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Kenya Airways Boeing B777-200ER plane is seen during a media tour at their maintenance hangar in Nairobi

Kenya Airways raises H1 profit ahead of cash call

Kenya Airways used fuel hedges to protect its bottom line from an escalation in direct costs in its first-half ended September, it said on Thursday, as it prepares to raise funds to finance its expansion.

SAfrica's Altech in talks for $60m Kenya firm -source

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South Africa's Allied Technologies Ltd is in talks to pay up to $60 million for unlisted Kenyan IT firm Symphony, according to a person familiar with the matter, to help revive its struggling business in fast-growing east Africa.

US court dismisses lawsuit against Rwanda's Kagame

Rwandan President Paul Kagame gestures during a news conference at the International Telecommunication Union
A federal court in Oklahoma on Friday dismissed a lawsuit against Rwandan President Paul Kagame brought by the widows of two assassinated African presidents, ruling that he had immunity in the United States.
Gaddafi's sons

ICC warns Libya's Saif al-Islam against fleeing

The International Criminal Court said on Saturday Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was in contact through intermediaries about surrendering for trial, but it also had information mercenaries were trying to spirit him to a friendly African nation.
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Former Rwandan health minister Casimir Bizimungu

UN court acquits Rwandan ex-ministers of genocide

The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda on Friday acquitted two former ministers of genocide charges, making them among the most high-profile officials to be found not guilty of playing key roles in the 1994 slaughter of about 800,000 people.
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Burundi Bar Killing Recalls the Gatumba Massacre of 2004

Gunmen killed 36 people at a bar in the city of Gatumba, near the Congolese border on Monday. The proximity to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo has led Burundian government officials to believe that the killers came from Congo.
El Niño

Climate-Conflict Link May Help Avert Crisis: Study

A new study has revealed a stronger evidence for the climate-conflict link, with data showing that tropical countries affected by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation are twice as likely to suffer internal unrest compared to the phenomenon's cooler, wetter counterpart, La Niña.
El Niño

El Niño Linked to Civil War in New Study

Civil wars are twice as likely to break out in countries that see severe weather fluctuations because of El Niño, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
El Niño

Notorious El Nino Doubles Civil Wars, Scientists Say

The El Nino climate cycle brings not only high temperatures and dry weather, but also possibly civil wars, a new study claims.Between 1950 and 2004, the risk of civil wars doubled in 90 tropical countries when bit by El Nino every three to seven years, according to a study published in Wednesday's Nature.
Baby Gorilla

Endangered Mountain Gorilla Saved from Poachers in Rwanda [PHOTOS]

A baby mountain gorilla was saved from the hands of illegal smugglers on Sunday in Rwanda. On Sunday night, a female baby mountain gorilla was found in an African jail, curled up on a bed alongside poachers who attempted to smuggle her from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Rwanda, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Rwandan authorities said the poachers had bought it for $15,000.
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Endangered Gorilla Found in African Prison with Poachers [PHOTOS]

A baby mountain gorillas was saved from becoming bush meat on Sunday in Rwanda. Sunday night, a female baby mountain gorilla was found in an African jail, curled up on a bed alongside poachers who attempted to smuggle her from the Democratic Republic of Congo into Rwanda, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

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