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A single percentage point separates two top contenders as 2016 race tightens in national polls. By Graham Lanktree US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a Community in Unity rally in Wilton Manors, FloridaJewel Samad/ AFP New national polls show Hillary Clinton's campaign narrowly holding on to her lead in the 2016 US election. This tightening of the race follows a fresh controversy over her handling of government emails while Secretary of State. A single percentage point now separates the Democrat from Republican contender Donald Trump a national ABC News/Washington Post poll shows. It puts Clinton in the lead with just 46% to Trump's 45% share of the vote. Another poll tracking the impact of the Clinton email controversy showed a similar one percentage point between Trump and the Democrat. Clinton had been maintaining a 3% lead over Trump in many national polls following a series of sex scandals about the real estate mogul th...

Joshua Masinde ,   Quartz Africa President Uhuru Kenyatta: frustrated. (Reuters/Stephane Mahe) Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta was last week roundly criticized by his country men and women after admitting, in startlingly frank terms, his helplessness in fighting against endemic corruption. Kenyatta said he had tried everything in his power including sacking cabinet ministers and others implicated in corruption to no avail. “Show me any one administration since independence that has taken action on corruption like I have done, the president said . “I have removed everybody. I have done my part, at great expense also, political, by asking these guys to step aside.” His frustration is a classic tale of failed attempts by different African governments in their relentless struggle to fight the vice that has plagued the continent for decades. His comments came as no surprise, though, as a survey by market research firm, Infotrack, in August this year, rank...

Small-scale solar power is surging ahead A FEW miles down a rutted dirt road, and many more from the nearest town, a small farmhouse stands surrounded by dense green bush. On the inside of one wall gangly wires reach down to a switch and light that are connected to a solar panel. Readers in rich countries may well consider electric lighting mundane. But in northern Rwanda, where fewer than one in ten homes has access to electricity, simple solar systems that do not rely on the grid—and use a battery to store electricity for use at night—are a leap into modernity. A service once available only to rich Africans in big towns or cities is now available for just a few dollars a week. People are able to light their rooms, charge a smartphone and listen to the radio. In a few years they will probably also be watching television, powering their irrigation pumps and cooling their homes with fans.  In short, poor people in a continent in which two of every three people ha...

Lynsey Chutel ,   Quartz Africa Leaving so soon? (Reuters/Phil Noble) It was June 2015, and South Africans were caught up in an international drama involving a mad dash to find Omar al-Bashir. Dozens of leaders had gathered in Johannesburg for an African Union summit, but it was the presence of the Sudanese leader—in defiance of an international warrant for his arrest—that stole the show. The summit’s discussions on gender equality were overshadowed by the question: Would South Africa, a self-styled beacon of human rights on the African continent, hand over a man facing charges of genocide against his own people to the International Criminal Court? It would not. Much to the dismay of South Africa’s rights groups, al-Bashir’s jet was allowed to take off from Pretoria despite a local court order to stop him. Fast forward a year later, and South Africa has become the first country to formally withdraw from the ICC, arguing that its obligations to the court are pr...

Mkuu wa wilaya ya Kongwa Mh Deo Ndejembi akizungumza mara baada ya kuzindua kampeni ya kuondoa Njaa wilaya ya Kongwa, (ONJAKO)  Mkuu wa wilaya ya Kongwa Mh Deo Ndejembi akizindua kampeni ya kuondoa Njaa wilaya ya Kongwa, (ONJAKO)  Ofisa Kilimo Mkoa wa Dodoma Bi Aziza Mumba akisisitiza jambo wakati wa uzinduzi wa Okoa Njaa Wilayani Kongwa Makamu Mwenyekiti wa Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Kongwa Richard Mwite Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Kongwa Mkoani Dodoma Mhe Deo Ndejembi akisisitiza vijana Kulima na kuacha kucheza mchezo wa Pool Table wakati wa kazi Na Peter Daffi, Dodoma Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Kongwa Mkoani Dodoma Mhe Deo Ndejembi ameanzisha kampeni ya kuondoa Njaa wilaya ya Kongwa, (ONJAKO) yenye dhamira ya kuwasaidia wananchi kuondokana na hali yanjaa ambayo ni kadhia kubwa katika maeneo mbalimbali ya Wilaya hiyo sambamba na Taifa kwa ujumla. Kuanzishwa kwa Kampeni ya Okoa njaa Wilaya ya Kongwa imejili wakati Mkuu huyo w...

Imeelezwa kwamba watu wengi wamekuwa wakishindwa kufanikiwa kimaisha kutokana na kutokuwa na mipango ya kimaisha ambayo wanaweza kuifanyia kazi ili waweze kufanikiwa kama jinsi ilivyo kwa baadhi ya watu ambao wanaonekana kuwa na mafanikio. Hayo yamesemwa na Mwandishi wa kitabu cha TIMIZA MALENGO YAKO, Joel Nanauka wakati wa uzinduzi wa kitabu hcho ambacho kinnaelezea mbinu 60 ambazo zinatumiwa na watu waliofanikiwa kimaisha kuweza kufikia alengo ambayo wamejiwekeakatika maisha yao. Nanauka alisema watu wengi wamekuwa wakitamani kufanikiwa lakini wamekuwa hawajui ni hatua gani za kupitia na kufanikiwa na baada ya yeye kufanya utafiti wa muda mrefu kwa watu mbalimbali duniani waliofanikiwa na wasiofanikiwa, ameweza kupata mbinu 60 ambazo ndiyo zinatofautisha watu wa matabaka hayo mawili Alisema kupitia kitabu hicho msmaji ataweza kufahamu ni mambo gani anatakiwa kufanya na yapi hatakiwi kufanya ili kufanikiwa kama wengine kwa kuzingatia mbinu ambazo pia zi...