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....
Nairobi News
Nairobi students to get Google Apps.
Some 50,000 students at the University of Nairobi are to benefit from improved access to web-based communication tools following a deal between Kenya Education Network and the US-based web giant Googl...
Accra News
Seasonal rains arrive in Accra.
The start of the rainy season in the capital has been accompanied by flash floods and damage to property caused by heavy rainfall and blocked drains. Traders at the newly opened Pedestrian Shopping Ma...
Cairo News
At least 1,000 people have been left homeless following a fire in the el-Sayyeda Zeinab district of Cairo, the
Cairo News
Constitutional amendments approved in referendum.
Controversial amendments to the country
Maputo News
Dozens killed in explosions at Maputo armoury.
At least 72 people have been killed and several hundred more injured following a series of explosions at an armoury in Maputo on 22 March. The blasts involving weapons and ammunition took place at the...
Accra News
United Kingdom visa fees are to go up from 1 April according to a statement issued by the British High Commission in Accra. Standard and transit visas will cost 815,000 cedis rather than 555,000 cedis...
Cape Town News
Roughly 360,000 people in the Cape Town area are without proper homes according to provincial government statistics
Nairobi News
Virgin to launch London-Nairobi route.
Virgin Atlantic is to begin operating daily flights between London and Nairobi on 2 June. Flights from Nairobi
Nairobi News
Kenyans interested in following the activities of their representatives in parliament can now do so on an innovative new website, www.mzalendo.com. The brainchild of two Kenyan bloggers, Ory Okolloh a...
Lagos News
Nigeria suffers crippling power shortage.
Nigeria is in the grips of a power generating crisis that risks strangling the local economy, the Financial Times reports. Power generation in Africa
Lagos News
The rise and rise of Nollywood
Nigeria has a thriving film industry called Nollywood, after Hollywood and Bollywood, the names of the respective industries in the United States and India. With full-length films being shot with just...
Addis Ababa News
The five Europeans abducted in the northeastern Afar region on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border have been released and are at the British embassy in Asmara, capital of Eritrea, pending their return to Lo...
Maputo News
The cost of Mozambique flooding.
At least $71 million is needed to repair the recent flood and cyclone damage in Mozambique. Intervention is required in a number of areas such as education (to rebuild schools in Manica, Sofala, Tete...
Nairobi News
The Eastern Africa Grain Council in Nairobi is to host the second African grain trade summit from 18-19 April on the theme
Accra News
Accra road named after Nigerian president.
The road running between the 37 Military Hospital Junction and the Dimples Junction in Accra has been named after Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in recognition of his support to Ghana. The signp...
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
F1 track proposed for Cape Town.
A South African company has unveiled plans to build a Grand Prix race track in Cape Town in a bid to bring Formula One (F1) back to the country after almost 15 years. The R1 billion proposal, put forw...
Cape Town News
New names for Cape Town streets.
The city council has announced the start of a process to rename Cape Town
Cape Town News
New Cape Town stadium back on course.
The city council has approved a R2.9 billion budget for the new 2010 World Cup football stadium at Green Point, paving the way for the start of construction. The go-ahead came after international bank...
Lagos News
Redesigned banknotes have been introduced in Nigeria to make the country
Maputo News
Just under a third of people who went for voluntary HIV testing in Maputo last year showed up positive according to the coordinator for the Maputo chapter of the national council for the fight against...
