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Junior Rugby World Championships move from Stellenbosch

Sport 12 Jun, 2012

The remaining matches of the ongoing IRB Junior World Championship 2012 are to be played at the stadiums at Cape Town and Newlands, with no more matches taking place at the Danie Craven Stadium in Ste...

Arusha News

Arusha airport to reopen in July

Transport 11 Jun, 2012

Arusha’s municipal airport (ARK) partly-reopened in mid-June and is expected to reopen fully from 10 July after undergoing major expansion works. Tanzania’s largest carrier Precis...

Cape Town News

SAA Cape Town-London service to end

Transport 10 Jun, 2012

South African Airways (SAA) is ceasing its daily direct service between Cape Town and London from 15 August, with the flights being rerouted through Johannesburg instead. The national carrier made...

Accra News

Another airport for Accra

Transport 10 Jun, 2012

The Ghanaian government is considering the construction of a new international airport at Prampram in the rural Dangme West district of the greater Accra region, to ease the pressure on the city&rsquo...

Nairobi News

Kenya mourns death of George Saitoti

Politics 10 Jun, 2012

Kenya has declared three days of mourning after the country's internal security minister George Saitoti died in a helicopter crash in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi on 11 June. Five other people l...

Dar Es Salaam News

ID cards for Dar es Salaam residents

General 05 Jun, 2012

Tanzania’s National Identification Authority (NIDA) is preparing to register residents in the greater Dar es Salaam area for national identification cards at the end of June. The ex...

Cape Town News

Cape Town hosts international rugby tournament

Sport 05 Jun, 2012

Cape Town is hosting the International Rugby Junior World Championship from 4 - 22 June, at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch and at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) Stadium in Be...

Dar Es Salaam News

Zimbabwe uses Dar es Salaam port

Infrastructure 05 Jun, 2012

Zimbabwe has started moving a part of its trade through the port of Dar es Salaam according to the March monthly economic review of the Bank of Tanzania (BoT), which outlined increased efficiency at t...

Addis Ababa News

Ethiopian-Sudan gets South Korean funds for power project

Infrastructure 04 Jun, 2012

A South Korea bank EDCF has approved a loan of $80 million to Ethiopia to support part of the construction and expansion of the Ethiopia-Sudan electric power transmission line. The new power lines...

Nairobi News

Nairobi’s Ngong Road gets Japanese funds

Infrastructure 04 Jun, 2012

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has granted Nairobi funding of £20 million to transform the city's Ngong road into a dual carriageway. The upgrading works are expected to be...

Accra News

Accra requests Chinese funds to upgrade rail network

Infrastructure 04 Jun, 2012

The Investment and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is to provide Ghana with a loan of $900 million for the rehabilitation of the country’s Eastern Rail lines; Accra to Nsawam (north of the capit...

Cairo News

Mubarak ruling leads to protests in Cairo

Politics 03 Jun, 2012

There have been mass protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square following the news on 2 June that former president Hosni Mubarak received a life sentence for his failure to halt the killing of protesters durin...

Lagos News

Nigeria in mourning after air crash

Transport 03 Jun, 2012

Nigeria is in three days of mourning following the crash of a Dana Air plane during its final approach to Murtala Muhammed International airport in Lagos on 3 June, killing all 153 passengers on board...

Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzania suspends Serengeti officials after rhino killings

Animals 03 Jun, 2012

Four senior wildlife officials and 28 game wardens have been suspended after poachers killed two critically-endangered rhinos in Tanzania's Serengeti park, according to the country's minister for...

Lagos News

Lagos University name change triggers protests

Education 31 May, 2012

Students at the University of Lagos staged a two-day protest over a decision by Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan to rename the federal institution after a political prisoner who died in custod...

Maputo News

CNBC Africa opens base in Maputo

Media 29 May, 2012

Arusha News

Work to begin on Arusha-Voi-Mombasa highway in 2013

Infrastructure 29 May, 2012

Construction of a four-lane dual carriageway connecting Arusha in Tanzania with Voi in southern Kenya is to begin in 2013. The East Africa Community (EAC) is overseeing the $560 million project to...

Maputo News

Japan donates rice to Mozambique

Humanitarian 29 May, 2012

Japan is to donate rice worth about

Nairobi News

Virgin Airways to cease London-Nairobi flights

Transport 29 May, 2012

Air carrier Virgin Atlantic (VS) is to scrap its London-Nairobi service from 23 September. The airline cited increasing fuel costs, rising aviation taxes in Britain and insufficient demand over the pa...

Nairobi News

ICC rejects appeal of Kenyan Four

Justice 28 May, 2012

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected the appeal of four high-profile Kenyans that the court in The Hague does not have jurisdiction to try them for orchestrating post-election violence...

Arusha News

Arusha’s ICTR transfers to IRMCT

Justice 28 May, 2012

The activities of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) are to be transferred to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunal (IRMCT) in Arusha from 1 July. The ICTR w...

Cape Town News

Cape Town Book Fair

Culture 28 May, 2012

The annual Cape Town Book Fair takes place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 15-17 June. Established in 2006, the three-day fair allows visitors to meet authors and book i...

Cairo News

Shafiq’s Cairo office set ablaze after election results

Politics 28 May, 2012

The Cairo campaign headquarters of Ahmed Shafiq were set on fire on 28 May only hours after it was confirmed that Shafiq would face Mohammed Mursi in the run-off of Egypt

Maputo News

Barcodes for Mozambique

Economy 27 May, 2012

The Mozambican government is poised to introduce a barcode system in the country later this year, according to the industry and trade minister Armando Inroga. Inroga said that his adminis...

Addis Ababa News

Self-service check-in at Addis Ababa airport

Transport 27 May, 2012

Self-service check-in kiosks have been introduced at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, allowing passengers to print boarding passes and select their own seats. The service, which was launched...

Cape Town News

Manor House Museum's stolen goods recovered

City 27 May, 2012

Ten of the eleven valuable Asian ceramic antiques recently stolen from Manor House, a museum outside Cape Town, have been recovered by police from a neighbouring farm. The 18th- and 19th-century ar...

Nairobi News

Lions sighted in Nairobi outskirts

Animals 24 May, 2012

There have been increased sightings of wild lions in the affluent Nairobi suburb of Langata, which borders the 12,000-hectare Nairobi National Park nature reserve. After recent unsuccessful attempt...

Cape Town News

Cape Town to upgrade roads in disadvantaged areas

City 23 May, 2012

Cape Town will spend R500-million over the next three years upgrading its roads in disadvantaged areas, if its draft budget is passed by the city council on 28 May. Transport officials, who launche...

Nairobi News

80-MW power plant for Nairobi

Energy 23 May, 2012

Plans are in place to build an 80-MW electric power plant at a site along the Athi river about 25 km southeast of Nairobi. Behind the €80 million project is Gulf Power, a major Kenyan petrol s...

Cairo News

Egyptians vote for president

Politics 22 May, 2012

Egyptians have begun to cast their votes in elections on 23 May to determine which of the 12 presidential candidates will become their future leader. It is the first time that ordinary Egyptians ha...

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