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In its latest monthly review, the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) cut diesel prices by the biggest margin of Sh19.9 per litre, giving transporters and big manufacturers a major
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Health + Tech | Teletherapy and virtual mental-health services
The ‘Study of Knowledge, Attitude, Anxiety & Perceived Mental Healthcare Need in [the] Indian Population During [the] COVID-19 Pandemic’, conducted by Deblina Roy, et al, used an online survey and got a total of 662 responses from persons who had at least a moderate knowledge of COVID-19 and how to
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Nigeria: Report Predicts U.S.$17 Billion Decline in Nigerian Oil Revenue
Nigeria's oil revenue is likely to decline by between 70 per cent and 80 per cent this year, representing between $15 billion and $17 billion, the Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited and a member of President Muhammadu Buhari's Economic Advisory Council, Mr. Bismarck
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BODO: New tone in IMF’s appraisal of Kenya monetary health
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Rwanda Tourism Sector Turns to Domestic Market for Survival and Recovery
The sector's best chances for survival in the short and medium term lie in the domestic tourism, according to The Economic Recovery Plan, covering the period May 2020 - December
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Courts Optical gives civil servants up to 75% off
Unicomer (Jamaica) Limited says it is giving customers at its Courts Optical stores discounts of up to 65 per cent on select frames and has added a further 10 per cent off for civil
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Boos for back-to-work order - PM urged not to prejudice task force plan
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Budget deadlock - Examination of Estimates halted as legal opinion sought on rule breach claim
Solicitor General Marlene Aldred is expected to provide legal guidance to a parliamentary oversight committee that halted its examination of the First Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure yesterday, claiming that it could not proceed until the Government complied with stipulations under the
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Henrietta Lacks and the Debate Over the Ethics of Bio-Medical Research
In the article below Clarence Spigner, DrPH., Professor of Health Services in the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, briefly describes the saga of Henrietta Lacks whose cells have been used without her family’s permission for over sixty years of bio-medical
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Tourists land in Tanzania as hotels, firms and schools resume
Plane loads of tourists aboard Ethiopian, KLM and Turkish airlines are expected to land in Tanzania in the next one week, marking a critical milestone in the on-going re-opening of the country’s economy following nearly two months of
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Pay cuts force workers to restructure Sh102bn loans
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Sudan: U.S. Court Orders Govt to Pay for 1998 Embassy Attacks
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Sudan must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in punitive damages to some victims of the 1998 attacks on US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam in
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Kenya: COVID-19 Battle Now Turns to Small-Scale Vendors
Vegetable and fruit vendors will be tested for Covid-19 as the Health ministry strives to arrest spiralling infections, which crossed the 1,000-mark
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East Africa: Fear of COVID-19 Slows Trucking in East Africa
As trucks stacked up for days, Rwanda and neighboring Tanzania worked out a deal that scrapped plans for relay drivers but mandated transferring cargo at the border, “except for trucks carrying perishable goods and petroleum products destined to Rwanda,” the Kigali government said in a news release
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Birmingham launches 2020 Census Awareness Campaign
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Tanzania Reopens Colleges, Sports Activities As COVID-19 Numbers Drop
Dar es Salaam — University students will return to their respective colleges on June 1, 2020 as the number of Covid-19 cases drops in Tanzania, President John Magufuli announced on Thursday, 21 May
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Kenya: Kiswahili Is an International Language and Native Speakers Must Live With This Reality
Sixty per cent of the total Kiswahili vocabulary count is Bantu, 30 per cent is Arabic and 10 per cent is from other languages - such as English, Portuguese, Chinese and even
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Low-income areas will struggle to contain Covid-19
A s the Covid-19 crisis continues, a new report suggests that it will be hard to control the spread of the virus in low-income
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Cruise crew still want to come home, despite horror stories
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Nigeria: Govt - Universities Enrolled Dead ASUU Members Into IPPIS
The federal government yesterday accused universities of deliberately accommodating dead members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the payroll forwarded to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation
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Uganda: Court Petitioned to Compel NSSF to Pay 20 Percent to Members
A human rights activist yesterday petitioned the Constitutional Court in Kampala, seeking its orders to, among others, compel the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to pay out each of its members atleast 20 per cent of their savings to mitigate the pressures brought about by Covid-19
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Meru leaders rally behind Kindiki
Several leaders from the Meru region Friday condemned the decision by the Senate to remove Tharaka-Nithi Senator Kithure Kindiki from the position of deputy
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Nigeria Loses N125bn Oil Revenue to COVID-19 As Price Slumps in Q1
The shortfall, attributed to the double whammy of the headwind caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the slump in oil price due to a sharp drop in demand and price war between two powerful producers, Russia and Saudi Arabia, representing a 31 per cent of the prorated oil revenue
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Rwanda: How Government Plans to Revive Mining Sector
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Radical reforms to boost maize, agricultural sector
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Fisherfolk, bike taxi operators in Westmoreland urged to wear masks
THE Westmoreland Health Department has embarked on a public education campaign to promote the sustained wearing of masks among fisherfolk and operators of bike taxis as part of measures to contain transmission of COVID-19 in the
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