"We are delighted to announce that we have just launched Google News in English for Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and Botswana allowing users to search and view news in localized editions" said a Googler on official Google Africa Blog yesterday.
http://google-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/google-news-launches-in-9-african.html

Wow. That's a great news. I totally love it, as a native speaker of Tamil.

who reads news in tamil anyway?
all Internet users in Tamil nadu know english

It would be interesting if traffic stats for google news tamil is available..

I also being native of Tamil Nadu state, the Indian state which speaks Tamil, I know many people who use Internet know english

just because one site is available in tamil, no one who does not know english but knows tamil will buy a computer because tamil is now google news

this is great news for me as a native speaker of tamil.. good to have some local news in google news in 'tamizhagam' section.. great!..

I am truly happy of that i am reading news in my tamil language. now i plan to learn tamil type writing to enter my opinion in tamil laguage. i am proud of that we can read news in tamil scripts.

Thanks Google...for the news in Tamil, even though I am not a native speaker but I like tamil very much.

Great news. Thanks Philip for bringing this to our notice. I only wish Google would enable Tamil typing in the search box.

if news in tamil it wil be very nice all the people can understand the news. all wil give first priority to google. good to have the news in tamil