Kenya’s Professionals call for a supreme natural resource law
Posted on | oktober 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
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.
Currently, the country has separate laws governing various sectors of the natural resources. There is law on forestry, wildlife, water and land.
But the situation, according to Dr Ichangi, the situation does not augur well for the country.
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Tags: APSEA > climate change > coal > forestry > Kenya > minerals > natural resources > oil > titanium > water > wildlife
Africans innovators called to participate in Project Incubator Award
Posted on | oktober 10, 2012 | No Comments
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, Europe, USA, and Asia. The US$15,000 prize will be awarded at the Gala Evening of the AgriBusiness Forum 2012 to the entry that promises the highest level of economic and social impact for their African communities.
The Project Incubator Award highlights African initiatives and spotlights the importance of local and regional partnerships. The Project Incubator Award is critical as it sheds light on potentially lucrative business ideas and projects and most importantly encourages partnership opportunities across Africa.
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Tags: Agribusiness > Cherobon > COOGES > Emeden > EMRC > FAO > innovators > Netherlands > PanAAC > Rabobank Foundation > UNDP
Israel goes to the polls in two or three months
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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 the benefit of Israel, to hold elections now and as quickly as possible,” the Prime Minister said.
“In a few months, the tenure of the most stable government in decades will come to an end,” Netanyahu said. “This stability has helped us achieve the two main objectives we promised the citizens of Israel – to strengthen security at a time when a dangerous upheaval is gripping the Middle East, and [to fortify] the economy during … a financial turmoil.”
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Morsi’s 100 days, a performance which is viewed with mixed feelings
Posted on | oktober 9, 2012 | No Comments
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 as well as those already serving jail sentences.
“The blanket pardon applies to whoever been sentenced during the January 25 Revolution while trying to support the revolution,” the presidential decree read, adding that the amnesty excludes those convicted of murder.
Morsi’s legal consultant Mohamed Gadallah to Al-Jazeera Mubasha Misr, Monday evening, that the pardon will include military officers who were arrested for participating in pro-revolution protests.
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Tags: 100 days > Al-Jazeera > Egypt > EIPR > Gadallah > Mohamed Morsi > Revolution > Seif El-Dawla
Syria: Arrest of prominent human rights defender Mr Khalil Matouk
Posted on | oktober 9, 2012 | No Comments
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 human rights defenders. Khalil Matouk, who is a member of the Syrian Bar Association, is also the executive director of the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and Research.
Moreover, the human rights defender is suffering from a serious lung disease and he is in need of constant medical care due to his precarious condition. Just a few days before his arrest he had been abroad to receive treatment for his health problems.
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Tags: Bashar al-Assad > defenders > Front Line Defenders > Khalil Matouk > Matouk > Syria > William Gomes > William Nicholas Gomes
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