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Nairobi News

Kenya Airways launches service to Rome

Kenya Airways launched its first direct flight to Italy on 16 December becoming the only carrier to link the two countries directly. The service operates three times a week between Nairobi and Rom...
Arusha News

Mount Meru Hotel reopens

Mount Meru Hotel was reopened by Tanzania
Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzania steps up efforts to prevent illegal cross-border migration

In order to support efforts against illegal migration and human trafficking in southern Africa the European Union has given its support to a project devised by the Tanzanian government together with t...
Addis Ababa News

Voter registration for Southern Sudanese in Ethiopia

An independent commission representing the governments of Sudan and its autonomous southern region has started to register Southern Sudanese people living in neighbouring Ethiopia. The provisions...
Nairobi News

ICC prosecutor names leaders of 2008 post election violence in Kenya

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, has accused six high-ranking Kenyan politicians of being behind the post election violence in January 2008 between support...
Arusha News

Precision Air suspends flight to Arusha airport

Precision Air has announced the suspension of its flights into Arusha airport during work on the runway, which starts on 15 December and will last at least two months. During this period the Tanzanian...
Arusha News

East African Community gets anthem

An anthem to be played at all formal occasions of the East African Community has finally been approved by the five EAC nations
Cape Town News

Cape Town's Bertram House reopens

Bertram House, the only extant Georgian-style red brick house once a common sight in many parts of Cape Town, has opened its doors to the public after extensive renovations. Located at the top of...
Maputo News

Babies in Matola in trial identification system

In a trial project a number of babies in the port of Matola on the outskirts of Maputo have been given a biometric identification card at birth. The number on the card, called the single citizen
Nairobi News

Nairobi: Reform of Kenya’s drinking laws

Under Kenya's reformed Alcoholic Drinks and Control Act, the sale of alcohol is to be prohibited before 17.00 on weekdays and 14.00 on weekends, and after 23.00 every night. While the laws were announ...
Nairobi News

Fighting fake pharmaceuticals in Kenya

Kenya has become the most recent African country to start a pilot scheme for mobile phone verification of pharmaceuticals. Its use is simple and provides an immediate response for the user. A scra...
Maputo News

Ethiopia Airlines adds Maputo to its service

Ethiopian Airlines launched a new service to Maputo on 5 December. Flights depart Addis Ababa three days a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday with the return flight operating the same day. The f...
Cape Town News

New drinking laws for Cape Town

A new by-law which comes into effect in January 2011 will see new drinking hours introduced for Cape Town's bars, clubs, hotels and restaurants, which will open at 11.00 instead of 10.00, and close at...
Cape Town News

Cape Town opens recycling unit

Cape Town's solid waste department has launched its first drop-off centre for recycling refuse. Situated on Tramway Road in the Sea Point district, the recycling centre is free of charge and is design...
Cairo News

Opposition withdraws from runoffs in Egypt’s parliamentary elections

Although results of the parliamentary election in Egypt on 28 November are still incomplete the main opposition force, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the handful of small non-confessional parties have al...
Addis Ababa News

Ethiopia’s first wind farm

Construction has begun on Ethiopia
Lagos News

Lagos to be Africa's largest city by 2020

In its 2010 report on Africa's growth the United Nations agency for human settlements, UN Habitat, has stated that Lagos is to take over from Cairo as Africa
Nairobi News

Nairobi city council in dispute with Yaya centre

The company which owns the Yaya Centre development in Nairobi, Yaya Towers Ltd, has become involved in a legal action with the city council of Nairobi. Both sides dispute ownership of the carpark at t...
Nairobi News

Nairobi city council in dispute with Yaya centre

The company which owns the Yaya Centre development in Nairobi, Yaya Towers Ltd, has become involved in a legal action with the city council of Nairobi. Both sides dispute ownership of the carpark at t...
Cairo News

Cairo court overturns telecom media controls

On the day before parliamentary elections in Egypt a Cairo administrative court overturned the decision taken by the country
Nairobi News

All Africa Dance Festival for Peace

The All Africa Dance Festival for Peace is scheduled in Nairobi from 3-5 December at the Sarakasi Dome, Ngara. This is the second edition of the festival and the theme this year is Celebrating the Rol...
Lagos News

Danse Meets Dance in Lagos

Danse Meets Dance, Nigeria
Cairo News

Metro 4 for Cairo

The Egyptian transport ministry has finalised the route of the planned US $2.6bn metro line in Cairo, construction of which is to begin in September 2012 and will take seven years. Phase one of Ca...
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