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Arusha News

Floods hit Arusha-Babati road

Just before Christmas the local Arusha Times was wondering what might have happened to the 400 or so hippos that inhabited Lake Babati, a small lake about two hours travel south of the north Tanzanian...
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
Nairobi News

Phoenix Players close

The Nairobi-based semi-professional theatre company Phoenix Players has closed to the public due to problems with rent at its performance venue at the Professional Centre in Parliament Road. The compa...
Maputo News

New traffic laws in Mozambique

New traffoic regulations came into force on 8 December 2009 in a bid to improve safety on Mozambique
Addis Ababa News

New traffic regulations in Addis Ababa

The city council has introduced tough new road rules in a bid to improve road safety in the city, the English-language business weekly Capital Ethiopia reports. The use of seatbelts is now obligat...
Accra News

Accra Millennium City Project

Accra city council has launched the project
Lagos News

President Yar’Adua health concern

Pressure is mounting on Nigeria
Nairobi News

Digital TV in Kenya

Kenya has begun the transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television (DTT), the second African country to do so. South Africa began its migration to DTT in 2008, partly in view of the footba...
Arusha News

Air Tanzania introduces daily Dar-Arusha flights

State-owned Air Tanzania has introduced a daily flight from Dar es Salaam to Arusha airport to boost revenue for the struggling airline. The move puts the carrier in direct competition with private co...
Cape Town News

Football for Hope centre opens in Cape Town

The international governing body of football FIFA has opened a community centre in Cape Town as part of a social development initiative that is intended to outlast the 2010 World Cup. The so-called...
Maputo News

New medical clinic for Maputo

Expatriates in Mozambique will soon have access to a new private medical clinic in Maputo. The Maputo Trauma Centre and Well Woman Clinic is located in Avenida Julius Nyerere and is scheduled to op...
Cairo News

Egypt out of running for World Cup

Egypt will not be travelling to South Africa to play in next year
Nairobi News

Constitutional reform in Kenya

Kenyans are debating a new draft constitution presented to the public on 17 November. They have until 17 December to put their views to the committee of experts responsible for preparing the draft, wh...
Nairobi News

All Africa Dance Festival in Nairobi

From 9-13 December the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi hosts the All Africa Dance Conference and Festival on Peace. Over 1,000
Addis Ababa News

Catherine Hamlin awarded for fistula work

Ethiopia-based Australian doctor Catherine Hamlin has been given the Right Livelihood Award for her work with women suffering from fistula injuries due to obstructed labour. The obstetrician and gynae...
Addis Ababa News

Zewditu hospital to get outpatients department

Zewditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa is to get a new three-storey outpatients department under a project of the Ethiopia chapter of the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The...
Accra News

Ghana to get wind power project

Ghana could get a 80 megawatt wind farm under plans to diversify electricity production in the country. Currently Ghana generates much of its electricity from two hydroelectric power plants on the...
Accra News

African craft fair in Accra

Over 20 artists and artisans from all over Ghana are displaying their work at the fourth African Gift Fair organised by the African Art and Culture Development Company Ltd at Osu in Accra. The ten...
Cape Town News

World Cup stadium named

The city council has voted to name the city
Arusha News

Tanzanian farmers to get help from FAO

Farmers in Tanzania are to benefit from a project of the United Nations
Lagos News

Nigeria to restore Lagos-Jebba rail link

The Nigerian government has signed a N12.3 billion contract with a Chinese company to rehabilitate the 488 km railway between Lagos and Jebba to the north. The project is part of renewed efforts to re...
Maputo News

Guebuza returned to power in Mozambique elections

Incumbent president Armando Guebuza of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) has won an overwhelming victory in Mozambique
Maputo News

Turtle nesting season begins in Mozambique

Turtle season is officially underway in Mozambique and local animal protection groups are making their usual call for people to help guarantee optimum conditions for nesting and hatching. On 7 Nov...
Nairobi News

ICC prosecutor moves on Kenya election violence suspects

The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno Ocampo, has formally requested judges to open an investigation into the violence in Kenya sparked by the disputed presidenti...
Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzania lowers internet rates

Tanzania has become the first country in east Africa to lower internet charges following the arrival of broadband internet in the region, The East African newspaper reports. Tanzania Telecommunicat...
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