Dar Es Salaam News
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is inviting young Swahili-speaking entrepreneurs from Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo to take part in this year
Maputo News
Biennial on Education in Africa in Maputo.
Maputo is to host the biennial on education in Africa from 5-9 May. Organised by the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the conference on education development brings toget...
Nairobi News
New Nairobi metropolitan development minister appointed.
Nairobi will go down in history as the first city in the world to have a full-fledged ministry created specifically to take care of its affairs.
The ministry of Nairobi metropolitan development (NMD)...
Nairobi News
The Nairobi National Museum has reopened to the public after an extensive restructuring and expansion project lasting two years. The renovated museum boasts new exhibition space and additional facilit...
Dar Es Salaam News
The organisers of the annual Sauti za Busara (Sounds of Wisdom) music and performing arts festival in Zanzibar are seeking performers for the 2009 edition, which will take place from 12-17 February. P...
Nairobi News
The new unity government of Kenya has been sworn in at a special ceremony presided over by president Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU).
With 40 ministers and over 50 deputies, the new...
Nairobi News
The Langata Link branch office at Karen Connection on Karen Road is now offering full bureau services including photocopying, fax, secretarial, postbox management and account management. The Career Li...
Nairobi News
Police in Kenya have launched a crackdown on members of the outlawed Mungiki sect after two days of unrest and clashes with police in which at least 14 people are known to have died. Internal security...
Cape Town News
Residents protest against Sea Point development plans.
On 13 April hundreds of residents of Sea Point on the Atlantic Seaboard staged a protest over plans to build a hotel and shopping centre on the promenade. The demonstration was led by local voluntary...
Maputo News
Feliciano dos Santos wins Goldman environmental prize.
Mozambican musician Feliciano dos Santos has won the Goldman environmental prize for Africa for his work to raise awareness about health and sanitation issues in the northern Niassa province of Mozamb...
Addis Ababa News
Opposition withdraws from local elections.
The opposition party Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) has pulled out of elections in Ethiopia in protest over the alleged intimidation of its agents during polling, Reuters news agency repo...
Cairo News
Nile Corniche project gets underway.
Work has started on a $1 billion high-rise hotel and residential complex in downtown Cairo, the
Lagos News
Eko Atlantic City development project.
Plans are underway for a massive new property development on Lagos Island. The N416.5 billion Eko Atlantic City project involves reclaiming over eight square kilometres of land along Bar Beach on Vict...
Nairobi News
Central Nairobi has never been cleaner or safer thanks to the relocation of over 10,000 hawkers to a special market built for them on the eastern edge of the city centre.
Financed by the government...
Nairobi News
Kenya at last has a new unity government under the terms of the power-sharing agreement signed by President Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader...
Nairobi News
Seven dead in Mungiki violence.
At least seven people are believed to have died in Kenya in clashes with police sparked by members of the outlawed Mungiki sect. The violence follows the discovery of the beheaded body of the wife of...
Cape Town News
Labour rights for South Africa's illegal immigrants.
A court in South Africa has ruled that illegal immigrants have the same labour rights as other workers, the Johannesburg-based
Cairo News
NDP wins in Egypt's local elections.
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) has won an overwhelming victory in the 8 April local elections, which were characterised by a very low turnout across the country. The final results are st...
Cairo News
Egyptians protest against rising cost of living.
Tension is running high in Egypt after police and demonstrators clashed on 6 April during protests over the rising price of basic necessities including food.
The epicentre of the disorder was the Ni...
Arusha News
Over 70 dead in Tanzania mine.
At least 70 mineworkers are thought to have died at Mererani near Arusha in northern Tanzania after heavy rains flooded the mine where they were working. The accident occurred on 29 March but the full...
Arusha News
I lived in Accra as a young boy from the age of eight until I was 14. My father, a British army warrant officer in the Army Physical Training Corps, was posted to what was then still the Gold Coast fr...
Nairobi News
Kenya cabinet to be announced.
President Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) and prime minister-designate Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) have agreed on a 40-member cabinet under the terms of the p...
Nairobi News
Motorists in Nairobi heaved a sigh of relief in mid-March when local government minister Uhuru Kenyatta banned matatus (mini bus taxis) arriving from the east side of the city from entering the city c...
Accra News
Lighting Africa 2008 Conference.
The first ever international business conference for environmentally friendly off-grid lighting takes place in Accra from 5-8 May. Representatives of the global lighting industry, international and lo...
