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[Nairobi News] Motorists have decried rising insecurity along the Southern Bypass at night this Easter season....

[Capital FM] Nairobi -A new survey by Ipsos Kenya shows that Eastern, Central and Western regions lead in the ongoing registration of people under the National Integration Identity Management System famously known as Huduma Namba....

[East African] Kenya Airways has lost 130 pilots to Middle East airlines in the past one year because of poor pay, the Kenya Airline Pilots Association (KALPA) has said....

[East African] With East Africa having a number of Important Birding Areas -- an internationally recognised ecosystem with endemic and migratory bird species -- birding is now one of the fastest growing sectors in the region's tourism industry....

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Kingston, Jamaica -The government said it wants to bring all of Jamaica's cannabis farmers into the formal industry as it tries to tap into a global market that it estimates will be worth $50 billion...

[East African] The business world is advancing fast. A few years ago, shark-minded capitalists were highly respected, feared and had their way....

[East African] More than 2,000 villagers in Zambia have won the second round of their unprecedented search for compensation over water pollution by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), a subsidiary of UK's Vedanta Resources....

[East African] Rwandans living in the Gatuna border town can now cross over to Uganda without much restrictions, for the first time in two months, as tensions between the two neighbours begin to ease....

[Nyasa Times] Government has secured a K61 billion loan from World Bank to finance an Agricultural Commercialization Project (AGCOM) which will transform Malawi's agriculture sector from predominantly peasant farming to commercial farming....

[Nyasa Times] The Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) says Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) should make sure that it is open to the public on how it comes up with prices for various fuel products....

[Observer] The MoU relates to the use of existing rail and port infrastructure...

[Observer] The Rubber Planters Association of Liberia (RPAL) on Thursday, April 18, 2019, broke ground for the construction of its first national headquarters in the country....

[Observer] Government has offered to waive all the liabilities held by Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL), as one of the attempts to attract a buyer for the company. This is according to two people, who are familiar with the search....

[Vanguard] A former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh, has expressed fears that the new N30, 000 minimum wage, signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on April 18 would lead to chaos....

[Observer] Government has resorted to seeking for financial assistance from China for the construction of Akii Bua olympic stadium....

[News24Wire] Road users are being urged to exercise caution across the country ahead of the long Easter break, amid surging traffic volumes....

[The Herald] Insurance group, First Mutual Holdings Limited is set for a US$20 million capital raise, in a transaction that should help capacitate its Botswana reinsurance business. This comes after the board agreed to relocate its reinsurance head o...

[allAfrica] Since the U.S. BUILD Act was signed into law last October, many people across Africa as well as members of the Africa Diaspora have been asking what this global initiative might do to help revitalize American engagement with the continent...

[IPS] Kuala Lumpur and Sydney -This is a corrected version of the story first published on April 16....

[IPS] Cairo -"Unfortunately the overall nutritional panorama of Egypt does not look well," says Dr. Sara Diana Garduno Diaz, an expert concentrating on nutrition and biology at the American University of the Middle East. Diaz's research focuses on d...