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Japan's Toyota allegedly plans to set up a mega fertiliser production plant in Zambia. According to Zambia'a Ambassador to Japan Mwelwa Chibesakunda, Toyota is keen invest in agro input production in Zambia, as part of its diversifcation programme away from its traditional car manufacturing.
About three weeks ago, officials from Toyota Japan allegedly met Mr Chibesakunda and told him that they were interested in investing in Zambia's agriculture sector by setting up the fertiliser manufacturing plant. He says the investors have already been to the Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ), the country's only local fertiliser producing firm in Kafue, to look at the facility which has been struggling financially.
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Tewolde GebreMariam, CEO Ethiopian Airlines (centre) poses with cabin crew at the official event to mark Ethiopian's joining of Star Alliance. Cabin crew on the left of the picture wear tradition Ethiopian costume; those on the right wear the airline's s...
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For the record I have never met ( to my knowledge and I think I would remember ) Fatumata Bah. That said her ambitions look to be very laudable. Good Luck to her and please follow the BeCause link above and give her your vote.
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The latest form of protest throughout Turkey is nonviolent and quiet: beginning with a single defiant man standing in Taksim Square, the method, dubbed Duran Adam, "the standing man," has spread to hundreds of men and women. After the renewed violence when Gezi Park was cleared over the weekend, the "standing" protests, quiet ad peaceable as they are, are a clear challenge to the authorities. Even the linguists at the Language Log blog have noted how duran adam has become the latest term to enter the lexicon. They had previously noted, though I had not, the arrival of the Anglo-Turkish neologism "Çapuling," adopted by Turkish protesters after Prime Minister ErdoÄan referred to the demonstrators as çapulcu, "looters." Demonstrators redubbed Gezi Park as "Çapulistan."
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Ethiopia's role in the AMISOM mission in Somalia has made it new friends/Photo©Reuters Ethiopia: Ally of the West and regional heavyweight By Parselelo Kantai in Addis Ababa Source: Africa Report Meles will be a hard act to follow, but Desa...
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Ethiopian Airlines inaugurates new flight to Seoul, South Korea Ethiopian Airlines inaugurates new flight to Seoul ADDIS ABABA, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The Ethiopian Airlines, one of the fastest growing airliners in Africa, on Tuesday launched its new...
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Addis Ababa still has its main market but times are changing. Photograph: Pier Paolo Cito/AP Addis Ababa is the showcase for Ethiopia's economic great leap forward Source: Guardian Middle-class aspirations blossom among the new high-rises, thoug...
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South Africa's May Mahlangu (R) vies for the ball with Ethiopia's Biadglegn Elias during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying football match Ethiopia vs South Africa. AFP PHOTO Ethiopia admit fielding suspended star By David Legge (AFP) JOHANNESBU...
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Both foreign ministers said relations between the two countries remain "brotherly" Photo Dereje Berhanu Al Jazeera Ethiopia and Egypt agree to bridge dam divide Source: Al Jazeera Foreign ministers try to quell tensions over Ethiopia's plans to...
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We're learning tonight that Michael Hastings -- the 33-year-old journalist whose 2010 Rolling Stone profile of a remarkably unguarded Gen. Stanley McChrystal cost the top commander in Afghanistan his job -- died in a tragic car crash on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. Hastings may be best known for exposing McChrystal's critical views of the Obama administration, but he also painted memorable portraits of Gen. David Petraeus and American prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl (a blunt, aggressive, and controversial reporter, Hastings also got in the occasional sparring match with the State Department).
Earlier in his short but accomplished career, Hastings covered the Iraq war for Newsweek, eventually writing a book about the death of his fiancée, Andi Parhamovich, in a car bombing in ...
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Japan's Toyota allegedly plans to set up a mega fertiliser production plant in Zambia. According to Zambia'a Ambassador to Japan Mwelwa Chibesakunda, Toyota is keen invest in agro input production in Zambia, as part of its diversifcation programme away from its traditional car manufacturing.
About three weeks ago, officials from Toyota Japan allegedly met Mr Chibesakunda and told him that they were interested in investing in Zambia's agriculture sector by setting up the fertiliser manufacturing plant. He says the investors have already been to the Nitrogen Chemicals of Zambia (NCZ), the country's only local fertiliser producing firm in Kafue, to look at the facility which has been struggling financially.
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The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) special summit on the Zimbabwe elections went ahead on June 15 in Maputo, Mozambique,...
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35 million missed calls. That's the number of calls that 75-year old social justice leader Anna Hazare received from people across India who supported his efforts to fight corruption. Two weeks earlier, he had invited India to join his movement by ... Continue reading →
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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's choice of an Islamist governor for Luxor has sparked anger among tourism workers over his links to the militants that killed 58 people in a 1997 attack in the ancient city which destroyed the tourism industry.
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Cape Town, South Africa, has been undergoing somewhat of an electronic music revival over the past five years. The initial boom happened in the early 2000s when, aided by the pioneering African Dope record label, artists such as Felix Laband and The Constructus Corporation (an earlier incarnation of Die Antwoord) suddenly found themselves at the [...]
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The English word 'perspective' derives from the Latin, perspectiva, which means 'to see through', and as such, instantly assumes a position - a viewer and a horizon, and an in-between space that demarcates self and other, subject and object, time and space. This is our modern perspective. Once this perspective is troubled - both visually [...]
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President Michael Sata recently pardoned and set free 615 prisoners countrywide as part of the African Freedom Day commemoration. This now brings to nearly 4,000 the number of prisoners PF has released on the streets! The releases have been usually on Africa Freedom day or independence day.
On its first independence day in power 2011, the Sata government freed people who were allegedly imprisoned "over minor wildlife-related offences". In Mr Sata's words, "as we celebrate 47 years of our independence, I have extended a gesture of goodwill to these people by pardoning a total of 673 prisoners, majority of whom were jailed over these minor wildlife-related cases".
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Editor's Note: This op-ed originally appeared on Al Jazeera English. Documentary filmmakers Matthew LeRiche, PhD, and Viktor Pesenti recently investigated the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, and the flow of refugees into South Sudan. Dr LeRiche is an academic, a writer/producer, and a risk management professional.
In the past year, my colleague Viktor Pesenti and I spent time with people being bombarded by their own government in Sudan's conflict-torn Blue Nile state, near the border with South Sudan.
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The population of elephants in Garamba National Park in northeast Congo has dropped from 20,000 to just over 2,000 since 1960. The Lord's Resistance Army, or LRA, led by Joseph Kony, hunts African elephants in the park to fund the killings and mass atrocities it commits throughout central Africa.
The LRA has catalyzed the poaching problem in Garamba since expanding its operations outside of the borders of Uganda in 2005. As described in the Enough Project report, "Kony's Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Supports the LRA", the LRA and other rebel militias continue to hunt the African elephants andtrade the ivory for arms, ammunition, and food. Some of the bounty is also sent north, out of the park, to the Central African Republic and South Sudan border where Kony and his closest ...
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