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[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Zambians say their country is the Real Africa. The landlocked country might not be as superficially ‘flashy' as others, but the investment opportunities abound and can hit one in the face like a ton of bricks. Delegates attending the Intra-Africa Business Breakfast hosted by Upbeat Marketing at Joburg's Michelangelo Hotel yesterday, Thursday 28 May 2009, got a glimpse of Zambia's potential if they choose to head north. Read more >> 2010 FIFA World Cup
 CNBC Africa is calling on all business people in Africa to get into the spirit of soccer by wearing a football shirt to work on 15 June 2009. Read more >>CSI
 [Alison Walkley] Globe-trekking brothers and musicians Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson of the band Hanson have spearheaded a campaign to raise awareness and donations for the impoverished and HIV-stricken in Africa. A 2006 visit to Soweto, South Africa spurred the band to develop “Take the Walk,” encouraging their fans to walk one barefoot mile before their concerts. Read more >>Design
African Fashion International (AFI), organisers of the Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban Fashion Weeks, is proud to announce ARISE Africa Fashion Week, a showcase of the continent's leading fashion designers at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, from the 12 to 20 June 2009. Read more >>Education and Training
 Applications are invited, from young journalists interested in covering children's issues, for the Oscar van Leer Fellowship. The fellowship is offering professional training in journalism and children's issues. The deadline is 18 August 2009. Read more >> [Shefali Lall] The University of the People is the world's first tuition-free online academic institution that aims to offer students, who are otherwise deprived of the opportunity to obtain higher-level education, the chance to receive high-quality university instruction. Read more >>Exhibitions
A comprehensive version of the Cape Town and Western Cape tourism experience, complemented by the colourful sounds of the DSix Ghoema Minstrels, is being marketed at the Namibia Tourism Expo this week (27 - 30 May 2009) in Windhoek - an event attended by 15 301 people last year. Read more >>Mobile
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) vice chairman, Ernest Ndukwe, has urged mobile operators in the country to start sharing network infrastructure. Read more >>Newspapers
 BARCELONA: Predictions that newspapers will vanish to make way for the Internet are wrong as global sales inched up in 2008, the head of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) said on Wednesday, 27 May 2009. Read more >>Production
NAIROBI: The Central African Republic (CAR) has been in the throes of a humanitarian crisis for more than a decade. Army mutinies, coups and attempted coups, rebellions, gangs that kidnap for ransom and, more recently, elements of Uganda's notorious Lord's Resistance Army have made life for civilians, especially in the north, extremely challenging, unpredictable, and very dangerous. Read more >>Radio
A magistrate in Malawi should allow an opposition radio station sealed by police during general elections on 19 May 2009 to reopen, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ also called on authorities to drop criminal charges against two station presenters. Read more >>Retail
 JOHANNESBURG: Standard Bank has been awarded “Best Investment Bank in Africa 2009” and “Best Debt Bank in Africa 2009” and has won three others for its various operations in Africa from the Global Finance magazine, in its recent selection of World's Best Investment Banks 2009. Read more >>NAIROBI: Millions of people who live in Kenya's sprawling slums are among those worst hit by the food price crisis, yet they receive far less humanitarian attention than other demographic groups, according to officials, who pointed in particular to the plight of malnourished children in such settlements. Read more >>
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