| | | Today's headlines | Maintaining Tanzania's reform agenda
Declaration of Table Mountain calls for African press freedom
Kenyan media bill raises concerns
Naughty Knuckles newspaper free to publish
Sudan's doors open to the media says Bashir
Journalist trial set for July
Mauritanian editor freed
Advertising - a threat to media freedom in Africa?
Angola builds studio city to revive film industry
VoIP goes mobile
How young people use media: Youth DNA study measures trends
Making the most of the digital age
Showcase of technology at e-Learning Africa conference
State of FOSS in the media
Ugandan vernacular newspaper sets record
DRC journalists beaten as cops break up meeting
ICT Ministers head to Malawi to ease up EASSy
Confusion over similar call identity numbers
No joy for Joya as she's jailed
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Advertising | | TANZANIA Maintaining Tanzania's reform agenda
It is not surprising to see Tanzania appear on the list of Africa's top regulatory reformers for 2005. In official policy, the creation of a business friendly environment was a top priority throughout the two-term tenure of the previous president, Benjamin Mkapa.
AFRICA Advertising - a threat to media freedom in Africa?
African media's growing reliance on private advertising poses threats to press freedom similar to state ownership, panelists told an international gathering of journalists in Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday.
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Branding | | AFRICA No joy for Joya as she's jailed
An employee who worked for Coca-Cola and planned to sell the company's trade secrets to the ‘highest bidder' got an eight-years jail term after Coke rival PepsiCo Inc – the company to whom the employee and her co-conspirators had offered the secrets – warned the soft-drinks giant.
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Cinema | | ANGOLA Angola builds studio city to revive film industry
As part of national efforts to revive its film industry, Angola is to build a “cinematographic campus” in the capital Luanda, says incumbent Minister of Culture, Boaventura Cardoso.
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Digital | | EAST AFRICA ICT Ministers head to Malawi to ease up EASSy
[David Kezio-Musoke] ICT ministers from 20 African countries will gather in Malawi to thrash out areas of disagreement regarding the construction of the Eastern Africa Sub-Marine Cable System (EASSy).
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Eventing | | AFRICA Showcase of technology at e-Learning Africa conference
[Zachary Ochieng] The second International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training has come to a successful conclusion in Nairobi, with participating companies showcasing their latest acquisitions in e-learning.
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Media | | AFRICA Declaration of Table Mountain calls for African press freedom
Leaders of the world's press, meeting in South Africa this week, have called on African governments "as a matter of urgency" to abolish all laws that restrict press freedom, and have pledged to increase "aggressive and persistent campaigning against press freedom violations and restrictions in Africa."
KENYA Kenyan media bill raises concerns
Proposed Kenyan media bill raises so many concerns regarding the undermining of media independence that media watchdog organisation IPI approached the country's president, Mwai Kibaki, direct.
NORTH AFRICA Sudan's doors open to the media says Bashir
“We have nothing to hide” - President Bashir answers three Reporters Without Borders questions.
AFRICA State of FOSS in the media
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) challenges our preconceptions about how software is used, produced and distributed. The software industry today generates yearly revenues in excess of US$300 billion. FOSS is software that has made its source code free, public and allows - perhaps even motivates - users to change the source code and redistribute the derivative software.
CENTRAL AFRICA DRC journalists beaten as cops break up meeting
Police have violently broken up a meeting of journalists in Mbuji-Mayi, DRC, leaving at least one reporter seriously injured.
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Mobile | | AFRICA VoIP goes mobile
 Cape Town-based telecommunications company, Yeigo, is one of the first companies worldwide to have developed mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), enabling it to offer cheaper and even free mobile calls.
BOTSWANA Confusion over similar call identity numbers
[Timothy Kasonde] Confusion looms in Botswana's mobile industry following an allocation of similar dialing numbers to different mobile phone service providers.
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Newspapers | | WEST AFRICA Naughty Knuckles newspaper free to publish
Ban lifted on newspaper that published explicit photograph of ex-official in sexy threesome.
ZIMBABWE Journalist trial set for July
The trial of Gift Phiri, the chief reporter of The Zimbabwean who is facing charges of practising journalism without accreditation, has now been set for 9 July 2007.
WEST AFRICA Mauritanian editor freed
Journalist released on bail; three others interrogated by police.
AFRICA Making the most of the digital age
[Lynn Smit] The opportunities for newspapers in the digital age are huge, it's just a matter of finding the best way to harness them, delegates were told at the Digital Media Roundtable at the World Association of Newspapers 60th annual congress in Cape Town, South Africa. And the benefits are certainly not one sided - internet and mobile phone companies are rushing to take advantage of the content that the more traditional media companies can provide.
UGANDA Ugandan vernacular newspaper sets record
In a media dominated by English-medium presentations, there is still room for vernacular media to not only survive, but thrive.
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Research | | AFRICA How young people use media: Youth DNA study measures trends
Young people perceive traditional media as more accurate, trustworthy and reliable than new media, but many get most of their news and information from another source entirely - family and friends.
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TV | | SOUTH AFRICA Behind the scenes at CNBC Africa - CNBC Africa
On 1 June 2007, CNBC Africa, the first 24-hour, live international business channel in sub-Saharan Africa, began broadcasting from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| | Events to diarise | 10th Zanzibar International Film Festival Zanzibar International Film Festival - Zanzibar, 29 June
Ten days, more than 80 films from over 25 countries and a galaxy of the film elite from the East African world, Asia, Europe and the Arab world – the building blocks of the tenth Zanzibar International Film Festival generated much excitement when Festival organizers unveiled the entire 2007 line-up for the first time at the premises in the Old Ford. | | | Africa's Big Seven Exhibitions Africa - Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 July
Pan-African retail trade exhibition - the food, retail and FMCG expo for the continent. | | |
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