Enter integration
With the costs of doing business on the up and up, and the associated costs of creating awareness of your products and services getting more costly and competitive, marketers today have to ensure that every bit of the budget devoted to sales and marketing is used effectively.

UBA launches tourism paycard in Nigeria
United Bank for Africa Plc, has introduced UBA Tourism Paycard in Nigeria.

AFRICA

Africa's broadband set to explode
Until recently the Internet in Africa has been the poor relation to the much more successful spread of mobile phones. The experience of Africa's Internet with dial-up connections has been like trying to eat a meal by sucking it through a straw. It's been slow and expensive for the individual user so it's hardly surprising that it has thus far only attracted a relatively small band of users compared to mobile phones.

EAST AFRICA

Somali journalists trained to survive captivity
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) and its Somalia partner, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), has provided safety training to 48 Somali journalists and other media staff in Djibouti.

ZIMBABWE

Tsvangirai disowns article published in UK paper
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had disowned an article published under his name in Britain's Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, 25 June 2008, in which he was said to have called for “words of indignation by world leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force”.

Embarrassed Paarl Media donates to Zim victims
In an attempt to lessen the negative fallout from the debacle over being found out to have printed election material for Robert Mugabe, Paarl Media has decided to make a special donation to the people of Zimbabwe.

KENYA

Kenyan government threatens to shut radio station
The Kenyan government has threatened to shut down a vernacular radio station for allegedly stoking ethnic tensions that culminated in the post-election violence earlier in the year.

Zimbabwe's feel good radio
The lead story in the morning radio news bulletin of Zimbabwe's state-run broadcaster on 25 June was the success of the country's tobacco sales; next, the national consumer council's praise for the government's efforts to make available scarce food items was reported, followed by an announcement by Air Zimbabwe that its telephone lines were down.

Zimbabwe: Aid will flow if Mugabe goes
As the sole remaining candidate in Zimbabwe's presidential election run-off on 27 June, Robert Mugabe should win. But then what?

African govts must unite against high fuel prices
[Edwin Tshivhidzo] Governments throughout Africa must unite against the high fuel prices, says Deputy Director General in the Department of Minerals and Energy, Nhlanhla Gumede.

NORTH AFRICA

Attempt to restrict satellite broadcasting, electronic media continues
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has spoken out against the efforts of the ministerial council of Arab information ministers, held in the headquarters of the Arab League from 20 - 21 June 2008, to further restrict satellite television broadcasting.