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    Cape Town rejects pollution report
    Cape Town News

    Cape Town rejects pollution report

    Transport
    Cape Town has rejected the findings of a report which claims that the city emits more greenhouse gases per capita than major cities such as New York and London. The results of the study undertaken b...
    Expansion of Dar es Salaam port
    Dar Es Salaam News

    Expansion of Dar es Salaam port

    Transport
    The Tanzanian Ports Authority (TPA) has drawn up plans to expand and modernise the port of Dar es Salaam. As a major gateway to eastern, central and southern Africa, the port handles more than 75 per...
    Old driving licences for new in Mozambique
    Maputo News

    Old driving licences for new in Mozambique

    Transport
    Mozambique
    Egypt prepares for protest after Friday prayers
    Cairo News

    Egypt prepares for protest after Friday prayers

    Politics
    The Muslim Brotherhood has said that it will support protest action after prayers on Friday throughout Egypt. Previously the country
    Thousands arrested in Egypt
    Cairo News

    Thousands arrested in Egypt

    Politics
    As Egypt goes into its third day of protests the authorities are reporting that they have made thousands of arrests across the country as a result of the demonstrations against the Mubarak regime on 2...
    Portugal airlines to fly to South Africa via Maputo
    Maputo News

    Portugal airlines to fly to South Africa via Maputo

    Transport
    Portugal national airline TAP has announced that its summer timetable of flights to South Africa will be routed through Maputo. Direct flights between Lisbon and Johannesburg are to be dropped. Instea...
    Mubarak family shaken by day of revolt
    Cairo News

    Mubarak family shaken by day of revolt

    Politics
    News that Gamal Mubarak, the son of the president of Egypt, and his family fled to the United Kingdom on 25 January is being denied by official Egyptian sources. But the fact that the story, which fir...
    South African prisons to be renamed
    Cape Town News

    South African prisons to be renamed

    Crime
    In what is being termed as eradicating ties with the apartheid past, South Africa's minister of correctional services Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is to oversee the renaming of 11 of the country's prisons....
    African Union meets at moment of turmoil
    Addis Ababa News

    African Union meets at moment of turmoil

    Politics
    Ambassadors of the African Union's 53 member states are meeting at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa for the 16th assembly of heads of state and government of the AU. The session
    Anti-government forces call for action day in Cairo
    Cairo News

    Anti-government forces call for action day in Cairo

    Politics
    Opposition groups have called a demonstration in Cairo on 25 January to protest against
    South Africa appoints ambassador to EAC
    Arusha News

    South Africa appoints ambassador to EAC

    Politics
    South Africa becomes the latest country to send an envoy to represent it at the East African Community (EAC) headquarters in Arusha. The South African ambassador to Tanzania, Henry Thanduyise Chiliza,...
    Nairobi CBD gripped by parking fee confusion
    Nairobi News

    Nairobi CBD gripped by parking fee confusion

    Transport
    The uncertainty about increased parking charges in Nairobi
    Mozambique issues flood alerts after heavy rains
    Maputo News

    Mozambique issues flood alerts after heavy rains

    Environment
    The president of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, has called for a country-wide alert against flooding as the result of heavy rains in neighbouring countries. At least three people, two of them childr...
    Illegal foreign traders told to leave Tanzania
    Dar Es Salaam News

    Illegal foreign traders told to leave Tanzania

    Immigrants
    The Tanzanian government has threatened the thousands of illegal foreign street traders with deportation if they do not leave Tanzania within one month. Predominantly Chinese, many of the traders can...
    Odinga’s Ivory Coast talks fail
    Nairobi News

    Odinga’s Ivory Coast talks fail

    Politics
    After visiting Ivory Coast for mediation talks to try and resolve the country's deepening crisis, Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga has said that he made no breakthrough in the political stalemate be...
    Arusha to channel water from Lake Duluti
    Arusha News

    Arusha to channel water from Lake Duluti

    Environment
    The Arusha Urban Water Supply and Sewage Authority (AUWSA) intends to channel water into Arusha from Lake Duluti in the Meru district. The water authority stated that it is taking the measure to m...
    New flights from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza
    Dar Es Salaam News

    New flights from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza

    Transport
    Airline company Fly 540 has launched direct flights between Dar es Salaam and Mwanza, on the western shores of Lake Victoria. Initially the company will operate 11 flights a week and it is hoped that...
    Cape Town reviews liquor by-law
    Cape Town News

    Cape Town reviews liquor by-law

    Retail
    The introduction of Cape Town's controversial liquor by-law has been stalled while it awaits the results of a legal challenge taken against the city by the recently-established Club, Bar and Restauran...
    Clampdown on advertising in Accra
    Accra News

    Clampdown on advertising in Accra

    Retail
    Telecommunication companies have been banned from displaying corporate advertisements around Accra. In an effort to reclaim the city from the widespread custom of placing advertising posters and pai...
    Nigerian schools close for voter registration
    Lagos News

    Nigerian schools close for voter registration

    Politics
    All primary and secondary schools in Nigeria are to close for a voter registration exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) between 15 January and 4 February 2011. However fina...
    Addis Ababa sees high turnout for southern Sudan referendum
    Addis Ababa News

    Addis Ababa sees high turnout for southern Sudan referendum

    Politics
    Large numbers of southern Sudanese living in nearby Ethiopia have turned out at the start of their week-long referendum for independence for the southern region. The result of the 2005 Comprehensi...
    Ghana against military action in Ivory Coast
    Accra News

    Ghana against military action in Ivory Coast

    Politics
    Ghana's president John Atta Mills has said that his country will not send troops to neighbouring Ivory Coast, nor would it take sides in the post-election dispute between incumbent Ivory Coast preside...
    Ghana census results set for end of January
    Accra News

    Ghana census results set for end of January

    Economy
    The provisional results of Ghana
    At least six dead in Arusha demo
    Arusha News

    At least six dead in Arusha demo

    Politics
    Tanzania
    Closure of Saris market in Addis Ababa
    Addis Ababa News

    Closure of Saris market in Addis Ababa

    Retail
    Saris Market in Addis Ababa closed on 1 January after its traders were notified on 25 December to leave their stalls within five days. The closure of the market in Kebele 55, one of the biggest in t...
    Expansion of Addis Ababa airport
    Addis Ababa News

    Expansion of Addis Ababa airport

    Transport
    The Addis Ababa-based subsidiary of the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) has been contracted by the Ethiopian Airports Enterprise (EAE) to oversee a US$ 66.7 million expansion project at the A...
    Copts protest in Cairo
    Cairo News

    Copts protest in Cairo

    Religion
    Christian protesters have clashed with police in Cairo in the wake of a bomb attack, which killed 21 and injured 70 worshippers as they came out of a Coptic church in Alexandria in the early morning o...
    Controversy continues over Serengeti road
    Arusha News

    Controversy continues over Serengeti road

    Environment
    Despite pressure from international environmental groups the Tanzanian government is pushing ahead with its construction plans for the 480 km Arusha-Musoma commercial highway through the Serengeti nat...
    Cape Town gets ready for 2011
    Cape Town News

    Cape Town gets ready for 2011

    Entertainment
    Cape Town is set for its usual New Year festivities but this year is up against new alcohol regulations, warnings of high winds and fire alerts. The city has issued zero tolerance warnings for fir...
    Corruption trials make headway in Mozambique
    Maputo News

    Corruption trials make headway in Mozambique

    Crime
    The numbers of corruptions cases brought to trial in Mozambique increased to 102 between October 2009 and November 2010, compared with only 27 the previous year according to Mozambique
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