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East Africa and the rest of the continent must stop using food aid as a safety net and eliminate the hunger that is affecting a quarter of their people if they are to sustain their present economic growth, says a newly released report on food security in Africa.

Quiet campaigns and lobbying for the country’s nine slots in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) are in earnest ahead of elections on Friday.

The Gacaca justice system delivered its intended objectives and was the right solution for the complex nature of the cases related to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, according to a report released this month by a London-based think tank.

Financial experts have advised the East African Community (EAC) to speed up business reforms in order to encourage domestic investment if the bloc is to realise its integration agenda.

KINSHASA – Rwandan rebels have killed at least 50 civilians in May in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

Rwanda’s annual inflation for the month of April eased to 6.95 per cent compared to 8.18 per cent the previous month, the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) said on Tuesday.

Perennially drought-stricken Ethiopia has won a surprise commendation for its innovative and effective efforts to build resilience and food self-sufficiency amid increasingly challenging climatic conditions.

Increasing the  East African Community’s (EAC) budget for the financial year 2012-2013 was imperative, the Permanent  Secretary in the EAC ministry, George William Kayonga, has said.