African-American women in cinema film festival
NEW YORK: Two of Nigeria's top actresses, Patience Ozokwo and Ini Edo, brought “Greetings from Nollywood” to United Nations Headquarters on Monday, 17 November 2008, at a morning press conference celebrating the Eleventh Annual African-American Women in Cinema Film Festival.

AFRICA

11th AfricaCom congress attracts record registrations
The 11th AfricaCom congress opened on Tuesday, 18 October 2008, in Cape Town with record attendance levels and the biggest ever conference and exhibition, reflecting Africa's booming telecommunications market.

Nigeria's satellite setback
Nigeria's attempt to bridge the digital divide in Africa has suffered a setback after its first communications satellite failed.

Gateway awarded Best pan-Africa Wholesale Offering
LONDON: Gateway Communications, a supplier of secure, reliable telecommunications services across Africa, was awarded Best pan-African Wholesale Offering at Capacity Magazine's Global Wholesale Telecommunications Awards. The awards were announced on the first evening of Capacity Europe 2008 at a reception attended by over 300 senior industry executives.

AFRICA

Be more positive about Africa, journalists told
[Walter Wafula] Africa's journalists should compile positive stories to improve Africa's image and open it up to growth opportunities.

ZAMBIA

Zambia: MPs call for regulation of media
On 13 November 2008, the members of parliament in Zambia called for the regulation of media organisations through the use of statutory instruments as opposed to self-regulation because of the alleged biased media coverage of the just ended presidential by-election.

CENTRAL AFRICA

Third Rwandan mobile licence awarded to Millicom
NEW YORK and STOCKHOLM: Millicom International Cellular S.A. (Millicom), the global telecommunications company, announced on Monday, 17 November 2008, that it has been successful in the tender for the third national mobile licence in Rwanda against three other bidders.

Cell One brings Opera Mini to Namibia
OSLO, NORWAY - Marking the company's first operator-branded delivery to Africa, Opera Software announces its new agreement with Namibia's Cell One.

AIRCOM provides network optimisation tools to MTN Uganda
AIRCOM International, an independent network planning and optimisation consultancy, announced on Tuesday, 18 November 2008, that it has signed a deal to deliver network optimisation tools to MTN Uganda. MTN continues to deploy GSM network infrastructure across Uganda and now provides mobile coverage to over 150 cities, towns and villages across the country.

Mobile game now with added football community SMS feature - Starfish Mobile
Starfish Mobile Nigeria has teamed up with Zain, a major mobile Telecommunications company, to launch the latest football community mobile news alert feature based on the top European teams.

Effectively manage internal communications throughout the African continent - ChatROOM
When organisations deal with staff compliments of several hundreds across different countries on various levels of hierarchy and from different cultures, educational background, language preferences and demographics, effective internal communication becomes a major challenge.

Ghana: Service export strategy launched
A programme dubbed: ‘National Services Export Strategy', has been launched with the aim of exporting consultancy services, medical tourism, travel and leisure, education and other non-tangible and invisible services provided by Ghanaians abroad.

Nigeria: Under-development continues to fuel oil theft
ABUJA: Crude oil smuggling continues unabated in the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria, spurred by chronic under-development, a disaffected youth, and increasing lawlessness.

Fraud: Citibank experts to probe Ethiopian national bank's security code system
Experts from Citibank, the New York-based banking giant that recently was swindled of 27 million dollars from the Ethiopian National Bank's US account, have scheduled to visit the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) within the next few weeks to verify NBE's SWIFT security code system through which the two banking entities have been communicating.

Egypt: The rate is right
The Central Bank of Egypt stood its ground keeping interest rates unchanged, Niveen Wahish analyses the significance of the decision.