Lagos News
United States (US) carrier Delta has launched a daily non-stop service from its base in Atlanta to Lagos. Leaving Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport at 16.30, the flight arrives in Niger...
Nairobi News
Kenyan elections: election promises in Kenya.
With the Kenyan elections round the corner and the nine presidential candidates and 2,600 parliamentary candidates flooding the country with promises and funds, Kenyans may have no need to welcome San...
Nairobi News
The 5th Africa Canoe-kayak Flatwater championship and 1st Africa Canoe-kayak slalom championship are to take place at Masinga dam and on the Tana river which feeds the reservoir from 24-27 January 200...
Accra News
Ghana Commercial Bank extends services.
Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) has extended its Saturday banking services to six branches in four regions as part of efforts to improve its services. Ghana
Maputo News
Mozambique takes over Cahora Bassa dam.
Mozambique has taken control of Cahora Bassa on the Zambezi river in the western Tete province following an agreement with Portugal, the former owner. Under the agreement, the former colonial power no...
Maputo News
Barclays buys Mozambique Austral bank.
Austral bank account holders should not be surprised if they find their habitual bank branch or automatic teller machine (ATM) carrying a new name: Barclays-Mozambique. The change is the result of the...
Maputo News
Shoprite supermarket in Matola.
South African group Shoprite Holdings Ltd has opened a supermarket in the southern city of Matola. This takes the number of Shoprite outlets in Mozambique to five, with other branches already operatin...
Nairobi News
The International School of Kenya has inaugurated a new high school building on its leafy Runda campus in north Nairobi. Designed by local architects Beglin Woods and built over two years, the low-ris...
Nairobi News
EASSy cable construction starts.
Work on the long-awaited East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) is due to begin in December, according to
Nairobi News
Kenya is pushing ahead with its own undersea fibre optic cable project, known as The East African Marine Systems (TEAMS), connecting Mombasa and Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
The tender for...
Nairobi News
Kenyan elections: propaganda hits the web.
Internet service providers in the Kenyan capital have sounded the alarm over the increase in spam and viruses carried by e-mail in the run-up to the general and local government elections on 27 Decemb...
Cape Town News
The festive season got underway in Cape Town on 2 December with the traditional switching-on of the Christmas lights in Adderley Street in the city centre.
This year
Cape Town News
Heart of Cape Town museum opens.
Residents and visitors to Cape Town can now trace the history of the world
Nairobi News
Who wants to be a millionaire?
If you want to be an instant millionaire in Nairobi, forget about gambling in the numerous casinos or buying the lottery; just go to the office of the registrar of societies in the attorney general
Nairobi News
Four Kenyans of foreign descent have been nominated to contest the 27 December polls for the 210 seats in the Kenya National Assembly.
Two have roots in Europe; they are Franco Esposito, who is orig...
Cape Town News
The newly formed local environmental group What-On-Earth-Is-Happening (WOE) is organising a clean-up of the Cape Town
Cairo News
Roughly 100 troops have occupied Al-Qursaya island in central Cairo, raising fears among residents that they are to be displaced, the news agency AFP reports. The soldiers have set up small camps in p...
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,
Maputo News
Nympine Chissano, the eldest son of former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano, has died at his home in Maputo aged 37. He is believed to have been ill for some time, although the exact cause of dea...
Nairobi News
Kenyan coffee: New coffee shop opens in Nairobi.
Kenyan tea and coffee producer Sasini Tea and Coffee Ltd has launched its own retail chain in Nairobi to compete with the more established Nairobi Java House and Dorman
Nairobi News
Kenyan elections: The cost of Kenyan democracy.
An assistant minister and some parliamentary candidates were among scores of people injured in Kenya during the chaotic and violent primaries conducted by some of the 140 registered political parties...
Cape Town News
2010 World Cup preliminary draw.
Final preparations are being made in Durban for the preliminary draw to determine the qualifying groups in the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa, which will be held in Durban on 25 November. The...
Accra News
African Cup: 2008 African Cup preparations.
Preparations are underway for the 2008 African Cup of Nations football tournament, which takes place in Ghana from 20 January-10 February 2008. Local organizing committee representatives have met with...
Nairobi News
Railways in Kenya: Slow coach rail service.
Kenya will go down in history as having one of the slowest rail services in the world while the bullet train is the in thing elsewhere. This follows a decision by Rift Valley Railways (RVR), the conso...
Nairobi News
Exciting times for Kenyan journalists
These are exciting times for Kenyan journalists ahead of the general and local government elections on 27 December.
Members of the fourth estate are now as fired up as the presidential, parliamentary...
Cape Town News
Telecommunications conference in Cape Town.
Roughly 3,000 professionals representing Africa
