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South Africa has fallen 10 places in the 2018 International property rights index. This revelation was contained in the latest global report put together by the Property Rights Alliance, a global advocacy organization.
South Africa moved from 27th place to …
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Student-activists that participated in the Fees Must Fall movement in South Africa are calling on the government to drop charges against their leaders arrested during the street protest.
The key leader of the protest – Mcebo Dlamini – is currently …
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The Zambian government is set to initiate a daily levy of 30 Ngwee (about $0.03) on Internet voice calls. The new tariff proposal was contained in a press statement issued after the government cabinet meeting early this week.
The …
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World acclaimed development policy experts, economists and entrepreneurs will converge on Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city and commercial nerve centre, to discuss how countries in Africa can collaborate for peace and irreversible economic growth. They will meet at the African …
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At a period the Nigerian government was complaining about the excessiveness of a abusive unit in its police force codenamed “Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)”, the same police unit was forcing a journalist with a Nigeria-based online newspaper, Premium Times, …
Continue readingTwo key public figures have been arrested by Kenyan authorities on suspicion of corruption over allocation of land for the East African country’s new $3 billion flagship Nairobi-Mombasa railway.
Chairman of Kenyan National Land Commission, Mohammed Abdalla Swazuri, was one …
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Ethiopia’s state-run telecoms monopoly has agreed to allow some local firms provide Internet services through its infrastructure – a move seen as spurring competition and expanding the data market, officials said.
Ethio Telecom has more than 16 million subscribers of …
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In South Africa, automotive industry accounts for about 7 per cent of GDP, with BMW, VW and Nissan putting money into the country. But, some said, the government’s plans may be over-ambitious.
SOUTH Africa is proposing to car makers, …
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African Students For Liberty (ASFL) has announced its 2018 Regional Conferences. The conferences will take place in succession between July and November in Kenya, Nigeria, Burundi and Tanzania.
The events will bring together students and young professionals championing the cause …
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Israel has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Egypt to supply natural gas to the northeast African country over a span of ten years.
Israeli energy company Delek Drilling and its US partner, Noble Energy, announced on Monday that they had …
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