Maputo News
Maputo gets jobs from foreign investment
In the first nine months of 2009 Mozambique gave the go-ahead to 78 private investment projects in the country worth nearly $US 700 million; 60 per cent of the total investment came from foreign inves...
Cairo News
A group of professors from Ulster University in the United Kingdom is assessing possible reforms to Egypt
Arusha News
Arusha lacks secondary school places
Secondary schools in Arusha are so short of places that about 7,000 children may be left out of the Form One intake in 2010.
This is partly because of a lack of classrooms but also because a large...
Lagos News
Boards of governors have been introduced at 12 public hospitals and health facilities in Lagos to improve public health care in the state. Until now the hospitals have been run directly by the state g...
Lagos News
Fuel scarcity in Lagos is making it difficult for taxi drivers to repay bank loans encouraged by a government scheme to help them buy a new car, according to a 234next.com report.
In May 2009 the L...
Lagos News
Lagos to expand bus rapid transit scheme
Local transport operator Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has announced plans to expand the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) scheme in the city.
Part of the project is to increase the sp...
Cape Town News
Work has finished on the new Cape Town Stadium, which will host eight of the football World Cup from 11 June-11 July this year, including a semi-final match. Construction of the precinct around the st...
Accra News
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has banned the use of pan, or bucket, latrines in the capital in compliance with a 2008 supreme court ruling that pan latrines be outlawed in Accra by 1 January 2...
Accra News
The 2010 population and housing census will not be held in March as originally planned although it will still take place this year. No alternative date has been given, but the government has ruled out...
Accra News
Ghana-Switzerland double taxation agreement
A double taxation agreement between Ghana and Switzerland came into effect on 1 January 2010.
The agreement, signed in 2008 and ratified by the two countries
Accra News
On 14 February 15 couples will make their wedding vows at a group ceremony at the international conference centre in Accra.
The ceremony is part of a week-long festival from 7-14 February titled Ch...
Dar Es Salaam News
Tanzanian rail bridges collapse
Several railway bridges have been destroyed by recent floods on Tanzania
Dar Es Salaam News
Tanzania to get new SMS money transfer service
Tanzanians should soon be able to shop online and pay for bills using their mobile phones.
Wide International Network, a Tanzanian company, is to offer about 30 services in the financial, business...
Cairo News
Stolen antiquities conference in Cairo
Egypt is to host a conference on the return of antiquities in Cairo in the spring. It is estimated that about 30 countries, including Greece, Mexico, Peru, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia and China, will...
Dar Es Salaam News
An innovative system using mobile phones has been set up in 135 rural villages in Tanzania, covering a population of about one million, to keep track of stocks of anti-malarial drugs. Each week the lo...
Cairo News
Cairo may soon get a taxi service run by women and for women only, according to a recent report in the Jerusalem Post, Israel
Cairo News
Egyptian tombs reveal new discoveries
The discovery of two tombs at the Sakkara necropolis site south of Cairo could reveal new information about the burial and religious rites of ordinary Egyptians, rather than of royalty according to Eg...
Cairo News
Estonia and Latvia to share Cairo embassy
Estonia and Latvia are to share an embassy premises in Cairo according to an agreement signed at the end of 2009. If all goes according to plan the jointly operated facility should be operational in t...
Nairobi News
Prepaid electricity scheme in Nairobi
Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) is testing a pilot scheme in Nairobi for prepaid electricity sales. Potential customers will be able to pay for electricity in advance, along the same lines as...
Nairobi News
Flights to Nairobi get cheaper
Two British airlines are offering discounted fares to Kenya for several months as long as they are booked before the end of January. British Airways is offering
Dar Es Salaam News
Local drivers register for FIA Tanzanian rally
15 Tanzanian drivers are expected to sign on for the Kenol/Kobil Tanzanian Rally scheduled to take place in Dar es Salaam on 19-21 February.
In the last two years only three Tanzanian nationals co...
Dar Es Salaam News
Tanzanian police in road safety drive
There were 13,748 traffic accidents and 2,145 road deaths in Tanzania in the first nine months of 2009 according to recent data from the Tanzanian police force. In an exclusive interview in the daily...
Arusha News
Tourist figures in Tanzania may have been down by ten per cent in the first ten months of 2009, but new hotels are going up all over Arusha, the centre of the northern safari circuit, the gateway to t...
Arusha News
Ngorongoro cattle killed by drought
According to estimates by local government officers over 100,000 cattle out of a total of about 380,00 had died by the end of November 2009 in the Ngorongoro region as a result of the prolonged drough...
