Kenya’s Professionals call for a supreme natural resource law
The Association of Professionals in East Africa, the Kenyan Chapter has initiated a plan aimed at developing an umbrella law to guide the management of natural resources. According to Dr Daniel Ichangi, the Chairman of APSEA said the recent discoveries of oil, coal, titanium and other minerals necessitate the need to have an overriding law. [...]
Africans innovators called to participate in Project Incubator Award
African innovators have another chance to walk away with USD15,000 cash prize in a project incubator award 2012 launched Monday by the EMRC and the Rabobank Foundation of Netherlands. The finalists will be selected and invited to present their business projects to an audience of 400 professionals, composed of interested partners and investors from Africa, [...]
Israel goes to the polls in two or three months
Israel will go to the polls early. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday in a televised statement, that they will be held in two or three months instead of the end of next year. As his coalition government would not be able to agree on a national budget for 2013, he had “decided, for [...]
Morsi’s 100 days, a performance which is viewed with mixed feelings
On the 100th day of his presidency, Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi issued a blanket pardon, Monday evening, for all citizens arrested during protests held since the start of the January 25 Revolution until 30 June this year, when he was inaugurated. The pardon, according to the presidential decree, includes those who are currently facing trial [...]
Syria: Arrest of prominent human rights defender Mr Khalil Matouk
President Bashar al-Assad, Office of the President, Damascus Syria Mr. President: I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I came to know about the situation from Front Line Defenders. Khalil Matouk is a prominent human rights lawyer who provides legal assistance to victims of human rights abuses in Syria, including to fellow [...]
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