20101029
africanews

Dar es Salaam — The CCM presidential candidate, Mr Jakaya Kikwete said yesterday he was poised for a landslide victory in the Sunday general election and dismissed claims by the opposition that the results could be rigged.

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RFI

President Barack Obama and former South African president Thabo Mbeki have held talks on upcoming independence referendum in Sudan, insisting that that they should not be delayed.

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IRIN

Mau Narok — Wheat stem rust, Ug99, continues to threaten the livelihoods of hundreds of farmers in Kenya's Rift Valley region as controlling it pushes up production costs.

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Monitor

Uganda's rhino population has over the years been depleted through poaching. But as Sunday Monitor's Benon Herbert Oluka writes, the race is on to try and conserve the remaining nine, or even get some more: -

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Daily News

Dar Es Salaam — PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete walks with his head high, his chest thrust forward, the gait of a proud man who has made significant achievements. The president may as well walk taller on Sunday as the nation he has led for the past five years goes to the polls.

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Namibian

A FINAL group of four cheetahs have been released into Okonjima's new 16 000-hectare private game reserve. Since May, 17 once-captive cheetah and four wild dogs have been released to run free.

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Sudan Tribune

Doha — Sudanese government has agreed to dedicate two billion dollar for Darfur rehabilitation and reconstruction, the move represents a breakthrough in Doha peace talks, a rebel leading official disclosed.

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Citizen

Dar es Salaam — The three major political parties wind up their election campaigns today, ending a tough battle that has seen the presidential candidates traverse the width and breadth of the vast country, to woo the 19.6 million eligible voters.

20101030
Garowe Online

Washington — The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) expressed disappointment on Thursday that arrest warrants remain outstanding against a handful of suspects and called on the international community to assist the tribunal to step up efforts to bring them to justice.

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africanews

Militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta region blew up two pipelines belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company in Bayelsa State in the early hours of Saturday, reportedly forcing a shut of the 60,000 of crude oil per day.

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africanews

Campaigns for Ivory Coast presidential election scheduled for Sunday Oct.31 closed on Friday Oct.29 after two weeks of gruelling parades and rallies by the 14 candidates across the 322,460km² surface area of the West African nation.

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africanews

At least 21 people have been killed and more than 82 000 affected by flooding in the small West African nation of Togo in recent months, the government said on Friday, adding that victims were in need of aid.

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africanews

Archbishop Desmond Tutu's call, discouraging South Africa's Cape Town Opera from performing in Israel have failed. The group says it will go ahead with its tour.
desmond tutu

20101029
africanews

Italy will be able to import 600,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of power per year from Tunisia starting in 2018 after Tunisia completes a power generating area and an interconnector.

20101030
africanews

Morocco communications ministry has suspended the operations of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television news channel in Rabat and withdrawn the accreditations of its staff.

20101030
africanews

After the adaption of the long awaited new constitution in Kenya, which formed part of the agenda four in the formation of a coalition government brokered by former UN chief Kofi Annan, the heat of the new constitution is much felt within the corridors of high government offices.

20101030
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The meeting of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) on Sudan that was scheduled to start this weekend in Addis Ababa has been postponed indefinitely amid conflicting reports on the causes of the change.

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Nation

Tanzanians go to the ballot on Sunday, with some 19.6 million registered voters expected to elect the country's next president, 239 MPs and over 3,300 councillors.

Voters will decide who between President Jakaya Kikwete of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) -- who is widely expected to retain his seat for a second five-year term -- Dr Willibrod Slaa of Chadema and Prof Ibrahim Lipumba of the Civic United Front (CUF) triumphs.

Their verdict will also bring to an end one of the most fiercely contested political race in recent times, with the incumbent's re-election bid facing a stiff challenge from Dr Slaa whose sudden entry into the race and his campaign for change appeared to strike a chord with the masses.

It is the fourth General Election since the introduction of multi-party politics in 1992. According to the National Electoral Commission officials, polling centres will be opened as early as 7am and they expect the exercise to end at 4pm.

20101029
africanews

A former commander in the Somali military has admitted that government soldiers sell arms to insurgents seeking to topple western backed government. A former Chief of Staff of Somalia's Military, major general Yusuf Hussein Osman, says unpaid soldiers offered to sell their guns and ammunition to the enemy

20101026
africanews

Rwanda's female opposition leader Victoire Ingabire is facing a bail hearing after pleading not guilty to terrorism charges in a court in the capital Kigali. The leader of the unregistered United Democratic Forces (UDF) party, told an earlier hearing Monday that the case against her was politically motivated.