| | | Today's headlines | DRC soldiers still occupy radio station
Ghana launches domestic tourism program
Democracy suffers when decent jobs are lacking
Shelling destroys Somali broadcast stations; injures journalists
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Branding | | GHANA Ghana launches domestic tourism program
"Hospitality Festival 2007" has been launched in Accra, Ghana’s capital, to brand Ghana's tourism into various segments to promote domestic tourism.
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Cinema | | ZIMBABWE Directing the The White Giraffe
Gabor Csupo is to take to the director's chair for the new family feature film The White Giraffe. The movie will be based on Lauren St. John's first children's book of the same name.
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 | Wild Talk Africa is an international festival and conference for the wildlife, travel and cultural filmmaking industry.
The event takes place from the 27- 30 August 2007 at the ICC Durban.
For more info visit www.wildtalkafrica.com |
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Media | | KENYA Top level media meeting in Nairobi
CEOs of media houses, media executives, publishers and editors in East Africa meet this week in Nairobi to discuss the role of the media in the regional integration process.
EAST AFRICA Shelling destroys Somali broadcast stations; injures journalists
Two private broadcast stations were destroyed and several journalists were injured last week as Ethiopian troops backing Somalia’s transitional government attacked suspected strongholds of Islamist fighters and militiamen from the Hawiye clan, according to news reports and local journalists.
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Mobile | | KENYA Kenyan farmers connect to better prices
Africa's small farmers often fall victim to local traders who dictate prices below market rates. But in rural Kenya farmers now have technology in hand that cuts out the middleman. Gretchen Wilson reports
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Radio | | CENTRAL AFRICA DRC soldiers still occupy radio station
One month on, DRC soldiers' occupation of community radio station in Luebo continues.
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Recruitment | | AFRICA Democracy suffers when decent jobs are lacking
With 10,000 African women and men coming into the job market each day, adding to growing ranks of extreme working poor, the challenge is not just to find jobs for work-seekers, but also ensure the work is decent. If it isn’t, there can be political repercussions.
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TV | | AFRICA Awarding an Ingenious Africa
 The winners of Stories from the Field, the third annual United Nations Documentary Film Festival were announced on 22 April 2007 in New York. SABC Education’s Ingenious Africa: Sustaining Africa (episode 5) took 3rd place and the bronze award.
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| | Business | | | Unveiling the new Digital Linear PCM RecorderThe PCM-D1 portable audio recorder will be launched by Sony at MediaTech Africa 2007. It can be used by journalists for recording in the field, and is capable of capturing live musical and theatrical performances. [Technology] |
Air Zimbabwe hikes fares Zimbabwe's national airline has increased fares for its domestic, regional and international flights by 200%. [Business travel]
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| | Events to diarise | MediaTech Africa 2007 MediaTech - Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 June
MediaTech Africa is the trade fair for cutting-edge technology in the live entertainment, broadcast, audio visual and corporate communications industries. | | | The First Africa Convention of Consultants 2007 KMCCA - Kampala, Uganda, 15 August
The convention will examine what lies in store for the organisations and what to expect from your consultant and consultancy practices, foreign investments in Africa (perception impeding On foreign direct investment into Africa) with discussions held at the very highest level among participants and speakers. | | |
| | Upcoming events | VoIP World Africa 2007 - Johannesburg, 2 May Promotional strategy IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 2 May Customer relationship management IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Durban, 3 May | More... Submit an event | | |
| | Quotes | | | "A chick that will grow into a rooster can be spotted the very day it hatches." - African proverb | | More... Submit a Quote | | |
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