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13 Essential Items You Need While Camping In Africa
Camping is one of the best ways to truly get close to nature, and when you’re camping in Africa, the closer you can get, the better. However, circumstances differ immensely from campsite to campsite:...
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Dalai Lama Again Denied South Africa Visa For Nobel Peace Summit
Fearing it will disturb relations between China and South Africa, the South African government refused to issue a travel visa to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for third time in five years,...
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Research Center To Help Solve DRC’s Socioeconomic Challenges
Written by Kanigula Mubagwa, Jules Bashi and Bonnix Kayabu | From PLOS Blogs An International Center for Advanced Research and Training (ICART) has been launched in Panzi, Bukavu, in the South-Kivu...
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Lesotho, Burkina Faso To Face Off For First Time
From Super Sport Lesotho are confident they can start their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign on a positive note when they travel to Ouagadougou to face Burkina Faso in a Group D match at...
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Ghana Palm Oil Production Too Low To Solidify Turkey Export Deal
From Ghana Web via Graphic Online Ghana has missed three separate opportunities to export crude palm oil (CPO), tuna and aluminium ingots to Turkey this year under circumstances that cast doubts on the...
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10 Benchmark LGBT Films That Got People Talking
In the ongoing struggle for equality, LGBT rights inspired some amazing films over the years. In 2005, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal played Ennis and Jack, Wyoming cowboys who shocked audiences by...
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10 Signs You Need to Get Out of the House
You haven’t had time to go to the grocery store, and cooking would interrupt your couch-sitting time, so ramen noodles have become your go-to. You are a ramen master and know exactly how much time will...
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Botswana To Introduce Tourist Train
Botswana Railways plans to introduce a tourist train that will run from Botswana through Zimbabwe and Zambia. Stephen Makuke, Director of Business Development of Botswana Railways, believes the train...
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10 Memorial Tweets Remembering Comedian Joan Rivers
Comedienne Joan Rivers died Thursday afternoon, a week after going into cardiac arrest during a minor procedure at a clinic in New York. She was 81. A pioneer of female comedy, Rivers once told her...
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Ugandans To Be Hit With Government Imposed Kerosene Tax
According to CCTV Africa, 95 percent of people living in Uganda depend on either kerosene or wood fuel. Many in rural areas go without electricity and instead use kerosene lamps to provide lighting...
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EU Ups Ebola Commitment From 12M-To-140M Euros
From AFP. The European Union on Friday announced 140 million euros ($183 million) in funds to fight the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, a sharp increase over its previous pledge as the outbreak...
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Moroccan Parliament Raises Retirement Age of Educators
Written by Aziz Allilou | From Morocco World News Amid a flash point controversy in reforming the country’s ailing retirement system, the Moroccan Parliament has passed a new bill to increase the...
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What Zuma Did In Russia, Why Putin Needs South Africa
Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning to South Africa for help after his tit-for-tat agricultural sanctions against the U.S. and European Union made cheese, fruit, some dairy products and meat...
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Benin’s Bustling Used Car Business
From BBC Cotonou’s bustling port is the lifeblood of the Beninese economy. Bags of cocoa and rice, as well as cotton, make up a substantial amount of the port’s traffic. However, alongside these...
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Nigeria’s United Bank For Africa Wins “Best Transaction Bank” In Africa
Nigeria has takedn home a banking prize. One of the country’s leading commercial banks, the United Bank for Africa (UBA) has been named the “Best Transaction Bank” from Africa in 2014 by a UK based...
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Cape Verde Bans Entry Of Non-Residents Entering From Senegal
From Asemana Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health Cristina Fontes Lima announced this Monday, September 1, that, as of today, non-resident foreigners who have visited Senegal in the past 30...
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Egypt Says Ex-President Mursi Passed State Secrets To Qatar
From Business Insider An Egyptian prosecutor charged ousted president Mohamed Mursi and several of his aides on Saturday with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive...
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Egypt President Requests Patience Over Major Power Outage
From Miami Herald In a nationally televised speech on Saturday, Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi asked the public to be patient and grasp the extent of the challenges facing the country...
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Low-Cost Apparel Manufacturing Surges In Ethiopia
From Business Recorder As basic wages soar in China, low-end manufacturing is starting to shift to cheaper locations around the world, and frontier African nations such as Ethiopia are positioning...
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Damage To Nigerian Gas Pipeline Ghana Load Shedding
From Ghana Web The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has confirmed to Citi Business News that the current nationwide load shedding exercise is due to the damage to a major gas pipeline from Nigeria....
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