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Entries from August 2009

Ghana: locals losing out on 34% mining revenue

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

An estimated 34 percent of annual mineral exports, currently enjoyed by foreign firms and expatriates providing mining services in the country could revert to the locals if they take steps to provide these services, Ghana’s minerals managing body has said.

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Tags: Economic Reporting

CSOs suggest alternatives to deal with global crisis in Africa

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

Civil society groups (CSOs) working on finance, trade, investment and economic development in Africa have called on African governments to be innovative and not haste into clinching International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes to deal with the challenges posed by the current global economic crisis.

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Tags: Economic Reporting

“OH, MY GOD I MISS YOU”

August 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments

Every day when I come to work the first thing I do is that I check my email. It seems to be an ordinary thing, but for me checking my email now has a different meaning. Every morning I am hurrying to open the mail and I already know that there will be lots of [...]

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Tags: Sneak In

IT’S A SHAME: A SUMMIT ONLY FOR KADDHAFI’S ENJOYMENT

August 31st, 2009 · No Comments

The president of Lybia? Mouammar Kaddhafi has called afrin president to an african union extraordinary summit the 31st of august. Thz reason: celebration of his 40 years of power! it is amazing and shameful that the common interest of african unity to be so reduced to personnal concern.

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Tags: Political reporting

Can not sleep and think about freedom

August 30th, 2009 · No Comments

It is about 2.30 am in Hanoi but what what I am doing now is writing a weblog, which I did not want to do when I was In Germany. It is like a film replayed in my mind since the first day I came to Hamburg and entered the beautiful EBH in a very [...]

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Tags: Media Ethics · Press Freedom

Relationship between political parties and parliament: Need for public funding of political parties to promote the smooth functioning of parliament

August 29th, 2009 · No Comments

The workshop held at the Palais des congrès de Cotonou by the analysis of development policies of the National Assembly (Capan) on “political parties and parliament: what organizations for a better functioning of the parliamentary institution” was completed Wednesday 12 August 2009.

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Tags: Sneak In

Budgetary allocations for health sector likely to be doubled

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

Plan to double the budgetary allocation for health sector in Pakistan from the existing 6 to 12 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the much-delayed National Health Policy 2009 is under consideration to achieve the goal of health for all.

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Tags: Sneak In

Census of Zimbabwean immigrants in Mozambique begins

August 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Maputo – The first census of Zimbabwean immigrants in neighbouring Mozambique is being launched this Friday in Chimoio, a border town in the central province of Manica. “We are going to carry out this two-week national population survey of all Zimbabweans who live in Mozambique due to the economic and political hardships back home,” Joseph [...]

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Tags: Sneak In

A moment of deep reflection

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments

It was a moment of deep reflection for me as I went through the various offices of the STASI of Germany. The period of the STASI was the in German history where so many people detested to the rule of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a communist regime.

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Tags: Political reporting

Ghana: Youth in agriculture gets GH¢10.7m government support

August 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments

The Government of Ghana has earmarked a GH¢10.7million to support youth who are into agriculture.  The amount comes in the wake the country is in need of help towards food security and economic sustainability.

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Tags: Poverty