Accra News
The annual Ghana Music Awards festival takes place in Accra from 24-27 April. As in previous years nominated musicians from across the country will be competing in 26 categories including song of the...
Cairo News
The government has suspended rice exports from April for six months in a bid to mitigate growing public discontent over rising food prices.
Cape Town News
New Anglican archbishop for Cape Town.
Thabo Cecil Makgoba is new Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. He was enthroned at a special liturgy in the cathedral of St George the Martyr on 30 March. The service was attended by South Africa
Cape Town News
New statistical index measures Cape economy.
The Western Cape province has a new statistical index measuring performance of the local economy, national newspaper
Addis Ababa News
Ethiopian Commodities Exchange.
Preparations are underway to launch the Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX), the first regulated commodities market in Ethiopia. Registration for prospective members began in February and special war...
Nairobi News
Park entrance fee increase delayed.
Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS), which manages the country
Nairobi News
Safaricom IPO the talk of the town.
Nairobi residents have never been more money-minded thanks to the Ksh50 billion Safaricom initial public offer (IPO), launched at the end of March.
Everyone is talking about how to get a piece of the...
Nairobi News
Police in Nairobi have fired teargas at a crowd protesting at the proposed size of the new unity government as political leaders continue to disagree over the number and distribution of ministerial po...
Dar Es Salaam News
A standard-gauge railway is to be built between Isaka in central Tanzania and the Rwandan capital Kigali to facilitate the transport of goods and raw materials between the two countries,
Dar Es Salaam News
Safaricom IPO open to Tanzanian investors.
Citizens of all East African Community countries are considered as local investors for the purposes of the initial public offer (IPO) launched by Safaricom on 28 March. This means that not just Kenyan...
Dar Es Salaam News
Olympic torch comes to Dar es Salaam.
The Olympic torch is due to arrive in Dar es Salaam on 13 April as part of its 22-leg tour ahead of the Olympic games in Beijing in August. Numerous personalities from across Africa will be in the com...
Dar Es Salaam News
Tanzania airports set for overhaul.
Major and minor airports in Tanzania are set for an upgrade in line with international security standards and as a result of growing air traffic in the country,
Arusha News
Arusha-Nairobi road to get overhaul.
The governments of Tanzania and Kenya are to embark on an ambitious project to upgrade the main road connecting Arusha in northern Tanzania to Athi River and Nairobi in Kenya via the Namanga border po...
Arusha News
New residential area for Arusha.
Terrat and Mkonoo in southern Arusha are set to become new upmarket residential areas according to a report in the
Arusha News
New East African Community headquarters.
Construction of the new headquarters of the East African Community comprising Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi is due to begin in Arusha in May.
The Tsh22.8 billion facility will go up on...
Arusha News
African Travel Association congress.
The 33rd annual congress of the African Travel Association (ATA) will take place in Arusha from 19-23 May 2008. Over 500 representatives of the tourism and business communities will explore ways to de...
Nairobi News
Talks to name cabinet underway.
Talks are underway between incumbent president Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga to pick a new cabinet. However a first meeting...
Addis Ababa News
Dozens of new buses have come into operation in Addis Ababa to relieve pressure on the city
Addis Ababa News
Sports festival in Addis Ababa.
The ministry of youth and sports in partnership with the ministry of culture and tourism are hard at work organising the first ever sports festival in Addis Ababa in May, the local English-language ne...
Cape Town News
Hundreds destitute in Cape Town following strong winds.
Hundreds of people have been left destitute in Cape Town after strong winds destroyed their homes on 15 March. Many of the victims are former squatters who were evicted from unfinished government hous...
Cape Town News
21 March is human rights day in South Africa, a national holiday created after the end of white minority rule in 1994 to remind people of their rights and ensure that the kind of abuses perpetrated un...
Cairo News
Television production centre for Alexandria library.
The new Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has signed an agreement with Italian media group Adnkronos to create an on-site television production centre, Adnkronos International reports. Funded in part by th...
Cairo News
Egypt to host 2009 U-20s football world cup.
Egypt is to host the FIFA U-20 world cup, or the biennial world championship of association football for male players aged under 20, in 2009. The provisional dates for the tournament are 10-13 July....
Accra News
Accra is to get 13 new or improved boreholes in an attempt to mitigate the ongoing water shortages in the capital and surrounding areas. Neighbourhoods set to benefit from the works include Tantra Hil...
Accra News
On 7 December Ghanaians will go to the polls to elect their next president and parliament.
The presidential candidates for the main political parties are already campaigning across the country as th...
Lagos News
Documenting urban transformation through art.
A group of local artists has launched an initiative to represent communities through art as a way of preserving their identity, even when their habitat and way of life has been transformed, local news...
Maputo News
Eugénio de Lemos museum opens.
A museum dedicated to the late Mozambican abstract painter Eug
Nairobi News
Local and international investors will be watching the Nairobi stock exchange for the next two weeks as Kenya
Nairobi News
Kenya parliament fast-tracks power-sharing deal.
Kenya could have a new coalition government as early as the week beginning 17 March following the approval by parliamentary speaker Kenneth Marende of a motion to fast-track the requisite laws. Member...
