Kenya Economic Growth to Slip to 5.7 pct in 2017: Cenbank
31/01/2017Kenyan economic growth is expected to slip to 5.7 percent in 2017 from about 5.9 percent in 2016, the central bank said on Tuesday. Governor Patrick Njoroge.
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Chad candidate Moussa Faki Mahamat has won the African Union (AU) Commission Chair elections
30/01/2017Chadian Minister to replace Dlamini Zuma The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chad H.E Mahamat beat the other candidates that include Botswana’s foreign minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi Equatorial Guinea’s foreign minister.
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What British PM May Said about Trump’s Curb on Refugees
30/01/2017Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain did not agree with U.S. President Donald Trump’s curbs on immigration after facing criticism from lawmakers in her own party for not condemning his.
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Gambians Celebrate New President’s Arrival After Veteran Ruler Flees
27/01/2017Thousands of people lined the streets of Gambia’s capital Banjul on Thursday to welcome home new President Adama Barrow days after authoritarian leader Yahya Jammeh fled into exile under pressure.
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African Governments Urged to Repeal Discriminatory Laws against Women
27/01/2017The Africa Ministerial Pre-Consultative Meeting on the 61st Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61st) on the theme “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work” opened in.
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Peace and Security
Gambia’s Barrow Asks Regional Force to Stay For Six Months -U.N
27/01/2017Gambia’s new president Adama Barrow has asked a West African military operation, which pressured his predecessor to go into exile after he refused to accept his election defeat, to remain.
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EU Looks to Camps in Africa to Cut Immigration
27/01/2017EU interior ministers will consider plans on Thursday to finance camps in Africa where the U.N. refugee agency and aid groups would process migrants to prevent them trying to cross.
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Trump, Japan’s Abe to Seek Quick Replacement for TPP
27/01/2017President Donald Trump will seek quick progress toward a bilateral trade agreement with Japan in place of a broader Asia-Pacific deal he abandoned this week, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo.
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Trade and Investment
Tanzania Secures $225m Loan from World Bank Approves for Water Sector
27/01/2017The World Bank’s board of executive directors has approved a $225 million loan to Tanzania to improve water supply in the African nation’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam, the bank.
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