Maputo News
Mozambique remembers Eduardo Mondlane.
On 3 February over 40,000 people gathered in the village of Nwadjahane in southern Mozambique to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Eduardo Mondlane, founding father and first president of the...
Addis Ababa News
African Union announces special summit on refugees.
African Union (AU) representatives gathered in Addis Ababa for the pan-African organisation
Addis Ababa News
New road signs for Addis Ababa.
Driving in the Ethiopian capital is to become considerably easier following the installation of around 350 road signs including direction and distance signs and other information panels. The signs are...
Cape Town News
Voter registration in South Africa.
South Africans who have not registered to vote in this year
Cape Town News
A judge has postponed until 25 August the hearing in the case against the president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma, who faces charges of corruption, money-laundering and rac...
Addis Ababa News
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been elected chairman of the African Union at the pan-African organisation
Cairo News
Gaza reconstruction conference in Cairo.
Foreign ministers from around the world are to gather in Cairo on 2 March for an international conference on reconstruction in the Gaza Strip following the 22-day Israeli offensive against the ruling...
Cape Town News
One&Only Cape Town is to open on 4 April as part of the international One&Only luxury hotel chain owned by South African entrepreneur and casino magnate Sol Kerzner, who also developed the popular Sun...
Lagos News
Polio immunisation campaign begins in Lagos.
The Lagos state government has begun a campaign to vaccinate over three million children against poliomyelitis (polio) in an attempt to eradicate the crippling and potentially fatal viral disease. The...
Cairo News
Revenue from the Suez Canal fell sharply in the last quarter of 2008 due to a combination of piracy in the waters off Somalia and the global economic downturn. Income from the international waterway l...
Accra News
Kwame Nkrumah centenary celebrations.
The Kwame Nkrumah Foundation (KNF) in Accra has launched a year-long programme of events to mark the centenary of the birth of the country
Accra News
President Atta-Mills new cabinet.
President John Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has completed his cabinet line-up just over three weeks after being sworn into office. The new government consists of 23 ministers a...
Nairobi News
Letter from Nairobi: Nakumatt fire
I have never seen so much smoke in my entire life as I saw at the Nakumatt Downtown supermarket in Nairobi after it was engulfed in a huge fire for over 24 hours.
The choking black smoke was visible...
Nairobi News
At least 111 people died in the Molo district in Rift Valley province on 1 February after an overturned petrol tanker exploded in circumstances that are still unclear.
Hundreds of men, women and chi...
Nairobi News
One person is confirmed dead and 40 people are reported missing following a fire at Nakumatt Downtown supermarket on Kimathi Street on 28 January. Several people have also been treated for shock and s...
Arusha News
Shoppers and traders in Arusha will be banned from using plastic bags as of 1 February in a move to bring the municipality into line with other parts of the country.
Tanzania introduced legislation...
Arusha News
Tanzania acts against albino killings.
The government has revoked the licences of all traditional healers with immediate effect in an attempt to stop the recent spate of killings of albinos in some parts of the country. Nearly 40 albinos h...
Dar Es Salaam News
New British high commissioner to Tanzania.
Diane Corner is the new British high commissioner to the Republic of Tanzania. She replaces Philip Parham, who leaves Tanzania at the end of January after three years in post.
Corner is a career dip...
Dar Es Salaam News
Work is underway to build an upper-middle income development of residential units and commercial facilities in the Bahari Beach area 22 km north of the city centre.
The project, known as Bahari Beach...
Nairobi News
Crisis in DRC: rebel commander Nkunda arrested.
Renegade Congolese soldier Laurent Nkunda, commander of the rebel National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), has been arrested in Rwanda following a joint operation involving Congolese an...
Accra News
Kufuor retirement package sparks outrage.
There is public outrage in Ghana over the generous retirement package for ex president John Kufuor and other former heads of state, which was approved on 6 January, the day before Kufuor stepped down...
Accra News
Four universities from Ghana are to represent the country in the Zain Africa Challenge 2009, which will be held in Kampala, Uganda, from 13-23 February. Teams from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Scie...
Cairo News
Archaeologists digging at Ain Sokhna about 120 km east of Cairo on the Red Sea coast have found the remains of an ancient city dating from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040-1640 BC), local news sources have...
Cairo News
Cairo’s Ramses Square to get overhaul.
Ramses Square in central Cairo is to get an overhaul under broad plans to revamp the centre city area. The restoration will be carried out according to the winning project in an international design c...
Addis Ababa News
African Union summit in Addis Ababa.
The Ethiopian capital will play host to the 12th African Union (AU) summit from 26 January-3 February under the theme
Cape Town News
South Africa hunger strike for Zimbabwe.
South Africans have begun a hunger strike in protest against the political, economic and social crisis that has crippled neighbouring Zimbabwe and in solidarity with its citizens. The fast is centred...
Cape Town News
Cape Town Tens rugby tournament.
The first edition of the Cape Town Tens rugby tournament will kick off on 7 February. The two-day competition will be held at Hamilton RFC at Green Point, the oldest rugby club in South Africa. It is...
Nairobi News
Letter from Nairobi: Obamamania grips Kenya ahead of inauguration.
A tourist visiting Nairobi and Kisumu for the first time might be forgiven for thinking that Barack Obama was the president of Kenya, judging by the popularity of his T-shirts, posters and the extensi...
Maputo News
Mozambican entrepreneur of the year awards.
The multinational professional services company Ernst and Young will award the second edition of the prize
