Nairobi News
Holidaymakers return home to escape worsening security in Kenya
Hundreds of foreign holidaymakers returned home from Kenya following a double bombing in the Eastleigh district of Nairobi on 16 May,...
Dar Es Salaam News
Government allocates funds to combat dengue outbreak
The Tanzanian government has allocated emergency funds to combat the outbreak of dengue fever in Dar es Salaam, where the mosquito-borne tropic...
Cape Town News
ANC wins South Africa election
But party's share of vote decreases
Although South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is the winner of the 7 May general elections for parliament and nine provincial legislatures i...
Lagos News
Boko Haram offers to release girls for prisoners
International security summit being held in Paris
The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it will release the more than 200 school girls it abducted last month in exchange for prisoners, a...
Lagos News
Militants kill over 100 in northern Nigeria
Boko Haram blamed for latest attack
At least 125 people have been killed by Islamic militants in an attack on Gamboru Ngala in Nigeria’s remote north-east region on the border with Cameroon....
Cairo News
Sisi says Muslim Brotherhood will not return
First interview of Sisi's campaign
Egyptian presidential candidate and former military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the Muslim Brotherhood will never return as an organisation, accusing it of u...
Lagos News
Boko Haram claims responsibility for schoolgirl abduction
international outrage grows
The Islamist militia group Boko Haram says it is responsible for last month's abduction of over 200 teenage girls from a boarding school in Chibok in the north-eastern N...
Arusha News
2-3 May. At a time when journalists are under attack in many parts of east Africa, World Press Freedom day on 3 May will be marked in Arusha with a conference on the theme of Media Freedom for a Bett...
Cape Town News
South Africa prepares for elections
Election race heats up in Western Cape
The upcoming South African general election on 7 May marks the nation's 20th year as a democracy and is being viewed as a potential crossroads situation by po...
Accra News
British Airways increases Accra-London flights
Second expansion in six months
British Airways (BA) is increasing its capacity on the Accra-London route, six months after expanding its seven weekly flights to ten.
Due to the growing demand t...
Nairobi News
Reservoir to be transformed into recreational centre
Nairobi City County is to embark on a major clean-up of the Nairobi Dam in June to turn the clogged reservoir into a recreational park.
The...
Cairo News
Mass death sentence for Muslim Brotherhood supporters
Brotherhood leader among 683 men facing death sentence
An Egyptian court has recommended the death sentence for 683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood including Mohamed Badie, the leader of the outl...
Maputo News
Japan funds new fish market in Maputo
Market will have modern hygiene facilities
Construction of a new fish market in the Triunfo area of Maputo is set to begin in late April, and is funded by $12.6 million from the Japanese Internati...
Addis Ababa News
Addis light rail project nears completion
Electrification phase of train lines
Electrification of the 34-km light rail network under construction in Addis Ababa has begun, with the installation of 850 masts, 143-km of overhead lines and e...
Dar Es Salaam News
Major traffic changes in Dar es Salaam
Traffic shake-up aimed at reducing congestion
Major traffic changes are expected in Dar es Salaam's Central Business District (CBD) where traffic flows will be changed in the coming months.
The...
Nairobi News
University of Nairobi skyscraper expansion
Construction is under way of a 22-storey skyscraper
The University of Nairobi is building a 22-storey skyscraper on a green site at its main campus to deal with its ever increasing student populati...
Arusha News
Arusha volcano to become geo-park
UNESCO to declare volcano a global geological heritage site
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is to declare Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania's active volcano, a site of gl...
Cape Town News
Cape Town makes progress with internet plan
City works with private-sector partners as part of major internet plan
Cape Town says it is making steady progress with its R1.3-billion, government-backed plan to extend high-speed broadband acros...
Accra News
Rockefeller Foundation funds Accra ICT park
World-class facility aimed at unemployed Ghanaian youth
The Rockefeller Foundation has granted the Ghanaian government $3.8 million to construct a major data centre in Accra. The aim of the Inform...
New Australian ambassador to Italy
Mike Rann takes over from David Ritchie
Former premier of South Australia Mike Rann is to become Australia's next ambassador to Italy, with non-resident accreditation to Albania, Libya and S. Mari...
Lagos News
Boko Haram blamed for attacks in Nigeria
Group blamed for school abduction in north and bombing in capital
Between 100 and 200 teenage girls were reportedly abducted in an attack on a boarding school in Chibok in the north-eastern Nigeri...
Nairobi News
Capital turns to e-payments to cut long queues
Nairobi city government will switch to electronic payments by July in an effort to combat long queues at the city hall. Instead of residents queuing...
Accra News
Test on Ghana's first suspected case of Ebola proves negative
Ghana has stepped up its health surveillance since the outbreak of Ebola in other west African countries Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Le...
Arusha News
Laetoli site to be managed by Ngorongoro Conservation
Archaeological site and Olduvai Gorge Museum to be managed by NCAA
The Tanzanian government is in the process of transfering the management of Tanzania's ancient Laetoli archaeological site to Ngo...
Maputo News
Maputo declared free of land mines
Mozambique in final stage of demining programme
The province of Maputo has been declared free of land mines following the successful of the country's demining programme which has lasted for over tw...
Nairobi News
Nairobi airport terminal 4 to open in July
Opening of new terminal postponed again
The new Terminal 4 at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International airport is due to open to passengers on 4 July, according to transport secretary Michael Kamau wh...
Nairobi News
Terrorist violence in Nairobi continues
Nobody claims responsibility for attack in Eastleigh
Three blasts in central Nairobi killed at least six people and wounded 25 in a coordinated terrorist strike on 31 March, the latest in a series...
Cairo News
Sisi enters Egyptian presidential race
Former army chief pledges fight against militancy
Field Marshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced his resignation as Egypt's military chief and declared his candicacy for a presidential election...
Cairo News
Morsi supporters sentenced by Egyptian court
Largest capital punishment case in modern Egypt
An Egyptian court has sentenced 529 members of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood to death, in what is the country's largest capital punishment case o...
Cairo News
Cairo’s landmark remains closed
Workers at the Cairo Tower fear for their jobs
The 120 workers at the Cairo’s Tower fear for their employment at the city’s landmark tower which has now been closed since the end of Jan...
