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Nairobi News

Art market at RaMoMa.

The Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art is holding a monthly sale of Kenyan art at affordable prices at its premises in the Parklands area of Nairobi. On the last Saturday of the month visitors to the new...
Addis Ababa News

Biography of Al Amoudi.

Saudi-Ethiopian business magnate Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi is the subject of a biography to be released shortly.
Addis Ababa News

New shopping centre for Addis Ababa.

A new shopping centre has opened in the Habte Giorgis area between Mercato and Piassa in central Addis Ababa. The 30 million birr project has eight storeys and over 90 rooms, of which 90 per cent have...
Cape Town News

Mandela Cape Town home to become museum.

Former South African president and Nobel peace laureate Nelson Mandela has signed his Cape Town home over to the city for use as a
Cape Town News

Bus rapid transport system for Cape Town.

Work is to begin shortly on a bus rapid transport (BRT) system in the city. The R10-billion project will be divided into four phases, with the first phase ready in time for the football World Cup in S...
Arusha News

Arusha to get two new hotels.

Five-star accommodation in Arusha is about to get a boost with the planned opening of two major international hotels. Holiday Inn Arusha is to open on the site of the present Novotol Mount Meru earl...
Arusha News

Kaloleni cemetery closed to burials.

Kaloleni cemetery near the bus station in the heart of Arusha has been declared full and closed for burials,
Accra News

New business newspaper for Ghana.

The business community in Ghana has a new newspaper,
Nairobi News

Safaricom M-Pesa service expands.

Sending or receiving cash has never been easier for the over 11 million cell phone subscribers in Kenya thanks to the extension of the M-Pesa money transfer system offered by the leading mobile teleco...
Nairobi News

New mobile firm to enter Kenyan market in November.

The two mobile phone companies operating in Kenya, Safaricom and Zain, can relax for a couple of months following the news that would-be competitor Econet Wireless Kenya (EWK) Limited has postponed th...
Nairobi News

New mobile firm to enter Kenyan market in November.

The two mobile phone companies operating in Kenya, Safaricom and Zain, can relax for a couple of months following the news that would-be competitor Econet Wireless Kenya (EWK) Limited has postponed th...
Maputo News

World Bank funds education initiative in Mozambique.

The World Bank has donated $79 million to support primary and secondary schooling, professional education, teacher training, higher education, school health and institutional development in Mozambique...
Maputo News

Water distribution network extended.

About 1.5 million new consumers in Maputo, Matola and Boane will be linked to the water distribution network by the end of 2009, local newspaper
Nairobi News

Fly540 flies high in Africa.

Kenyan no-frills airline Fly540 is preparing to launch a new service linking the capital Nairobi to Mwanza in northwestern Tanzania. The service, which is expected to come into operation in October, f...
Nairobi News

Meat shortage looms in Nairobi.

Nairobians could be facing a meat shortage following the ordered closure of five private slaughterhouses in the capital due to non-compliance with environmental regulations. The order affects Dagorett...
Nairobi News

Anti-corruption tsar Githongo calls for amnesty.

The one-time head of the Kenya anti-corruption commission John Githongo has called for an amnesty for high-level corruption suspects on condition of full confession and the voluntary surrender of stol...
Dar Es Salaam News

Chinese company to buy into Air Tanzania.

The government could be about to sell a 49 per cent stake in the state-owned Air Tanzania to a private Chinese firm,
Dar Es Salaam News

New skyscraper for Dar es Salaam.

Work has begun on a new 25-storey building on Bibi Titi Mohammed Road just north of the city centre. Upon completion the structure, known as Uhuru Heights, will be the tallest building in the commerci...
Arusha News

New chlorination system for ISM pool.

The swimming pool at the International School Moshi
Arusha News

Tanzanite museum opens in Arusha.

A museum dedicated to the extremely rare blue-purple gemstone Tanzanite has opened in Arusha. The so-called
Cape Town News

Zimfest 2008.

The pick of South African bands will be performing in Cape Town on 6 September in the first ever music festival dedicated exclusively to raising money for Zimbabwean refugees. The line-up includes Fre...
Cairo News

Cairo zoo gets overhaul.

Black bears at Cairo
Cairo News

Giza pyramids get new security fence.

A 20 km fence complete with infrared sensors, security cameras and alarms has been erected around the three Giza pyramids and the Sphinx as part of efforts to keep hawkers and touts away from the area...
Cairo News

Egyptian parliament destroyed by fire.

A fire has destroyed part of the 19th-century upper house of Egypt

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