Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia account for about 40 percent of Africa’s population outside South Africa and almost one-half of its GDP. They all share a common economic trait: They are Africa’s emerging markets, according to an IMF report.
The same crucial developments that presaged the arrival of institutional financial investors [...]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of near-simultaneous bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed more than 200 people. Watch VOA news video footage of the memorial.

Additional coverage available here, with video footages.

As black people, we are quick to complain when other races discriminate against us, but one would think that experience would make us more conscious and less bias against others. This is not the case. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa many discriminate against persons with albinism.
Albinism - not albinos, because the word is [...]

Six Maasai warriors left their remote rural village in Tanzania for the UK to run the Flora London Marathon on April 13. Their aim is to raise enough money to provide the village with clean water. Image: TreeHugger

President Bush has less than 12 months to go in his presidency, and not unlike other heads of state before him, decides at the last hour that one final hurray in Africa is the medicine that will remedy all the mistakes made along the way.

“Our seemingly voluntary decision to invite and to entertain a hated war criminal for four days in our beautiful land will probably go down in history as marking the darkest moment in our political history so far” writes Hamza Mustafa Njozi from Tanzania.
And now, Kwame Nkrumah’s worst fears have come to pass. Tanzania, a former [...]

It was not too hard trying to contrast the violence in Kenya with the jubilation over the “beautiful game.” Whatever the case may be, it is a real shame about Kenya, plus the fact that it was not even able to enjoy solace from football by being participants in the CAN2008

By: Zachary Ochieng (Highway Africa News Agency Correspondent)
Tanzanian fishermen have benefited a great deal from the use of mobile phones in doing business with local communities.
A study conducted by two students from Upsalla University, Sweden, in collaboration with the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), has concluded that the use of mobile phones [...]

Via African Executive:
The recent thinking in Tanzania that instructing by means of Kiswahili in secondary schools and colleges diminishes learners’ ability to acquire jobs is a fallacy. If thinking and innovation are pegged on the knowledge of English language, why are the Chinese and Japanese, for example, influencing the world in spite of their deficiency [...]

Foreign aid accentuates ethnic and political tension in Africa.