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TOP STORY President Obama's historic visit to Kenya and Ethiopia was marked by magnificent images of throngs of thousands coming out to applaud the motorcade for the first visit by a sitting American president. President Barack Obama concluded his successful fourth trip to Africa, which featured a return to Kenya and a controversial stopover in Ethiopia, the seat of the African Union. During the visit, he appeared at an entrepreneurial summit in Nairobi and held discussions with Kenyan, Ethiopian and other regional leaders on matters ranging from U.S.Africa trade and investment and regional security to human rights.
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bama is on a roll. He reached in East Africa on the back of a ruling upholding his healthcare plan, validation of his Pacific trade agreement, a nuclear deal with Iran, the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba, and rousing tribute in Charleston. He landed Air Force One in Nairobi with a spring in his step and continued to assuredly skewer Prejudice, Misogyny, Subversion and Stalinism. President Obama is the first sitting U.S. President to visit the two countries (Kenya and Ethiopia). Whatsoever judgment the White House makes in choosing the countries included on a presidential visit to Africa, it is inevitable
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SPOTLIGHT COUNTRY SOUTH AFRICA
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The first thing that comes to mind for many people when thinking about South Africa is the great wine, gold, platinum, diamonds and world icon Nelson Mandela. South Africa infact never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its economy, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all communicate to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa. South Africa has actually made considerable social and economic progress in the past decades, leaving people enthralled.
acob Zuma of the African National Congress was designated president by the National Assembly in 2009 and re-elected by an ANCdominated parliament for another five years in May 2014. The ANC has headed politics since the end of apartheid in 1994. South Africa is sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest economy and one of the world’s largest producers and exporters
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of gold and platinum. The sovereign debt crisis playing out in Europe is a glaring cue of the prominence of a country's fiscal stability and sustainability. Greece's fights show the awful penalties of what happens when there is a loss of buoyancy in a nation's knack to pay its debts. Since the start of the democracy, South Africa has always given strong stress on how to pull off their economy
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which continues to form the base of the economic position currently. The judicious fiscal management and monetary policies have definitely given rise to high levels of macroeconomic stability, endorsed competitiveness and augmented the economy's outward orientation. The economic miseries at the time stopped from the long-term effects of apartheid's biased policies. Follow us on
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outh African tourism started a campaign to allure more and more tourist visit the country. They were given a chance to join the cricket legend Jonty Rhodes on an adventurous trip as nothing could be better than to be in South Africa with Jonty Rhodes. Every country in the world exhibits some diversity, but South Africa, extending from the hippos in the Limpopo River to the penguins swaying on the Cape, takes some drumming. It suits its location at
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the southern end of the world’s most heroic continent, with more types of terrain than photographers can shake their zoom lens at. There’s the deserted Kalahari, Namakwa’s springtime symphony of wildflowers, iconic Table Mountain and Cape Point, Kruger National Park’s wildlife-stalked savannah (scene of the famous lion-buffalocrocodile battle watched more than 75 million times on YouTube) and, running through the east of the country and into Lesotho, the Drakensberg. KwaZulu-Natal’s iSimangaliso Wetland Park alone has five distinct ecosystems, enticing both zebras and dolphins. South Africa's picturesque exquisiteness, splendid outdoors, sunny climate, cultural diversity
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and repute for delivering value for money have made it one of the world's fastest growing leisure - and business - travel destinations. And if you’re fascinated by an another kind of wildlife, hit the nightclubs on Cape Town’s jumping Long St or sample African homebrew in a township shebeen (unlicensed bar). When it’s time to imitate on it all, do it over seafood on the Garden Route, curry in Durban’s Indian Area, a sizzling Cape Malay dish, or a braai (barbecue) in the wilderness - accompanied by a bottle of pinotage produced by the oldest wine industry outside Europe. South Africa is highly diverse
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THE CRUEL CYBER CRIMINAL Are You His Next Target?
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cruel cyber - criminal sitting at a secluded place is currently pointing your computer looking to steal your personal details and take your money. The bonanza for these criminals is your banking details, and they don't need to hack into your online account to find them. Most attacks these days are monetarily motivated, which means cybercriminals are trying to get at either your data or your computer’s processing power to make money by spewing spam on your behalf or by stealing your identity. You might be astonished to identify that your social networking login details can frequently be worth more to
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cybercriminals than your financial info, since there are many guards for consumers against financial fraud but next to none for online accounts like email and social networking. Your social information gives hackers access to your friends on those networks, who then become vulnerable to cybercriminal attacks as well. Like most fatalities of cybercrime, Teena Gangwani, a housewife and mother-of-two, is still not sure how her computer became infected. What she does know is that it was shortly out of her control, emailing all her contacts. Then, slowly and surreptitiously, money began to evaporate from her own bank
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account. The infection probably arrived via a spam email. But the first sign of it was when she became a spammer herself, bombarding friends with emails offering once-in-a-lifetime deals. Then the money started going from her account, first in small amounts – so it wasn’t noticed. Then the withdrawals ramped up, with hundreds of pounds being taken at cashpoints across the UK. She reset her passwords, cancelled her cards and thought it was over. But within days, she was once again spamming her friends with messages to ‘Click this link and you get a free TV.’ Then money began to vanish yet again. She understood that the Follow us on
SECTORAL ANALYSIS Innovations built around the mobile phone have upgraded the African population’s presence in financial markets and have helped to work around the continent’s infrastructure problems. Half of Africa's one billion population has a mobile phone - and not just for talking. This has opened up prospects for entrepreneurs and has transformed the way business is done in the continent’s banking, agricultural, telecoms and pharmaceutical sectors. But it has also facilitated to upsurge transparency in politics as activists use mobile applications to monitor political violence and fight against state control of free speech.
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