| Submit news Invite a friend | Today's headlines | Uganda's best 2007 investors to be honoured Zimbabwean grows UK's first white sweetcorn Celtel remains African brand - MTC Last call for entries to 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award MTN and Moov networks resurrected in Benin
| | Marketing | | AFRICA Economic integration vital for a better Africa - Manuel South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has emphasised the importance of economic integration to building a prosperous future for Africa.
MOZAMBIQUE SA, Mozambique build on relations [David Masango] South Africa and Mozambique have taken their bilateral relations further, after holding a successful meeting on Tuesday, 18 September, where various issues of cooperation were discussed.
| 2010 FIFA World Cup | | ZAMBIA Zambia and China sign pact to build stadium The Zambian government has signed a contract with the Chinese government for the construction of a 40,000-capacity stadium in Ndola, the capital of Copperbelt Province.
| Advertising | | SOUTH AFRICA Last call for entries to 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award Friday, 28 September 2007, will be the cut-off date and last call for entries for the 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award. Attracting a broad range of entries, these awards were created to recognise brilliant thinking, to bring it to the world's attention and to reward the most outstanding innovation with a prize package worth US$100,000.
| Branding | | AFRICA Celtel remains African brand - MTC [Remmy Nweke] The MTC group has decided to continue trading under the name of Celtel for the foreseeable future in order to ensure certainty and continuity. The decision comes at the time when the MTC group is involved in rebranding its services on the African continent.
| Digital | | UGANDA Uganda has highest phone tariffs in East Africa [David Muwanga] Uganda is reported to be in the list of countries with the highest mobile and fixed line phone tariffs as compared to its neighbours. The report was compiled by the Makerere University's Faculty of Economics and Management.
WEST AFRICA SAT3 connects Togo [Noel Kokou Tadégnon] Togo and Benin can now boast of a telecommunications link following the launch of a fibre optic cable linking the two countries.
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| Eventing | | UGANDA Uganda's best 2007 investors to be honoured [Walter Wafula] Companies that have made investments worth millions of dollars in Uganda will be recognised by the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), the body that licenses investors, in December this year.
| Mobile | | WEST AFRICA MTN and Moov networks resurrected in Benin [Gérard Guedegbe] After two months of tough negotiations between the government and the two major GSM operators in Benin after their services were terminated by the Transitory Authority of Regulation of telecommunications on 13 July 2007, the 950,000 subscribers of Moov and Areeba/MTN are now re-connected again.
| Out Of Home | | SOUTH AFRICA Linear Stand update - Right Stuff Right Stuff has developed the Linear Stand as a dynamic portable point-of-purchase display. This concept offers a unique, diverse and affordable product that is manufactured locally. It is the next generation of showroom stands, which doubles as a banner display as well as a brochure holder.
| Printing | | SOUTH AFRICA Paarl Print launches new Komori colour presses - Paarl Media Paarl Print, a member of the Paarl Media Group, recently launched its new Komori presses at a cleverly themed function at its plant, reflecting the Japanese origins of these state of the art machines. Invitations, titled “Got a Yen for quick top quality printing?”, set the scene with mini Zen gardens.
| Retail | | AFRICA Zimbabwean grows UK's first white sweetcorn Zimbabwean farmer, David Mwanaka, has provided supermarket chain Sainsbury's with the first ever UK white sweetcorn. Usually grown in America, the white sweetcorn is sweeter than its yellow cousin; however this crop has been cultivated in the unlikely setting of rural Enfield, London.
NAMIBIA Strategic sectors in Namibia Agriculture is one of Namibia's prime sectors and is currently among the biggest employers in the country creating an estimated 35,000 direct jobs and 150,000 indirect jobs to families who depend on the workforce.
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