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Today's headlines
  • Introducing the APEX judges
  • MTV's Best African Act nominees
  • Shopping sprees increase tension with Zim's neighbours
  • Gambian minister fired for challenging telecoms sale
  • Manto's 'lavish' ad campaign slammed


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    SOUTH AFRICA
    Introducing the APEX judges
    The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has announced a 14 member judging panel, chaired by renowned marketing and advertising consultant Andy Rice, to judge the 2008 Advertising Performance Excellence Awards (APEX).

    SOUTHERN AFRICA
    Manto's 'lavish' ad campaign slammed
    Advertisements placed in a number of national newspapers on Friday by the health department defending its minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were a waste of taxpayers' money, the Democratic Alliance has said.


    Digital
    WEST AFRICA
    Gambian minister fired for challenging telecoms sale
    [Musa Saidykhan] The abrupt 50% sale of Gambia's telecommunications company (Gamtel) and its subsidiary company Gamcel shares last month has been creating row within the government circles, with the government accused of pursuing the challengers of the deal.

    AFRICA
    The future is wireless
    [Ken Kenya] Telkom Kenya will directly compete with the two mobile phone operators soon after offloading its Safaricom shares.

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    Online Media
    NIGERIA
    Internet registration grows in Nigeria
    [Remmy Nweke] The Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has increased the number of domain names in the country to over 3,000 in less than six months of its existence.

    KENYA
    A new e-bill for Kenya
    [Ken Kenya] Kenyans may soon realise e-commerce if both the Executive and Legislative arms of Government fast-track legislation expected to address several issues in the sub-sector.


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    ZIMBABWE
    Shopping sprees increase tension with Zim's neighbours
    It is early morning and groups of Zimbabwean women and men wrapped in blankets to ward off the chill are slowly waking from a night spent sleeping on the tarmac at a bus depot in Johannesburg, South Africa, waiting for the city's shops to open.

    SOUTHERN AFRICA
    UN helps Lesotho with food security
    The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says buying maize directly from small farmers in Lesotho, is having a beneficial effect on local communities.

    AFRICA
    Shares in record territories as Zim dollar falls
    The current policy changes in Zimbabwe hardly constitute coherent economic policy. Although our economics have turned into that of ‘adaptation and survival', dynamic inconsistency provides a theoretical basis for discussions on policy clarity and credibility.


    TV
    AFRICA
    MTV's Best African Act nominees
    MTV Networks Africa has revealed the five African artists nominated for Best African Act at the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards.


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