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Issue No. 0701:
Febr. 18 - 24, 2012

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Free Trade

Continental Free Trade Area by 2017—Wishful Thinking
Last month, African leaders met at the African Union summit to focus on ways to boost intra-African trade.  They agreed on a blue print to establish a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by 2017.  There seems to be something captivating about a five- or a ten-year period in planning. . Read more

Motoring

World oldest car stops over in Arusha
The world’s oldest car has just passed in Arusha on its way to Moscow, Russia in the Nine-Month journey across the world. Read more

Books

Before It’s Too Late
Fascinating memoirs, spell-binding and mind-captivating pictures
Excerpt – the Break in
Suddenly there were more men outside my bedroom, one long brown arm and a huge stick broke through the corner window, screaming for money.Read more

Places

Fun and mystery at the Rift Valley town, Mto-wa-Mbu
Beauty and culture of the town has steadily and strategically positioned itself as an alternative holiday town. Read more

In Focus

Behaviour in the wake of water shortages
 
Housemaids and other women dressed up in colourful cloths called kanga or vitenge in Swahili are seen walking in pairs frequently along the streets in the peri-urban areas of Arusha City.Read more

EA Whisphers

High time East Africa hosted AfCON
(EANA)--Zambia did the unimaginable ever in continental soccer when they beat favorites, Ivory Coast in Libreville, Gabon over the weekend to lift the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations trophy in the biennial competitions that were this year staged jointly by Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Read more

EAC

Member states tipped on combating graft
(EANA) - The five member states of the East African Community (EAC) should increase funding for anti-corruption activities to speed up the region's fight against the practice, the EAC's Sectoral Committee on Preventing and Combating Corruption has recommended Read more

EAC

Mkapa pushes for regional industrialization
(EANA) – Former Tanzanian President, Benjamin Mkapa said Monday that if East Africa wanted to be serious in bringing development to the people in the sub-region, it  has to promote industrialization and increase agricultural production. Read more

Perspectives

The idea of a pilgrimage
In the recent past, the influential weekly, Time Magazine, devoted an elaborate section of its publication to the scientific claim that God is a gene. In order words, there is no subject existing on his own called God but rather the name we give to a genetic ...... Read more

 

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