Addis Ababa News
New-look bus terminus in Merkato.
The Adarash bus terminus in Merkato in the commercial heart of the capital is getting a revamp in a two million Birr project sponsored by Ethiopia
Nairobi News
The United Nations has accused the governments of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo of directly helping warring factions in the eastern North Kivu district, where an unknown number of people hav...
Dar Es Salaam News
The non-profit organisation the Wonder Workshop, which provides training and job opportunities for disabled people in Dar es Salaam, is due to leave its current premises in Kinondoni in January. The o...
Dar Es Salaam News
Goethe-Institut Tanzania relocates.
The Goethe-Institut Tanzania has relocated from its premises at the Alliance Fran
Cape Town News
Zimbabwe border area declared cholera disaster area.
Officials of the Limpopo provincial government have declared the Vhembe district along the border with Zimbabwe a disaster area in light of the cholera epidemic in the northern neighbour, which risks...
Accra News
Ghana presidential elections go to run-off.
The next president of Ghana will be decided in a run-off vote after the first round of polling on 7 December failed to result in a clear winner. The run-off has been scheduled for 28 December and the...
Accra News
Ghana awaits election results.
Ballots are still being counted in Ghana following peaceful and orderly general elections on 7 December.
In the presidential elections official results are not expected until 10 December, but analys...
Nairobi News
Kenya to implement Waki report.
The cabinet is backing a controversial recommendation to prosecute those responsible for the post-election violence in January and February 2008. In its final report the inquiry into the unrest headed...
Lagos News
Dozens of people have been killed and many more injured in two days of clashes between rival Christian and Muslim groups in the city of Jos in Nigeria
Accra News
Election observers from the Commonwealth secretariat in London have arrived in Ghana to monitor the presidential and parliamentary elections on 7 December. The team will be joined by representatives o...
Dar Es Salaam News
Egypt Air to reintroduce flights to Tanzania.
Egypt Air is to reintroduce flights to Tanzania next June to stimulate business, tourism and cultural relations between the two countries. The Egyptian carrier suspended its weekly flight from Cairo t...
Addis Ababa News
Travelling around Addis Ababa has become even easier with the launch of a new city map prepared by the urban governance and decentralization programme of the German development cooperation agency in c...
Cape Town News
Performing arts for street children in Cape Town.
Cape Town city council has given its backing to a programme for street children and vulnerable youth giving them skills in performing arts and enabling them to become role models for their peers. Part...
Arusha News
The regional authorities have announced plans to renew the road network across the Arusha region to facilitate the movement of goods and people
Maputo News
The ministry of health has announced the first national research project on HIV/AIDS in Mozambique, called INSIDA. The study will be carried out in 2009, involving 17,000 individuals of all ages from...
Maputo News
Maputo city centre roads get overhaul.
Work to overhaul the road network in the cidade cimento (city centre) will end in December, the person in charge of city infrastructure has said. The works, which began almost a year ago, have involve...
Maputo News
The Tax Authority of Mozambique (AT) has announced a campaign to regularise foreign vehicles and boats in Mozambique under the temporary vehicle import regime. Owners of vehicles or boats registered o...
Nairobi News
Crisis in DRC: UN agrees to increase peacekeeping force.
The United Nations security council has agreed to send 3,000 additional peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to protect the civilian population from protracted fighting in the easter...
Cape Town News
SEACOM cable wins Africa Investor award.
The SEACOM project to provide east and southern Africa with cheap broadband internet connections has won several awards from the UK-based investment and research group Africa Investor. Its main sponso...
Nairobi News
Thousands of young people from Kenya and beyond are expected in Nairobi for five days of prayer and communion organised by the ecumenical Taiz
Arusha News
Arusha-Namanga road upgrade runs into problems.
Work to expand and upgrade the road linking Arusha to the Kenya-Tanzania border post at Namanga has run into difficulties just a few months after getting underway. Problems include late payment of the...
Lagos News
Financial crisis affects remittances to Africa.
Remittances to developing countries could fall by as much as six per cent in 2009 as a result of the global financial crisis according to the latest migration and development report from the World Ban...
Dar Es Salaam News
Natural gas project in Dar es Salaam.
Dar es Salaam is to get its first compressed natural gas (CNG) refuelling stations at Ubungo and at the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) compound in Mikocheni early next year as part...
Cape Town News
The festive season gets underway in Cape Town on 30 November with the traditional switching-on of the Christmas lights in Adderley Street in the city centre. Events begin at 16.00 with a concert at th...
Cape Town News
South Africa ports see increased traffic due to Somali piracy.
Ports in South Africa stand to benefit from the present insecurity in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean as shipping companies consider rerouting their vessels around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid...
