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    Alternative construction techniques discussed.
    Maputo News

    Alternative construction techniques discussed.

    Infrastructure
    Participants at a recent seminar in Maputo have examined the use of alternative building materials and techniques as a way of mitigating the rising cost of conventional methods while meeting growing c...
    Lagos bridges in critical condition.
    Lagos News

    Lagos bridges in critical condition.

    Infrastructure
    Six bridges in Lagos state are in critical condition according to a team of Nigerian and foreign engineers. The problem bridges include Third Mainland bridge, the longest of three bridges connecting L...
    Direct flights between Maputo and Luanda to launch in November.
    Maputo News

    Direct flights between Maputo and Luanda to launch in November.

    Transport
    Direct flights between Mozambique and Angola could begin in November this year following negotiations between the countries
    Downtown renovation for American University in Cairo.
    Cairo News

    Downtown renovation for American University in Cairo.

    Education
    The American University in Cairo (AUC) is to restore its historic premises in Downtown Cairo. The overhaul will begin in September once the undergraduate and graduate schools have relocated to the uni...
    Street-naming project in Arusha.
    Arusha News

    Street-naming project in Arusha.

    General
    Arusha residents could soon have a street address worthy of any major city thanks to a programme of the municipal council and the Tanzania Communications Regulations Authority, the "Arusha Times" repo...
    Addis Ababa railway station
    Addis Ababa News

    Addis Ababa railway station

    Culture
    Addis Ababa
    Heavy rain in Cape Town leaves thousands destitute.
    Cape Town News

    Heavy rain in Cape Town leaves thousands destitute.

    Humanitarian
    Over 5,000 people have been left homeless in the Cape Town area following flooding due to heavy rainfall, local media sources report. More than 1,000 shacks in informal settlements on and around the C...
    Ghana to host continental golf tournament in 2012.
    Accra News

    Ghana to host continental golf tournament in 2012.

    Sport
    Ghana is to host the 2012 edition of the annual All Africa Golf Championship for amateur golfers across the continent. At least one golf club in the country will be upgraded to meet international stan...
    Building collapse in Dar es Salaam.
    Dar Es Salaam News

    Building collapse in Dar es Salaam.

    Infrastructure
    A ten-storey building under construction in central Dar es Salaam collapsed on 21 June, killing one person and injuring several others. The victim, Shamte Said, was in a smaller building next to the u...
    Safaricom IPO applicants await refund.
    Nairobi News

    Safaricom IPO applicants await refund.

    Economy
    There is frustration among participants in the recent Safaricom initial public offering (IPO) as stockbrokers continue to withhold repayment after the share issue was heavily oversubscribed. In Marc...
    Homage to Fernando Ganhão.
    Maputo News

    Homage to Fernando Ganhão.

    Culture
    The Mozambican Writers
    ?Seven wonders of Mozambique
    Maputo News

    ?Seven wonders of Mozambique

    Culture
    Sociedade de Notocias, the publisher of Mozambique
    Cape Town braces for winter.
    Cape Town News

    Cape Town braces for winter.

    Environment
    Winter has arrived in Cape Town and with it the start of what is commonly refereed to as the
    HIV infection rate falls in Tanzania.
    Dar Es Salaam News

    HIV infection rate falls in Tanzania.

    Health
    The rate of infection of the AIDS-causing virus HIV in Tanzania has dropped from 7 per cent in 2003 to 5.8 per cent last year, according to national bureau of statistics figures. This translates into...
    Egypt bans female circumcision.
    Cairo News

    Egypt bans female circumcision.

    Health
    Egypt
    Cement shortage in Ethiopia.
    Addis Ababa News

    Cement shortage in Ethiopia.

    Infrastructure
    Ethiopia is facing a severe cement shortage which has forced a halt to major construction projects, weekly English language business newspaper
    Kenya by-elections results announced.
    Nairobi News

    Kenya by-elections results announced.

    Politics
    The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of prime minister Raila Odinga took three seats and the Party of National Unity (PNU) of president Mwai Kibaki took two seats in the parliamentary by-elections on...
    HIV infection rate falls in Tanzania.
    Arusha News

    HIV infection rate falls in Tanzania.

    Health
    The rate of infection of the AIDS-causing virus HIV in Tanzania has dropped from 7 per cent in 2003 to 5.8 per cent last year, according to national bureau of statistics figures. This translates into...
    Conference on the digital divide.
    Maputo News

    Conference on the digital divide.

    Telecoms
    The Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and the University Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos - Brazil) are promoting the first Brazil-Mozambique conference on the digital divide, democracy and diversity (...
    Plastic bags to be banned in Maputo.
    Maputo News

    Plastic bags to be banned in Maputo.

    Environment
    Plastic carrier bags are to be banned in Maputo due to their negative effect on the local drainage system, according to city mayor Eneas Comiche. The bags block manholes and drainage channels, prevent...
    Poaching in Kenya.
    Nairobi News

    Poaching in Kenya.

    Animals
    Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) recovered more then 1,200 illegal hunting trophies including skins, ivory, rhino horns and live animals and arrested 2,134 people in 2007 in connection with wildlife-rela...
    AccessKenya expands.
    Nairobi News

    AccessKenya expands.

    Telecoms
    Leading corporate internet services provider (ISP) AccessKenya has extended its national coverage to the towns of Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru in western Kenya ahead of the launch of a new broadband res...
    Beckham and Bono in Kilimanjaro climb.
    Arusha News

    Beckham and Bono in Kilimanjaro climb.

    Humanitarian
    English footballer David Beckham and rock star Bono of Irish band U2 are to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania to raise money for the United Nations
    Egypt human rights criticised.
    Cairo News

    Egypt human rights criticised.

    Justice
    Egypt has been strongly criticised by Amnesty International in its 2008 state of the world
    Dead rise to 62 in South Africa violence.
    Cape Town News

    Dead rise to 62 in South Africa violence.

    Immigrants
    The death toll in the anti-immigrant violence that rocked South Africa in May has risen to at least 62 according to police sources. Earlier the figure had been given as 56. The victims were mainly fr...
    Don Bosco centre for street children.
    Addis Ababa News

    Don Bosco centre for street children.

    Humanitarian
    A new centre providing accommodation, schooling and technical and vocational training for street children has opened in Addis Ababa. Don Bosco Children is located in the Nefas Silk Lafto area of the...
    SOMA Book Café.
    Dar Es Salaam News

    SOMA Book Café.

    Culture
    Book lovers in Dar es Salaam now have a new place to meet and enjoy a good novel or non-fiction work over a cup of coffee or fruit juice. SOMA Book Caf
    Kwame Nkrumah research centre established.
    Accra News

    Kwame Nkrumah research centre established.

    Education
    The late Kwame Nkrumah, political activist, pan-Africanist and Ghana
    Ikeja Digital Village opens.
    Lagos News

    Ikeja Digital Village opens.

    Telecoms
    A new information and communications technology (ICT) centre has opened in Lagos, taking to two the number of such facilities in the state. Occupying a modern two-storey building in Alusa, Ikeja Digit...
    Kenyans pin hope on Barack Obama.
    Nairobi News

    Kenyans pin hope on Barack Obama.

    Politics
    US senator Barack Obama is on his way to becoming a nationl hero in Kenya following his recent victory over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary elections in the United States.
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