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Women journalists harassed and abused, often by colleagues – survey

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A member of the local media records a fire at the Comayaguela market in Tegucigalpa February 18, 2012. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez   LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It’s not news that women journalists are groped and threatened while covering protests and conflict, but often they face this abuse at work, and when they complain, they are told to “grow up”.… Read More

A total of 725 African students have already signed up for the Go Green in the City global business case challenge

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Energy: A total of 725 African students have already signed up for the Go Green in the City global business case challenge  Students from Engineering and Business Schools, Master's and MBA Programmes in Africa have until 15 February 2014 to sign up for the challenge  PARIS, France, February 10, 2014/ -- Schneider Electric (http://www.schneider-electric.com), the global specialist in energy management, is inviting African... Read More

Uganda: Dr Kizza Besigye’s Account of of the regime’s continued disregard of individual’s rights

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I had a working lunch appointment today, Friday 24th January 2014; so I prepared to leave home (Kasangati) at about 12.30pm. When we reached the Western gate of my residence, we found a police patrol vehicle packed right across the gate. We hooted and the policemen who were sleeping inside the vehicle woke up and got out of the vehicle... Read More

Zimbabwe: Caine Prize Returns to Zimbabwe

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For the first time in the history of the Caine Prize, its annual workshop will take place in Zimbabwe at the end of March and will see the launch of the Prize’s 2013 anthology, published by amaBooks, one of eight co-publishers of the Caine Prize anthologies. The 12 writers will be ensconced in the Vumba before participating in two events... Read More

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man’s attention and to inflame his ambition.”

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AMAHORO PEOPLE’S CONGRESS*RWANDA NATIONAL CONGRESS*FDU-INKINGI H. E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President, Republic of Uganda. November 7, 2013. Your Excellency, Re: Treatment of Rwandan Asylum Seekers and Refugees Living in Uganda We, the undersigned, have been compelled by recent events to write to Your Excellency on behalf of the organizations we serve to express our grave concerns for the security of some… Read More

Tanzania courts DRC to check ‘coalition of the willing’

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Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete. PHOTO | FILE  Tanzania has initiated talks with neighbouring Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with a view to establishing economic and trade relations following reports of the emergence of a ‘coalition of the willing’ nations within the East African Community (EAC). The country’s minister for EAC Affairs, Mr Samuel Sitta, said Wednesday in… Read More

Tanzania officially renounces ‘coalition of the willing’

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Dar officially renounced ‘coalition of the willing’—Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda— saying the ongoing tri-lateral talks between the countries were against the EAC protocol. TEA Graphic/Anthony Sitti  Nation Media Group IN SUMMARY In a statement issued by the ministry of East African Cooperation, Tanzania also said the ongoing tri-lateral talks between Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda were against the EAC protocol.  Defenders of… Read More