Oldest known stone tools found in Kenya, makers not known

By taking a wrong turn in a dry riverbed in Kenya, scientists discovered a trove of stone tools far older than any ever found before. Nobody knows who made them — or why. At 3.3 million years old, they push back the record of stone tools by about 700,000 years. More significantly, they are half-a-million years older than any known trace of our own More...

Physics Teacher Position
African Leadership Academy African Leadership Academy seeks a passionate Physics Teacher who can create learning environments that engage and develop the next generation of leaders. ALA faculty work each day with More...

Kenya Digital-Who is Fooling Who?
Kenya’s Digital TV War (By topi lyambila) Are Kenyans being told the truth about the Digital Migration or are they being steamrolled into the usual side-shows reminiscent of this country? Speaking to former More...

IT Leaders Africa Summit
Leaders in the IT industry are coming together on 18 – 19 March 2015 at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg for the 6th IT Leaders Africa Summit Neotel, South Africa’s renowned converged More...

Telecoms in Kenya battle for shrinking landline phone market
Telecom companies in Kenya have intensified fight for the landline phone market even as the number of people using the network dwindles. The companies have come up with various incentives that include calling at More...

Why investing in East Africa still makes Sense
Source: AFKinsider As a frontier market, the countries of Africa represent both tremendous opportunities and tremendous risks. On the risk side of the ledger are all the usual complications of international trade More...

Britain pledges further support towards Kenya’s Counter Terrorism Efforts
Britain on Thursday pledged to support Kenya’s counter-terrorism efforts by providing equipment, technical, training assistance to the East African nation. British High Commissioner Christian Turner said London More...

Promoting value addition for Kenya’s Leather Sector , plans a ‘Leather’ City.
NAIROBI, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — The Kenyan government has announced plans to establish a Leather City, a fully-fledged product development facility in Athi River, a town outside capital Nairobi, that will be the More...

East Africa Business Network appoints Mr Bola Akindele to its board –
Mr Akindele speaking during the UNCTAD Forum on Promoting Value Supply chains in Africa Nigeria’s serial entrepreneur and Courteville Business Solutions MD, Mr Bola Akindele was this week appointed to join More...

Africa’s Mobile phone market growth to surge to 79%
Harare – Growth prospects for Sub-Saharan Africa’s mobile phone market are significant as over half the region’s population does not have access to a mobile phone. This is according to a Frost & More...