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/ 21 September 2007
Tanzania will boost the proportion of citizens with access to electricity to 25% by around 2013, the country’s energy minister said on Friday. Only about 10% of Tanzania’s 40-million people currently have access to electricity, and the government plans to focus its efforts on the poorest living in rural areas.
News items on disease, conflict and corruption in Africa are crowding out positive stories of burgeoning economies on the continent, speakers at a global technology and design meeting said this week. Many African economies are booming and attracting interest from people keen to invest in them despite hurdles such as bad roads, erratic power supply or insecurity, they added.
Villagers found heads placed on poles and body parts scattered in bushes in six murders the media blamed on Tuesday on an outlawed sect notorious for killing and extortion. People in the country’s central region found the heads and other remains after attacks on Sunday and Monday.
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/ 7 September 2006
Burundi and its last remaining rebel group signed a full ceasefire on Thursday, a crucial step towards stabilising a nation trying to rise from the ashes of a 12-year civil war. President Pierre Nkurunziza and Forces for National Liberation chief Agathon Rwasa signed the deal in Dar es Salaam in the presence of South African mediators and African leaders.