Africa Travel News

Today, the situation is under control, thanks to an international NGO that's drilling boreholes in the area for fresh drinking water and building latrines for family use.

The defence force is looking to buy new presidential jets and planes as soon as possible, the Saturday Star has reported.

Georges Moustaki, the Egyptian-born French singer-songwriter who provided the lyrics for Edith Piaf's international 1958 hit Milord, has died at his home on the French Riviera, aged 79.

The aim of the computer resource centre is to bring education and knowledge to the community.

AN online crowd-sourced safari guide that launched this week is being billed as one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world, allowing users to compare the major safari countries and tour operators against the advice of 2,200 user-generated reviews.

When Mao Doudou and Her Sweet Days, a 36-episode light comedy about a modern Chinese couple and their relationship with each other's families, was dubbed in Swahili and broadcast in East African countries in 2011, Omar Ahmed, like many, became a big fan.

Brazil's first ever presidential visit to Ethiopia on Friday, May 24, saw the two sides sign four cooperation agreements that Ethiopian officials consider signal the entry of the emerging South American powerhouse into a large scale involvement in Ethiopia's economy.

KALININGRAD, May 24 Construction of Russia's two new antimissile radars one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia's Irkutsk region should be complete by the end of next year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday.

Over the past six months, I fulfilled three long-term goals: to retire early, to move full-time to Cambria and to travel around the world.

Volunteers with Zimbabwe Project Canada on their recent trip to the African country where they helped out schools, health clinics and orphanages as well as various projects in rural communities.

From a snail-eating snake to a harp-shaped spongea Quentin Wheeler on whittling down 18,000 new species to 10 favourites On 23 May,the International Institute for Species Exploration announced the annual top 10 new species for the sixth time.

Tourism chiefs have insisted plans for a controversial 100 million golf resort near the Giant's Causeway should proceed without delay, despite the objection of a world heritage body.

Alexander the Great conquered the known world in a little over 13 years. His empire stretched from Greece to India and Afghanistan to Egypt.

Box of tricks: Ben Kariuki's toolbox acts as an advertising board for his photography business at Uhuru Park's central lake.

It was a Friday night in Jo'burg's city centre; a chilly autumn evening. What could have been a regular few-blocks walk between Market and Loveday streets turned into something extraordinary.

The Crocodiles are leaving no stone unturned in their bid to clinch a famous win over the Black Stars on June 14 and have thus set up a friendly with Bafana Bafana on June 2. The friendly is expected to fine tune Lesotho's preparations by giving them a competitive edge before facing Ghana two weeks later.

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The 160-million strong Nigerian market is seen as South Africa's biggest competitor on the continent, and is set to overtake its southern neighbour as the largest African economy by 2020.

It's a small world: A group of Canadian tourists at Vicky's B&B in Cape Town's A Khayelitsha township.

Addis Ababa, May 24, 2013 A - Representatives of eight U.S firms said that Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, the U.S. Embassy here said.