20110420 - Afran Kenya

Kenya Airports Authority has unveiled araft of investment opportunities at Kisumu Airport.

These oportunities range from provision of aviation fuel and associated support services, provision of ground handling services as well as development and management of an automated car park centre.

Other opportunities include management of a garden restaurant, snack shops, a coffee-tea lounge, a duty free shop and bookshop.

Interested firms are buying tender documents at the KAA headquarters in Nairobi or at te Kisumu Airport. Airport Manager Joseph Okumu urged investors to take advantage of the business opportunities ceated with the airport's expansion.

The tender process, he said, is a manifestation that the expansion of the airport to international standards is on course. The scope of the work, set to cost of Kshs. 3 billion, includes rehabilitation and extension of the runway, taxiway and apron.

A new terminal building will handle 700 people per hour - about two million a year once the expansion is done. Large aircraft like the Boeing 737 and B767 will also be able to land at Kenya's third busiest airport.

20110420 - Afran Kenya

The East African Community secretariat should address the handling over of seven Kenyans to Uganda and the continued detention of human rights activist Sheikh Al'Amin Kimathi in that country, Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo has said.

The secretariat should also be asked to investigate Uganda's "blatant violation of the East African Community treaty" in last week's detention and eventual expulsion of Mr Hassan Omar Hassan from the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, the minister said.

Mr Hassan was among four Kenyans who were arrested and deported from Uganda last week as they headed to a meeting with Uganda Chief Justice.

He admitted that the rendetion of Kenyans to Uganda was illegal and said it was "outrageous and unacceptable for a friendly country to treat the commissioner the way it did".

Failure to get an explanation from the Ugandan government or the EAC on the rendetion and the detention, he said, should be necessitate the filing of a case at the East African Court of Justice. The court would then address the matters of "compensation, repatriation and welfare" of the detained Kenyans.

Sheikh Al'Amin, the executive coordinator of the Human Rights Forum, is among eight Kenyans being held in Uganda over their alleged connection to twin bombings in Kambala on July 11, 2010.

20110419
africanews

The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has vowed to deal with Besigye if he does not stop what he called idiotic and nonsensical demonstrations in Kampala. Museveni said Besigye has no more plans to oust him describing their move as bankruptcy of the opposition.

20110419
africanews

As the collation of last Saturday's presidential election continue in Abuja, riots in some part of Northern Nigeria erupting, as a result of presidential election result which shows that the incumbent president is about to win the election. Thousands of angry youth in Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi , Gombe and Adamawa states are attacking places of prominent people and set them ablaze.

20110419
reuters

Nigerians have voted for Goodluck to lead the West African nation for the next four years. The incumbent president from the People's Democratic Party polled a simple majority of votes and surpassing the required 25 percent of vote in two third of the states in the country in the April 16 presidential elections.

20110419
BuaNews (Tshwane)

Pretoria — A new high capacity cable linking South Africa and Europe is set to double the country's current broadband capacity, said Telkom.

20110419
Independent (Lagos)

Once again, the North is back on the boil. Young men on Monday went bananas and turned on the political elite in the region whom they suspected of complicity in the victory of Goodluck Jonathan over Muhammadu Buhari in the run for the Villa.

20110419
reuters

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Medics in northern Nigeria on Tuesday treated hundreds of victims of rioting against President Goodluck Jonathan's election victory, some of them children with gunshot and machete wounds.

20110419
reuters

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Post-election rioting in northern Nigeria has killed at least 33 people in major cities alone, according to a tally from witnesses and rescue workers, but the overall death toll is believed to be much higher.

20110419
reuters

LILONGWE (Reuters) - Malawi is seeking to expel the British ambassador for criticising the southern African country's leadership for being autocratic, diplomatic sources said on Tuesday.

20110419
reuters

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore appointed a former journalist and ambassador to France as the new prime minister, hoping to restore stability after a series of violent protests by soldiers.

20110419
reuters

SIDI BOUZID, Tunisia (Reuters) - A Tunisian court on Tuesday freed a policewoman accused of hitting a young fruit seller who in protest at his treatment by the authorities set himself on fire in an act that helped inspire regional revolts.

20110419
reuters

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda will order social media sites Twitter and Facebook blocked locally if further protests over high food and fuel prices take place because they are being used to fan unrest, a senior official said on Tuesday.

20110419
reuters

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe has banned the export of chrome from Wednesday as it looks to build internal refinery capacity, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development said on Tuesday.

20110419
reuters

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the Libyan city of Misrata, saying at least 20 children had been killed in attacks by besieging government forces on rebel-held parts of the city.

20110419
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's economy has started to show positive signs of recovery but it will take time to recover from the job losses of a recession in 2009, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.

20110419
reuters

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) reiterated on Tuesday that it would take strike action against state power utility Eskom and said it was now demanding a 16 percent, one-year wage hike.

20110419
allAfrica.com

Kano — Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan was declared the winner of Nigeria's election on Monday as tensions began rising across the vast northern half of the country, which had strongly backed opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari in Saturday's poll.

20110416
arusha times

The Arusha-based African Court of Justice and Human Rights has summoned the troubled Libyan leader, President Muammar Gaddafi and his regime to appear before the court for violating human rights.

20110419
monitor

Army and police units yesterday used tear gas, bullets and truncheons to break up protests against rising food and fuel prices around the country, leaving at least one person dead in Kampala, and bringing the death toll to four in three days.