Zimbabwe: Economic crisis hits children harder
HARARE: Every morning, six days a week, Brighton Ziruvi, 13, boards a commuter bus for a 12km trip from his low-income suburb of Dzivaresekwa in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, to the central business district.

EAST AFRICA

Submarine cables integrate East Africa into global economy - IDC
PRAGUE: New submarine cables that are being laid along the east coast of Africa will bring connectivity options and related business opportunities to the region.

AFRICA

K24 and Royal Media Services join A24 Media
NAIROBI: A24 Media, the African online content delivery site has added K24 and Royal Media Services, two Kenyan broadcasters, to its list. K24, a 24-hour TV news channel which features local eyewitness reports, and Royal Media Services, a media empire with outreach across Kenya have joined A24 Media to broaden the broadcasters local content.

Kenyan mobile phone operators sell value added services
Some few weeks ago, Jinny Software, a new premium service rate provider started conducting interviews in Nairobi as it prepared to set up shop in Kenya.

SOUTH AFRICA

Exponential growth for African mobile web - report
Use of the mobile web has surged exponentially in Africa, according to the latest State of the Mobile Web report from Opera Software, developers of cross-platform web browsers Opera and Opera Mini. As of September 2008, Egypt has preempted Germany as the world's 10th largest user of the Opera Mini browser for mobile phones. South Africa remains firmly among the top 10 international users, currently ranked sixth.

eMarketing textbook finds its way to Kenya! - Quirk eMarketing
Tourism and online marketing have always been a likely couple. With the 2010 Soccer World Cup happening in South Africa, the need for local tourism agencies and service providers to catch up with eMarketing trends has increased evermore.

SOUTH AFRICA

Economies under siege
Europe, one area of focus of this report, is a major trading partner with South Africa and the rest of Africa. This is the World Economic Forum's latest report focuses on how financial turmoil will affect the real economy.

Zimbabwe: Military seed merchants
The distribution of agricultural inputs such as maize seed and fertilizer for the 2008/09 season has become the domain of Zimbabwe's military and President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party.

AFRICA

African countries form single market
[Bathandwa Mbola] KAMPALA, UGANDA: Leaders of the Tripartite Summit from 26 African countries belonging to the three regional economic blocs in East and Southern Africa on Wednesday, 22 October, resolved to merge the blocs into a single regional market.

Bankers dominate Nigeria BusinessWorld 100
United Bank for Africa has emerged Nigeria's largest company with an asset base of N1191.04 billion. To arrive at the results, the companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange were assessed and ranked based on their assets, shareholders' funds, gross income, profit, employee population and market value, using their 2007 financial reports.

Equatorial Guinea: Oil money draws sub-Saharan Africans
MALABO: A few years after the first US oil drillers arrived in Equatorial Guinea in 1992, hundreds of mostly West African migrants without travel or work papers followed. National police forces now estimate that one-third of the population - more than 300,000 - is from outside the country, with most migrants arriving illegally in search of much-hyped oil money.