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Maputo News

Mining accident in Mozambique investigated

Mozambique's ministry of mineral resources has set up a commission of enquiry to investigate a flood which happened at a dredge mine in the coastal district of Moma in the country
Dar Es Salaam News

Kikwete loses ground to opposition parties in Tanzanian election campaign

With less than two weeks to go before the presidential and parliamentary elections in Tanzania on 31 October the polls disagree about how far the incumbent president Jakaya Kikwete is ahead in the rac...
Dar Es Salaam News

Kihansi Toad population doubles in Dar es Salaam

Following the return of the critically endangered Kihansi Spray Toads from specialist zoos in the United States to Tanzania two months ago, their numbers in the University of Dar es Salaam
Dar Es Salaam News

Fistula awareness campaign launched in Tanzania

It is estimated that there are about 3,000 new cases of obstetric fistula a year in Tanzania, and only about 800 women a year who manage to get help and surgery for what is often a severe physical and...
Arusha News

Teachers protest in Arusha

Anti-riot police in Arusha were called out on 14 October to disperse primary school teachers protesting about the non-payment of their insurance claims. About 50 teachers demonstrated in the central C...
Dar Es Salaam News

Kihansi Toad population doubles in Dar es Salaam

Following the return of the critically endangered Kihansi Spray Toads from specialist zoos in the United States to Tanzania two months ago, their numbers in the University of Dar es Salaam
Dar Es Salaam News

Kihansi Toad population doubles in Dar es Salaam

Following the return of the critically endangered Kihansi Spray Toads from specialist zoos in the United States to Tanzania two months ago, their numbers in the University of Dar es Salaam
Dar Es Salaam News

Kihansi Toad population doubles in Dar es Salaam

Following the return of the critically endangered Kihansi Spray Toads from specialist zoos in the United States to Tanzania two months ago, their numbers in the University of Dar es Salaam
Dar Es Salaam News

Kihansi Toad population doubles in Dar es Salaam

Following the return of the critically endangered Kihansi Spray Toads from specialist zoos in the United States to Tanzania two months ago, their numbers in the University of Dar es Salaam
Lagos News

Cecilia Ibru sentenced to prison

Cecilia Ibru, one of Nigeria
Maputo News

Maputo international air terminal delayed again

Maputo international air terminal delayed again The opening of Mozambique
Arusha News

Hot air balloons banned from Serengeti

Tanzania National Parks Authority (TANAPA) has suspended the operation of hot air balloons in the Serengeti national park. The decision comes in the aftermath of the recent hot air balloon crash-landi...
Accra News

Accra’s streets to be named

In an effort to make the city more navigable, Accra
Arusha News

Arusha’s Food for Education programme

The World Food Program (WFP) is co-ordinating the Food for Education initiative which is helping up to 200,000 school children in six districts of Arusha and Manyara in northern Tanzania. Pupils i...
Arusha News

Arusha's EABC holds conference on pirated goods

Business leaders and government officials from east Africa are gathering at a two day summit arranged by the Arusha-based East African Business Council (EABC) to discuss the increasing problem of illi...
Cape Town News

Helen Zille opts for public transport over roads in Western Cape province

At a international conference for provincial leaders in Cape Town, Helen Zille, head of the Western Cape provincial government, has announced that the province will not build any major new roads for t...
Cape Town News

Cosatu protests demolition of Hout Bay shacks

The Congress of South African Trade Unions, (Cosatu) has called for demonstrations in favour of settlers living in illegally-built shacks along a part of Hout Bay about 20 km south of Cape Town. The c...
Maputo News

Maputo port to take larger vessels after dredging

Dredging is now underway in Maputo harbour to allow the port to handle larger ships. The dredge involves the removal of about 2 million cubic metres of material, including rock in the access channel....
Maputo News

Mozambique to make registration of mobile phone cards compulsory

Mozambique plans to enforce registration of non-contract mobile phone cards in the wake of the food riots in early September, which left 14 people dead and about 500 injured according to official gove...
Lagos News

Nigeria celebrates 50 years of independence

Nigeria celebrates the golden jubilee of its independence on 1 October with a series of events that include art exhibitions, plays, sporting activities and religious services. On 30 September, the eve...
Accra News

Ghana’s 2010 census gets going

Data collection in Ghana
Addis Ababa News

Free WiFi at Addis Ababa airport

Passengers travelling through Addis Ababa Bole International Airport are to be offered access to free wireless internet. A representative from Ethiopian Airport Enterprise (EAE) stated that the servic...
Cairo News

Boost for Cairo's car industry

Following the introduction of a government incentive to offer affordable cars to taxi drivers, the Egyptian Automobile Manufacturers Association has announced that the the country
Accra News

Accra's street markets to be modernised

In an effort to modernise Accra's street markets, the mayor of the city, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, has requested private investors to present proposals for improved markets to the Accra Metropolitan As...
Lagos News

Ages of Nigerian art at the Abuja Velodrome

The recently restructured Velodrome in Abuja is hosting a major exhibition which celebrates Nigeria's visual arts and is curated by artist Jerry Buhari of Ahmadu Bello university, Uwa Usen, national p...
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