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Amenhotep III’s head discovered in Egypt

Culture 01 Mar, 2010

A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has found a massive red granite head of Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt nearly 3,400 years ago. The sculpture is part of a bigger statue of the pharaoh, m...

Maputo News

Science and technology park for Mozambique

Science 24 Feb, 2010

Work is underway to build a science and technology park in Maluana in Manhica district, about 80 km north of Maputo. The facility is the first of four such parks planned for Mozambique under the gover...

Cairo News

Egypt still short of cooking gas

Economy 23 Feb, 2010

The shortage of butane gas continued into its fourth week in Egypt at the end of February with households in the poorer areas sometimes having to pay LE70 for a cylinder, or ambooba as it is called, t...

Lagos News

President Yar’Adua returns to Nigeria

Politics 23 Feb, 2010

President Umaru Yar

Arusha News

Ngurdoto conference centre in Arusha

Real Estate 22 Feb, 2010

A new conference centre is in the final stage of completion at the Ngurdoto Montain Lodge complex close to the Arusha national park. With a seating capacity of 4,000 it will be the largest in Tanzania...

Dar Es Salaam News

Deutsche Welle multimedia opens in Dar es Salaam

Telecoms 22 Feb, 2010

Germany

Accra News

Week of prayer and fasting for Ghana development

Religion 22 Feb, 2010

The week of 7-14 March has been declared National Development Week in Ghana and it will be accompanied by prayer and fasting across the country. Christians of all denominations are being urged to take...

Addis Ababa News

Ethiopia’s new power plant shuts down

Infrastructure 22 Feb, 2010

The 5.2 billion birr Gilgel Gibe II hydro-electric power station 250 km southwest of Addis Ababa has suspended operations just a few days after its official inauguration due to a collapse in a section...

Lagos News

Unliveable Lagos

City 22 Feb, 2010

Lagos has come fifth from the bottom in the Economist Intelligence Unit

Nairobi News

Safaricom promotes contemporary Kenyan artists

Culture 21 Feb, 2010

Safaricom is opening an exhibition space for the visual arts on the ground floor of its new extension at Safaricom House in Westlands. The space is to be available for local contemporary artists and i...

Arusha News

Finland appoints honorary consul in Arusha

General 21 Feb, 2010

Finland has opened a consulate in Arusha, an important stop for Finns who come not only to visit the many national parks in northern Tanzania but also to explore a region where their parents or grandp...

Nairobi News

Kenya cabinet crisis

Politics 18 Feb, 2010

The Kenyan government of national unity is in the grips of another crisis after president Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) overruled a decision by prime minister Raila Odinga of Orange...

Cairo News

King Tutankhamun death mystery solved?

Culture 18 Feb, 2010

The boy-king Tutankhamun may have died from malaria according to the results of new scientific research carried out using DNA tests and CT scans. Speculation has surrounded the death of the young...

Lagos News

Vice president assumes executive powers

Politics 16 Feb, 2010

Nigeria

Cape Town News

South African National Gallery closes for repairs

Culture 15 Feb, 2010

The Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG) will be closed to the public from 1 March-14 April for maintenance and repairs. The works have been decided in view of the 2010 football World Cup in...

Cape Town News

Athol Fugard theatre opens in Cape Town

Culture 15 Feb, 2010

The Fugard Theatre has opened in Cape Town

Arusha News

The Selian Hospital's Wandering Surgeon

Health 14 Feb, 2010

The Selian Hospital is a Lutheran-run hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. Since January we have been following the blog of a visiting surgeon there and feel that what he writes about the difficulties, the h...

Cape Town News

Cape Town tackles irresponsible pricing for World Cup

Sport 11 Feb, 2010

Cape Town has moved to combat the perception that fans travelling to South Africa for the June-July 2010 FIFA World Cup will be overcharged for accommodation during their stay in the Mother City....

Nairobi News

Kenya Airways flies high

Transport 11 Feb, 2010

Kenya Airways (KQ) saw an increase in both cargo and passengers in the three months to December 2009, confirming its place as one of the leading carriers in sub-Saharan Africa. Cargo volume increa...

Dar Es Salaam News

Climate change conference in Dar es Salaam

Environment 10 Feb, 2010

Representatives of governmental and inter-governmental agencies, research institutions and non-governmental organisations are to gather in Dar es Salaam from 24-27 February to explore how local commun...

Maputo News

New buses for Maputo

Transport 09 Feb, 2010

The Maputo public transport company TPM is to take delivery of 50 new buses starting in February in a bid to improve services in and around the city. The consignment will take to 195 the number of TPM...

Addis Ababa News

Low-cost housing in Addis Ababa centre

08 Feb, 2010

Addis Ababa city council has announced plans to demolish part of the city centre and build low-cost condominium housing in its place. The English-language business weekly Capital Ethiopia reports...

Accra News

Ghana taxes bottled water

Retail 07 Feb, 2010

The price of bottled and sachet water is to increase by 20 per cent in Ghana as of 1 March, Citi FM reports. The increase is the result of an agreement between producers and the finance ministry conce...

Lagos News

Lagos city hall reopens after renovations

City 07 Feb, 2010

The historic city hall on Lagos Island, the seat of the secretariat of the Lagos Island local government authority, is back in use after a restoration costing N5.2 billion. Built in 1968 as the se...

Cape Town News

Cape Town's Robben Island overrun by rabbits

Environment 06 Feb, 2010

Robben Island in Table Bay 12 km north of Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years in prison during apartheid, is overrun by rabbits. The situation has become so serious that marksmen have now b...

Addis Ababa News

African Union elects Bingu wa Mutharika as new president

Politics 01 Feb, 2010

The African Union has decided not to confirm the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, as its president for a second year. The position has gone to the president of Malawi, Bingu wa Mutharika, a...

Addis Ababa News

Addis Ababa to get solar street lighting

Environment 31 Jan, 2010

Ten street lights near Meskel Square are to be powered by solar panels in a pilot scheme that could pave the way for the use of solar powered street lighting across Addis Ababa. The project is the...

Cape Town News

South Africans learn national anthem ahead of World Cup

Sport 31 Jan, 2010

South Africans are being given lessons in the national anthem Nkosi sikelel

Addis Ababa News

African Union considers Haiti resettlement

Politics 31 Jan, 2010

African leaders considered a proposal by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade to resettle Haitians made homeless by the earthquake on 12 January during the three-day African Union (AU) summit in Addis...

Lagos News

Shell cuts Nigeria production

Economy 31 Jan, 2010

Royal Dutch Shell has suspended operations at three pumping stations in the oil-rich Niger Delta following sabotage of an oil pipeline on 30 January. The act of sabotage came just after Nigeria

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