[The Star]Equity Bank has officially launched operations in Tanzania marking the fourth country outside Kenya where the bank operates. The bank said it will replicate its model of focussing on low income earners in Tanzania.

[State Department]Washington -Twenty-seven percent of the graduate students in the renowned fish and wildlife conservation program at Virginia Tech University come from outside the United States.

[African Union]Addis Ababa -The Chairperson of the African Union Commission has yesterday 1st of November 2012, approved the deployment of the African Union Election Observers Mission (AUEOM) to observe elections taking place in Sierra Leone, on 17 November 2012; Burkina Faso, on 2 December 2012 and Ghana, on 7 December 2012.