Orapa Mines, 28 years ago he had only a Standard Seven certificate. But through perseverance and hard work, 54-year-old Batshedi Mosu educated himself to become an award winning mine blaster, engineer and manager. |
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- UGANDA's graduates are least likely to get employed, according to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. |
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- THE International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) could face heated opposition before it changes SA's antidumping rules. |
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- KwaZulu-Natal agriculture and environment affairs head Jabulani Mjwara and chief financial officer Petrus Mhlangu face charges of financial misconduct and mismanagement of more than R100m before a disciplinary committee. |
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- An Indian vessel chartered to Somali businessmen was hijacked off Somalia coast overnight, reliable and commercial sources say on Monday. |
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- Ethiopian Horticulture Producers and Exporters Association (EHPEA) chairman Tsegaye Abebe feels trimphant with what he calls the successful completion of last week's horticulture fair held in Addis. |
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- SINCE 1994, Canada, always a vociferous opponent of SA's former apartheid regime, has striven to improve political and economic ties between the two countries. Marja Tuit spoke to the recently appointed Canadian high commissioner, Ruth F Archibald, about future relations and trade prospects between SA and Canada. |
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- AS THE stalled Doha Round gets under way again in Geneva, the South African government has indicated that it will consult the private sector on SA's obligations before making an industrial offer to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). |
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- WHILE still a comparatively small player compared to China, India's hunt for African commodities is attracting interest on the continent. |
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- A TAP plane (Portuguese Airlines) that flies to Lisbon was Sunday night forced to return to Luanda and a make an emergency landing, at "04 February" International Airport, supposedly due to an engine failure. |
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- THE NATIONAL Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) is faced with lack of funds and logistics. Mr. Oduro Kwarteng, the Deputy National Coordinator of the Programme in charge of Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions, mentioned the above among other things, as the major impediments to the success of the Programme. |
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- SHELL GHANA Limited has launched a new unleaded fuel with an exclusive formulation, called V-Power, designed to protect engines, maintain at peak condition and give users more power and responsiveness. |
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- Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told parliament on Thursday that Ethiopia's economy showed sutained growth for four consecutive years but also warned about the impact of inflation. |
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- South Africa has joined the race to find alternative sources of energy: government has already approved a 'Draft Biofuels Industry Strategy', and called on stakeholders to discuss it. |
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- GOVERNMENT has deployed security agents at the country's major gold mining firms to monitor gold production after concerns over plummeting output. |
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- ZIMBABWE'S domestic debt has soared to nearly $1 trillion, increasing by more than 200% in a space of two weeks. |
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- Potrebujete zaujimave a pritom aj jednoduche logo alebo len obrazok pre rodinny album?Nucte sa robit s Adobe Illustratorom.. |
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- Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We've seen plenty of fashionphones, fashionlaptops and fashioncams in our day, but we're pretty sure the Moxia Energy folks behind USBCELL have a first here: fashionbatteries. Not content with the mere novelty of the USBCELL USB-rechargeable AA battery design, Moxia now has plans to launch a "designer range" of colorful USBCELL batteries. |
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- scorned. But that was 44 years ago, and a lot has changed. You can bet on it that gambling, for better or for worse, is part of the fabric of everyday life. The state lottery, the legal response to the mobbed-up numbers game, supports transportation and |
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- ATLANTA -- Billy Donovan roamed the sideline Monday night, yelling, calling plays, directing players and eventually winning a second consecutive national championship. His jacket had long been removed, exposing a white, sweat-soaked shirt and blue ... |
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- There was very little love for The Lookout at the US/Canada box office this past weekend. I managed to catch it in a nearly empty multiplex auditorium during the prime Saturday night showing. While the film does not achieve such... |
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- The Fresno County Coroner's Officer is trying to positively identify a set of human remains found in the mountains over the weekend. |
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- The amount of money Massachusetts residents spent at major New England gambling halls dipped slightly in 2006, according to the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouths Center for Policy Analysis. Bay Staters spent about $876 million in Connecticut at the |
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- BOSTON - Senate President Therese Murray says she has an open mind about casino gambling and that it could be a significant economic boost to Southeastern Massachusetts. I think it would mean a lot for New Bedford, she told the Cape Cod Times last week. |
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- According to the annual Airline Quality Rating report released on Monday, airline hassles are on the rise, more passengers found themselves bumped and their flights delayed or their bags lost last year than in 2005. The report does not include recent weather-related flight delays such as the ones that left JetBlue and United Airlines planes idling for hours on taxiways. "They just don't get it yet," said Dean Headley, an associate professor at Wichita State University who co-authored the study with Brent D. Bowen of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. One upside, researchers said, was that the overall number of airline complaints has stabilized since hitting a five-year low in 2005. |
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- Dora is accused of helping her brother, Joaquin Figueroa, hide from authorities in the days after he shot officer Brian Nieto. |
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