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Sustainable Agriculture: One Way to Promote Food Security in Fragile Countries

Sustainable Agriculture: One Way to Promote Food Security in Fragile Countries

By Emily Ervin, Citizens for Global Solutions (http://globalsolutions.org/)

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pursue broad benchmarks in food security such as ensuring local food production systems, installing resilient agricultural practices, and maintaining ecosystems. By way of international donors, the UN advocates for these practices to be guaranteed in all countries.

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MWANGI: As A Horrible Year Ends, What’s In The Crystal Ball For East Africa in 2016?

MWANGI: As A Horrible Year Ends, What’s In The Crystal Ball For East Africa in 2016?

Story by Isaac Mwangi, East African News Agency

For most of East Africa, this was a year of shame and tears, suffering and anguish, protest and hopelessness. But there were also glimmers of hope.

Perhaps the people most to pitied – not just in the region but throughout the world – were our brothers and sisters in Burundi. For them, it has been a quick slide into the anarchy that has defined most…

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High-Profile Congolese Asylum Seeker Faces Death Threat

High-Profile Congolese Asylum Seeker Faces Death Threat

A Congolese man seeking  asylum in Tanzania has  revealed to The Guardian on Sunday that both unsuspected spies from the neighbouring war-wrecked country and assassins from the anti-government forces are in Dar es Salaam hunting for his blood.

Andema Makanio Prince, who also claims to be a Human Right Activist in his native Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but currently living at an…

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Mr. President: Please Allows Us To Remain Proud Of Your Good Work

Mr. President: Please Allows Us To Remain Proud Of Your Good Work

Mr. President, we salute your efforts and patriotism in making Rwanda a better place than it was 20years back. We also understand that some people are bitter about your progress and this is normal. We are highly indebted in you putting Rwanda in the global economic map, a peaceful country, a place where people live in harmony with each other; you have developed a dynamic workforce for a dynamic…

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Tanzania launches school fee crackdown

Tanzania launches school fee crackdown

Private schools in Tanzania have been ordered to reduce fees as a part of a government review of education. The education ministry has also banned state schools from seeking contributions from parents.

Free government primary education was introduced in 2002, and from January annual fees of $19 (£12) will be abolished at secondary schools too. But most state schools request contributions from…

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Nicki Minaj urged to cancel Angola gig

Nicki Minaj urged to cancel Angola gig

US rapper Nicki Minaj has been asked by a rights group to cancel her performance in Angola on Saturday. The letter from Human Rights Foundation (HRF) says the money to pay her comes from “government corruption and human rights violations”.

Angolan rapper Luaty Beirao has been in prison since June, along with 14 other activists who are on trial accused of preparing a coup. Representatives for…

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Kenya Airways, Rwandair Cancel Flights to Burundi After Unrest

Kenya Airways, Rwandair Cancel Flights to Burundi After Unrest

Kenya Airways (KQ) and RwandAir have cancelled flights to Burundi following unrest Friday forcing airport staff to stay away.

Armed men attacked the Ngagara and Musaga military camps in the capital Bujumbura resulting in a worst fighting since the failed coup in May.

“Flights KQ 448, KQ 444 and KQ 466 will not operate into Bujumbura International Airport today [Friday] due to a security incident…

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Condom use far too simplistic to address AIDS crisis in Africa, Pope Francis says

Condom use far too simplistic to address AIDS crisis in Africa, Pope Francis says

On his return flight from Africa, as Pope Francis fielded the customary questions from the press, he challenged a journalist on a question about condom use in the fight to prevent HIV.

Vatican City (CNA/EWTN News) – “We know that prevention is key. We know that condoms are not the only method of solving the epidemic, but it’s an important part of the answer,” the journalist said. “Is it not time…

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Xi Jinping pledges US$60bn of development funds to Africa at forum

Xi Jinping pledges US$60bn of development funds to Africa at forum

President Xi Jinping has announced that China will help develop Africa by extending $60 billion in the form of grants, loans and development funds, as well as scholarships and training for thousands of Africans in three years.

Xi proposed to lift China-Africa ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and vowed to provide $60 billion to support 10 major proposed projects across…

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Africa Is Last Frontier for Carmakers on the Hunt for Growth

Africa Is Last Frontier for Carmakers on the Hunt for Growth

When Nigeria first unveiled incentives for carmakers to set up plants its auto industry had ground to a standstill. Fast forward two years, and there are at least 36 automakers with production licenses in the continent’s biggest economy, with Volkswagen AG, Nissan Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. already making vehicles with local partners. The country is seeking to join South Africa as the only…

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Has Kagame Exceed the Limit of His US / EU Support?

Has Kagame Exceed the Limit of His US / EU Support?

Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda

Both Rwandan and Congolese Americans and other members of the Rwandan and Congolese diaspora have for years asked the United States to stop supporting the military dictatorship of Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Kagame’s rule in Rwanda is famously ironfisted and his invasion, massacres and plunder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been well documented in…

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Africa‘s Potential Lies in Trade in Services

Africa‘s Potential Lies in Trade in Services

Dakar, Senegal, 7 December 2015 – the Training Workshop on Trade in Services Negotiations for AU-CFTA Negotiators kicked off today and has been attended by H.E. Mr. Oumar Sarr, the Minister of Trade in Senegal as well as by the partners of the African Union (AU).

The General Objective is to build the capacity of services negotiators in Africa to effectively benefit from trade in services…

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Ben Carson announces foreign policy trip to Africa

Ben Carson announces foreign policy trip to Africa

In his latest effort to beef up his foreign policy credentials, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson announced Monday he’s traveling to Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia at the end of this month.

“I think a lot of our policy in the future is going to affect Africa,” Carson said on the conservative Hugh Hewitt radio show.

Carson: Refugees more likely to be radicalized due to “resentful” Americans

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Refugee and sexual violence survivor restores hope in Rwanda

Refugee and sexual violence survivor restores hope in Rwanda

KIGALI, Rwanda, Dec 7 (UNHCR) – Jacqueline Umutesi had a traumatic childhood. But that hasn’t stopped the 37-year-old refugee from helping to heal others as one of Rwanda’s most outspoken community organisers fighting sexual and gender based violence (SGBV).

Jacqueline’s own experiences of exile and violence underpin her work, having been forced to flee her home in Itongo in Rutshuru, Democratic…

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REG Cuts Down Energy Inefficiencies By 44 Megawatts

REG Cuts Down Energy Inefficiencies By 44 Megawatts

The Rwanda Energy group-REG has announced it has cut energy inefficiencies by 44 megawatts, bringing yet optimism as the country struggles to match the rising energy demand with the supply.

The reduction, the country’s energy development and utility service delivery body says were both in commercial and technical losses through infrastructure maintenance and repair as well as introduction of…

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Kagame’s Answer On 3rd Term Might Be Christmas Gift

Kagame’s Answer On 3rd Term Might Be Christmas Gift

President Kagame’sresponse on whether he will step down or not, when his tenure ends in 2017, might be known before Christmas.

Kagame who was addressing RPF Political Bureau assembly on Sunday afternoon, December 6, 2015, said that, “My answer cannot be before the referendum.”

The referendum, KT Press has learnt, is likely to be conducted on December 18.

In an Extraordinary Cabinet Meeting…

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Local Artistes Excite Huye Revelers

Local Artistes Excite Huye Revelers

And the main acts of the night were ready to perform, the line-up started with ‘Super Brothers’, who at 10pm, took to the stage performing some of their songs including their new tracks ‘Wikozeho’ and ‘Let them talk’.

They were followed by Kid Gaju, who also had a great performance singing some of his hit songs like ‘Gahunda’, ‘Ndakurwaye’ and ‘Njyenyine’ and it was clear that the students knew…

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