Rwanda: Teachers Given Loans Worth Rwf6 Billion
Umwalimu SACCO, a teachers’ Credit and Savings Cooperative, has spent Rwf6bn in loans to teachers.
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Rwanda: If It Bleeds, It Leads - It May Just Be the Time to Change
If It Bleeds, It Leads - Ask any journalist and he’ll tell you of how the old cliché has taken control of newsrooms from time memorial. If a news story contains tragedy, property loss, or - best of all - gory detail, you can bet that the story will take [...]
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Côte d’Ivoire: American Embassy’s National Daily Press Review
This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
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Zambia: First Lady Launches Conservation Agriculture
First Lady Thandiwe Banda has said Conservation Agriculture Programme will ease the pressure that Government faces in implementing activities aimed at supporting small-scale farmers in the country.
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Zambia: Economy Shows Resilience
AGAINST all odds, particularly the pressures that came with the global economic meltdown last year, Zambia has continued to show resilience in its economy and the country is certainly on its way up the development ladder.
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Zambia: Men Urged to Partner With Spouses in Farming
A NDOLA small-scale farmer has called on men in the agriculture sector to partner with their spouses and share proceeds from their suffering together as opposed to relegating them to mere labourers in their own farms.
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Zambia: Lower Stockfeed Market Prices Cheer Women Poultry Farmers
SMALL-SCALE female poultry farmers in Lusaka have expressed happiness at the prevailing market prices for stock feed which they have attributed to the 2009/10 bumper harvest.
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Zambia: Reckless Waste Disposal Worries Environmental Council
THE Environmental Council of Zambia (ECZ) has expressed concern at the reckless disposal of waste by passengers using public transport, and warned that such behaviour would continue affecting the environment.
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Zambia: Cifire Hails Women’s Role in Church, Society
INFORMATION and Broadcasting Services Deputy Minister, Angela Cifire has hailed the role women play in developing the Church and society.
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Zambia: Sata’s Inconsistent - Ronnie
THE Government has said the U-turn by Patriotic Front (PF) president Michael Sata on mining taxes is a clear sign that the opposition leader is inconsistent on various national matters.
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