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Tata withdraws Natron report

afrol News - Tata Chemicals Ltd (TCL) has finally withdrawn the much discredited Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) Report for the proposed Lake Natron soda ash plant in Tanzania.

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Kenya
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'Embrace green revolution'

afrol News - The Chairman of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has advised Kenyan farmers to embrace green revolution to counter challenges posed by the soaring food prices and post-electoral violence.

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Rwanda
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Canada sells combined AIDS drugs to Rwanda

afrol News - Canada's largest generic pharmaceutical company, Apotex, has won a tender to supply life saving triple combination AIDS drug "Apo Triavir" to the government of Rwanda.

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Kenya
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Tana biofuel could be illegal

afrol News - Implementation of plans to grow biofuel crops on an idyllic river plain in Kenya could be illegal if implemented in its current form, arguing that its cost has been underestimated while profit overestimated.

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Kenya
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Kenyan victims return home

afrol News - Thousands of Kenyans displayed by the post-electoral violence on Monday returned home after spending more several months in camps.

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Kenya
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'Kenya's coalition is united'

afrol News - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has downplayed claims by critics that the grand coalition government is cracking as evidenced by disunity between the President and the Prime Minister.

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Equatorial Guinean leader tops Africa's media predators

afrol News - President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of the oil-rich "Kuwait of Africa" has topped the Paris-based Reporters sans frontières (RSF) list of press predators in Africa.

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Uganda
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Military raids Uganda paper

afrol News - Uganda's military intelligence personnel raided the headquarters of the privately-owned fortnightly and the home of its publisher in the capital Kampala, accusing the paper and its staff of possessing "seditious material."

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Kenya
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Kenya army tortures civilians

afrol News - The Nairobi-based Independent Medico-Legal Unit [IMLU] has accused Kenyan army officers of torturing hundreds of people between March and April.

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Kenya
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Fungus destroys Kenya rice

afrol News - Up to 20% of Kenya's annual rice production has been wiped out by a fungus, raising concerns of food insecurity in a country that has been embroiled in deadly political unrest.

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