Nairobi News
Local entertainment directory KenyaBuzz has joined forces with internet services and content provider African Laughter Ltd to launch a new website dedicated to children and their parents. KenyaKidz co...
Nairobi News
Kuwait-based mobile telecommunications company Zain has decided to relocate its Africa regional office to Nairobi to consolidate its presence on the continent. Until now it has run its Africa operatio...
Dar Es Salaam News
Tanzania gets new rules for UK visas.
Tanzanians wishing to travel to the United Kingdom will have their visa applications processed out of Nairobi as of 1 December as part of an overhaul of visa-issuing procedures worldwide. Under the ne...
Dar Es Salaam News
Leaders of three existing regional blocs in Africa have decided to create a single free trade zone spanning 26 countries to facilitate intra-regional trade and strengthen members
Maputo News
Turtle conservation in Mozambique.
Conservationists have called on Mozambicans to help protect marine turtles, which are under increasing pressure from human activities in the country. Specific dangers faced by these reptiles include a...
Cairo News
Court rules in favour of Al-Qursaya residents.
Residents of the island of Al-Qursaya in central Cairo can breathe a sigh of relief after the city
Cairo News
Archaeologists digging at Saqqara south of Cairo have uncovered a small pyramid believed to be that of the Sixth Dynasty Queen Sesheshet. The find brings to 118 the total number of pyramids discovered...
Accra News
Pan-African human rights conference.
A three-day conference on human rights will open in Accra on 21 November under the title
Accra News
Bee-keeping workshop in Ghana.
Ghanaian bee-keepers and representatives of the business community and non-governmental organisations in Ghana, Togo, South Africa and Uganda are to take part in a workshop on beekeeping in the capita...
Maputo News
Local elections in Mozambique.
The labour ministry has declared Wednesday 19 November a public holiday to facilitate local elections in 43 municipalities across the country.
Meanwhile the technical secretariat of electoral admini...
Nairobi News
World day of remembrance for road traffic victims.
The Kenya chapter of the Association for Safe International Road Travel (ASIRT) is organising a series of events in Nairobi on 16 November as part of global activities to mark the world day of remembr...
Cairo News
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria has launched a website in Arabic dedicated to the recent history of the country. The Memory of Modern Egypt digital archive cont...
Cairo News
Egypt privatisation moves ahead.
The government has announced plans to give shares in state-owned companies to the public free of charge in order to reassure citizens about privatisation and include them in economic reform.
It is s...
Accra News
New presidential palace inaugurated.
A new presidential palace has been officially inaugurated in the capital Accra less than a month before general elections on 7 December. The structure, known as Golden Jubilee House, is located north...
Accra News
Zain Ghana causes controversy.
Mobile telecommunications company Zain Ghana has come under fire for allegedly desecrating a cemetery in the Osu traditional area in the capital. Local news sources report that tombs have been flatten...
Cape Town News
Sponsoring police in Cape Town.
Cape Town city council has announced plans to encourage companies, organisations or even private individuals to fund a law enforcement officer, traffic cop or metro policeman in order to boost recruit...
Cape Town News
Blue Flag beaches in Cape Town.
Six Cape Town beaches have been awarded the Blue Flag eco-label under a programme run by the Copenhagen-based independent non-profit organisation Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE). The beac...
Cape Town News
“Mama Africa” Miriam Makeba dies in Italy.
Legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba has died in Italy aged 76. She took ill on 9 November following a concert in Castel Volturno near Naples in support of beleaguered Italian anti-mafia write...
Nairobi News
Summit on Congo crisis in Nairobi.
United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon is to join the president of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila and Rwandan president Paul Kagame in Nairobi on 7 November for a special Afric...
Nairobi News
Nairobi council raises burial fees.
Nairobi city council has increased its burial fees in a bid to ease pressure on the capital
Nairobi News
Higher parking fees in Nairobi.
Motorists now have to pay Ksh140 per day to park their car in the central business district under a new tariff structure aimed at easing congestion in the city centre. The former charge levied by the...
Nairobi News
Nakumatt supermarket on Thika road is one of a number of buildings to have been demolished as the long-awaited road expansion project gets underway.
The bulldozers set to work early in the morning of...
Nairobi News
Shuttle bus service to Nairobi National Park.
Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) has introduced a shuttle bus service between the city centre and Nairobi National Park as part of efforts to promote domestic and foreign tourism in the country.
The se...
