Africa Matters

Cheap energy solution helping Tanzanian smallholdings is nominated to be a global innovation award

Nairobi: *Winners of **the Empowering People Award **will be announced at the Award Ceremony on October 30th, 2013 in Nairobi and will receive a total prize money of 100,000 EUR*** ** ** An affordable, easy-to-use system that converts livestock waste into energy – biogas – is seeing Tanzanian smallholdings spend less on fuel and yield bigger, better crops. ****…

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Will any Tanzanian win Global innovators award in Nairobi on Wednesday?

Nairobi: Innovators, social entrepreneurs and development agencies from around the world are arriving in Nairobi to hear who has won a global innovation competition – winner to be announced at the Nairobi Hilton on Wednesday 30 October. Among them are the 23 finalists of the Siemens Stiftung’s (foundation) Empowering People Award. There are five African finalists – from Rwanda,…

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Female security officers rise to be counted

Pan African Security Company Warrior Security has invested in the recruitment of women in security and managerial positions in a bid to create diversity in its workforce and provide more jobs for women, at a time when security studies show women achieve similar results when responding to violent crime situations, are less likely to engage in unprofessional behaviour,have just…

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More “matoke” in East Africa with planned regional testing of first-ever, high-yielding hybrids

Dar es Salaam – 25 October 2013. The production of the East Africa Highland banana, also known as cooking banana and “matoke” in the region is poised to get a boost with the distribution of the first-ever, high-yielding, and disease-resistant hybrid varieties. The 26 hybrid varieties are a result of over 20 years of joint breeding efforts between the…

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Hon Kagasheki speech on commemoration of UN in Dar

STATEMENT BY H.E AMBASSADOR KHAMIS S. KAGASHEKI (MP), MINISTER FOR NATURAL RESOURCES AND TOURISM IN THE EVENT OF THE COMMEMMORATION OF THE 68TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS, KARIMJEE GROUNDS, 24TH OCTOBER 2013: Let me begin by thanking you all for joining us in this flag raising event which marks the commemoration of the 68th birthday of the United…

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon pays tribute to NEPAD

New York October 23, 2013 – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has paid tribute to the important role played by the NEPAD Agency and the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in the stride to eradicate poverty in Africa. The UN Chief was speaking at the official opening of the High Level panel discussion on Africa’s Innovative Governance through ten…

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African leaders, top scholars look at regional integration as key to Africa’s continuing growth and

TUNIS, Tunisia, October 21, 2013/ — The eighth African Economic Conference will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from October 28-30, 2013 under the theme “Regional Integration in Africa”. The conference is organized each year by the African Development Bank (AfDB) ( http://www.afdb.org), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This year’s…

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Adding value to maize

Mombasa: By Luis Javier Campuzano, Ambassador of Mexico, at the 5th African Grain Trade Summit, October 1, 2013: It has been a long dream for me to be able to share a little part of Mexican culture to all of those countries in Africa who took maize as a staple food. As you may know, Kenya hosted in November…

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Thorny Path for Today’s Investigative Journalism

Dar es salaam, October 15, 2013 BUSINESS Investigative reporting in Tanzania still faces a lot of challenges, including lack of specialisation and limitation in terms of the number of stories published in the media, according to Managing Director of PAMOMA Communication and Research Company, Anthony Muchoki. Muchoki was among the Media Consultants who facilitated at a one year business…

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A trailblazer from Cairo to South Pare Moutain

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Elly D.Kimbwereza Email: elly.Kimwereza@gmail.com Way back in 1918 in Heliopolis near Cairo, Egypt a small piece of paper was found in a book manuscript with the following words. ‘‘Please make sure that this manuscript is written into the form of a book and give it to the Pare people because it is their history.  It took 90 years to…

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Baha’is worldwide celebrate the Birth of the Bab,

Dar es Salaam: Every year on 20 October, Baha’is worldwide celebrate the Birth of the Bab, the first of the two Divine Teachers central to the founding of the Baha’i Faith. In Dar es Salaam the Bahá’í community will gather for prayers and devotional readings followed by fellowship and celebration on Sunday, 20th October , 2013 at 10:00 a.m….

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The future of policy is mobile- Twaweza

By Varja Lipovsek, Learning, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Twaweza and Rakesh Rajani, Head, Twaweza www.twaweza.org : ——————————————— Policymakers in Tanzania, as in many neighboring countries, regularly make decisions for the entire country with little access to the experiences and realities of a large majority of citizens. The world of policies (and politics) and the world of ordinary citizens are…

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Majority of women use the promise of sex as a reward

Around 65 per cent of women use the promise of sex as a reward, a new study has found. Research into the sex lives and preferences of co-habiting couples in the UK discovered that women are more likely than men to use sex as a reward for ‘good behaviour’. The study, conducted by ukmedix.com, spoke to 1,994 men and…

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Survey for EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR AWARD (EYA) 2013 announcement

*CALL TO PARTICIPATE IN EYA SURVEY* * * The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) is pleased to announce and call for participation in* the Employer of the Year Award (EYA) *Survey for 2013*. The award event for 2012 was graced by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr Jakaya M. Kikwete and all participants received a certificate….

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