| 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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