Nairobi News
Kenyan men can now learn about the latest in fashion, cars and technological toys in the new glossy magazine
Nairobi News
Delta to fly Nairobi-New York.
United States carrier Delta Air Lines is due to launch four weekly flights between Nairobi and New York via Dakar in Senegal starting June 2007. The service, which still requires final approval from t...
Accra News
African good governance: Good governance in Ghana.
Ghana has come eighth in a new index measuring the quality of governance in the 48 sub-Saharan African countries, behind Mauritius, Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde, South Africa, Gabon and Namibia. T...
Accra News
The United States embassy in conjunction with the Ghana Library Board has set up an
Accra News
Approximately 3,000 runners are expected to take part in the first edition of the Accra international marathon on 30 September. The 42-kilometre race will begin at 05.30 in the coastal town of Prampra...
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
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
Cape Town News
New research lab for Cape Town.
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) has opened an international research laboratory in Cape Town. The facility, located at the University of Cape Town, will have...
Cape Town News
The municipal swimming pool in Washington Street in Langa township on the Cape Flats is to get a facelift before opening for the summer season. The 250,000 rand project involves sealing the walls, pav...
Lagos News
Special rubbish-gathering races are to be held in Lagos as part of efforts to keep the state clean, the
Accra News
Flood regions declared disaster zone.
Roughly 20 people have died and up to 300,000 more have been left homeless as a result of heavy flooding in the north of the country. Northern, Upper East and Upper West are the regions worst hit by t...
Accra News
For the first time this year children aged four have started school in Ghana, thanks to a reform providing free compulsory universal education for eleven rather than nine years. Under the previous sys...
Accra News
The 2007 African Union for Housing Finance (AUHF) conference is to be held in Accra from 17-21 September. Roughly 150 delegates from across the continent and beyond will explore ways of generating fin...
Lagos News
The Nigerian leg of the global music tour sponsored by cognac manufacturer Hennessy is underway in Lagos. The six-week programme includes live performances by some of the country
Maputo News
Chinese tourists target Mozambique.
Mozambique is now an official tourist destination for Chinese citizens. The new status paves the way not only for large groups of Chinese tourists to visit the country, but also for closer bilateral r...
Maputo News
Voter registration in Mozambique.
A huge voter-registration campaign is underway in Mozambique before the forthcoming provincial, city council and general elections. Music, drama and other activities are being used to promote the impo...
Nairobi News
Roads in Nairobi: Road expansion in Nairobi.
The Thika Road branch of the Nakumatt supermarket chain is one of several buildings slated for demolition under a major road expansion project in Nairobi, local newspaper
Addis Ababa News
Addis Ababa is to get 50 new hotels to curb the alleged shortage of quality bed space in the capital, local business newspaper
Addis Ababa News
Great Ethiopian Run postponed.
The 2007 edition of the Great Ethiopian Run, which was due to take place on 9 September to coincide with celebrations for the millennium on 11-12 September, has been postponed until 25 November. No re...
Cairo News
Clocks in Egypt have gone back by one hour three weeks earlier than usual in anticipation of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins at sunset on 12 September. The country returned to winter...
Cape Town News
24 September is national heritage day, a public holiday, when South Africans celebrate their diverse cultural heritage. It is also the third edition of national braai day on which people all over the...
Cape Town News
The city council is considering allocating nearly R1 million for the remaining nine months of the current financial year to manage the baboon population in the Cape peninsula. The money will be used t...
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...
