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Tanzanian President John Magufuli ‘s leadership style has unnerved investors, with weekly turnover at the Dar es salaam Securities Exchange dipping by more than 95 per cent in the past two weeks. Check also: People Without Valid Birth Certificates Will Not Be Allowed To Get Married In Tanzania Turnover fell to $813,128 last week, from $1.43 million the previous week; itself 90 ...

A 24-YEAR-OLD physics student from Nigeria has built a working helicopter out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi spent eight months building the model, using the money he makes from repairing cellphones and computers. Check also: Meet The 30 Year-Old Nigerian Tech Entrepreneur Who Is Challenging Apple In Africa While some of the parts have been sourced from ...

Alshabaab militant group on Sunday introduced a new curriculum for primary and secondary schools in places under their control. The launching ceremony attended by Alshabaab’s spokesperson Ali Dheere took place in Saakow Middle Juba. Check also: Thousands Die Of Famine In Somalia, According To U.N The group says the new curriculum intends to replace foreign elements in it mostly used across Somalia. ...

Road contractors who will not complete their work on time will lose their deals, Kenya National Highways Authority has warned. Check also: Uganda, Rwanda And Kenya Launch East Africa Tourism Portal The authority chairman Erastus Mwongera without naming the contractors, lamented that some of them were taking too long to complete their projects therefore inconveniencing road users and causing unnecessary delay. ...

Today, Microsoft announces via blog entry the shutdown of CodePlex, its 11-year-old site where programmers could host and share the code for their software projects just like Github. Check also: Microsoft Launched A New Nokia Phone When it was founded in 2006, CodePlex was one Microsoft’s biggest steps into the world of open source software — where any programmer, anywhere can download and tweak the ...