Nairobi News
Kenya to increase minimum wage
The Kenyan government has announced that it is to raise the minimum wage and abolish taxes on kerosene, which is used by low-income families for cooking and lighting. The country
Lagos News
Goodluck Jonathan returned as president
Goodluck Jonathan has been returned as president in Nigeria with over 58 per cent of the popular vote. His victory has led to violence in the north of the country, especially in Kaduna and Kano, which...
Lagos News
Nigerians vote for their president
Nigeria starts voting for its new president on 16 April in the wake of the parliamentary elections held the previous week, which saw an upset for the People
Cape Town News
Zuma leads AU peace delegation to Libya
An African Union (AU) delegation led by South African president Jacob Zuma has met Libya's Muammar Qaddafi in the country's capital Tripoli in an attempt to broker a ceasefire between the rebels and t...
Lagos News
Nigeria’s ruling party faces electoral losses
Early results from Nigeria's parliamentary election on 9 April suggest that the governing People's Democratic Party (PDP) has suffered considerable losses and its majority in both houses of the nation...
Cape Town News
Cape Town's urban regeneration project
The city of Cape Town and the Western Cape provincial government have announced a $663 million urban regeneration project which will include the expansion of the Cape Town International Convention Cen...
Accra News
Over 5,000 refugees from the Ivory Coast have arrived in neighbouring Ghana due to the intensified fighting in the West African cocoa-growing country, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency (U...
Lagos News
New schedule for Nigerian elections
Parliamentary elections in Nigeria have now been postponed for a week and are scheduled on 9 April, which means that the presidential elections and state elections, originally set on 9 April and 16 Ap...
Cape Town News
New hotel ratings system in South Africa
Hotels in South Africa will have to reapply for a new star rating under a stricter grading system being introduced by the ministry for tourism and the Tourism Grading Council South Africa (TGSA). Desi...
Dar Es Salaam News
Changes to Tanzania’s hunting rules
New regulations governing the allocation of Tanzanian hunting areas or "blocks" and their increased prices have been announced by the government. The new scheme will see the amount of blocks raised fr...
Lagos News
Nigeria’s parliamentary elections delayed
Parliamentary elections in Nigeria have been postponed until Monday 4 April because of the delay in the delivery to many parts of the country of tally sheets for recording both the voting results and...
Cape Town News
Cape Town faces tourism difficulties
Cape Town faces a threat to its tourism industry according to a Cape Town tourism expert. Peter Bacon, chairman of Western Cape tourism authority Cape Town Routes Unlimited, said
Cape Town News
Free broadband for Cape schools
All schools in the Western Cape could soon have free broadband internet access thanks to a generous offer from a prominent businessman. The ministry for education declined to reveal the identity of th...
Maputo News
Fishing gets new funds in Mozambique
Mozambique is to receive a $21.1 million loan from the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to support its artisanal fishing industry. The purpose of the loan is to pe...
Maputo News
The number of new cases of tuberculosis in Mozambique increased from 38,044 in 2007 to 46,174 in 2010 according to figures reported by the minister of health on World Tuberculosis day on 24 March....
Maputo News
Fishing gets new funds in Mozambique
Mozambique is to receive a $21.1 million loan from the United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to support its artisanal fishing industry. The purpose of the loan is to pe...
Lagos News
Goethe Institut re-opens in Lagos
The Goethe-Institut Nigeria has re-opened in Lagos City Hall. Although the opening ceremony took place on 25 March, the institute has been operating out of its new location on Lagos Island since Janua...
Addis Ababa News
Crackdown on Ethiopian opposition
Reports of several hundred arrests of supporters of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa News
Churches burnt in southwest Ethiopia
A Protestant organisation is reporting that 69 churches, several Christian homes, a Christian orphanage and a church office were burnt early March in south-western Ethiopia close to the town of Jimma....
Nairobi News
Recently published figures in the Global Property Guide (GPG) reveal the extent of Kenya's real estate pricing bubble which has pushed the cost of homes to almost 150 times the annual incomes of the a...
Nairobi News
New head for Nairobi United Nations offices
The United Nations has appointed Ms Sahlework Zewde from Ethiopia to head the United Nations office in Nairobi with the high rank of under-secretary general. She has been appointed directly by the sec...
Nairobi News
Nairobi host HIV/AIDS research conferences
The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Kenya dropped from 7.1 per cent of the population in 2007 to 6.3 per cent in 2009 according to figures released at an international conference on HIV/AIDS in Nairobi in mi...
Accra News
Accra police warn on car thefts
The police in Accra have issued a warning to owners of vehicles to make sure they know their chassis number in order to make cars easier to find when stolen. Registration numbers are quickly changed,...
Accra News
According to reports from news agency Reuters, 60 people in Ghana have died as a result of cholera, with 4,000 others hospitalised nationwide in what Ghana's health services are describing as an epide...
Dar Es Salaam News
The first Serengeti International Day on 19 March set up a series of new initiatives to stop the Tanzanian government building a road through the Serengeti Park.
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