South Africa has signed a deal with Kenya to assemble vehicles in Thika, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced Wednesday. This follows an agreement allowing the German automaker to use the Kenya...
Construction works on the $1.5billion Tema Port expansion project is expected to commence on the 1st October 2016. The project, which is the biggest investment of the almost 70yrs history of the...
More than 100 bulls and 700 sheep and goats will be slaughtered at the burial of former minister William Ntimama. A "special bull" will be slaughtered in honour of the fallen Maasai kingpin, in line...
The Somali government says it has suspended all flights transporting khat from Kenya to Mogadishu. The Somali Minister of Civil Aviation Ali Ahmed Jangali told the BBC they have decided to...
"You sign up to a church here and you are in multiple countries, because you have branches all over the world. So, from day one you are an international software company." So says Nana...
Witchcraft related abuse is a very serious problem in African migrant communities in the UK. There is documented evidence that these abuses are linked to activities of African pastors and African...
President John Mahama is making a strong case for trade and investments from the country's development partners rather than just aid. According to the President, looking at the current challenges...
The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise visit to Nigeria last week and he met with some top Nigerian celebrities. He also took his time to hold developers workshop at Landmark Center in...
“At a quick glance, one could assume that the term 'highlife' reflects a single, coherent musical style (i.e., 'highlife music') that gained great currency throughout West Africa in the 1950s and...
Ghanaian businessmen and women are among the best brilliant brains on the continent of Africa. They are innovative and entrepreneurial as well as creative in coming with products for market, and yet,...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated and endorsed Jim Yong Kim to serve a second term as President of the World Bank Group. Uhuru's action was in response to an announcement from the World Bank...
It is no longer news that Mark Zuckerberg, the 32 year-old founder of Facebook is in Africa. His first stop was Nigeria; the Africa’s most populated black nation and now second biggest economy in...
If Africans at home cannot save themselves, nobody will. We are always looking up to Heaven for manna and saviors instead of looking within us for help. Well, we are now shifting that task to African...
Nairobi (AFP) - The results of a three-year aerial survey of Africa's elephants published Thursday revealed a dramatic 30 percent decline in savannah elephant populations, largely due to poaching....
Much has been said about the role of mobile money in an economy such as Ghana's. Since its advent onto the scene some seven years ago, the overriding debate has been whether it poses an existential...
Interim Rwanda coach Jimmy Mulisa has axed five players from the team that will face Ghana in a Group H-Africa Nations’ qualifier scheduled on September 3 at the Accra Sports Stadium. Mulisa has...
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Red-hot favourite Eliud Kipchoge stormed to a runaway gold medal in a wet men's marathon on Sunday, the final day of competition at the Rio Olympics. The Kenyan broke away at...
Nairobi (AFP) - With a peace deal unravelling in South Sudan and jihadist attacks continuing in Somalia, US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi on...
Today, Secretary of State John Kerry announced in Nairobi that the United States is providing more than $146 million in additional U. S. humanitarian assistance to support refugees, voluntary...
Nairobi (AFP) - The former head of athletics in Kenya, under investigation for corruption and a doping coverup, died on Wednesday aged 72, his family said. Isaiah Kiplagat ran Athletics Kenya for 23...
