RwandAir has cancelled a leasing contract with Kenya based Jetlink Express after one of the aircrafts crash landed at Kigali International Airport (KIA).
The blending of petrol with ethanol will be re-introduced in the Kenyan market next March in a move that will cushion motorists against oil products' price volatility and offer local alcohol distillers a bigger market.
The Member of Parliament for Budiope County, Kamuli district, Henry Balikoowa is dead.
The carnage on Ugandan roads yesterday claimed the life of another MP prompting angry reactions and calls for radical reforms of the road sector from his colleagues at Parliament.
Mr Didymus Byenkya Kato is the Ag. managing director ATACO Freight Serves Limited, a key player in the export and import of cargo in East Africa. He spoke to The Monitor about the freighters experience during the year.
As the world's media focuses its attention on the Fifa World Cup 2010 Final Draw in Cape Town on December 4, few will be aware of the impact the tournament may have on the lives of vulnerable women and children targeted by trafficking syndicates.
The Security Council today renewed for another 12 months the authorization for States and regional organizations fighting piracy off the Somali coast to enter the strife-torn country's territorial waters and "undertake all necessary measures that are appropriate in Somalia" provide they have the transitional government's consent.
A bus driver and his conductor yesterday escaped physical assault by three suspected thugs who posed as passengers and boarded his bus from Jabi Garage to Berger junction.
In a bid to stop road carnages caused by truck drivers that leave their broken down vehicles on the roads without caution signs, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has vowed to prosecute such drivers.
At least five persons, including a police inspector, lost their lives in five accidents which occurred on Saturday in Lagos, the state Police Command said yesterday.
GOVERNMENT will not rush to sell its controlling interest in Air Zimbabwe before addressing operational challenges affecting its viability.
Rwanda's national carrier RwandAir, has received a loan facility worth $40 million (Rwf22.8 billion) to support the carrier's development plans. The loan is to be secured from the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA).
THIRTEEN People on Sunday evening sustained multiple body injuries after the Zambia Army bus carrying sports servicemen and women rammed into a stationary truck near the Chipata-Lundazi Road junction.
Commissioner of Police, Abia State, Mr. Jonathan Johnson, has lashed out on officers and men of the command for indiscriminate inspection of vehicle particulars, and threatened to dismiss any one found inspecting such particulars on the road without authorisation from the police hierarchy, describing such action as illegal.
AVIAREPS has been commissioned by Nigeria's largest commercial airline, Arik Air as its external representation company in the United States of America and Canada. Both companies have signed a GSA agreement for the North American markets with AVIAREPS, the world's leading international representation company handling all future sales, trade marketing and ticketing activities on behalf of Arik Air. ...
Minister of Works and Transport, Helmut Angula wants the public to refrain from bribing officials from the Roads Authority (RA) of Namibia to obtain illegal driving licenses and to register unroadworthy vehicles. Angula this week warned those who bribe RA officials that they will face the full wrath of the law, and in the same vein, cautioned vehicle examiners and licensing officials to act ...
Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) , weekend , explained why World Bank projects in the state are becoming deplorable, citing project timeframe, funding, storm and flooding as major reasons.
Metro police officers are to patrol the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network to crack down on the illegal use of the dedicated bus lanes.
The national airline, Air Namibia, has spread its wings by expanding its flights to Accra, Ghana via Johannesburg. This comes after it launched a flight to Lusaka last month.
THREE Americans died and four other crew members were seriously injured yesterday when a Zimbabwe registered cargo plane crashed in Shanghai, China. Harare based Avient Aviation, which operates the aircraft, confirmed the accident but refused to reveal more details saying it was now a subject of an investigation by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAZZ).
PLANNERS under the Uganda Institute of Physical Planners (UIPP) want street parking banned on busy city roads, saying it is the cause of traffic jams.
FIVE people died and nine others sustained life-threatening injuries in three separate accidents that occurred across Kampala during the weekend.
Some of the national crew members of the Somali ships in Yemen have Monday said that the vessels are in the brink of destroying.
Poor infrastructure, persistent non-tariff barriers and frequent policy reversals are worrying the business community in East Africa even as the region moves towards a fully fledged Customs Union and a Common Market.
AT least 12 luxurious four-wheel-drive vehicles have been purchased at a whooping sh238m each by the Parliamentary Commission.
