| | | Today's headlines | Zimbabwean editor shot and seriously wounded in South Africa
Censoring kids' advertising
Hunger bites Zimbabwe's health and education sectors
Are you up to the job?
Opponents demonstrate, journalist attacked
SA retailers rough it out in Zim
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Advertising | | SOUTH AFRICA Censoring kids' advertising
[Vivian Warby] Retailers, manufacturers and fast food outlets will, by mid next month, have a self regulatory policy in place when it comes to advertising their products to children.
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Education and Training | | AFRICA Hunger bites Zimbabwe's health and education sectors
 The effects of the government's month-old price-control policies, which have brought widespread shortages of basic commodities, are also beginning to tell in the education, health and social service sectors.
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Media | | NORTH AFRICA Tunisian writer freed
Mohamed Abbou has been freed after more than two years in prison. His ‘crime' was to expose torture in the country's prisons.
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Newspapers | | ZIMBABWE Zimbabwean editor arrested, released, case postponed
Magazine editor released after two days in detention, faces charges of practicing journalism without accreditation.
MOROCCO
Moroccan editor released – for now
Detained editor receives provisional release, colleague sent to prison pending trial.
WEST AFRICA Opponents demonstrate, journalist attacked
A Cameroonian journalist has been attacked during opposition demonstration.
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Online Media | | ZIMBABWE Zimbabwean editor shot and seriously wounded in South Africa
Abel Mutsakani, the editor of ZimOnline and former managing editor of the banned Daily News, is reportedly battling for his life in a Johannesburg, South Africa hospital after he was shot and seriously injured by a gang of three assailants on 23 July 2007.
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Retail | | EAST AFRICA Tanzania, Uganda keen to link with Malaysia
Tanzania is keen to tap Malaysian expertise to help develop its palm oil industry, especially for the production of biofuels.
AFRICA SA retailers rough it out in Zim
[Desmond Walters] It is business as usual for South African retailers in Zimbabwe who are keeping a positive spirit despite the economic meltdown and political uncertainty in the country. Large South African retailers, including Massmart, Edgars, OK and Pick ‘n Pay have business interests in Zimbabwe, and indicated they are not about to jump ship despite the recent spate of arrests of business executives accused of not complying with government orders to cut down prices.
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TV | | NIGERIA Are you up to the job?
The Apprentice is one of the most globally recognized reality television franchises and the programme has, since it was launched in the US three years ago by Donald Trump, been replicated in 23 countries around the world.
AFRICA Tackling HIV/Aids across borders: SA initiates regional partnership
HIV and Aids knows no borders and Southern Africa has the highest HIV infection rates in the world. The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication, the largest HIV and Aids communication programme in the country, has over the past five years implemented a groundbreaking project to tackle the epidemic across borders.
SOUTH AFRICA Cream of African music
The Channel O Spirit of Music Video Awards will take place on 11 October 2007, at the Johannesburg City Hall, and once again they will be sponsored by Amarula Cream. The complete list of nominees will be announced during the first week in August.
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| | Events to diarise | A guide to trading in Africa IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 17 September
This two-day course is aimed at providing delegates with an understanding of the inside facts and finer details of how to export to an African country or a similar emerging market. | | | 2007 Africa SMME Awards and Conference Africa Growth Research - Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 October
The Conference and Awards ceremony will be aimed at presenting latest trends in SMME development in the continent and recognising and presenting awards to successful SMMEs by sector. | | |
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