Kigali City has been nominated among the finalists of the inaugural Africa Tourism Leadership Awards that will be held in Accra, Ghana later this month. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony to be held on August 31, 2018 in Accra, Ghana, according to the Co-chairpersons of the awards committee, Prof. Marina Novelli and […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged that the India -Africa partnership will see that implementation of 180 lines of credit worth $11 billion in over 40 African countries. This was when India was marking its 71st Independence day when in 1947 Britain’s Parliament passed the India Independence Act freeing the country to determine its […]
Hapag-Lloyd is continuing to focus on the growing market in East Africa. With annual growth rates of approximately six percent, the region tops the list on the African continent. Kenya, in particular, is developing with significantly rising import and export figures as well as massive investments in public infrastructure. In April 2018 Hapag-Lloyd launched the […]
Few modes of transport evoke such a sense of history and romanticism as rail. The first recorded use of rail transport was around 500BC, when ancient Greeks used a rail-like system – most likely powered by humans or horses – to carry boats across where the Corinth channel currently is. In the 1400s, German miners […]
APO Group, the leading media relations consultancy for Africa and the Middle East, today announced a strategic alliance with Kwesé TV’s sports content platform Kwesé Sports, arguably Africa’s most trusted source for sports programming, aimed at developing the reputation and image of African rugby on a global scale. As part of the new deal Kwesé […]
African governments have announced plans to revive their airlines amid stiff competition in the African skies between the continent’s leading African airlines companies and Middle East-registered air carriers. Except for Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, and South African Airways which are currently dominating a big part of the African skies, the rest of the air carriers […]
The Zanzibar government is attracting Indonesian business ventures to invest in the island’s fast-growing tourism industry, targeting to raise the number of visitors to the island in the next 2 years. Zanzibar President Dr. Ali Mohammed Shein said his government is now targeting to attract 500,000 tourists in 2020 through joint venture business and training […]
Better days are in the offing for foreign investors and experts, thanks to the government of Tanzania for reducing its longstanding bureaucracy in processing both work and residence permits. This follows the amendment of some labor regulations to reduce bureaucracy in issuing the permits, Anthony Mavunde, the deputy minister of State in the Prime Minister’s […]
Arsenal Football Club and digital money transfer experts, WorldRemit are offering local coaches the chance to attend an exclusive new training camp with Arsenal’s top youth coaches in London. 25 shortlisted coaches will be rewarded with Arsenal kit for their entire youth squad. WorldRemit will arrange for the successful applicant to fly to London, where […]
Cipla Quality Chemical Industries Limited (CiplaQCIL), a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Uganda has announced its Initial Public Offer (IPO) by floating a total of 657,179,319 shares on to the Uganda Securities Exchange. The total shares floated represent 18% of all the shares owned by the company. Cipla Ltd, the Indian pharmaceutical giant manufacturers will remain […]
Zambia’s former African Footballer of the Year, Kalusha Bwalya, has been banned for two years by world governing body Fifa. It follows a Fifa investigation into his links to banned Qatari official Mohammed Bin Hammam. Fifa’s Ethics Committee said Bwalya, a Confederation of African Football (Caf) executive committee member, was banned for two years from […]
There has been an upward curve in average working hours of people, with no clear distinction between work and life. But what are the real reasons that people over-work, and does it really benefit either the employee or the employer? We find out. Work and life’ —> ‘Work-life balance’ —> ‘Work-life-integration’ —> ‘Work-life-(fill-in-the-blank)’ Such has […]
Environmentalists have called upon the government to incorporate the Rights of Nature in the new proposed National Environment Bill/ Act reasoning that it is when the country’s nature/ environment will be protected from encroachments. Rights of Nature are the holistic recognition that all life, all ecosystems on our planet are deeply intertwined. Rather than treating […]