| | | Today's headlines | Fatty falls foul of law over ‘failed coup' report
Telecom liberalization in Ghana: the gains
Managing the Brand for Outstanding Performance
Cool-drink company teams up with USAID in Africa
Courting corruption
Zimbabwean photographer in hiding
Mob attacks radio station, city hall, staff injured
ZUJ locks horns with Zimpapers
Nigerian communications deal to boost SA tourism
Nabbing the Zambian market
The ‘forgotten' reporter
Nigerian journalists under threat
Private broadcaster suspended for seven days
Sudan to build international airports
Ghana's University of Science and Technology takes learning online
Boosting aspiring SMEs
New print newspaper for Zimbabwe – in the UK
Cures by camel
Sudanese editor released
Gambian journalist arrested
New editor for government mouthpiece
Attacks on Zimbabwean lawyers condemned
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Marketing | | NIGERIA Nigerian communications deal to boost SA tourism
South African Tourism (SAT) is partnering with Netcom Africa to promote the South African brand as a tourist destination to its database of subscribers. Netcom is one of Nigeria's leading communications infrastructure providers of satellite and wireless broadband in West Africa.
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Branding | | AFRICA Managing the Brand for Outstanding Performance
Brand management is changing. Increasingly it is recognised that managing the brand and managing the business are the same thing. The key to outstanding business performance is attaining a company-wide customer focus that evolves as the customers' needs and tastes evolve, developing a corporate culture that focuses all the delivery and support functions on meeting customers' needs.
NIGERIA Cool-drink company teams up with USAID in Africa
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Coca-Cola Company have combined forces in a US$7 million joint investment in nine new water projects in Africa.
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Education and Training | | GHANA Ghana's University of Science and Technology takes learning online
[Emily Nyarko] The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has become the first Ghanaian institution to introduce e-learning in the country.
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Eventing | | AFRICA Cures by camel
Finalists in ‘Marketplace' of innovative poverty reduction projects gather at bank headquarters in US capital to showcase their creative concepts - such as transporting refrigerated medicines on camels in Africa.
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Media | | NIGERIA Nigerian journalists under threat
Two journalists are in hiding because of arrest warrants and a third has been getting death threats.
ZIMBABWE Attacks on Zimbabwean lawyers condemned
Watchdog organisations again condemn recent attacks on lawyers in Zimbabwe.
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Mobile | | GHANA Telecom liberalization in Ghana: the gains
[Afrikanus Kofi Akosah Adusei] I distinctly remember travelling in the 1980's with my mother all the way to the capital city, a distance of 240 km, before we could make bookings and wait, only God knows how long, for our turn to make IDD phone calls.
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Newspapers | | WEST AFRICA Fatty falls foul of law over ‘failed coup' report
Gambian journalist denies charge of publishing ‘false information' and places responsibility on editor.
ZIMBABWE Zimbabwean photographer in hiding
A Zimbabwean photographer being sought by police has gone into hiding; meanwhile, an imprisoned journalist has been denied medical treatment after being beaten and tortured by police.
ZIMBABWE ZUJ locks horns with Zimpapers
The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has locked horns with Zimbabwe Newspapers, the largest employer of journalists, after the company's management stopped remitting workers' subscriptions to the union.
ZAMBIA Nabbing the Zambian market
NAB Africa (the Newspaper Advertising Bureau) has extended its reach to Zambia by adding The Post group of newspapers to its bouquet.
CENTRAL AFRICA The ‘forgotten' reporter
RSF calls for release of reporter arrested six months ago and "forgotten" in Kinshasa prison.
ZIMBABWE New print newspaper for Zimbabwe – in the UK
 New Zimbabwe Limited, publishers of New Zimbabwe.com, has announced the imminent arrival of a print edition of the website to be published weekly, starting in early July. Initially publication will be restricted to the United Kingdom but the plan is to publish in Zimbabwe itself, one day...
EAST AFRICA Sudanese editor released
Publisher and editor of the al-Sudani have been released after several days in detention, however the newspaper remains suspended.
WEST AFRICA Gambian journalist arrested
Fabakarr Ceesay, a reporter with the pro-opposition bi-weekly Foroyaa Newspaper, was arrested and reportedly threatened by an officer of the Police Intervention Unit (PIU), a paramilitary wing of the Gambia Police Force, while covering a student demonstration.
ZIMBABWE New editor for government mouthpiece
The Zimbabwean information minister is due to name a new editor for the government's Bulawayo mouthpiece.
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Public Relations | | SOUTH AFRICA Quo Vadis offers new three-day English communications course - Quo Vadis Communications
Quo Vadis Communications, a niche communications training and marketing communications company with over 30 years experience in conducting writing courses in the NGO, developmental and private sectors, is offering a new and intensive three-day English communications course.
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Radio | | NIGERIA Mob attacks radio station, city hall, staff injured
A Nigerian politician's supporters have ransacked a radio station, attacked journalists with machetes; they then went on to the city hall.
CENTRAL AFRICA Private broadcaster suspended for seven days
DRC radio station suspended for allegedly broadcasting defamatory programs and threats against local governor.
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| | Business | | | Courting corruption [Management] | | Sudan to build international airports [Business travel] | | Boosting aspiring SMEs [Management] |
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| | Events to diarise | African Business Leaders Forum 2007 Business in Africa - Accra, Ghana, 17 October
The forum is designed to help business leaders in the private and public sectors to understand and strengthen their resolve to fight poverty and underdevelopment on the continent. | | | Prodtech 2007 LDN - Algiers, Algeria, 27 November
Production technologies and machinery exhibition. | | |
| | Upcoming events | Adobe InDesign AAA School of Advertising - Gauteng, 28 May Customer relationship management IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Cape Town, 28 May Reporting regional integration Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - Johannesburg, 28 May eLearning Africa 2007 Elearning Africa website - Nairobi, Kenya, 28 May Creative negotiation skills Maurice Kerrigan (Pty) Ltd - Johannesburg, 28 May Sales skills MaST Botswana - Gaborone, 29 May Retail assistants workshop Staff Training - Limpopo, 1 June | More... Submit an event | | |
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