Addis Ababa News
New management for Addis Ababa museum.
Responsibility for running the city-owned Addis Ababa museum is to be handed to London-based Ethiopian entrepreneur Mulugeta Tsedeke, the business weekly
Nairobi News
Nairobi-based cultural organisation AfricanColours is organising a tour of some of Nairobi
Nairobi News
Pan-African short film competition.
Young African filmmakers are invited to take part in a short-film competition exploring the challenges facing the African continent and the ways in which Africans have and have not risen to meet them....
Addis Ababa News
Mahmoud Ahmed wins BBC music award.
Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed has won this year
Nairobi News
Phoenix Players call for help.
Ian Mbugua, director of the Phoenix Players, has launched an appeal for help as dwindling attendance figures threaten the future of the leading semi-professional repertory theatre company in Nairobi....
Addis Ababa News
Television channel for Ethiopians in the US.
Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans living in the United States (US) can now receive news and entertainment in Amharic thanks to a new television network, Ethiopian Television Network (ETN). Launched i...
Cape Town News
The 2007 edition of the Cape Town book fair is to take place at the international convention centre from 16-19 June. The fair, now in its second year, will see over 300 events including readings, book...
Cairo News
New finds at Saqqara near Cairo.
A team of Australian and Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered two tombs and two anthropoid sarcophagi at the Saqqara necropolis just south of Cairo. One of the tombs is of Ka-Hay, a royal scribe, an...
Cairo News
Photography festival in Egypt.
Amateur and professional photographers are invited to submit entries for a competition as part of Egypt
Lagos News
Nigerian wins spot news World Press Photo award.
Nigerian photographer Akintunde Akinleye has won first prize in the spot news category of this year
Cairo News
Pyramids in seven wonders row.
Egyptians are dismayed over the inclusion of the great pyramid of Giza outside Cairo in a competition to choose seven
Nairobi News
Silence at WSF in memory of Kapuscinski.
Delegates at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi held a minute
Cairo News
Cairo International Book Fair.
Cairo international book fair is underway in the Egyptian capital. First established in 1969, the annual event is the second in importance only to the Frankfurt book fair in Germany and is the largest...
Cairo News
Free Egyptian music CD launched.
Cairenes and visitors to the city should keep their eyes and ears open for the first offering from a newly founded local music production company Kawalis-Misr or
Nairobi News
African Photo Retrospective award.
The African Photo Retrospective 2005/06 award organised by the foreign correspondents association of East Africa (FCAEA) has been won by Nairobi-based freelance photographer Georgina Cranston with her...
