ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwe: Rivals sign Memorandum of UnderstandingZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in the capital Harare today, paving the way for talks to resolve the country's political impasse.
CENTRAL AFRICA
Malawi: Mutharika calls for referendum to decide national budget fate[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has called for a national referendum to decide whether parliament should discuss the national budget or Section 65 of the Constitution which empowers the Speaker to declare vacant seats of parliamentarians deemed to have crossed the floor.
SOUTHERN AFRICA
SA business on Zim MOU
South African business is cautiously optimistic following yesterday's signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between Mugabe and the two MDC factions led by Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai respectively.
UGANDA
Anfield Communications, Uganda's first sports marketing agencyIn March this year, Anfield Communications, a marketing agency owned and established by a team of Ugandans was established. Aldrine Nsubuga, Anfield's chief executive officer took advantage of this gap in the sports industry in Uganda and were awarded the first Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) Awards Gala, worth UGX150m.
GHANA
Ghana: Dumping ground for used gadgets
At one of the many busy roadside shops in the capital, Accra, John Nuagbe displays the used, rusty and mostly broken electrical gadgets he recently imported from the USA.
AFRICA
Financial Mail Infrastructure Project Finance ConferenceThe “
Financial Mail Infrastructure Project Finance” Conference, which took place on 8 and 9 July 2008 at the Sandton Sun, served as a highly valuable “feeder” event into next month's NEPAD/SADC Regional Infrastructure Projects Conference.
KENYA
Mobile phones banned in schoolsKenyan Education Minister, Sam Ongeri has banned the use of mobile phones among students in schools.
SOUTH AFRICA
Deadline for writing course on doorstep -
Quo Vadis CommunicationsThe days are ticking by before the interactive Organisational Communications Course run by Quo Vadis Communications begins in Durban next month.
AFRICA
15m in Africa face 'disaster'Nairobi: Nearly 15 million people in the Horn of Africa region are facing a humanitarian disaster unless donors urgently release funds to deliver supplies, aid agencies warned on Tuesday.
ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwe: Bid to resuscitate use of international credit cards falters[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's bid to resuscitate the use of international credit cards, abandoned at the start of a gruelling economic crisis now in its ninth year, has crumbled due to the continued erosion of the domestic currency, bankers said yesterday.
COTE D'IVOIRE
Ministers cut own wages to end public sector strikeA week of strikes and protests in Cote d'Ivoire's economic capital Abidjan ended on Sunday following a government announcement that it would continue to subsidise fuel, and that government ministers would slash their own wages by 50% to help cover the cost.
CENTRAL AFRICA
Two additions to Malawi bourse list
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi: The mobile phone service provider TNM Limited and Real Insurance Company Limited are preparing to be listed on the Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE) during the last half of 2008.
