Clios looking for future gold
NEW YORK: Applications from around the world for the 2008 Clio Future Gold | Young Creatives Programme are now open until 1 April 2008. The programme, with its mission to elevate and inspire up-and-coming talent in the advertising industry, is run by the 49th Annual Clio Awards and Festival, a global awards competition for advertising, design and interactive, in conjunction with ihaveanidea.

SA Blog Awards 2008 nominations are out
The finalists in the SA Blog Awards 2008 were released on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, after a few days' delay. Bizcommunity.com's breaking news blog (http://blog.bizcommunity.com) has been nominated in the Best SA Business Blog category. Certain categories discontinued due to insufficients nominations are: Best GLBT Blog, Best African Language, Best Post about SA Blog Awards, Best Social Upliftment and Most Controversal Blog. Go to www.sablogawards.com/2008/ for the full list.

Mandela Rhodes Scholarship students announced
[Gabi Khumalo] For the past 18 years, Chipateni Nyirenda from Lusaka, Zambia, wanted to meet her role model former President Nelson Mandela. Her dream was realised on Tuesday, 4 March 2008, as she, along with 23 students from across the continent, sat next to him to receive her Nelson Mandela Rhodes Scholarship.

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe: Election campaigns go hi-tech
Savvy text messaging and cheeky ring tones are the new face of cost-effective political campaigning in Zimbabwe in the run up to the 29 March election, despite the creakiness of country's cell phone networks.

ZIMBABWE

Mugabe admits food crisis, but price hikes are 'undermining govt'
Zimbabwe is seeking to rush in maize imports from southern African states, President Robert Mugabe told an election rally on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, that the country faced an emergency.

An Ethiopian solution to costly food aid
As food prices hit record highs, analysts warn that a re-think of food aid strategies is needed - and Ethiopia, a traditionally food insecure country, could offer some answers.

WEST AFRICA

Liberia: Reviving fisheries could boost economy and health
Nine out of Liberia's 15 counties lie along 570 km of the Atlantic Ocean and small scale fishing provides a major source of income and nutrition for coastal communities, but the sector has been neglected by the government and donors during and since the country's ruinous civil war.

AFRICA

Switched on: Homeless World Cup TV
moviecom.tv has created Homeless World Cup TV, an online TV channel that invites viewers to get a whole lot more up-close-and-personal with the true grit, spirit and glory of football with passion.