Technology
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Beyond the Last Computer |
| Each new “grand challenge” met becomes another beacon guiding humanity forward into the age of information.... |
Development
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Ethiopia: Why is Big Money Failing the Economy? |
| Despite the World Bank’s constant pumping of capital in Ethiopia for the last 63 years, Ethiopia has not been shielded from being the symbol of poverty and bad-governance in the world.... |
Q&A
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Uganda Budget Draws Mixed Feelings |
| It’s a bogus budget. This time next year, nothing will have changed in this country. You must see the deplorable state of roads upcountry. It tells you these things remain on paper.... |
Environment
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Africa Must Exploit its Solar Energy Potential |
| There is enough solar power hitting one square km of Africa’s deserts to produce the equivalent of 1.5 million barrels or oil or 300,000 tons of coal.... |
Finance and Banking
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Sudanese Banks Must Pull up their Socks! |
| For some banks, reserving customer dignity is not a priority. This is because many bank employees are not polite but rude. You come out with an impression that you are not there to bring them business but to ask them for a favour.... |
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2008 Kenya Budget and Its Investment Implications |
| Displaced Kenyans are to receive 500 million shillings in favor of resettling them. The fund dedicated to resettlement implies that more of the displaced people will possibly return to the source of their livelihood which is mainly agriculture.... |
News Round Up
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Kenya and USA Set to Open Airspace |
| The Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga is in the United States of America to sign an airspace agreement, which will involve Kenyan airlines being granted category “A” status by US aviation authorities allowing Kenyan planes to land in the United States and vice versa.... |
Events
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The 2008 Africa SMME Awards- October 23, 2008 |
| This unique annual awards program acknowledges, encourages and celebrates excellence amongst African SMMEs.... |
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Invitation to Luncheon: Should Government Fund Students or Public Schools? |
| Parents particularly the poor who want education that best equips their children for the challenges of the 21st Century are voting against free public funded schools... |
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Biodiversity Conference- September 2008 |
| The Pan Africa Chemistry Network is organizing a Biodiversity Conference from 10 - 12 September, 2008 at the University of Nairobi's Chiromo Campus.... |
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The 6th SIFE Kenya Exposition on Entrepreneurship. July 12, 2008, Panafric Hotel |
| Over 40 leading Company CEOs will determine which university had the highest impact in bringing positive economic change during the 2007 – 2008 academic year.... |
Health
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What Aileth Uganda's Hospitals? |
| It is common for a doctor to abandon an accident victim in critical condition simply because the victim cannot afford to “cough a kickback’ but attend to a financially able and generous patient with a simple cough.... |
Feature
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The 'Why' and 'How' Question of Africa's Independence |
| One beautiful and fascinating thing about the African is his ability to cope with danger and threatening social situations, use of freedom of speech and the strength to bear excruciating hardship in the midst of plenty with one visible attribute among a hundred - complain and argue.... |
Agriculture
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Gender and Agricultural Development in Africa |
| Aid and charity have failed to develop Africa. The onus is upon this generation to formulate strategies aimed at growing the economies of Africa. Gender and agriculture represents an entry point to break the vicious cycle of poverty.... |
Report
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Grand Coalition Threatens Constitution Reforms & Kenya’s Transformation |
| The Kenyan political problem can be summarised as follows. We have a winner take-it-all political system that does not allow power sharing on the basis of a coalition building.... |
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Keeping Our Word: Fulfilling the Mandate to Protect Civilians in Darfur |
| The inability to deploy UNAMID is but one of a number of interrelated challenges that threaten to set entire Sudan on fire.... |
