Burkina bars ex-regime MPs from poll

 Burkina Faso's president in waiting Roch Marc Kabore vowed a brighter future for the west African country Tuesday after becoming its first newly-elected leader in three decades.

Members of parliament in Burkina Faso decide to cut their salaries by half following a public outcry, as the country continues a transition to elections.

Tanzania in international tax law: Understanding the import taxation regime (5)  The Citizen Daily

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MPs: Government not complying, MPs just complaining on budgets
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Parliament performance this week was put on a slate during debate, with MPs complaining that the law making organ is a letdown to the public. Debating the 2014/2015 budget discussion, some MPs expressed dissatisfaction with discussion among ...

You aren’t much of a counsellor, so when this rather amiable barmaid, Amina, approaches you for advice, you find yourself in a fix. All the same, you tell yourself you should be of some use to the hapless young woman.

>Tanzania could become one of the most hostile territories for publishing firms, researchers and academicians after Parliament passed a new law yesterday limiting the publication of data to only those from the government’s own Bureau of Statistics.

A businesswoman who tried to smuggle into Tanzania 76 cocaine-filled capsules she had swallowed in Brazil bagged 20 years in jail after being convicted of drug trafficking.

Nairobi, Wednesday. The government has banned admission of foreign students to schools in insecurity-prone Mandera County.

Poverty Bars Women From Accessing Justice
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Zanzibar — A STUDY in Zanzibar has proved that accessing legal remedy becomes difficult to many victims of gender violence from poor families. Ms Fatma Omar, 52, a farmer in Kiboje village, South Unguja is an example of a poor woman who decided to ...
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