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Today's headlines
  • Zimbabwe: Informal markets boom with homemade commodities
  • Table Mountain Declaration now on the web
  • MTN Nigeria awarded US$2bn loan facility
  • The battle to stem the demise of global banking brands
  • Zimbabwe: Promise of full shop shelves met with scepticism


  • Advertising
    SOUTH AFRICA
    Emerging agency attempts to save the world - Afrofusion Communications
    Afrofusion Communications, a young agency led by owner and MD, Antoinette Prophy, recently launched its first TV commercial for South Africa's Environmental Campaign, Indalo Yethu. After winning the pitch, the challenge was to launch with a limited budget but a massive objective.



    Branding
    ZIMBABWE
    The battle to stem the demise of global banking brands
    The planned indigenisation of banking institutions in Zimbabwe has created grave economic concerns, centred on what appears to be a crusade by Minister of Indigenisation and Empowerment, Paul Mangwana's crusade for the demise of international brands in the financial sector.


    Digital
    KENYA
    Hewlett Packard to support digital schools
    [Joyce Joan Wangui] Technology company Hewlett Packard Eastern Africa has teamed up with a US non-governmental organisation known as Build African Schools to set up four digital schools in Kenya.


    Eventing
    EAST AFRICA
    Ethiopia to host ICT Africa in 2008
    [Joyce Joan Wangui] A high level Information, Communication and Technology event dubbed ICT Africa 2008 is set to take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 13 - 15 February 2008.


    Media
    AFRICA
    Table Mountain Declaration now on the web
    The World Association of Newspapers has launched a new web site to support the Declaration of Table Mountain, which calls on African nations to abolish all laws that restrict freedom of expression.


    Mobile
    NIGERIA
    MTN Nigeria awarded US$2bn loan facility
    MTN Nigeria has received a new loan facility of US$2 billion from a consortium of 21 foreign and Nigerian banks and financial institutions. This is believed to be the largest loan syndication to any telecoms company in Africa, is coordinated globally by the Standard Bank Group of South Africa. The agreement was formalised at a signing ceremony held on 3 October 2007.

    KENYA
    Court throws out Safaricom IPO suit
    [Zachary Ochieng] The much-touted sale of the Kenyan government's 25% shares in Safaricom will go on after all; following the High Court Judge Justice Joseph Nyamu's decision to throw out the suit filed by three opposition legislators, seeking to bar the government from selling the shares until the Privatisation Act 2005 comes into force.


    Retail
    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwe: Informal markets boom with homemade commodities
    Unable to get their hands on scarce and often expensive essentials, Zimbabweans are settling for food items such as cooking oil that are cheap, often substandard, and sometimes dangerous, that are now flooding the informal markets.

    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwe: Promise of full shop shelves met with scepticism
    Predictions by Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, that empty supermarket shelves will soon be packed with goods are being received somewhat sceptically by Zimbabweans.


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