The stage is set for a showdown in Zimbabwe after a high court judge yesterday rejected a petition for the result of the presidential election more than two weeks ago to be published.

Armed members of Kenya's Mungiki gang, angry at the beheading of their political leader's wife, fought paramilitary police on the streets of Nairobi yesterday. Up to 12 people were believed to have been killed.

A CRISIS of confidence is now rocking the House of Representatives Committee on Power and Steel which is currently probing the management of the nation's power sector by the Obasanjo administration with some members taking exception to the approach adopted

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has promised to assist indigenous oil firms in the country to achieve zero accident level in their technical operations.

SOME youths, Saturday night, bombed two offshore oil vessels belonging to the Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) at Beniboye in Burutu local government area of Delta State as a fallout of a disagreement between Ogulagha and Odimodi oil communities.

Tax revenue from oil imports grew by 35 per cent in the past six months, pointing to the success of the electronic system of import duty payment in preventing leakages.

When Margaret Wanjiru received her electricity bill last week, it had increased by more than Sh500 from the Sh1,500 she paid in February.

Celtel has deepened its presence in Hoima District to improve the communications needs of Tullow Oil, the company exploring oil in western Uganda.

The Angolan Airlines (TAAG) will start next Tuesday flying to Douala, Cameroon, announced Monday here the institution's spokesperson, Carlos Vicente.

So it is said, that to achieve what you have never achieved before, you must do what you have never done before. Though laudable, the current effort by Uganda's traffic police of arresting errant commuter taxi (matatu) drivers plus commercial

In June 2004, Mr Rudolf Foste lost a close friend. "That day I got a distressing call about the death of my friend, who was heading to Mombasa from Tanga."

Concern is rising over the increasing unruliness of the non-motorised transport operators in Kisumu Town.

Airlines to Entebbe International Airport are set to increase freight and flight charges as the industry takes a knock from the rising jet fuel price.

As Safaricom Initial Public Offer (IPO) rolls on the globe, stock brokers and institutional investors are rushing in to sell its pieces in Rwanda.

Uganda Clays Limited just cannot stop writing history.

Sameer Agriculture & Livestock Limited (SALL) is set to officially open a US$15 million milk powder plant. The plant, is due for official launch in first week of next month.

Alcoholic beverages of questionable quality are being sold to unsuspecting low-level drinkers in Nairobi and other key towns, the Sunday Nation has established.

For more than a century, Clover has approached its Afrikaans consumers through Afrikaans advertising. It has therefore been almost a matter of course that Clover has once again decided to be a sponsor of the Pendoring advertising competition and project

The main promoters of Zemen Bank, a company under formation to enter the banking sector, are in hot pursuit to recruit one of the two vice presidents at the Bank of Abyssinia (BoA).

Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has set a new strategic expansion plan to increase its sugar refining capacity to 2.5 million metric tonnes per annum.