Accra News
CAN 2008: Ghana team announced.
Ghana coach Claude Le Roy has announced the definitive line-up for the African Cup of Nations (CAN) football tournament, which takes place in Ghana from 20 January to 10 February. The 23-man squad, ch...
Nairobi News
Kenya crisis: political deadlock continues.
The situation in Nairobi remains calm as Kenya moves into the third week of political deadlock following the disputed general elections of 27 December. However, a source in the capital reports that pe...
Maputo News
Roughly 50 people are thought to have died in heavy flooding in Mozambique according to the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The problem is particularly acute along the Zambezi...
Nairobi News
Efforts are continuing in Nairobi to seek a negotiated solution to the political impasse sparked by the disputed presidential elections of 27 December. International news sources report that fresh tal...
Nairobi News
The following reflections are from Catherine Mujomba, the administrative director of the GoDown, a centre for the visual and performing arts in Nairobi
Nairobi News
Kenya’s ballots printed in the UK.
Smith and Ouzman Ltd, the UK-based security and commercial printing house that produced the ballot papers for the 27 December local government and general elections in Kenya, has declined to comment o...
Nairobi News
Kofi Annan to help mediation in Kenya.
International efforts to resolve the political impasse caused by the disputed presidential elections of 27 December have suffered a major setback following the collapse of talks between Ghanaian presi...
Nairobi News
Kibake cabinet appointments cause tension.
Tension returned to some parts of Nairobi on 8 January following the surprise announcement by incumbent president Mwai Kibaki of part of his new cabinet. Local news sources say that riots broke out in...
Nairobi News
Kenya crisis: the view from Tanzania.
The following report from Russell Gale, who works for Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) in Tanzania, describes not only some of the hardship in Kenya but also the knock-on effect the crisis is having...
Nairobi News
Kibaki convenes parliament and announces partial cabinet.
Incumbent president Mwai Kibaki has convened newly-elected members of parliament for the opening of the new legislature on 15 January at 14.30 local time. On that occasion the speaker and deputy speak...
Maputo News
At least six people have died and thousands have been displaced from their homes as a result of heavy flooding in central Mozambique. The areas worst affected are along the Zambezi, Pungue, Buzi and S...
Maputo News
Voters register in Mozambique.
Eligible voters in Mozambique now have until 15 March to get their name on the electoral roll in readiness for upcoming local government, provincial and general elections.
Voter registration was ori...
Accra News
The employment of people to dispose of human excrement from bucket latrines in pans carried on their heads may soon be a thing of the past in Accra if a case brought against the city council is succes...
Accra News
Cleaning up for 2008 African Cup of Nations.
Over the next several days waste management company Zoomlion will be cleaning beaches, sweeping along main roads, de-silting drains, emptying refuse dumps and painting kerbs and other structures in Ac...
Nairobi News
Death toll in post-election violence rises.
Residents of Kibera and Mathare slums in the capital of Nairobi are among the recipients of emergency food aid being delivered by the United Nation
Nairobi News
Uneasy calm in Kenya as diplomacy continues.
International pressure by the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and South Africa among other countries has led to an uneasy calm for the past three days, especially in Nairobi. The diplomatic eff...
Nairobi News
Over 350 Kenyans have died in the violence that has swept the country since the disputed presidential, parliamentary and local government elections of 27 December according to a tally kept by the news...
Cape Town News
House sales in Cape Town hit record figures.
Last year was a record year for residential property sales in the Cape Town area according to a report in the daily newspaper
Lagos News
Solar power for Lagos villages.
Roughly 5,000 people living in the Badagry, Epe, Eredo and Ojo local government areas of Lagos are to benefit from a solar power scheme financed by the state government, the Science and Development Ne...
Cairo News
China is to build an industrial zone in the Suez Bay at the southern end of the Suez canal. The so-called Egyptian-Chinese Zone for Economic Cooperation and Trade will be China
Nairobi News
Nairobi: "We don't want to be refugees".
In Nairobi 4 January marked a return to a semblance of normality after the violence and tension sparked by the disputed presidential elections of 27 December.
However, all is still not well in the r...
Nairobi News
Nairobi calm as new demonstration fails.
There is relative calm in Nairobi despite calls by the opposition party Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) for a re-run on 4 January of the aborted protest rally of the previous day against the outcome...
