Ethiopia’s capital is set to cement its place as Africa’s leading aviation hub with an expanded airport terminal which triples it passenger capacity. Last year, Addis Ababa overtook Dubai as the leading transfer hub for long-haul travel to sub-Saharan Africa.
In his best-selling debut novel In the Country of Men, the Libyan writer Hisham Matar wrote, “Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
The international gambling business is coming under severe pressure in Uganda.
Kenya’s ad-hoc matatu bus system has been described as cool and colorful but it is also very chaotic. For years now, transport officials have tried to rein in the sector in a bid to decongest major urban areas and introduce rapid bus transits that would improve capacity and reliability. But those efforts have so far proved vain, and with little or no light railway, trams, or cycling lanes, millions of commuters in cities like Nairobi and Mombasa use the unruly and loud matatus to move around daily.
For almost a year now, people across Chad Republic have not been able to access social media networks.
Tanzania’s government has announced it will protect a tropical forest long recognized for its high biodiversity value and as home to numerous endangered primates and plants.
The financial payments company Cellulant said it lost six of its employees during the terrorist attack on Jan. 15 at an upscale hotel and office complex in Nairobi.
The two young men left the world the same way they had lived: together as friends and colleagues.
Explosions and heavy gunfire were again heard this morning (Jan. 16) at the luxury hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya, after government officials said they had secured the area and evacuated hostages.
Explosions and gunfire ripped through a business complex in Nairobi on Tuesday (Jan. 15), in an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.
Dear Ijeawele is a forthright and frank book, a 15-step letter about how to raise a feminist child. But when it’s published in China around April this year, it will garner its author, the celebrated Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a new status: becoming one of few African writers whose body of work has mostly, if not all, been translated to Chinese.
A date has now been set for the first joint Sino-African trade expo. Between June 18 and 20, the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo will kick off in Changsha, the capital of central China’s Hunan province. Officials will sign bilateral agreements during the exhibition, engage in investment promotions, and establish a “new mechanism” for future economic cooperation.
With over 1.3 billion travelers on the move, the world experienced the highest growth in international tourist arrivals since 2010. Much of the rebound was spurred by gradual economic growth plus a strong demand for outbound travel from all markets across the world.
Kenya will teach Mandarin in classrooms in a bid to improve job competitiveness and facilitate better trade and connection with China.
The path to creating one passport for all Africans will inch one step closer this year.
The price of bread is, yet again, at the heart of protests in Sudan.
History was on Ilhan Omar’s mind as she arrived in Washington DC this week. The 36-year-old Democrat from Minnesota’s 5th Congressional district became the first Somali-American, one of two Muslim women, among the unprecedented number of women lawmakers, and part of the largest congressional black caucus elected to the US House of Representatives.
An internet shutdown across the Democratic Republic of the Congo is heightening fears of electoral fraud in a presidential election already marred by delays and violence.
Sudan’s government is looking to the internet as one way to quell swelling protests all over the country.
Burundi is moving its capital from the shores of Lake Tanganyika and deep into the nation’s central highlands.
The countdown to establishing one of the world’s largest free trade zones is now closer than ever.
The country with mainland Africa’s longest coastline is inviting China to its shores.
For generations, traditional medicine has been used to prevent and treat physical and mental ailments across Africa.
Kenya has made true a pledge to change the images on its currency when it promulgated its new constitution in 2010.
