Nairobi News
Finance minister resigns over Grand Regency sale.
The fate of Nairobi's most expensive hotel, the Grand Regency, hangs in the balance after the resignation of finance minister Amos Kimunya of President Mwai Kibaki
Maputo News
Mozambique improves in World Bank governance indicators.
Mozambique has improved its ranking in four out of six of the World Bank
Lagos News
Former aviation ministers arrested.
Two former aviation ministers, Femi Fani-Kayode and Babalola Borishade, have been arrested as art of an investigation into the presumed misappropriation of a N19.5 billion fund set up by former presid...
Nairobi News
Grand Regency controversy deepens.
The grand coalition government of president Mwai Kibaki and prime minister Raila Odinga is faced with its biggest financial scandal since it was formed four months ago.
The controversy concerns the r...
Nairobi News
Kenya by-elections results announced.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of prime minister Raila Odinga took three seats and the Party of National Unity (PNU) of president Mwai Kibaki took two seats in the parliamentary by-elections on...
Nairobi News
Kenyans pin hope on Barack Obama.
US senator Barack Obama is on his way to becoming a nationl hero in Kenya following his recent victory over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary elections in the United States.
Addis Ababa News
The ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition is to build a new seven-storey headquarters near its existing premises in Arat Kilo close to the city centre. The buildin...
Nairobi News
East African Legislative Assembly meets in Nairobi.
Lawmakers from the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) are meeting in Nairobi from 12-23 May to promote ambitious plans to form a customs and monetary union and political federation similar to th...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
