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Addis Ababa News

General 21 Dec, 2008

The population of Ethiopia is 76.9 million according to the Population and Housing Census conducted in May 2007, the results of which were published in early December. This compares with 53.4 million...

Cape Town News

Festive lights in Cape Town.

General 20 Nov, 2008

The festive season gets underway in Cape Town on 30 November with the traditional switching-on of the Christmas lights in Adderley Street in the city centre. Events begin at 16.00 with a concert at th...

Maputo News

New Maputo market car park.

General 18 Nov, 2008

Shoppers at Maputo

Maputo News

Maputo garden gets overhaul.

General 18 Nov, 2008

The municipal

Dar Es Salaam News

Tanzania gets new rules for UK visas.

General 18 Nov, 2008

Tanzanians wishing to travel to the United Kingdom will have their visa applications processed out of Nairobi as of 1 December as part of an overhaul of visa-issuing procedures worldwide. Under the ne...

Nairobi News

Grand Regency becomes Laico Regency.

General 05 Nov, 2008

The Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi has been renamed the Laico Regency following its controversial sale to Libyan Arab African Investment Company (Laico) earlier this year. It is managed by Laico Hotel...

Maputo News

One-stop border for South Africa and Mozambique.

General 19 Oct, 2008

Mozambique and South Africa are to create a one-stop border post (OSBP) at Lebombo-Ressano Garcia to ease the movement of goods and people between the countries. Currently people and goods have to cle...

Nairobi News

UN Nairobi office to be upgraded.

General 01 Oct, 2008

United Nations (UN) secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has decided to appoint a director-general to oversee the UN Environment Programme and the UN Human Settlements Programme (Habitat) in a move that will...

Addis Ababa News

Foreign ministry to get new headquarters.

General 23 Sep, 2008

The ministry of foreign affairs is to get new premises to complement its existing headquarters, which are no longer big enough to accommodate all the staff, English-language business weekly

Cairo News

Rockslide rescue operations end.

General 23 Sep, 2008

Operations to clear the area devastated by the 6 September rockslide have come to an end amid uncertainty over the actual number of dead. An unnamed security official told the international news agenc...

Arusha News

Work on new Arusha convention centre to begin shortly.

General 16 Sep, 2008

Plans to build a second international conference centre in Arusha have been given a boost following presentation of the final feasibility study report. The Tsh122 billion facility, to be called the Ki...

Dar Es Salaam News

New conference centre for Dar es Salaam.

General 04 Sep, 2008

A new state-of-the-art conference centre is under construction as part of the ongoing Milimani City development project near the University of Dar es Salaam. The facility will be able to accommodate 2...

Cairo News

Parliament to be restored after fire.

General 04 Sep, 2008

Work has begun to restore the Shura Council or upper house of Egypt

Addis Ababa News

New shopping centre for Addis Ababa.

General 03 Sep, 2008

A new shopping centre has opened in the Habte Giorgis area between Mercato and Piassa in central Addis Ababa. The 30 million birr project has eight storeys and over 90 rooms, of which 90 per cent have...

Arusha News

Kaloleni cemetery closed to burials.

General 03 Sep, 2008

Kaloleni cemetery near the bus station in the heart of Arusha has been declared full and closed for burials,

Lagos News

Bank donates raincoats to traffic police.

General 24 Aug, 2008

Nigeria

Accra News

Boost for women Zoomlion employees.

General 24 Aug, 2008

Twenty-five female employees of leading private waste management company Zoomlion Ghana Limited have qualified as

Nairobi News

Kenya and Tanzania mark embassy bombings.

General 06 Aug, 2008

On 7 August Kenya and Tanzania mark the tenth anniversary of the US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which left a total of 224 people dead and thousands more injured. The majority of c...

Addis Ababa News

Bridge to link Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula.

General 06 Aug, 2008

The Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula could one day be linked by a 28.5-km bridge under a project launched in Djibouti at the end of July. The $200 billion so-called Al Noor Cities Project cont...

Cairo News

New traffic law for Egypt.

General 27 Jul, 2008

A new traffic law is to come into force on 1 August in a bid to improve road safety in Egypt. The new regulations include stiffer penalties for driving without a seatbelt, using a mobile phone without...

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