ELECTIONS ON COURSE AS COURT GOES ON VACATION Unlike after the first dissolution of parliament, when the Seychelles Constitutional Court almost immediately sat and passed judgment on the suit brought by the opposition SNP, ordering parliament to be restored as the resolution for dissolution had lacked in format, the same court no longer saw the [...]
Archive for July, 2011
28 Jul
Seychelles election update – Constitutional Court goes into vacation mode, elections to go ahead?
28 Jul
Tanzania news update – Power shortage bites, wipes out hotel profits
GIVE US TAX RELIEF FOR FUEL HOTELIERS DEMAND A high level meeting yesterday in Dar es Salaam by officials of the Hotel Association of Tanzania resulted in government being told to allow immediate tax and excise relief of at least 20 percent on fuel used to run generators or else risk condemning the sector to [...]
28 Jul
Kenya aviation news – KAA is misleading public over vandalism claims
NOW KAA BLAMES VANDALISM The Kenya Airport Authority only managed to pour more fuel into the fire of discontent over their dismal performance of late, when their Managing Director yesterday blamed vandals for the power outages. ‘The man is not only incompetent, and his staff responsible are incompetent too, now they are also lying to [...]
27 Jul
East Africa / Gulf aviation news – Kuala Lumpur next for Emirates A 380
EMIRATES ADDS KUALA LUMPUR AS 15TH A380 DESTINATION The Kampala office of Emirates has confirmed that come December the route to Kuala Lumpur will be served with the A 380 sky giant from Dubai. Many Ugandans, and in fact East Africans are studying in Malaysia in one of their many universities and lots of them [...]
27 Jul
South Sudan news – EAC and Nile Basin membership quest supported by Rwanda
RWANDA BACKS SOUTH SUDAN FOR EAC AND NILE BASIN MEMBERSHIP Rwanda officially went on record yesterday when expressing their support to the new Republic of South Sudan in their bid to join the Nile Basin Commission and the East African Community, amongst other bodies the new country is set to apply to for membership. [...]
27 Jul
Rwanda aviation news – Turkish announces April 2012 flights to Kigali
TURKISH ANNOUNCES APRIL 2012 FLIGHTS TO KIGALI Turkish Airlines has yesterday announced their intention to begin flights between Istanbul and Kigali by April next year. The information was given in Kigali by the THY Chief Executive Dr. Temel Kotil when he met with President Paul Kagame. It was also announced that cooperation between RwandAir and [...]
27 Jul
East Africa news update – Power companies blamed for lack of foresight / planning
ELECTRICITY SHORTAGES EXPOSE WOEFUL STATE OF PLANNING As the East African region continues to suffer from unacceptable and entirely avoidable power cuts business and civil society leaders are ganging up against power companies and government oversight bodies and ministries, demanding answers why such outages should hit the region with a regularity, stemming from negligence and [...]
27 Jul
Ethiopian aviation news – ET gets 5th B777-200LR
ETHIOPIAN TAKES DELIVERY OF 5TH NEW B777 A brand new B777-200LR has last weekend joined the Ethiopian fleet, the fifth such aircraft. The airline also kept the tradition to name these ‘birds’ after landmarks in Africa, the latest being christened ‘Sahara’. The sister ships already in operation were named Blue Nile, Rift Valley, Victoria Falls [...]
27 Jul
Kenya aviation news – KQ launches ‘Change for Change’ project
CHANGE MAKES CHANGE Kenya Airways has began to accept voluntary contributions from passengers, happy to donate ‘excess’ coins but also notes for that matter, for funding of the airline’s charitable programmes across the network. Besides Kenya, where KQ’ corporate responsibility projects have made a big impact on society, and on the environment through their ‘plant [...]
26 Jul
Rwanda aviation news – One Month and Counting
ONE MONTH AND COUNTING RwandAir’s first brand new B737-800, which is presently being assembled at the Boeing facility in the United States, is now just one month away from delivery in Kigali. Equipped with the latest ‘Sky Interior’, developed by Boeing to make the aircraft look more ‘sassy’ on the inside, the aircraft a few [...]
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