Let’s just give the Nile back to the Nilotes…

Who were the original owners of the Nile?

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Recipe for a School Dropout

Take a pinch of kids and break them In a school.

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Kenya says it’s big winner in Customs Union

Kenya has pre-empted the findings of a formal assessment of the performance of the five-year-old East African Community Customs Union and declared itself the greatest beneficiary According to Monique Mukaruliza, the chairperson of the EAC Council of Ministers and Rwanda’s Minister for East African Community, a study to evaluate the implementation and impact of the EAC Customs Union has been finalised and a report is ready for tabling at the Sectoral Council on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investments in June.

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US determined to save Sharif govt despite expert warnings

The United States appears determined to prevent Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government from falling to Islamist forces said to be linked to Al-Qaeda.

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Experts call for crop ‘cover’ for African farmers

Only six per cent of Tanzania’s 40 million people have insurance cover, a situation described as grave by financial experts.Commissioner of Insurance Israel Kamuzora said widespread poverty and ignorance on the benefits of insurance are partly to blame for the lacklustre performance of the country’s insurance sector.

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New Nile treaty sails past Egypt, Sudan snags

Failure by Egypt and Sudan to come up with a common stand during the Nile Council of Ministers’ assembly in Kinshasa, DR Congo, frustrated their attempts to block a new pact to govern the use of River Nile waters.

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Burundi: Covering the mouth with the gun

Across the street from the Obama Phone Store in downtown Bujumbura, a disarmament billboard advertises a young Burundian woman with her hands over her mouth, an AK47 to her head, eyes wide open.

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…As projects initiated in country outstrip money spent

Kenya has said it is getting value for its money in the five-member East African Community. East African Community Minister Amason Kingi, told Parliament that the benefits the country is getting from the joint EAC projects and programmes initiated in Kenya outstrip the amount of money the country spends on the Community.

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US Senate wants Obama to crush LRA for good

Republicans as well as Demo-crats are pressing President Barack Obama to help the Ugandan military destroy the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Legislation introduced last week in the US Senate would require the Obama administration to move towards “eliminating the threat posed by the Lord’s Resistance Army.”

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Obama promise to Kikwete: US will aid in radical agriculture production

Tanzania is asking the Obama administration to invest more in food security and agricultural technology in Africa as the surest way to end the continent’s perpetual poverty and food shortages.

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