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  • December 11
  • Citizen Tanzania: Tanesco - No New Round of Rationing

    There will be no more power shedding despite the grounding of several IPTL turbines, Tanzania Electricity Supply Company Limited (Tanesco) announced yesterday.

  • Tunisia Online Tunisia: President Ben Ali Gives Launch to Manouba Metro Line

    President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali gave the launch on Thursday to the new Manouba metro line which will run from Den Den to the Manouba University campus, home to nearly 45,000 students. The new line will provide students, faculty and administrative staff with fast connections downtown Tunis, through the "Metro Leger" network.

  • West Cape News South Africa: Du Noon Neighbourhood Watch Are Thugs, Say Residents

    Instead of preventing crime, Du Noon's neighbourhood watch are a bunch of thugs enforcing a curfew and beating innocent people up, say residents.

  • Leadership Nigeria: Prof. Abudllahi Not Envoy to Guinea - NBTI

    The National Board for Technology Incubation (NBTI) has spurned reports that its Director-General and Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Gambo Laraba Abdullahi, is the ambassador of Nigeria to Guinea.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Celsys' Performance Improves

    LISTED information and communication company, Celsys Limited recorded a significant improvement in the trading performance for the first quarter of the 2009/2010 financial year, with revenue increasing to US$650 000 for the three months to November30.

  • Citizen Tanzania: Major Water Project to Benefit 170,000

    A major water project is expected to benefit over 170,000 people in Geita District upon completion.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: State of Edepie-Tombia Road Worries Motorists in Bayelsa

    The deplorable state of Edepie-Tombia road linking the university community of Amassoma in the Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State is now a source of grave concern to motorists.

  • This Day Nigeria: House Seeks Removal of FCT Minister

    The House of Representatives yesterday brought the Federal Capital Territory Administration under intense scrutiny as lawmakers decried the poor sanitary condition and decay of social infrastructure in the Federal Capital City of Abuja and its satellite towns.

  • Daily Trust Nigeria: Nitel Staff Injured at BPE Over Unpaid Salaries

    The protest by staff of NITEL and its mobile arm Mtel over 18 months unpaid salaries turned awry yesterday when one of the protesters, Haruna Ibrahim, received a head wound inflicted on him by unidentified staff of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE).

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Group Advises FG On Deregulation

    The Federal Government has been called upon to drop the issue of deregulation of oil industry as the masses would ultimately bear the brunt of deregulation.

  • Business Day South Africa: Taxpayer Needn't Shoulder the Burden of Building SA [opinion]

    PROMOTING a competitive currency is the single most important arrow the government can fire from its quiver if it is to hit its targets of higher growth and greater employment. But it is not the only arrow, not by a long shot. Indeed, if it were the only one, we would probably lose the war.

  • New Vision Uganda: UK Firm Brings Road Recycling Technology

    KILLOUGHERY, a construction company based in London, has introduced a road recycling technology into the Ugandan market.

  • New Vision Uganda: Museveni Inspects Science Innovations

    President Yoweri Museveni has pledged funding for science and technology research and increase the science lecturer's salaries.

  • New Times Rwanda: Kigali City Wibro Network Launched

    Kigali Wireless Broadband (WiBro) Network and the Kigali Metropolitan Network (KMN) were officially launched on Wednesday after two years of work on the infrastructure development.

  • New Times Rwanda: 16,000 Follow National Dialogue Online

    In a move that partly affirms Rwanda's ICT developpment this year's National dialogue (Umushiyikirano) was streamed live online allowing Rwandans in the Diaspora and other foreigners interested in developments in Rwanda to follow its proceedings.

  • New Times East Africa: Rwandan Exporters Decry Regional Infrastructure

    Exporters of locally made products to the United States of America (USA) have cited East Africa's poor infrastructure as a major challenge to doing business in the region.

  • December 10
  • Biz-Community South Africa: Student Village Reveals How Youth Use Social Media [press release]

    South Africa's roughly 800 000 tertiary education students are the most wired yet.

  • Nation Kenya: House Approves Proposal to Lease Out Highway

    After two days of controversy-ridden debate, Parliament has finally given the green light to a project aimed at leasing the Mombasa-Malaba highway for 30 years to a private investor.

  • Nation Kenya: Matatu Owners Embrace Touting

    Matatu owners have embraced touting in a bid to close ranks with youths of the outlawed Mungiki sect.

  • Daily News Tanzania: Govt Renews Intention to Issue Eurobonds

    THE government has renewed its intention to issue Eurobonds next year to finance infrastructure development in the country.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Fashola Speeds Up Roads Delivery, Assures on Yuletide

    Ahead of the approaching festive season of Christmas and New Year, the Lagos State Government has commenced a massive rehabilitation and maintenance of identified bad spots in all the Local Government/Local Council Development Areas in the State. This is as the Special Adviser to the Governor on Works and Infrastructure, Mr. Ganiyu Johnson assured motorist and other road users that most of the bad ...

  • Fahamu South Africa: Attacks on Shackdwellers - A Failure of Citizenship? [opinion]

    The background and consequences of the recent violent destruction of the Kennedy Road organisation of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM) movement of shack dwellers by a combination of gangs recruited for the purpose, police action and local and regional ANC structures needs to be analysed at some depth.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: Confronting the Curse of an Oil City [column]

    On behalf of His Majesty, the King of England, the area presently known as Port Harcourt was acquired by the colonial authorities. This deed is registered as 16/211/7 (old series), Calabar, former kept at the lands registry, Lagos, later lands registry, Enugu but now in the lands registry, Port Harcourt.

  • Argus South Africa: 'I Just Took My Grandchildren And Ran'

    Hundreds of Khayelitsha residents who lost their homes in a devastating blaze - the first major fire of the season - were up early on Thursday morning trying to recover possessions and rebuild their houses.

  • Observer Uganda: 360° Network Back With Oldskool Reunion

    Ugandans are using Facebook in amazing ways. While many bosses may frown at the amount of time their workers waste on Facebook, it seems some Ugandans have realised that it is a huge mobilisation tool.

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