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Tanzania: President Samia Reverses Rea's Electricity Connection Fee
[Daily News] PRESIDENT Samia Suluhu Hassan has issued an executive order dismissing the 27,000/- initial amount charged by the state-owned utility - Tanesco to new electricity customers in rural and peri-urban communities.
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Source: allAfrica.com
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Africa: Covid-19 - Lessons From the Losses
[IPS] Nairobi, Kenya -- If countries considered Universal Health Coverage (UHC) a central policy in their health systems, the COVID-19 has surely demonstrated the need for its urgent and widespread roll out. The pandemic has upended world systems in a manner that no scientists or sophisticated
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Ethiopia: Minister Sileshi Calls for More Support to Complete GERD Construction
[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA(ENA)- Water, Irrigation and Energy Minister, Sileshi Bekele called for Ethiopian Diaspora support to complete the construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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South Africa: No More Bailouts for State Owned Enterprises
[SAnews.gov.za] Public Enterprises Director General Kgathatso Tlhakudi says government will no longer be funding bailouts, as they are known, for state owned enterprises.
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Tanzania: Clerics Rally Behind Covid-19 Vaccines
[Daily News] SEVERAL religious leaders turned up for Covid-19 vaccinations on Monday at Mnazi Mmoja Hospital in Zanzibar and called on Tanzanians to go for immunization at the designated health facilities.
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Small players want JPS to lose right of first refusal
The right of first refusal (ROFR) enjoyed by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is being seen a major stumbling block in the efforts to local energy market reforms, with one private-sector participant in Thursday’s meeting of the Joint Select...
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Time for new competition in telecoms market, says Opposition
THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) believes the time may be ripe for new competition in the telecommunications market, with inefficiencies in service and the increasing demand for data over voice having been brought even more sharply into focus during this COVID-19
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Sand Creek’s farms flooded, CDC finds - Stabroek News
More reports of inundated farms are emerging from the South Rupununi as the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) continues its flood assessment in Region Nine. The article Sand Creek’s farms flooded, CDC finds appeared first on Stabroek News.
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JPS to conduct all-island simulation
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it will conduct an all-island simulation to test the country’s readiness as part of the entity’s ongoing disaster preparedness strategy. “It should be happening sometime this month,...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Nigeria: COVID-19 - PTF Warns As Nigerians Buy Hydroxychloroquine in Large Quantities
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has warned Nigerians against large purchase of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, saying the drug had not been certified for
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Liberia: Civil Society Union of Liberia NACSUL Flowers NASSCORP Boss
[New Republic] Civil Society Union of Liberia (NACSUL) flowers NASSCORP BOSS
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Africa: Opec Deal Extended, 9.6 Million Bpd Production Cut Until Late July
ALGIERS-The 11th OPEC and Non-OPEC ministerial meeting bringing together the signatories of the Cooperation Statement, held Saturday by videoconference under the co-chairmanship of Saudi Arabia and Russia, decide to extend the 9.6 million barrels per day (bpd) production cut agreement to 31st July
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Wu-Tang Clan Partners With Iconic Artists Group And Rock The Bells
The RZA is ensuring that Wu-Tang is indeed forever. The Abbot has just partnered with Iconic Artists Group and Rock The Bells to help propel the group's legacy. As reported by Variety Magazine, the RZA has a vision for his band's future. This week it was disclosed he struck a deal with Irving
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Ex-Algerian prime minister jailed 12 years for corruption
An Algerian criminal court sentenced a former prime minister and energy minister to prison on corruption charges, in the latest crackdown on former officials in an OPEC nation struggling to allay youth discontent with the former
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Nigeria: 2023 - Kogi Governor Kicks Against Rotational Presidency
[This Day] Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has rejected the quest for the country's presidency in 2023 to be based on rotation, describing the system as one that has outlived its usefulness.
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Tunisia: A Map of Disability to Be Developed Soon - Ministry of Social Affairs
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Work to develop a map of disability in Tunisia under a cooperation programme with the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia will be launched in 2021, Director General at the Ministry of Social Affairs Raja Ben Brahim said Monday.
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Successful class-action suit against JPS ‘quite possible’
Paying customers who allege that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) turns off electricity, sometimes for the entire day, as part of measures to combat electricity theft could be on firm footing should they decide to file a class-action suit...
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Nigeria: Products' Authentication Will Safeguard Consumers - SON DG
[This Day] Abuja -- The Director General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON, Mallam Farouk Salim, has stressed the need for an authentication scheme to empower consumers at the point of purchase.
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‘Insanity’ - Ahmad bats for underground cables, sewer upgrades
WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad has labelled as “insanity” the practice of running utility cables above ground in a hurricane-prone country as he urged town planners to also upgrade sewerage systems as they push for development...
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Councillor lights up JPS over deposit fee increase
WESTERN BUREAU: Dawnett Foster, councillor for the Cornwall Mountain division in the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC), has described a decision by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS0) to increase the initial deposit by new residential...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Nigeria: PDP BoT Meets Today As Plot to Sack Secondus Thickens
[Daily Trust] An emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been slated for today to address internal wrangling rocking the opposition party, including calls for the resignation of the party's National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus.
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Shaw welcomes launch of Hazardous Regulatory Authority
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Audley Shaw  says he is confident in Jamaica’s capacity to safely pursue its engagement with nuclear science and technology in all aspects of national development and wealth...
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Trinidad natural gas pressure woes to continue - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s natural gas woes are expected to continue for at least another four years as the Energy Minister Franklin Khan confirmed that production is unlikely to return to the required four billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) until
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Inclusion and exclusion - Stabroek News
There will be no grace period for this administration, partly because the country has waited so long for a government, partly because it was in office so recently, and partly because it has recycled so many of its personnel they hardly need a huge amount of time to familiarise themselves with their
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Some Spanish Town residents without power after illegal connections destroy transformer
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is reporting that residents of St John's Road in Spanish Town, St Catherine have been left without electricity after illegal connections destroyed another transformer serving the community. JPS says the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
COVID-19: WHO urges continuation of public health measures
We continue to urge all countries to double down on the fundamental public health measures that we know
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Nigeria: How to Resolve Our Crisis - APC Acting National Chair
If there must be permanent resolution to the mirage of controversies rocking the APC, a National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting must be convened, the party's acting National Chairman, Prince Hilliard Eta, has
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Zimbabwe: Give Us Domestic Jobs At State House - Vendors Tell Govt, Defy 7-Day Ultimatum to Vacate Streets
[New Zimbabwe] Harare vendors have said they will only vacate the Central Building District (CBD) streets they sell their wares from if the government creates better employment opportunities for them.
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