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How Ninety One is closing Africa’s infrastructure gap

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Warc and TikTok's connect media report tells brands to focus on relevance

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UN hosts Dakar media seminar on extremism

8 Jun 2017

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#WNC17: Turkish journalist Can Dündar receives the Golden Pen Award

8 Jun 2017

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Wan-Ifra calls on South Africa government to protect media freedom

8 Jun 2017

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#WNC17: First ever Women in News Summit under way

7 Jun 2017

The content engine blueprint

The content engine blueprint

Cleve Gibbon 5 Jun 2017

New censorship board in Zimbabwe to "regulate and control" media

New censorship board in Zimbabwe to "regulate and control" media

1 Jun 2017

Call for entries: southern Africa Health Journalist Awards

Call for entries: southern Africa Health Journalist Awards

1 Jun 2017

News image, video archive for Africa

News image, video archive for Africa

30 May 2017

Media threats increase in Kenya

Media threats increase in Kenya

30 May 2017

Ethiopian journalist jailed for talking to dissident

Ethiopian journalist jailed for talking to dissident

29 May 2017

The ruins of Breeze FM. Credit: mfwa.org/bellanaija.com.

Demolition of Nigeria's Breeze FM an "open attack on the press"

25 May 2017

Fighting fake news flames

Fighting fake news flames

Oresti Patricios 25 May 2017

Gen X: How to get the generation right (part 3)

Gen X: How to get the generation right (part 3)

Jessica Tennant 24 May 2017

Gen X: Decluttering misconceptions about what it means to be an adult in 2017 (part 2)

Gen X: Decluttering misconceptions about what it means to be an adult in 2017 (part 2)

Jessica Tennant 23 May 2017

Laura Rawden, Safrea chair.

#AfricaMonth: Safrea on the freelance future of work. Are you ready?

Leigh Andrews 22 May 2017

Media called on to report on ravages of famine

Media called on to report on ravages of famine

19 May 2017

Gen X: From rebellious, slacker youth generation to trailblazers of profound social change (part 1)

Gen X: From rebellious, slacker youth generation to trailblazers of profound social change (part 1)

Jessica Tennant 19 May 2017

Dejan Bozic © –

#Samra2017: Questions to help you uncover fake news

Leigh Andrews 19 May 2017

New digital destination for African sports fans

New digital destination for African sports fans

17 May 2017

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

16 May 2017

Magazine launched for Zimbawean diaspora

Magazine launched for Zimbawean diaspora

15 May 2017

New Africa wide business programme launched

New Africa wide business programme launched

15 May 2017

Al-Jazeera English suspended in South Sudan

Al-Jazeera English suspended in South Sudan

15 May 2017

Consumers less distracted when reading newspapers or magazines

15 May 2017

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Making sense of traditional, new TV content platforms

Alan Smith 12 May 2017

Bloggers disrupting the media industry in Tanzania

11 May 2017

Role of women in media in Africa discussed

10 May 2017

Independent Press Council established in Tunisia

Independent Press Council established in Tunisia

8 May 2017

Media under gun in Africa

Shenaaz Jamal 4 May 2017

Head, Culture Division, African Union Commission, Angela Martins; President/Executive Producer, AFRIMA, Mike Dada and MD, Africori Digital Music Solutions, Yoel Kenyan

Entries to 2017 All Africa Music Awards open next week

4 May 2017

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The content engine blueprint

The content engine blueprint

Cleve Gibbon 5 Jun 2017

New censorship board in Zimbabwe to "regulate and control" media

New censorship board in Zimbabwe to "regulate and control" media

1 Jun 2017

Call for entries: southern Africa Health Journalist Awards

Call for entries: southern Africa Health Journalist Awards

1 Jun 2017

News image, video archive for Africa

News image, video archive for Africa

30 May 2017

Media threats increase in Kenya

Media threats increase in Kenya

30 May 2017

Ethiopian journalist jailed for talking to dissident

Ethiopian journalist jailed for talking to dissident

29 May 2017

The ruins of Breeze FM. Credit: mfwa.org/bellanaija.com.

Demolition of Nigeria's Breeze FM an "open attack on the press"

25 May 2017

Fighting fake news flames

Fighting fake news flames

Oresti Patricios 25 May 2017

Gen X: How to get the generation right (part 3)

Gen X: How to get the generation right (part 3)

Jessica Tennant 24 May 2017

Gen X: Decluttering misconceptions about what it means to be an adult in 2017 (part 2)

Gen X: Decluttering misconceptions about what it means to be an adult in 2017 (part 2)

Jessica Tennant 23 May 2017

Laura Rawden, Safrea chair.

#AfricaMonth: Safrea on the freelance future of work. Are you ready?

Leigh Andrews 22 May 2017

Media called on to report on ravages of famine

Media called on to report on ravages of famine

19 May 2017

Gen X: From rebellious, slacker youth generation to trailblazers of profound social change (part 1)

Gen X: From rebellious, slacker youth generation to trailblazers of profound social change (part 1)

Jessica Tennant 19 May 2017

Dejan Bozic © –

#Samra2017: Questions to help you uncover fake news

Leigh Andrews 19 May 2017

New digital destination for African sports fans

New digital destination for African sports fans

17 May 2017

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

Côte d'Ivoire's new media bill criminalises press offences

16 May 2017

Magazine launched for Zimbawean diaspora

Magazine launched for Zimbawean diaspora

15 May 2017

New Africa wide business programme launched

New Africa wide business programme launched

15 May 2017

Al-Jazeera English suspended in South Sudan

Al-Jazeera English suspended in South Sudan

15 May 2017

Consumers less distracted when reading newspapers or magazines

15 May 2017

(c) 123branex -

Making sense of traditional, new TV content platforms

Alan Smith 12 May 2017

Bloggers disrupting the media industry in Tanzania

11 May 2017

Role of women in media in Africa discussed

10 May 2017

Independent Press Council established in Tunisia

Independent Press Council established in Tunisia

8 May 2017

Media under gun in Africa

Shenaaz Jamal 4 May 2017

Cameroon reporter Ahmed Abba given 10-year prison sentence

Cameroon reporter Ahmed Abba given 10-year prison sentence

4 May 2017

Head, Culture Division, African Union Commission, Angela Martins; President/Executive Producer, AFRIMA, Mike Dada and MD, Africori Digital Music Solutions, Yoel Kenyan

Entries to 2017 All Africa Music Awards open next week

4 May 2017

Twitter, Bloomberg team up for streaming news channel

Twitter, Bloomberg team up for streaming news channel

2 May 2017

Sanef expresses concern over media freedom

2 May 2017

Google tweak aims to curb fake, misleading search results

Google tweak aims to curb fake, misleading search results

29 Apr 2017

Media freedom award winners announced

26 Apr 2017

Internet shutdown lifted in Cameroon

Internet shutdown lifted in Cameroon

24 Apr 2017

Mpange Chapeshamano

#Newsmaker: Mpange Chapeshamano makes an Avatar comeback

Jessica Tennant 24 Apr 2017

AU called on to intervene in Cameroon internet shutdown

AU called on to intervene in Cameroon internet shutdown

20 Apr 2017

The rise of the screens - on-demand causes multi-industry disruption

20 Apr 2017

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Private radio stations protest Mali crackdown

19 Apr 2017

Real-time advertising can catapult newspapers to greater revenues

Vaughan Patterson 18 Apr 2017

Media: Dark art or science?

Media: Dark art or science?

Quinton Jones 17 Apr 2017

Safrea unravels the fake news phenomenon

Safrea unravels the fake news phenomenon

Leigh Andrews 13 Apr 2017

Zain Verjee, aKoma co-founder.

First team of Amplify storytellers graduate in East Africa

13 Apr 2017

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