Regular police officers have been warned not to interfere in their traffic colleagues' duties.
DUBAI's Emirates airline has accused the German government of anticompetitive behaviour, after it told the airline to raise its business class fares on certain routes, including those serviced by rivals Lufthansa and South African Airways (SAA).
Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has threatened to ground operations of foreign airlines indebted to it from January 1, 2010; unless they pay the charges they owe the agency.
National airline company Rwandair is going through a major change in its operations, with the imminent acquisition of its own aircraft. In preparation, it has enlisted two experienced Rwandan pilots.
President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Engr. Kashim A. Ali, has called on the federal government to establish a Federal Roads Authority as well as a Road Fund to aid the recovery of our dilapidated roads.
THE identity card of the the crude oil tanker driver that crushed six market women to death at Effurun, near Warri, in the early hours of last Thursday, has been found by the Army, Vanguard reliably learnt yesterday. The driver is still on the run six days after the unfortunate incident.
Feasibility study for the construction of an international airport in Bagamoyo has already started.
A government vehicle worth over Shs90 million that was recently given to Mayuge District has been crashed.
Police have set tough measures for bus operators after accidents involving buses are taking an upward trend.
The Ministry of Works has rushed to seal potholes near the Najjembe campsite in Mabira Forest Reserve where former Budiope MP Joseph Balikoowa met is death on Sunday night.
'THE Wings of Kilimanjaro'-- Air Tanzania Company Ltd (ATCL) - has launched daily flights to Arusha Airport and promised what it described as "superb services to its clients around and beyond the Geneva of Africa."
Kenya's cost of shipping is set to increase, once a proposal to impose a marine cargo levy of Sh35 per tonne on all exports and imports at Mombasa Port is gazzetted by the minister of Local Government.
A Monrovia-registered oil tanker caused panic on Thursday morning at the Likoni channel when it listed on one side dangerously appearing to take in seawater.
A near ecological disaster was averted Thursday after a ship loaded with oil stalled at the Likoni Channel, in the Indian Ocean.
You must have noticed by now that the Police seem more eager to be on the street and apprehend traffic rule breakers ever since those infamous September riots in Kampala. You would suppose that the ordinary man on the street would be happier with this development but all this writer has met are complaints and bitterness.
There have been two major developments following the accident and untimely death of Budiope MP Henry Balikoowa on November 30th. The Ministry of Works went ahead and sealed the potholes in Mabira Forest where the accident occurred and the Kamuli District Council demanded that the Mehta Group (the owners of the Sugar Cooperation of Uganda whose truck fatally collided with Balikoowa's Land Cruiser) ...
An unidentified female prisons officer was on Tuesday morning crushed to death by a tipper vehicle at Pasali community in Kuje Area Council.
Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has announced a two-day international safety conference to sensitize stakeholders on ways to curtail future incidents in the nation's aviation industry.
DOMESTIC and regional airline SA Express has rebranded itself to better align itself with its planned regional expansion.
ROBERT Guest, former Africa editor for The Economist and author of The Shackled Continent, asks : "How can we teach safe sex to those who will not even wear safety belts?" Accident prone, South Africans fail to take responsibility for their lives, reflected in our chilling slide down human and social indices.
IT is a cloudy Monday and haulage truck driver Benjie Manyemwe who is returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo pulls out of the last check point at Chirundu Border Post.
THE country's slow progress in transforming to the use of plastic money is seriously hampering the operations of car rental companies at a time when there are signs of recovery in the economy.
Ministers responsible for the development of railway transport in Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi will be meeting in Kigali, next week to discuss the regional railway development project, a statement from the Ministry of Infrastructure says.
Africa's economic growth and poverty reduction are closely linked with the quality of its infrastructure – its power, transport systems, water supply and sanitation, and its ICT networks. In the current economic climate, finding the financial resources for Africa's huge infrastructure needs is an enormous challenge.
Oceangoing ships are responsible for moving at least 80 percent of all commerce worldwide, so maritime pirates are a threat to everyone, especially those who are starving in Somalia and East Africa and rely on ships to deliver emergency shipments of food aid.
