THE country's two listed hospitality and leisure groups have embarked on aggressive continental expansion as they seek to reduce their exposure to the beleaguered Zimbabwean economy.

PEARL Properties Limited, one of the country's listed property companies, posted a net profit of $115.446 trillion for the year ended December 31 2007.

Safaricom staff will get loans from Equity Bank to buy shares in the mobile phone services firm, during its going initial public offering (IPO).

ECONET Wireless International (EWI), in which Essar Communications Holdings Limited (ECHL) holds a 49 percent stake, will invest US$450 million to rollout telecom services in Kenya.

A human rights lobby wants the management of Athi River Mining Company to address environmental issues raised by residents of Bondora village in Kilifi District where the company operates a mining quarry.

Nairobi City Council has moved to court seeking to reverse orders allowing some Eastlands matatus into the city centre.

AIR Zimbabwe has suspended flights to the resort town of Kariba owing to a decline in passenger volumes.

A pedestrian who is demanding Sh3 million compensation from a tour firm wants to stop an appeal filed by the company's insurer.

Some motorists have accused a parking services company of failing to issue them with receipts from tax-compliant register machines.

LUBAGA Division has asked the Ministry of Works to replace River Mayanja culverts at Busega on Kampala-Masaka highway with a bridge to curb flooding in the area.

The Kenya Pipeline Corporation expects to complete the upgrade of its system controls later this month, saving millions of shillings in long term repair costs.

Installation of new pump control systems on three Kenya Pipeline Corporation (KPC) stations is almost complete.

Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive voting irregularities in favour of the ruling party, human rights groups warn the worst may not

LOCAL companies have expressed fears that poor coal supplies, which have persisted for over five years now, might drive them to the brink of closure.

GOLD prices tumbled to a two-month low on the international market, compounding pressures on the country's economy, which is partly dependent on foreign exchange earned from the bullion.

Botswana Chamber of Mines interim president, Montwedi Mphathi has warned trade unions that where mine management and workers incessantly fight, it is productivity that suffers.

Angry traders Thursday blocked the busy Nairobi-Mombasa highway as they protested at increased cases of robbery in Machakos Town and its environs.

Members of Parliament have urged government to restrict the importation of second hand vehicles because they are an environment hazard and are the prime cause of accidents.

CHAIRMAN of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Delta State, Comrade Jonathan Ojobu, has alerted the Governor over existence of ghost workers within the state's primary school system, even as the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary