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Addis Ababa News

National Palace to get overhaul.

The National Palace on Menelik II Avenue is to get an overhaul under the supervision of one of the original architects, local business weekly
Addis Ababa News

Addis film festival on human rights.

The second edition of the Addis International Film Festival on Rights and Jutice will be held in the Ethiopian capital from 21-30 March. Under the title
Cape Town News

Film studios for Cape Town.

Work is due to begin shortly on a long-awaited film studio complex just outside Cape Town. The R460 million project, formally known as Dreamworld, is expected to take 18 months to complete. Located in...
Lagos News

Yoruba arts festival in Lagos.

The World Festival of Yoruba Arts and Culture (WOFEYAC) takes place in Lagos in April. The main aim of the event is to promote the artistic and cultural heritage of the Yoruba people of West Africa. B...
Cairo News

Nasser house to become museum.

The private residence of Egypt
Addis Ababa News

Ethiopian millennium: The British-Ethiopian connection.

The British embassy and the British Council in Ethiopia have launched a book titled
Lagos News

British Council shake up in Nigeria.

British Council offices in Nigeria are closed from 19 to 23 November for staff training purposes,
Cairo News

Visitor restrictions at Tutankhamun’s tomb.

The number of visitors to the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor south of Cairo is to be limited to 400 a day as of 1 December according to a statement issued by the Egypt
Cape Town News

Lucky Dube shot dead.

There have been strong reactions across the African continent to the assassination of South African reggae star Lucky Dube during an attempted carjacking in Johannesburg on the evening of 18 October....
Nairobi News

National Museums of Kenya logo competition.

Designers are invited to take part in a competition to design a new logo for the National Museums of Kenya (NMK). Entries should be around the theme
Accra News

?American corner

The United States embassy in conjunction with the Ghana Library Board has set up an
Addis Ababa News

Netherlands embassy receives architecture award.

The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Addis Ababa has received the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Opened to the public in 2005, the diplomatic mission is the work of Dutch architects Dick van Gamere...
Addis Ababa News

French-Ethiopian cultural centre marks 100 years.

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Alliance Ethio-Fran
Cairo News

?Between You and Me

The United States embassy in Cairo in conjunction with Voice of America (VOA) has released a compilation of selected recordings from the archives of the radio
Cairo News

Soros sponsors Egyptian photography.

The Open Society Institute (OSI), a foundation owned by left-wing Hungarian-born American financier and philanthropist George Soros, is inviting Egyptian documentary photographers to submit work for i...
Addis Ababa News

Lucy skeleton leaves Addis Ababa for controversial US tour.

The celebrated 3.2 million-year-old fossilised skeleton of the earliest known hominid commonly known as Lucy has left its
Cairo News

Egypt nominates culture minister Hosni for UNESCO post.

Egypt has nominated culture minister Faruq Hosni as its official candidate as the next director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). According to s...
Cairo News

Grand Egyptian Museum takes shape.

Construction workers are labouring round the clock to complete the second phase of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) near the Giza pyramids in southwest Cairo, which includes the construction of a power...
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