Posts Tagged ‘state’
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
OVER 300,000 people in the Mount Elgon region and the neighbouring lowlands of Butaleja, Budaka and Tororo districts have been displaced following the landslide that devastated Bududa in eastern Uganda last week, the state minister for relief and disaster preparedness, Musa Ecweru, said yesterday.
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Uganda: 300,000 Homeless After Landslides
Tags: been-displaced, budaka, butaleja, ecweru, landslide, mount, state, the-state, tororo
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Beginning from Saturday March 6, Nigeria joined 19 countries in West and Central Africa in a campaign to immunize over 85 million children under five years old against polio.
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Nigeria: The Fresh Offensive Against Polio
Tags: budaka, central, central-africa, ecweru, landslide, million-children, mount, saturday, saturday-march, state, the-state, under-five, years-old
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Melvina Lathan, the top boxing official in New York State, said she supported proposed legislation to legalize a sport that the State Legislature banned.
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Overseer of Boxing, Supporter of M.M.A.
Tags: boxing, law and legislation, mixed martial arts, new york state, said-she, spring training, state, state legislatures, state-legislature, still-provides, supported-proposed, the-top, training-camp, winter
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Uganda’s official population agency has supported the view that the lack of electricity, especially in the rural countryside, is powering the record-breaking population growth rate- that has politicians and western-backed technocrats divided.
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Uganda: Common Stand on Country’s Population Policy Still a Far Cry
Tags: africa, allayed-fears, britain, clarified-government, during-the-2010, grenade-attacks, lack, powering-the-record, record, state, the-lack, the-rural, two-simultaneous, yesterday-evening
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
President Jacob Zuma is today wrapping up his state visit to Britain where he clarified government’s position on the nationalisation of mines and allayed fears about security during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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South Africa: No Plans to Nationalize Mines, Zuma Tells UK
Tags: allayed-fears, britain, clarified-government, during-the-2010, fifa, nationalisation, president-jacob, state, the-nationalisation, today-wrapping
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
At least 16 people were yesterday evening wounded in two simultaneous grenade attacks in the city.
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Rwanda: Grenade Attacks Leave 16 Injured
Tags: africa, allayed-fears, britain, city, clarified-government, during-the-2010, grenade-attacks, nationalisation, people-were, president-jacob, state, the-nationalisation, two-simultaneous, yesterday-evening
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor has many detractors across the state, but in Vernon the plant is seen as a vital part of the town.
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Vernon Journal: Town Finds Good Neighbor in Nuclear Plant
Tags: across-the-state, nuclear energy, nuclear-reactor, state, the-plant, the-state, town, vermont, vermont-yankee, vernon, vernon-the-plant, vital-part
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Nearly 31,000 Californians applied for 14 positions on the commission that will redraw the state’s 120 districts, the only citizen effort of its kind in the country.
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In California, Thousands of Citizens Compete for a Shot at Redistricting
Tags: commission, its-kind, nuclear energy, state, state legislatures, the-commission, the-only, the-plant, the-state, town, vermont, vermont-yankee, vernon, vernon-the-plant, vital-part
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma ’s recent controversies have followed him to the UK with scene-setters on his state visit revisiting his polygamy and his courtroom travails.
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South Africa: Controversy Tails Zuma to London
Tags: africa, election-campaign, his-state, jacob, presidential, recent-controversies, state, strength-at-rallies, the-capital, the-presidential, visit-revisiting
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
International oil companies operating in Nigeria, notably Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Chevron Nigeria Limited last week seized the platform provided by the annual Nigeria Oil and Gas international conference and exhibition to underscore the deep schism that still exists between the multinationals exploration and production companies and the state-run Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) over aspects of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) currently before the National Assembly.
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Nigeria: Stakeholders at Odds over Petroleum Deregulation
Tags: africa, annual, chevron-nigeria, deep, deep-schism, development, exists-between, multinationals, nigeria, oil-companies, over-aspects, platform, shell-petroleum, state, the-state-run
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