Nairobi News
RaMoMa modern art museum relocates.
The Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art (RaMoMa) has relocated from its former premises in the Upper Hill area to more spacious accommodation on 2nd Parklands Avenue to the northwest of the city centre. T...
Nairobi News
French international broadcaster Radio France Internationale has launched a new radio show in Nairobi and Mombasa called
Nairobi News
Tourist sector counts cost of post-election violence.
Only 8,000 tourists travelled to Kenya
Maputo News
Cyclone Jokwe hits Mozambique.
At least eight people have been killed and thousands more displaced by cyclone Jokwe in the northern coastal province of Nampula, local news sources report. The tropical storm hit land on 8 March with...
Addis Ababa News
Axum obelisk to be erected in 2008.
The Axum obelisk is to be re-erected at its original site in northern Ethiopia later this year, Italy
Addis Ababa News
Youth centre planned for Kirkos district.
Kirkos district in Addis Ababa could get a new youth centre under an ambitious project of the national millennium secretariat council, English-language weekly newspaper
Cape Town News
The department of home affairs in conjunction with national broadcaster South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has launched a nationwide campaign to boost the possession of identity documents a...
Cairo News
Egypt is to begin issuing new car number plates as of 1 August, the weekly newspaper
Cape Town News
Manenberg Community Gardens open.
Residents of the district of Manenberg on the impoverished Cape Flats have a new green space for recreation and cultural events thanks to a project to improve living conditions in the area. Establishe...
Addis Ababa News
The Addis Book Fair takes place from 10-17 March at the Addis Ababa University (AAU) in the heart of the Ethiopian capital, local English-language newspaper
Accra News
Ghana is in the grips of a serious water crisis due to work on infrastructure and prolonged dry weather, local news sources report.
In mid-February the privately owned Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL...
Lagos News
Murtala Muhammed International Airport privatisation.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Lagos to come under private management, local news sources report. Other international airports slated for privatisation are Nnamdi Azikiwe internation...
Maputo News
Renewed call to eradicate backstreet abortions.
Urgent measures are needed to reduce the number of Mozambican women having backstreet abortions according to a recent seminar on the practice, the independent newspaper
Nairobi News
Members of parliament gathered in Nairobi on 6 March for the state opening of parliament exactly one week after the signing of a power-sharing deal to end the political deadlock triggered by the dispu...
Nairobi News
Opposition leader Raila Odinga and incumbent president Mwai Kibaki have signed a power-sharing agreement signalling an end to the political impasse triggered by the disputed presidential elections of...
Nairobi News
The new mayor of Nairobi is Godffrey Odihambo Majiwa of the main opposition party Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Majiwa took the same number of votes as his Party of National Unity (PNU) rival John...
Nairobi News
ENTRY/WORK PERMITS
Non-Kenyan citizens must have an entry/work permit issued by the Principal Immigration Office (PIO) before they can take up any form of work in Kenya, whether paid or unpaid....
Nairobi News
Chief mediator Kofi Annan has suspended talks to end the political impasse sparked by the disputed presidential elections and called on the country
Addis Ababa News
National Palace to get overhaul.
The National Palace on Menelik II Avenue is to get an overhaul under the supervision of one of the original architects, local business weekly
Cape Town News
Clashes in Cape Town over housing.
Seven people including one child have been injured in clashes with police during an operation to evict hundreds of squatters from unfinished government housing at Delft on the Cape Flats. Riot-squad o...
Accra News
Project to help Ghana’s wood carvers.
The West Africa regional programme office of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has launched a project to assist the growing number of woodcarvers in Ghana who are unable to access their traditional...
Maputo News
Government to subsidise fuel for chapas owners.
The government has decided to subsidise the cost of fuel for
Cairo News
Egyptians will go to the polls on 8 April to vote for their town, city, district and provincial councils. The elections, which will take place from 08.00 until 19.00, should have been held in 2006 but...
Nairobi News
GenerationKenya 45 is an innovative project to celebrate the achievements of Kenyans born in the 45 years since independence from Britain in 1963. Forty-five people active in the fields of arts and en...
Nairobi News
Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Kenya?
One of the proposals under consideration by negotiators seeking a political settlement to the crisis sparked by the disputed 27 December presidential elections is the formation of a Truth and Reconcil...
Nairobi News
Kibaki under pressure to share power.
One and a half months after going to the polls Kenyans still do not know who really won the presidential race. They are now waiting with baited breath for the last word from former United Nations secr...
