Technology
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Zain Looks to Kirusa for Voice SMS Solution |
| Voice SMS is attracting customers from different geographies across the globe and has positioned itself firmly as a fast-growing, voice-based mobile messaging solution in the industry.... |
Democracy
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US Has Opportunity to Rebrand |
| The USA cannot sleep in bed with some dictators whilst opposing other dictators.... |
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What Can President Obama Do For Black America? |
| The net psychological impact of his assumption to office on black America cannot be quantified in numbers: but wait a few decades and we might as well be discussing the Obama effect in our sociology classes.... |
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Obama: We must Rise Up and Remake America |
| What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility a recognition that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world,... |
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Branding
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African Culture Must be Preserved |
| Why should we adopt foreign languages in an African setting?... |
Development
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Can Aid Solve Poverty in Africa? |
| Currently, the African continent accounts for 1-2 per cent of world trade. A further 1 per cent increase in trade from Africa would be the equivalent of five times the amount of aid the continent currently receives.... |
Commentary
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Gaza- What the UN Should Do |
| Create a buffer zone. Hamas will think twice about committing violence against international peacekeepers. On the other hand, Israel will stop raining big fat bombs and killing many innocent souls... |
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How Should Blacks Relate to the Gaza Crisis? |
| Instead of removing ourselves from the story of Palestinian oppression, or from the story of Sudanese oppression, we must feel the blows of colonialism by proxy. We must voice the same frustration when Palestine hurts as when Kingston hurts as when Oakland hurts.... |
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Africa Must Redefine its Identity |
| Until we develop a positive identity that is opposite from what the colonizers left behind, we shall continue to be dependent... |
Finance and Banking
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Global Meltdown: Africa Needs Stable Exports |
| African leaders have stood aloof and behaved as if the continent is immune to the crisis. According to World Bank, the GDP growth projection in developing economies for 2009 is now likely to be 4.5% instead of the earlier projection of 6.4% .... |
Investment Opportunities
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Mauritius can Leverage its Limited Property Market |
| Mauritians have always been scared of foreigners. We want their money but we are worried that they might take over. Look at Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai and see how many foreigners live, work, play and retire in these countries. They must be doing something right!... |
News Round Up
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South Africa: Pricing Probe Launched as Sasol Turns Itself in |
| Sasol, which was fined 318m by the European Commission last year for its role in a paraffin wax price-fixing cartel, said yesterday it was complying fully with the investigation.... |
Events
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7th IREN Eastern Africa Media Training |
| Theme: Africa Resources Conflict: Whose interests does the press serve?... |
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3rd IREN Eastern Africa High School Debate |
| This years theme is Save to invest and grow the economy... |
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The 7th Africa Resource Bank Meeting - 2009 |
| Theme: Interrogating Governance and Prosperity in Africa... |
Feature
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Briton of the Year: Is Britain Canonizing Plunder? |
| The most remarkable fact about the British Museum is undoubtedly the amount of cultural artefacts from other countries which have been assembled there, most of it through plunder, stealth, oppression and extortion... |
Agriculture
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Famine in Kenya Exposes Bad Policies |
| Kenyans ought to ask themselves why Qatar finds Kenya strategic for its food security while their (Kenyas) government looks out to donors.... |
Announcement
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IREN Intra- East Africa Farmer Exchange Programme |
| Can farmers exchange ideas on how to make their products profitable, ensure food security without always depending on the government for assistance?... |
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2009 Africa SMME Awards Competition |
| The Award ceremony reinforces Africas historical and current position as a leader in small enterprise development covering the period from the time of Ancient Empires to present day Africa.... |
Thoughts
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Obama :Dreams Come True |
| The election of Barack Obama as US President is a manifestation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.... |
Human Rights
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Back and Forth from Africa, Haiti to Gaza: Fidelity to Humanity |
Could it be too late when
Slaughtering humanity
Can be done with impunity
Thanks to a genocided past
As if anything can be traded, erased, Commodified, genetically modified to fit a globalised paradise... |
Press Statement
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SIFE Kenya Postbank Savings Debate |
| The SIFE Kenya Postbank debate on savings is hosted by Students in Free Enterprise Kenya (SIFE Kenya) in conjunction with Postbank. This special competition will bring together SIFE Kenya friends, Postbank officials, business editors, lecturers and over 100 university students... |
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Solidarity with Kenyan Teachers on Strike |
| The Government of Kenya must stop taking for granted the army of workers of this country without whom the wheel of state will surely stop turning sooner rather than later.... |
