KENYA
Kenyan agency receives international awardKenyan marketing and public relations agency, Exclamation Marketing, received the International Star Award for Leadership in Quality and Excellence at a ceremony in Salons, Concorde of the Palais des Congres of Paris on 21 April 2008. The company received the award in the gold category, for its outstanding business achievements, perseverance and leadership in excellence, and quality in accordance with the QC100 Criteria.
SOUTH AFRICA
Getty Images Space Snaps Challenge scores huge discounts -
Gallo Images
South African designers have found the Getty Images Space Snaps Challenge and are heading to be the highest scorers in outer space while also saving 25% on their royalty-free purchases.
AFRICA
Zim business launch customer service organisation[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's private sector has launched the Institute of Customer Services (ICS) as the country grapples with poor quality products and service delivery due to an economic crisis now in its ninth year.
AFRICA
Undersea cable to create sustainable competitive market[Nthambeleni Gabara] Government has identified the Broadband Infraco-led African West Coast Cable (AWCC) project as a lead initiative to create a sustainable competitive international bandwidth market in the country.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Limpopo, Swaziland to improve trade co-operation[Gcina Ntsaluba] South Africa's Limpopo province and the Kingdom of Swaziland are to improve trade co-operation through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The Limpopo province is hosting a business delegation from Swaziland this week to forge regional economic ties.
EAST AFRICA
Govt seizes Ethiopian magazine, imprisons publisherIn a move that is widely believed to have been deliberately chosen to coincide with World Press Freedom Day, the Ethiopian government struck against the private press on 3 May 2008. Ten thousand copies of a non-political monthly magazine,
Enku, have been impounded by police and the publisher and deputy editor of the magazine, Alemayehu Mahtemework, imprisoned.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Malawian media institutions dominate NAMISA Awards[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi's two media institutions have dominated this year's National Media Institute of Southern Africa (NAMISA) awards which are held annually during commemoration of the World Press Freedom Day.
WEST AFRICA
Draft media reform laws presented to the Liberian National Legislature[Michael Kpayili] Three draft media laws that seek to strengthen the improvement of freedom of Information have finally been submitted to the National Legislature for possible passage into law.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Malawi introduces international calling cards[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi has become the second country in southern Africa to introduce an international calling card to be used by both mobile and fixed phone line subscribers.
ZIMBABWE
Cash shortages on first day of currency floatationCash shortages in Zimbabwe worsened Monday, 5 May, on the first day of free trading of the Zimbabwe dollar as people queued for hours in banks to buy up local currency.
NIGERIA
Bread strike threatens food supply
Supplies of bread have dwindled in Lagos and other cities across Nigeria since 5 May when the Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria went on a nationwide strike over the rising price of flour and other raw materials.
ZIMBABWE
Reserve Bank unveils Z$250 million noteZimbabwe's central bank, currently grappling with record-breaking inflation, has introduced a new high-denomination bank note of a quarter of a billion dollars, state television reported Monday, 5 May 2008.
