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Addis Ababa News

Archaeologists uncover Queen of Sheba’s palace.

Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of the palace of the Queen of Sheba and of an altar that may once have contained the Ark of the Covenant, the most important treasure of ancient Juda...
Cape Town News

Cape Town council flats to get upgrade.

Maintenance work is to be carried out on thousands of flats and houses owned by the city council and rented out to poor tenants under an ambitious scheme due to begin in July. Roughly 7,500 housing...
Cape Town News

Cape Town’s Zille in running for 2008 World Mayor Award.

Cape Town mayor Helen Zille and Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo are among 50 city mayors competing for the 2008 World Mayor Award organised by City Mayors, an international network of professionals wo...
Cape Town News

N1 Cape Town’s

The N1 is the most dangerous road in Cape Town in terms of fatalities according to the city
Nairobi News

Kenya by-elections to be held in June.

Kenyans return to the polls on 11 June for by-elections in five parliamentary constituencies across the country, less than six months after disputed elections in December 2007 led to nearly two months...
Lagos News

Lagos Business School in global top 50.

Lagos Business School (LBS) has made it into the world
Lagos News

Street parties banned in Lagos.

Lagos state governor Babatunde Fashola has signed into law a bill effectively banning street parties in the metropolis. The new legislation makes it an offence to obstruct traffic on any road in the s...
Accra News

African psychiatrists to meet in Accra.

The African Association of Psychiatrists and Allied Professionals (AAPAP) is to meet in the Ghanaian capital for its second annual conference from 25-28 June. Roughly 600 mental health professionals f...
Accra News

FonTV launches in Ghana.

Ghanaians can now watch television on their mobile phones following the launch of Africa
Arusha News

Power cuts in Arusha to continue.

The weekend power cuts that have plagued Arusha in recent months are to continue indefinitely, Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) has told the
Dar Es Salaam News

Oil search to begin in Lake Tanganyika.

Australian company Beach Petroleum Limited has won the tender to search for oil in the southern half of Lake Tanganyika and surrounding area,
Maputo News

Informal markets banned in Maputo.

The first phase of a project to prevent the opening of informal markets in Maputo is due to get underway in June. Overseen by the city council, the operation aims to ensure the proper management of pu...
Lagos News

At least 100 dead in Lagos oil pipeline blast.

At least 100 people including many children have died in an oil pipeline explosion in the Ijegun suburb of Lagos, local Red Cross sources report. The blast occurred on 15 May after a bulldozer alleg...
Nairobi News

Kenya-Uganda railway to get overhaul.

Rail travel in Kenya could be about to change thanks to an ambitious KSh80 billion plan to turn the loss-making Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC)
Maputo News

Assembly of African Churches in Maputo.

The ninth general assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) will take place in Maputo in December. Roughly 3,000 representatives of the pan-African ecumenical Christian fellowship will...
Maputo News

Human trafficking law for Mozambique.

Parliament has approved unanimously a law on trafficking in persons, which contemplates prison sentences for offenders of up to 12 years among other measures. The law represents an important step fo...
Maputo News

Tourism in Mozambique on the rise.

1,259,000 tourists visited Mozambique in 2007 according to ministry of tourism figures, representing a 21 per cent increase over the previous year. Accommodation capacity also increased by 8.2 per cen...
Maputo News

Urban renewal in Maputo.

Maputo city council is due to begin a major urban renewal programme in the capital at the end of May, Portugal
Addis Ababa News

Ethiopia-Djibouti railway website.

Railway enthusiasts and people interested in the history of the Horn of Africa will enjoy a new website dedicated to the railway linking the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the port of Djibouti on th...
Maputo News

Mozambican police have

Human rights organisation Amnesty International has released a report accusing the Mozambican police of killing and torturing people with near total impunity. The study, titled
Arusha News

First African wind farm in Singida.

Towering wind turbines could soon be competing with imposing rock formations on the Singida skyline in central Tanzania if a project to create the first commercial wind farm in sub-Saharan Africa goes...
Arusha News

Karibu travel and tourism fair in Arusha.

The annual Karibu travel and tourism fair takes place in Arusha from 5-8 June. Jointly organised by the Tanzania Association of Tour Operators, the Tanzania tourist board and the ministry of natural r...
Nairobi News

Safaricom Marathon in Lewa.

The annual marathon sponsored by Kenya
Nairobi News

Peace and healing race in Nairobi.

Top Kenyan athletes and residents of the poor areas of Kibera and Dagoretti west of Nairobi city centre will be running side by side on 27 April to promote reconciliation and healing following the rec...

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