Daily News on Issues Affecting Africa for June 4th

Continue reading for a summary of recent news stories relating to some of the most pressing issues on the continent. We draw on a wide range of respected news sources, both from Africa itself and around the world. The themes of today's In the News post are: Kenya's treatment of Somali Refugees,the Renamo rebel movement in Mozambique, updates on the South Sudan and CAR situations, and questioning Africa's technological capabilities.

Kenya Turns up the Heat on Somali Refugees

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI, 4 June 2014 (IRIN) - As security forces in Kenya continue to round up and detain thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, most of them Somali, an agreement between the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Kenyan and Somali governments on the voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees is coming under strain.

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South Sudan's Kiir says citizens should decide on federalism

"The issue of federalism that is seems used by Riek Machar on pretext that he wants to divide the internal front is not really viable at all because federalism has been the demand of people of South Sudan for a long time even before the independence of Sudan," Kiir said while opening the National Legislative Assembly.

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Mozambique: Renamo Ends Its Truce

Maputo — Mozambique's former rebel movement Renamo on Monday announced an end to what it called a "unilateral ceasefire", decreed by its leader Afonso Dhlakama on 7 May. Speaking at a Maputo press conference, Renamo spokesperson Antonio Muchanga placed as a condition for a definitive cessation of hostilities an agreement between the government and Renamo delegations which have been holding a dialogue in the main Maputo conference centre for more than a year.\

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Central African Republic Bans Phone Text Messages

The authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) have banned the use of mobile phone text messages. The move is aimed at helping to restore security after more than a year of deadly ethnic and religious violence. The ban comes after days of violent demonstrations in the capital, Bangui, and a mass text campaign calling for a general strike.

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Can Africa Replicate Silicon Valley?

Historians credit Frederick Terman, the former provost of Stanford University and dean of its engineering department, as one of the major founders of Silicon Valley in northern California. In the mid-1960s, a consortium of high-tech companies in the US state of New Jersey hired Terman to replicate this hugely successful strip of innovation and entrepreneurship. The attempt failed.

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