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Beauty queen to offer training
FORMER Miss Ireland International and Model Guide brand ambassador Blessing Mutamba yesterday said there was need to enhance the professional training of Zimbabwean beauty queens and ensure that the local modelling industry was abreast with trends and developments in global pageantry. BY PHILLIP
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Namibia: N$6 Billion Needed to Meet Land Delivery Target
Land reform minister Calle Schlettwein said government has only been able to acquire 3.3 million hectares of land for resettlement purposes against a target of five million hectares, which was supposed to be achieved by March this
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Source: allAfrica.com
South Africa: Up in Smoke - Roughly R35m in Tobacco Tax Revenues Lost Daily During South Africa's Lockdown
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Amazon in talks to buy autonomous vehicle start-up Zoox
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KAA shelves key projects as sources of revenue dry up
KAA shelves key projects as sources of revenue dry up
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CBK faces protest over free money transfers
Telecommunication companies and banks have protested the Central Bank of Kenya’s move to extend the free mobile money transaction fees.
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EALA urges partner states to pay contributions
The East African Legislative Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for urgent need for remittances of the financial obligations by partner
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Kenya: Big Chunk of Budget Earmarked for Servicing Rising Debt
The National Assembly has adopted a report of the Budget committee that will see the government spend Sh1.887 trillion in the 2020/21 financial
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Ways technology can boost food security, rev up jobs in Kenya
Along with the economic devastation, including widespread job losses for informal sector daily wage earners and MSMEs accounting for 85 percent of Kenya’s total employment), food insecurity is one of the biggest
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Source: Business Daily
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Illegal Cigarette Sales Booming in South Africa – Free Press of Jacksonville
A ban on the sale of cigarettes in South Africa since the country’s COVID-19-induced lockdown began in March has cost the economy millions of rands daily in the form of tax revenue lost to illicit sales of smokes, a variety of industry officials
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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly
Uganda: Cover Story - Tough Budget
"Money consuming government agencies and departments/arms (like Parliament and others) have continued to receive lots of money than production facilitating MDAs - which are critical in creating jobs and related opportunities," says Ramathan Ggoobi, the senior economics lecturer at Makerere
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Source: allAfrica.com
East Africa: Intra Comesa Trade Vital for Economic Recovery - Report
The report authored by experts Benedict Musengele and Jane Kibiru states: "The relaxation of the free movement of essential goods in the region will enhance their production and boost intra-Comesa trade during this pandemic
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County water projects hit in 10-ministry budget cuts
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Singer H.E.R. Invests in Black-Owned Vegan Cookie Company Co-signed by Jay-Z
[ad_1] A year after Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter invested in Partake Foods, a Black-owned vegan cookie company, the healthy snack brand has landed another superstar investor. The allergy-friendly snack company announced earlier this month that it closed a new round of funding with new investors that
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Rwanda: Govt to Scale Up Interventions to Accelerate Technology, Innovation
The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or
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Just Eat Takeaway to buy Grubhub for $7.3-billion
European food-ordering firm Just Eat Takeaway.com said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy US peer Grubhub in an all-stock deal that, if completed, would create the world’s largest food delivery company outside
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Tanzania: Name Hospital After Shein, Rep Proposes
HEALTH Minister Hamad Rashid Mohamed has asked the House of Representatives to approve the renaming of envisaged Binguni Referral and Teaching Hospital after President Ali Mohamed
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SANDF stays mum on possible assistance to Mozambique
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) will only discuss behind closed doors the possibility of the deployment of its special forces to Mozambique to help quell terrorist
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Uganda: NRM Manifesto - Govt Lists Gains in Health Sector
Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said access to healthcare has improved, with 86 per cent of the population within 5km of reach of public or private health
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Source: allAfrica.com
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This Woman Designed An App To Help Black Businesses Amid COVID-19
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Rwanda: National Budget - Economic Recovery to Take Lion's Share
The Government has said that it plans to spend the biggest share of the 2020/21 budget on activities that will boost the economy as part of a broader plan to respond to the impact of
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Telkom suspends dividend as spectrum auction looms
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Rwanda: Budget to Be Unveiled On Monday
The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, will this Monday unveil the National Budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year, The New Times can
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Ethiopia: No Intl Law Obliges Ethiopia to Sign a Deal Before Dam Filling - International Law Expert
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA- There is nothing in international law that obliges Ethiopia to sign a deal before it starts the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam said Zelalem Moges(Ph.D), an international law expert.
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Uganda: Government Increases Import Duty On Agricultural Products to 60 Percent
Finance minister, Matia Kasaija has said the government has introduced some taxes to raise revenue and announced that the import duty on agricultural products have been increased to 60 per cent and other products to 35 per
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Source: allAfrica.com
Ministries’ allowances spend up 62pc despite austerity push
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Kenyans Asked to Submit Views on This Year's Budget Estimates
Nairobi — Members of the public have been urged to submit their views for the budget estimates for the financial year 2020/2021 ahead of next month's tabling in Parliament by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukuru
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Kenya eyes e-commerce investments in US pact
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