Addis Ababa News
Squatter homes demolished across Addis Ababa.
Addis Ababa caretaker administration has begun a massive campaign to pull down homes across the city which it claims have been built illegally according to a report in the local English-language weekl...
Cape Town News
Public sector strike in South Africa.
Public sector workers in South Africa are continuing their indefinite strike action over wages. Roughly 700,000 teachers and health workers across the country downed their tools on 1 June in support o...
Accra News
Five people have been confirmed dead and hundreds more have been displaced from their homes in Accra as a result of flooding caused by heavy rainfall on 2 and 3 June. The worst affected areas are Mall...
Accra News
The South Africa based discount retailer of general merchandise, Game Stores, has opened an outlet in the Ghanaian capital. Located in the Accra Shopping Mall on Spintex Road, Tetteh Quarshie Circle,...
Addis Ababa News
African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa to expand.
Work is underway to build additional offices and residential accommodation for the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa. Building is on a plot donated by the city council in the Kirkos district near Kera...
Maputo News
Reconstruction after arsenal blasts slow.
Slow progress is being made in work to rebuild the homes destroyed by the explosions at the arsenal in the Maputo suburb of Malhazine on 22 March. In total 4,490 homes were damaged or destroyed in the...
Cape Town News
General strike in South Africa.
Public sector workers in South Africa are threatening indefinite strike action starting on 28 May unless the government meets their demand for a pay rise. The strike is being called by the Congress of...
Maputo News
New wholesale food market for Maputo.
Maputo is to get a new wholesale food market in the outlying suburb of Zimpeto in the northern part of the capital, the state news agency reports. Built at a cost of $900,000, the six-hectare facility...
Addis Ababa News
Ethiopian census begins 29 May.
Schools across much of Ethiopia are due to close on 29 May for a month to allow teachers to conduct a national census. The headcount
Accra News
Drumming and noise-making banned in Accra.
Drumming and noise-making have been banned in the Greater Accra region until 7 June. The ban, announced by the traditional council of the indigenous Ga people of the Accra region, came into force on 7...
Lagos News
Lagos shoreline to be consolidated.
The federal minister of the environment, housing and urban development has ordered the completion of works to consolidate Lagos
Maputo News
Maputo blasts caused by poor storage and human error.
Poor storage conditions including exposure to the elements, a lack of inspection and human error were all to blame for the explosions at an arsenal in the outer Maputo neighbourhood of Malhazine on 22...
Accra News
Ghana to get computerised population registry.
The registration of births and deaths in Ghana is to be computerised by the end of the year, senior assistant registrar Kingsley Asare Addo has told Ghana News Agency. The country currently operates a...
Cairo News
Egypt's new population figures released.
Egypt has a population of 72.6 million people according to the figures from the 2006 census released by the government statistics agency in early April. This figure does not include the 3.9 million Eg...
Nairobi News
M-Pesa money transfers in Kenya.
Kenyans can now make use of a new service allowing them to send and receive money by mobile phone. The scheme, called M-Pesa, is a joint initiative of Vodafone and Kenya
Maputo News
The unfinished Quatro Estacoes (Four Seasons) hotel, whose 25 floors have towered over the Costa do Sol beach in east Maputo for over three decades, has been brought down by controlled implosion. The...
Cairo News
At least 1,000 people have been left homeless following a fire in the el-Sayyeda Zeinab district of Cairo, the
Accra News
The Volta River Authority (VRA) and the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have announced a new load-shedding programme in a bid to tackle the growing energy crisis in the country. Under the new regim...
