SOUTH AFRICA

Global recognition for SA bank
Standard Bank has been awarded the Global Business Coalition (GBC)'s Award for Business Excellence for its HIV/AIDS Workplace Program in 2008. The award effectively recognises the best workplace AIDS program in the world.

SA company joins the heavyweights to serve Africa
Concargo, a South African-based expert in supply chain management activities, has successfully qualified in becoming the first African member of The Heavy Lift Group (THLG).

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Southern Africa: Looking for answers to xenophobia's rise
Xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals in South Africa is generating a good deal of soul searching in a region that has shared much history, culture and strong informal economic ties - as well as hardships.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Malawi launches Media Code of Conduct for 2009 elections
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi has launched a Media Code of Conduct for its 2009 general elections, 11 months before the country goes to the polls.

Oil company invests in Malawi
[Gregory Gondwe] Total Group, which has already invested over US$20 million in Malawi since its merger with Mobil Oil Malawi Limited, has announced that it will be investing US$4 million annually in the country in a drive to boost its projects.

Investors look to logistics, transport
[Praveen Ojha] Financial deals in Africa's transportation sector: shipping and aviation dominate the industry landscape in early 2008.

Kenya: Food crisis prompts diet changes
A 50 percent rise in food prices in Kenya since the start of 2008 has led many people to drastically reduce their daily diets, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

ZIMBABWE

South African maize heads to Harare
A 300,000 ton consignment of South African white maize is currently being dispatched to Zimbabwe a few weeks ahead of the 27 June presidential election re-run.

Who wants to be a trillionaire...? I don't...
[Dumisani Ndlela] There's one thing that does not add up to one big spectacular zero at the moment in Zimbabwe, and that's its banknotes. In fact, the problem is too many zeros in a country with more billionaires than any other nation on earth - but Zimbabwe's 'rich' are starving.

ZIMBABWE

Tsvangirai calls on the youth
Speaking in an exclusive interview this weekend with pan-African entertainment network, MTV Networks Africa and US campus TV network MTVu, Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will urge young people of all nations to take an active role in issues affecting the country in order to secure a brighter future for Zimbabweans of all ages.