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Mojatu Magazine 26 Oct 2009 Issue M006 www.mojatu.com
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Heavenly Lamu, Kenya Proposed route for Sudan‟s Oil To China
Plus No African leader worthy $5Million Mafia and deaths in Somalia Whipped for wearing bra The greatest race in Africa - 31,000 participants BEFFTA Awards review
WIN Air Ticket to Kenya Page 15
No furniture so charming as books Eastleigh, Nairobi: We have seen a big increase in the number of Somali girls using the library
Education institutions: 75 Individual members: 6,535 Stocks available: 4,952
Sipili, Laikipia West, Rift Valley Education institutions: 20 Individual members: 735 Stocks available: 5,403
Kawangware, Nairobi Education institutions: 116 Individual members: 2,813 Stocks available: 2,445
Mathare North, Nairobi Education institutions: 106 Individual members: 6,165 Stocks available: 4,116
Fund Donations and Support Required To stock, equip and develop the libraries and support members especially girls
Kidslibs Trust
Anne Moore MBE, P. O. Box 1461 - 00621,
Village Market, Nairobi, Kenya Mobile: +254 722 774 746
E mail: [email protected] Web: www.kidslibstrust.org
UK (Enquiries only): +44 751 696 2992
Little Hands, Big Steps projects
Super Angels girls groups support
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Full sets of novels for the book clubs
High-quality surge protectors
Computers and printers
Bikes for all centres
Vehicle running and fuelling costs
Art supplies for art clubs
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Contents News Review 4
Education & Scholarships 7 Events & Entertainment 9 Jobs & Careers 11 Opportunities and Funding 12
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The Official Miss Somali UK was held this month at Hammer-smith, west London.
The show was great and lived to its focal purpose – promote role models not cre-ate supermodels. The contestants were great and the audience jubilant. Abdi Jama, the Somali UK Paralympics champion among other speakers greatly encouraged the So-mali community to be more focused and seek ways to be achievers and role models.
Dead Weight, Dir; Yemane I Demissie, 2009: Screening at ICA, London With the death of her mother, Hewan, a poster child for the successful, over-achieving immigrant, thought she was going to be able to finally bury with her the memo-ries of her teenage years in Ethiopia. But the unexpected appearances in Los Angeles of her estranged father and of Ben, the man who tortured her during the Red Terror cam-paign in the mid 1970s, start unstitching her perfect quilt of a life. Pg 10
The End of Poverty?, dir Philippe Diaz, 2008 Screening at ICA, London
In a world where we have so much wealth, how come that we still have poverty and that millions of people across the globe live on less than $1 a day? De-scribed by the Hollywood Reporter as “An Inconven-ient Truth for global politics”, this documentary shocks us with images from some of the poorest areas of the world and forces us to consider our own part in a problem that will not just go away. Pg 10
in brief NEWS
Monthly review of
news and events on Eastern Africa
Sudan oil to China via Kenya Kenya and China are in talks over prospects of developing a port on the Kenyan coast and transport corridor creating a new export route for China's oil in southern Sudan. China, the world's third largest economy and the biggest foreign player in Sudan's oil sector is considering building a multibillion oil export route from Sudan to Kenya‟s coast. Kenyan government was in talks with Qatar over a potential $3.5bn investment in Lamu late last year in return for a lease on 40,000 hectares of land for Qatar to grow crops. China may develop the Lamu port plus roads and rail links in the Kenya‟s northern frontier to help it ship the oil from Sudan. This will be a lifeline to the underdeveloped northern Kenya region and accelerate economic growth in southern Ethiopia and Sudan.
Urgent food aid for 6 million in Ethiopia
Ethiopia urgently requires about 160,000 tonnes of emergency food aid to feed 6.2 million people due to drought affecting much of the Horn of Africa, including Kenya and Somalia. Mr Mitiku Kassa, Ethiopia‟s minister for agriculture and rural develop-ment appealed to donors for more than $121 million Shameful practice In 1984 over a million people died in the country's notorious famine. Faced with the same predicament , Ethiopians are tired of hand-outs and demand lasting solutions. “Begging is a shameful practice. What we need now is skills and training. We don‟t need food aid anymore, “ says Ethiopian farmer, Tayto Mesfin. Tayto has benefitted from trainings on crossbreed seeds to improve his crop yield. Other projects such as grain banks and beekeeping courses have encouraged Ethiopians to feel they can survive the drought, and offers new skills to pull them out of the cycle of poverty.
Kenya: Visa Ban UK and US have placed visa bans on prominent Kenyans and their families as a means of pressurising them to act on corruption and participate in re-forms. The visa ban will lead to revo-cations of existing visas and denial of future visa applications. “We have focused our attention on individuals we believe are capable of having an influence of change and because they have not used their of-fices in an appropriate and proper way, we felt that we would focus on them. Not everyone in government is an ob-stacle to progress,” said Mr Carson, the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. The visa bans may be extended to the family members of these individuals.
House Collapse Kills 16 in Kiambu A 5 storey house under construction collapsed, in Kiambu Town near Nairobi killing 16 peo-ple. 9 people are still missing. The rescue operations called off on October 22nd took three days and involved a joint team of Kenya Red Cross, the Armed forces helped by many volunteers.
London gay marriage triggers homophobic attacks in Kenya The family of Daniel Chege is being harassed by neighbours in Central Kenya following his marriage in Lon-don. Mr Chege and Mr Charles Ngengi got married at Islington Town Hall in North London, UK on 17th of this month. The backlash has been greatly fuelled somehow negative media coverage and the condemnation by hardliner religious leaders.
Sheilla Beach in Lamu Kenya is in talks with overseas investors for infrastructure development Roads, Port and a Railway line
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The collapsed has been attributed to poor construction
Somalia and the al Shabaab Flying Poachers
Authorities in Puntland, Somalia, are compiling data on foreign helicopters said to be poaching and stealing wildlife from the area while at the same time scaring off the farm animals.
Reports indicate that in the past few months unidentified helicopters swoop-ing in from the sea attacking and taking wildlife on a daily basis. "The foreign forces claim to be guarding against pirates but who is guarding us and our resources against them?" asks the leaders.
How would it be like to kill some-one? Shoot a baboon
A well known UK restaurant critic, AA Gill, has confessed to shooting a ba-boon to see what it would be like to kill someone while on Safari in Tanzania.
"I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways. I'm told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life. They die hard, baboons. But not this one. A soft-nosed .357 blew his lungs out" Gill wrote.
Somalia: Bras are deceptive Are your breasts bouncing, if not, you must whipped for deception Somalia‟s hard-line Islamist group al Shabaab is publicly whipping women for wear-ing bras they say violate Islam by constituting a deception.
In Mogadishu, gunmen are gathering women perceived to have firm busts and pub-licly whipping them for being “deceptive”. After the whippings, carried out by masked men, the women are forced to remove their bras and shake their breasts. Al Shabaab stipulates that breasts should be firm naturally or just flat.
The insurgent group, which seeks to impose a strict form of Sharia Islamic law, am-putated a foot and a hand each from two young men accused of robbery. They have also banned movies, musical ringtones, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching soccer.
The Italian Connection: Mafia and Piracy They get weapons and cash in exchange for toxic waste and mayhem Since the 1990s the Mafia have been known to dump toxic waste in the waters off Somalia where lack of government makes costs negligible and like most of Africa, prospects of prosecution or accountability are non existence.
In 2004, toxic and radioactive waste caused illnesses when in Somali beaches.
Francesco Fonti, a former boss of the 'Ndrangheta, the mafia of Calabria said he had personally shipped other waste to Somalia which could have led to the deaths. Toxic waste vessels were sent to Somalia and other developing countries such as Kenya and Zaire with toxic cargoes, which were either sunk with the ship or buried on land.
In Somalia, various fighting groups received weapons in exchange for receiving the waste ships which is attributed to the deaths of a well-known Italian TV journalist Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin killed in Somalia because while in-vestigating toxic waste dumped at Bosaso, Somalia.
This toxic waste dumping coupled with overfishing has contributing to declining fish stocks in the region while the weapons and finances supplied fuel conflicts and arm pirates thus fuelling piracy.
“Your people will cry," Al Shabab tells Uganda, Burundi and Kenya Al Shabaab insurgents said they will strike the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from those countries that killed at least 30 people in Mogadishu. "We shall attack Bujumbura and Kampala ... We will move our fighting to those two cities and we shall destroy them. We shall make your people cry.” They also renewed their threat to launch attacks on Kenya, this time following alle-gations that the Kenyan government is recruiting and training Somalis in north east-ern Kenya to fight al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Al Shabaab Fighters in Somali
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No African leader worthy $5 Million
The $5m (£3m) annual prize for good governance in Africa had no claimant this year because the foundation running it could not find anyone to award it to.
The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership which is awarded to a democratically elected heads of state in Africa who have left office in the past three years had no winner this year.
In 2007 Mo Ibrahim created the prize that awards $5 million over 10 years and $200,000 annually for life thereafter to encourage leader-ship that improves the prospects of people in Africa.
Mo was born in Sudan is a former BT engineer. He created Mobile Systems, which he sold for $916million in 2000 and Celtel which he sold for $3.4billion in 2004.
Aids vaccine not as effective
The first Aids vaccine to show an en-
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BOOK LAUNCHED Writing for Kenya The Life and Works of Henry Muoria
Wangari Muoria-Sal, Bodil Folke Frederiksen, John
Lonsdale & Derek Peterson
Henry Muoria (1914-97), self-taught
journalist and pamphleteer, helped to
inspire Kenya's nationalisms before Mau
Mau. The pamphlets reproduced here, in
Gikuyu and English, contrast his own
originality with the conservatism of Jomo
Kenyatta, Kenya's first President. The
contributing editors introduce Muoria's
political context, tell how three remark-
able women sustained his families' life;
and remember him as father. Courageous
intellectual, political, and domestic life
here intertwine.
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Genetic tests to determine nationality Kenyans and Somalis are the guinea pigs. Its criti-cised as horrifying, flawed and naïve.
U.K. Border Agency is to use DNA analysis to help identify a person‟s true country of origin. The tests are to be carried on Somali applicants to determine whether the asylum seekers are from Soma-lia or Kenya. If successful, the Border Agency suggests its pilot project could be extended to confirming other nationalities.
However, scientists have labelled the tests horrifying, naïve and scientifically flawed by noting that the Border Agency‟s goals confuse ancestry or ethnicity with na-tionality. Genes do not respect national borders, as many legitimate citizens are migrants or direct descen-dants of migrants, and many national borders split eth-nic groups. The assumption that Africans have a spe-cific and localised DNA gene pool is naïve.
A trial of a scanner that produces "naked" images of passen-gers has begun at Manchester Airport. This is another of the many systems being tested to managed travel and migration
Uganda: Death for aggravated gay sex
David Bahati, a Ugandan MP wants the death penalty for those hav-ing gay sex with disabled people, under-18s or when the accused is HIV-positive.
The bill proposes widening the definition of homosexual acts and wants to fine or imprison anyone found to be promoting homosexu-ality. He says the bill is intended to protect the traditional family by prohibiting any form of sexual relations between persons of the same sex.
Holland Car - Africa's Top Company An Ethiopian Company, Holland Car Plc, came top in small busi-ness awards function held in South Africa.
Holland Car won the overall 2009 Africa SMME Award because of its ability to create and sustain jobs in a challenging environment. It is built on solid principles and has established itself as a world leader in manufacturing, assembling and distribution of its products.
Mr Mo Ibrahim: No leader competent enough
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Joseph, Sipili Community Library, Laikipia West, Kenya
Joseph arrived with three other's (2 male, 2 female) on the day the books arrived in Sipili library. He wanted to volunteer for training in library skills by KLT. As we unpacked the books, it became clear that Joseph had never really handled books before. He took each book from the box as if it was made of finest porcelain, and placed it delicately on the shelf.
Having never finished primary school, due to lack of school fees like so many in Kenya, his spoken English in need of work. He was also very quiet. At the time, he had a donkey and a cart which he hired out to raise money for basic survival. Joseph was committed from the beginning. He showed and interest in the books, and started reading anything recommended to him. With time, his spoken and written English greatly improved and so did his enthusiasm and confidence. Despite not being paid, Joseph was always there, and always on time. His diligence, enthusiasm and commitment was, and still is truly remarkable. He was selected to be in charge of the library.
Soon, he started library clubs for children, and got his friend John involved in creating a drama group for the library. He has now taught himself sign language to enable him communicate with children from the school for the deaf nearby. He helps with a drama group at the school which performs at the library. He has also recruited children to help him keep the library neat and tidy, he also runs an art club. Joseph has not only enabled us to realise the establishment of Sipili library but he has enhanced the communities well being by supporting the Girls club at Sipili library and being in charge of coordinating Little Hands, Big Steps, KLT project for family reading with under 5 year olds. His enthusiasm is contagious! His commitment is inspirational! These facets have rubbed onto the members of the community encouraging many more people to volunteer in the library and to help children learn. Joseph is still a volunteer to date and despite the hardships that come with lack of income, he neither complains nor misses a day of work at the library. He is unmatched! It is our sincere hope that sooner than later, we will find donors to enable us provide albeit basic compensation for his great work.
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Books are fascinating: Kids at Sipili library
The ever inspiring and committed Joseph
Mural Wall: Sipili Library, Laikipia West, Rift Valley, Kenya.
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The 1st Annual Black Entertainment, Film, Fashion, Television and Arts Awards (BEFFTA), aimed at honouring the best enter-tainment and showbiz personalities in UK and across the globe made history by being the first of its kind ceremony and saw the movers and shakers of the black community come out in large number. The glitzy red carpet event celebrating the achievements of stars from the black African and Caribbean community hosted by Richard Blackwood and comedian Miss London at-tracted stars both nationally and internationally
including Face of Sleek brand Noella Coursaris, Angie Le Mar, Miss England Rachel Christie, Andy Abrahams (X-Factor) , Choice FM DJ Abrantee, Lee Jasper, fashion entrepreneur Samata Angel, international makeup artist Eryca Freemantle, Playvybz Radio Crew, MTV comedian Kojo, Mobo winner Yolanda Brown amongst others . BEFFTA award winners voted for by the general public included Mahogany Model Management founder Sola Oyebade, Noel Clarke, Dizzee Rascal and Rudolf Walker, who was honoured with the lifetime achievement award whilst comedian Kojo won the BEFFTA Inspiration Award. With glamour being the word of the evening BEFFTA Awards were handed out to leading musicians, designers, comedians, radio personalities, television personalities, actors, actresses and a host of other categories within the arts. Other winners on the night included model Jasmia Robinson, X-Factor sensation Leona Lewis and top model Ibukun Jegede. The event went well but not without hiccups and teething problems, with 48 nomination categories one or two things were bound to go the other way. The designers category was mostly affected with three names forgotten to be mentioned, Thread needles tailors designer George Dyer, Designer Gavin Pierre Medford and Caz Longe. However Caz Longe won the category. Highlights of the night included muscle bound Tiny Iron who has Britains biggest biceps entertaining the crowd over his pronunciation of nominees names and Sola Oye-bade scooping two awards on the night. BEFFTA Awards is here to stay and grow with the support of the community. They certainly put smiles on many faces on the night as winning an award in such a prestigious ceremony is a big deal. The award ceremony fulfilled it's first promise by awarding and honouring the best within the black commu-nity. The next promise to fulfil is support worthy causes and events within the black community. Founder Pauline Long said, “BEFFTA Awards has been greatly received and supported by the community including the critics who have pledged support for BEFFTA 2010. Being in London's most prestigious venue, Hilton Metro-pole, the award ceremony was as glitzy as expected, I have never seen so much glamour in one night under one roof. It was an honour to be part of it. Plans are already under way for BEFFTA Awards 2010 to be held at Royal Albert Hall. we hope to deliver a great show”.
See full list of BEFFTA Awards winners at www.beffta.com Photos courtesy of Ewene Photography, [email protected], 07791836547
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Richard Blackwood at the BEFFTA awards
Tiny at the BEFFTA awards: (nothing tiny about him)
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Galiwango, a gorillas tale of survival and perseverance
This animated mountain gorilla film traces Galiwango‟s journey as a captured baby Gorilla who is taken away from Uganda and illegally sold to a research facility into a western country. A group of scientists teach him how to use technology with the intent of profiting from the success of the project. Years later, Galiwango‟s gets back to Uganda and encounters where he encounters other gorillas. The story explores the dangers of living in a forest that is rife with conflict and greed. Close encounters with poachers and rebels drive the constant need by Galiwango and his friend to be alert and staying on the run as they strug-gle to stay alive. It is geared towards raising awareness to the plight of the last remaining mountain gorillas living in Uganda, Rwanda and the DRC. The film is written in Luganda, Uganda's most widely spoken local language.
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Great Ethiopian Run, over 30,000 registered The 2009 Great Ethiopian Run which will be held on November 22, 2009 in Addis Ababa has regis-tered over 30,000 entries to date. Athletes from neighbouring Kenya and other international champions and fun athletes are expected to flood Ethiopia for this event.
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Event: Films - The End of Poverty? Venue: Institute of Contem-porary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH Date & Time: 09-11-09 (18:30 - 20:00)
Event: Films - Dead Weight - Amharic with English subtitles - European Premiere Venue: The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH Date & Time: 10-11-2009 (18:30 - 23:00)
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Are you running a small business in Kenya? Have you been in busi-ness for at least a year, and are you looking for an expert to help you to overcome a challenge? Skills Venture provides one-to-one mentoring support to Kenyan small businesses – and the best part is that the mentoring is com-pletely free of charge. Support is provided by business experts from the UK, the USA and elsewhere, who are in Kenya on assignments from five days to six months. We will match you with a suitable men-tor and provide support from our onsite team, who are based both in Nairobi and at our Naivasha base. Our mentors provide support and boost your capacity in areas that are of particular concern or relevance to you, such as marketing, fi-nancial planning, or product development, among others. Our mentors have at least five years‟ experience and are carefully selected to ensure that they bring not only excellent professional skills and expertise to bear, but also have superior interpersonal „soft‟ skills. They are fully inducted and enjoy the support of a team of trained Kenyan facilitators employed by Skills Venture. We will provide you with mentoring support that is tailored to your own individual circumstances, rather than generic classroom training. After a rigorous analysis of your needs, our mentors will provide sup-port and advice in areas that might include planning for business growth, outperforming your rivals, and managing your organisation. Mentoring days involve one-to-one consultancy, and the provision of practical advice and assistance that will help you to consider the is-sues that you are facing in a new way. You will have the benefit of talking to an experienced business person who has skills that can help you to take your business to the next level. For more information and to join our register, visit http://entrepreneurs.skillsventure.com.
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Kenya Airways Job Positions Kenya: *Country Manager *HR Relationship Manager *Technical Services and Support Galileo Tanzania: Sales and Ticketing Agent Dar Es Salaam Overseas: Sales positions in China, Jeddah, Equatorial Guinea, India & Sri Lanka, CAR & Cameroon
University of Dodoma, Tanzania
Over 50 positions In Teaching and Administrative Positions listed
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Coca Cola is hiring Kenya and Uganda
Nairobi Office:
Electrical Technician
Systems Engineer
Maintenance controller
Uganda Office:
Engineering Coordinator
Finance Manager
Graduate Trainees Uganda Office: Graduate Trainee Managers Engineering, Marketing, Procurement, Quality Assurance Logistics and Warehousing
Nairobi Office: Graduate Trainee Managers in Human Resources, Supply Chain, Sales & Marketing and Finance
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
Samaritan Network is looking
for Volunteers in the London
Area with their own vehicle to
pick up sandwiches one day a week from Pret a Manger and
every weekend between 5-
8pm and help us with the de-livery and distribution of food.
We also need a cook to help us
on a weekly basis.
Applications
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Africa: International Global Supply Chain Management Specialist - 2 Posts
Nairobi, Kenya Advisor, Organisation Develop-ment & Change Capacity and Leadership Devel-opment Advisor Regional Vice President‟s Execu-tive Advisor Senior Director Operations
Sudan Education Sector Advisor, Juba Finance Coordinator, Nyala Health Officer, Fangak Returnee Assistance Project, Malakal Health Officer, Protection & Emer-gency Assistance Project, Yambio Project Officer, Tonj N. Emer-gency Food Crisis Response Regional Program Officer, Kuajok Juba, WASH Sector Advisor
Tanzania Country Director Programme Coordinator Agricultural Scale up Initiative (TASUI), Ethiopia Senior Funding Advisor
Creative Associates International:
Tanzania Chief of Party Deputy Chief of Party
Fin. Manager Lakes State, Sudan Chief of Party
Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning- Rwanda Application Deadlines: 06/11/2009
Public Debt management Expert Customer care Officer Network Administration Expert Government Portfolio Manager Monitoring and Evaluation Expert Fiscal Decentralization Coordinator Application and Database Expert (2) Senior Economist In charge of Macroeconomic Policy Financial Resources Mobilization Coordinator Deputy Accountant General for Treasury Management External Resource Mobilizations Expert Procedures, Professional Standards & Chart of Accounts Expert
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Other Jobs @
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If you are a Kenyan living outside Kenya, and you want to give back to your community by using your business skills to help a local entrepreneur, we can help you. Whether you live in the UK, US or elsewhere, we can match you with one or more entrepreneurs in Kenya who need mentoring support. We recognise that you are unlikely to need all of the support ser-vices that we offer to our clients who have not been to Kenya before - such as accommodation and the support of our facilitation team on the ground. We therefore offer large discounts to members of the Kenyan Diaspora who want to return to Kenya to mentor an entrepreneur, and who simply need to be
matched with suitable business people. We also recognise that your knowledge of Kenya will help you to make a really significant difference to the people that you work with. If you would like to know more about the packages that we can offer for Kenyans living overseas, please visit http://diaspora.skillsventure.com.
DIASPORA VOLUNTEERING IN KENYA
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UK International Health Links Funding Scheme
The scheme is aimed at strengthening partnerships, or „Links‟, between UK health institutions and their counterparts in developing countries. Grants will be of-fered to Links which will help build the capacity of developing countries‟ health systems, contributing to the achievement of priorities defined in the national health plans of target developing countries."
Small grants (up to £3,000) Medium grants (up to £15,000 per year) Large grants (up to £60,000 per year) Deadline: 30 November 2009 For workshops for potential applicants
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Funding for NGOs in Rwanda and Tanza-nia: Deadline: 20/11/09: Funding max: $2M
McKnight Foundation for East Africa Grants Program: women's social and eco-nomic empowerment in Tanzania and Uganda. Total awards: US $1.4 million Deadline: 11/15/09
Business Plan Competition, Tanzania: Win up to US$15,000/-
Construction of Kidete Dam Project, Tanzania: Close: 24th Nov 09
Control and supervision of the con-struction works and installation of hydro-electro mechanical equipments for RUKARARA II microhydro power plant in Rwanda: Close: 8th Dec 09
Provision of Air Travel Tickets, Tan-zania: Close: 20th Dec 09
Supply of 30 Motor Vehicles & Motor Cycles, Tanzania: Close: 30th Nov 09
Supply of Equipment and Machinery, Tanzania: Close: 30th Nov 09
Supply of of Assorted Filters for Cummins, Caterpillar Stork Wartsila and MAN B&W Engines for Thermal Power Stations: Close: 11th Nov 09
Supply of Pharmaceuticals to Medi-cal Stores Department, Tanzania: Close: 23rd Nov 09
Supply of Spares for Electromechani-cal Generation Equipment for Hale Pangani and Nyumba ya Mungu Power Stations: Close: 27th Nov 09
Construction works of New Moroto Prison & Procurement of Workshop Tools & equipment, Uganda: Close: 10 Nov 09
Consultancy Services for Design and construction supervision for the reha-bilitation Irrigation Schemes in Uganda: Close: 10 Nov 09
Step Up of Transformers in Kenya - many tenders ending mid November
Supply of equipment for inspection of fishery products, IT equipment and vehicles (Eritrea) Close: 15-1-2010
Technical assistance for the 'National heritage' programme, As-mara, Eritrea (restoration of Cinema Capitol and the rehabilitation of Mieda Eritrea Market Square both located in Asmara)
Consulting services: Maintenance needs assessment and updating of road financing study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Close: Nov 13, 2009
Consulting services: Maintenance needs assessment and updating of road financing study, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Consultancy services for customer data cleanup for Nairobi City Water & Sewerage Company Limited, Nairobi, Kenya: Close: 24-11-2009 Supply of 2,500 ½" [15mm] prepaid water meters in Nairobi, Kenya: Close: 30th Nov 09
See details on all these Opportunities and more at
Tenders section in the Classifieds @
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FREE Business Training & Mentoring
Do you run a small business in Kenya or UK? Do you want to increase your productivity and effectiveness?
Planning: Strategic, Project, Financial, Risk and Logistics
Communication: Written, Social Networking, Speaking, Sales & Negotiate
Productivity: Management - Time, Meetings, Leadership, Systems and Per-
sonal Productivity
Creativity: Imagination, Inventiveness, Problem Solving, Brainstorming and
Making connections
Contact details & Registration
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