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Today's headlines
  • CSR and the new context of business
  • Zimbabwe to launch international marketing campaign
  • Groundbreaking cool-drink advertisement launches in Nigeria
  • Ubuntu – how as Africans do we lead?


  • Branding
    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwe to launch international marketing campaign
    The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is planning to launch an international marketing campaign in “the next few weeks” to counter what chief executive officer Karikoga Kaseke described as negative publicity on Zimbabwe.

    NIGERIA
    Groundbreaking cool-drink advertisement launches in Nigeria
    [Emeka Enyadike] The Black Eyed Peas are about to crash onto TV screens around the world as they rock it out in the new Pepsi ad.

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    Digital
    AFRICA
    $32.7 million investment for EASSy
    [Ken Kenya] The World Bank's private financing arm is set to invest a sum of US$32.5 million in the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy).


    Media
    EAST AFRICA
    Journalists murdered in suspected political killings
    Two well-known Somali journalists - Radio Capital Voice director Mahad Ahmed Elmi and Ali Iman Sharmarke, director of Horn Afrik - were murdered in separate incidents on 11 August 2007.


    Mobile
    WEST AFRICA
    Lebanese company buys into Gambia telecoms
    [Musa Saidykhan] It has been confirmed that 50% of both the Gambia Telecommunication Company Ltd (GAMTEL) and Gambia Cellular Telephone Company (GAMCEL) have been sold out to a Lebanese-owned company, the Spectrum Investment Group Ltd.


    Newspapers
    CENTRAL AFRICA
    News photographer shot dead in DRC
    Freelance photographer Patrick Kikuku was shot dead last week near his home in Goma, the capital of the eastern province of Nord Kivu, DRC, by unidentified gunmen.


    Out Of Home
    AFRICA
    Alliance Media Botswana renews exclusive airport advertising concession - Alliance Media
    Alliance Media Botswana, Botswana's largest outdoor advertising company, has renewed its exclusive airport advertising concession with the Department of Civil Aviation.


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    Public Relations
    AFRICA
    CSR and the new context of business
    [Bolaji Okusaga] To survive and grow, companies have to accommodate changes in what the public expects of business. Failure to do so could result in serious challenges from society.


    Business
    Ubuntu – how as Africans do we lead?
    The philosophy of ubuntu has its origins in the African conception of being. [Management]


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  • PAMRO 2007 Conference PAMRO - Mangochi, Lake Malawi, 19 August
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  • Strategic management in the public sector InterAfrica group - Johannesburg, 20 August
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  • 2nd Ann. Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum CTO - Nairobi, Kenya, 21 August
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