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African heads of state to carry ‘African passport’ by July

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African News Agency (ANA) | 07 Apr 2016 | Mail & Guardian The AU is making efforts to popularise the use of a single African passport for travel across the continent. In a bid to show solidarity and promote free movement of Africans within their region and other parts of the continent, African heads of states are to carry an African passport for the next African … [Read more...] about African heads of state to carry ‘African passport’ by July

A Silver Lining In The Panama Papers

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Malaka Gharib | April 7, 2016 | NPR Africa's not the only corrupt continent. That message is the silver lining for Africans in the Panama Papers scandal — a collection of documents linking 143 politicians (and their family members and cronies) to outrageous sums of stolen cash hidden in a topsy-turvy network of offshore bank accounts and shell companies. Yes, … [Read more...] about A Silver Lining In The Panama Papers

A Swedish Town’s Newest Residents Settle In And Make A New Start

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Eleanor Beardsley | April 3, 2016 | NPR Class has just ended at a community center in the southern Swedish town of Ronneby. This is the first stop for refugees in the area, once they've been granted asylum. They receive 60 hours of instruction on how to live in Sweden. The courses cover such things as how to rent an apartment, get a job and grow old here. "It's … [Read more...] about A Swedish Town’s Newest Residents Settle In And Make A New Start

Kenyatta address cut short by whistling MPs

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Duncan Miriri and George Obulutsa | April 01 2016 | Business Day WHISTLING by opposition legislators forced Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta to interrupt the country’s annual state of the nation address on Thursday, obliging the parliamentary speaker to restore order. Kenyatta cut short his address moments after he started, when the loud whistling began. The … [Read more...] about Kenyatta address cut short by whistling MPs

With its first mobile library, Uganda starts to build a reading culture

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Amy Fallon | April 1, 2016 | Christian Science Monitor Only 18 percent of third-graders could read a second-grade-level English story, according to a 2013 study. Founder Rosey Sembataya hopes her mobile library will help build 'a generation of book guzzlers.' KAMPALA, UGANDA — Clutching a pink plastic folder holding copies of books like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, … [Read more...] about With its first mobile library, Uganda starts to build a reading culture

Meet A Tractor That Can Plow Fields And Talk To The Cloud

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Joy Diaz | March 29, 2016 | NPR At the trendy South by Southwest conference in mid-March, there was buzz about music, movies, President Obama's keynote address ... and tractors. Why? Because there's a new, low-cost (but pretty smart) mini-tractor that's part of a business start-up in Abuja, Nigeria, called "Hello Tractor." And it was part of a SxSW competition. What … [Read more...] about Meet A Tractor That Can Plow Fields And Talk To The Cloud