| Today's headlines | Making finance work for Africa Power outages cripple Zimbabwe Dangote Group, Intercellular in acquisition talks CNBC Africa Kenya deal Capitalism may challenge the poor, but it gives them hope Arusha catches up with Britain's Parliament - and sees red (and amber... and green)
| | Marketing | | AFRICA Making finance work for Africa A new partnership to support stronger financial systems in Africa was launched last weekend, by Germany, the World Bank and the African Development Bank.
| 2010 FIFA World Cup | | SOUTHERN AFRICA Green Point Stadium tender to be re-advertised The City of Cape Town will restart the bidding process to find a long-term operator for the Green Point Stadium.
| Digital | | AFRICA APC-MGE addresses cooling problems [Zachary Ochieng] High-density servers present a significant cooling challenge, with vendors now designing servers that can demand over 20kW of cooling per rack. With most data centres designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW per rack - innovative strategies must be used for proper cooling of high-density equipment.
| Education and Training | | EAST AFRICA Arusha catches up with Britain's Parliament - and sees red (and amber... and green) Yes, it's true - traffic lights (otherwise called robots) were first introduced outside Britain's Parliament in 1868. Now Arusha, the Tanzanian town in the shadow of Kilimanjaro, has caught up just 139 years later and its first traffic lights have been installed.
| Mobile | | NIGERIA Dangote Group, Intercellular in acquisition talks [Jonah Iboma] According to information that was made available to HANA's correspondent in Lagos, Nigeria, Dangote and Intercellular have been in talks for sometime now, and that Dangote is bidding for the fixed wireless operator (FWO) through its telecommunications subsidiary, Alheri Engineering. Alheri had in January won a licence to provide 3G services in the country.
| Production | | ZIMBABWE Power outages cripple Zimbabwe Many areas of Harare, the capital, were without power for most of last week and early this week. The past months have been marked by almost daily outages, but this – it lasted five days – was the worst yet.
| Retail | | AFRICA Capitalism may challenge the poor, but it gives them hope Throughout human history, the road out of poverty has been built not by aid from developed states but by economic growth, and yet in Africa there is a prevailing logic that the rich have a responsibility to lift the poor.
| TV | | KENYA CNBC Africa Kenya deal CNBC Africa programmes will soon be viewed free-to-air in Nairobi, Kenya. A broadcast deal between the business broadcaster and Kenya's Capital will enable the terrestrial station's viewers to pick up the business channel 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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