Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) has announced an investment of US $60 million from the private sector investors Hutchicon Ports Holdings, Wai Chau and TICTS, to facilitate its port operations in easing congestion at its ports.
MTN Rwanda has acquired the first and largest syndicated loan of US$18 million from six local banks for upgrading its network.
Oblivious to most people, the East African Common Market Protocal was signed by the five participating presidents in Arusha on November 20.
The Advisory Board of the Daily Trust African of the Year award has concluded the screening of candidates, who were shortlisted from a pool of nominees, for the 2009 edition of the pan-African award.
"I was finding it difficult to educate my children after my husband passed on. When I attended the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) sessions on how to save and borrow money using a savings scheme, I benefited a lot.
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The 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, an event that marked the beginning of the end of Communism, has been a huge story almost everywhere in the world.
The uninspiring granite exterior of the London Stock Exchange provided the quiet backdrop for a meeting that would almost have gone unnoticed, if it did not have such a strong bearing on Africa's growth prospects.
Recently there was a tale of a palm wine tapper in Pendembu locality in Sierra Leone, who in the course of his daily activities, inadvertently climbed a palm wine tree only for his mobile phone to begin to ring.
African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman they call 'Marie Nerica' who is sowing a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus in local markets and to the government.
The Information and Communications Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili and her counterpart in the Science and Technology Ministry, Dr. Alhassan Bako Zaku, would on Sunday, lead dignitaries to the Africa Information Society Merit Award (AISMA) and Cyber Nigeria 2009.
Nigerian Eagle Airlines, formerly Virgin Nigeria Airways Limited has signed a codeshare and interline agreement with Kenya Airways.
Soon after the National Assembly confirmed him as the new Nigerian High Commissioner to the republic of South Africa, I asked the retired Brigadier-General Mohamed Buba Marwa about what he thought the main challenges would be at his new duty post. I posed the question with the firm belief that that the volume of trade was tilted hopelessly in favour of the former apartheid enclave. The retired ...
Chelsea and Ghanaian ace, Michael Essien, last Saturday begun a journey intended to touch so many lives and improve the wellbeing of ordinary people at the launch of the Michael Essien Foundation (MEF).
A Virtual Study Abroad Programme will be launched in Ghana in January 2010. The programme is a collaborative effort between the African University College of Communications (AUCC) of Ghana and Simmons College of the United States.
