Back in 2004, when Fifa president Sepp Blatter opened the envelope and announced that South Africa had won the bid to host the 2010 World Cup, his words were barely audible above the roaring crowd, and a collective cheer rose

If every great city deserves a great hotel, Nairobi's is unquestionably the Norfolk, which gained its "Fairmont" appendage when the Canadian group took ownership in 2007.

Dutch forces on a NATO warship captured seven pirates Saturday after the hijackers attacked a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Aden with rifles and grenades, NATO officials said.

The European Union (EU) yesterday signed an additional Rwf 3.9 billion contract with the Ministry of Finance and Planning to finance the rehabilitation of the Ruhengeri-Gisenyi Highway.

The partnership between Rwandair and Brussels Airlines comes at a time the global aviation industry especially the airline sector has been hit hard by the global economic recession