Cape Town News
Cape Town could get a direct rail link to its international airport as part of broad plans under consideration by the city councils transport portfolio committee, the Cape Argus reports. Other proposa...
Cape Town News
Hundreds homeless after shack fire.
Some 600 people living in Fish Hoek south of Cape Town have been left homeless after a fire destroyed around 150 shacks in the area, South African Press Association (SAPA) reports. The blaze broke out...
Accra News
Batman Samini wins Music of Black Origin award.
This years best African act award at the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) awards has gone to Ghanaian hiplife artist Batman Samini. The musician stood against fellow Africans from Uganda, South Africa and...
Addis Ababa News
Radio to fight stigma of HIV/AIDS.
Ethiopians can tune into a new radio programme presenting the stories of ordinary people living with HIV/AIDS. The service, which builds on similar initiatives in Nigeria and Malawi, aims to challenge...
Maputo News
Mittal Steel South Africa, the largest steel manufacturer in Africa, has purchased two idle steel mills in Mozambique. The $11.5 million (R90 million) acquisition of Companhia Siderurgica de Mozambiqu...
Cape Town News
False Bay environmental centre.
Cape Town has a new environmental education centre in False Bay ecology park south of the city centre. The centre on the southern shores of Zeekoevlei, reputedly South Africas largest freshwater lake,...
Addis Ababa News
The state television broadcaster ETV is showing a ground-breaking new educational programme for 3-6 year olds called Tsehai Loves Learning. Modelled on the cult American childrens show Sesame Street,...
Nairobi News
East Africa Kiswahili Council agreed.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have agreed to form a joint Kiswahili council to promote linguistic and cultural cooperation in the region. The creation of the body, called BarazaLa Kswahili la Afrika Mash...
Accra News
Human rights and HIV/AIDS experts from all over the world are to meet in Accra 18-20 October to discuss the relationship between human rights and the global AIDS pandemic. Participants at the three-da...
Maputo News
First Mozambican Social Forum.
The first national social forum in Maputo on 25-29 October will examine the theme Another Mozambique is possible. Roughly 5,000 participants are expected to attend the meeting to discuss questions of...
Nairobi News
Standard Chartered Nairobi marathon.
On 29 October Kenyan and international athletes will take to the streets of the capital for the fourth annual marathon, sponsored by Standard Chartered Nairobi. The 42-kilometre race begins and ends a...
Maputo News
40 women complete vocational training.
Forty women from all over Maputo have just completed a course in dressmaking, embroidery, cooking, food processing and food conservation as part of an initiative of the Mozambican non-governmental org...
Cape Town News
Armed robberies in South Africa increase.
Latest crime figures show a significant rise in the number of armed robberies in South Africa. The police service says that attacks on cash delivery vans in the year to April 2006 were up 74 per cent...
Accra News
Child sex tourism on the rise.
The Ghanaian non-governmental organisation Coalition on the Rights of the Child (GNCRC) has warned of an increase in child sex tourism in the country, the Accra Mail reports. The warning, contained in...
Addis Ababa News
Distance learning for AAU postgraduates.
Preparations are underway at state-run Addis Ababa University (AAU) to launch a distance learning programme for postgraduate students, pro-government news site Walta Information Center (WIC) reports....
Addis Ababa News
Building 400,000 low-cost houses.
The government has announced plans to build 400,000 low-cost houses over the next four years, although the ministry of works and urban development says that a total of 900,000 is needed to meet the co...
Cape Town News
V&A Waterfront sells for R7 billion.
In what is the biggest property deal in South African history, London-based private property company London & Regional Properties, Istithmar, the investment arm of the government of Dubai, and a high-...
Maputo News
New sugar silo for Maputo port.
A new sugar silo with a capacity of 50,000 tons has been inaugurated in the port of Maputo. The $10.5 million structure is the result of a collaboration between four regional sugar associations the S...
Cape Town News
Protecting swimmers and sharks.
Draft legislation shielding swimmers from attacks by great white sharks in the waters around Cape Town while at the same time protecting the endangered species has been presented to parliament. The po...
Nairobi News
China wins Nairobi airport contract.
Chinese company China Wu Yi has won the contract to undertake the first phase of the Ksh10 billion expansion programme at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. The ten-month contract, worth...
Addis Ababa News
Acute watery diarrhoea in Ethiopia.
As of mid September, nearly 16,900 cases of acute watery diarrhoea had been reported in Ethiopia and 129 people were known to have died, the health ministry has said. The worst affected areas were Oro...
Accra News
Roughly 50 per cent of highly educated Ghanaians have migrated to developed countries according to a United Nations report released at a special meeting on international migration at UN headquarters i...
Addis Ababa News
Free HIV/AIDS testing at Addis university.
Students and staff at the state-run Addis Ababa University (AAU) can now receive free HIV/AIDS counselling and testing at the Arat Kilo and Sidist Kilo campuses and in the Casa Inches area in the Urae...
Accra News
Kantanmanto stallholders displaced.
The demolition of part of Kantanmanto market in central Accra has led to the displacement of some 2,000 stallholders, Ghana News Agency (GNA) reports. The levelling of the structure began early in the...
Maputo News
Maputo-Cape Town route launched.
South African Express Airways is to begin flights between Maputo and Cape Town starting from 2 October. The airline will operate two frequencies a week, on Mondays and Fridays, and during the launch p...
Cape Town News
Community TV launched in Cape Town.
Cape Town now has its own community television station following the launch of Cape Town Community Television Collective (CTCTV) on 16 September. Established by a group of local media and arts organis...
Nairobi News
Alternative Africities meeting for slum dwellers.
Slum residents in Nairobi are holding a parallel summit alongside the pan-African Africities meeting on implementing the United Nations millennium goals for development in urban areas, which opened in...
Nairobi News
7th Nairobi International Peace Rally.
The annual international peace rally in Nairobi takes place on 16 September at Uhuru Park from 07.00 to 13.00. This years march, organised by Africa Peace Point (APP) and timed to coincide with the Un...
Cape Town News
Somalis in Cape Town attacked.
Yet another Somali citizen has been murdered in the latest in a series of attacks apparently targeting the refugee community in Cape Town.
South African Broadcasting Corporation reports that on 7 Se...
Nairobi News
National Museum at centre of evolution theory row.
Nairobis National Museum of Kenya (NMK) is at the centre of a row between the scientific community and conservative Christians over its key The Origins of Man exhibit, South Africas Mail & Guardian ne...
