Stiffer penalties of up to Sh2 million will imposed on transporters who overload their trucks on the roads , transport officials warned on Monday.
Members of the public have a chance to take complaints of professional misconduct against lawyers to the Advocates Complaints Commission (ACC) whose members are currently on a week-long tour of some parts of Coast province.
Tanzania sold 2,031 tonnes of maize to Kenya in October and 1,433 tonnes the previous month. However, Tanzania imported large quantities of rice from Kenya and Uganda.
Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL) has awarded a Bachelor of Accounts and Finance graduate of Mzumbe University (MU), Ms Mpaji Plantan, a golden prize of Sh500,000, for being the best student in the department.
Seven people were killed on Sunday night while more than 20 were injured when a lorry they were traveling in crashed in Arua district.
HILTON Worldwide and the United Africa Group yesterday signed a management agreement with UAG Group Executive Director Haddis Tilahun for the Eliakim Namundjebo Plaza Hotel in Windhoek.
By mid-2012, Kigali is set to have a new world-class hotel located on the grounds of the former Jali Club.
In a bid to woo the business world with its services, telecommunications company Tigo Rwanda on Friday held a corporate party to mark its official entry into the local market.
The governments of Rwanda and the Netherlands have signed a Frw 4.2 billion agreement concerning three different development projects.
The downward trend in the Nigerian capital market reached an alarming height, last week, as investors lost N170.17 billion of their investments in quoted securities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).
Meru District Council in Arusha region has earmarked Tsh.307 million over the fiscal year 2009/2010 to improve roads infrastructure in the district.
Air Tanzania Company Limited now operates daily flights between Arusha airport and Dar es Salaam.
Even before the ink is dry on the recently signed East African Community Common Market Protocol, the Tanzanian Parliamentary Committee on Public Corporation Accounts continues to insist that the Northern Border crossing between Tanzania and Kenya, at Bologonja point in the Serengeti wilderness, should remain closed.
As South Africa steps closer to the first-ever hosting of the FIFA World Cup on African soil, it is becoming increasingly difficult for Local Organising Committee (LOC) CEO Danny Jordaan to contain his smirked expression. And rightly so, since being awarded with the privilege to host the event, the LOC has overcome many a hurdle to convince world perception that South Africa has the capacity to ...
THE sole ownership of football teams in our domestic league can have serious implications for the future sustainability of the clubs' operations, while the financial well-being of the players can be severely compromised.
AS 2009 draws to a close, the final month of the year ushered in a new all-time high for the gold price, trading in excess of US$1 200 per ounce.
KenGen says it will turn to technology in its annual general meetings to cut costs on printing and postage.
Inadequate rains have forced the energy ministry to extend contracts for diesel powered emergency electricity generator Aggreko for three more months, dampening earlier hopes that electricity bills would ease at the end of this year.
Listed agricultural firm, Eaagads, is set for change of ownership in a deal expected to trigger shifts in the local coffee industry.
One night in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill, after imbibing a few drinks, stumbled into Bessie Braddock, a corpulent MP from Liverpool.
Early speaker names for the Design Indaba, running from 24-26 February 2010 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) have been announced.
IN an effort to improve the quality for locally made furniture, the Jacksi's Group of companies has said that it was negotiating with local furniture manufacturers on ways to improve their furniture in order to compete for the East African Common Market.
One of Liberia's leading GSM Companies, LoneStar Communications Company (LCC) has introduced US$150,000 raffle draw for Liberians who are up to 18 years old and above to help them get into business.
Metrorail has announced scores of under-utilised trains are to be temporarily withdrawn from service for maintenance reasons - with a 10 percent average service reduction on weekdays.
Thieves have also targeted Cape Town Stadium. Although the city's 2010 spokesman Pieter Cronje downplayed the situation there, "kilometres of cabling", copper wire and a ton of bolts have disappeared from the site. Most of the thefts are believed to be inside jobs.
