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 Database 360, a division of CG Consulting, has opened an office in London in order to provide information on African businesses within the UK. The company aims to provide companies doing business in Africa with strategy consulting and fact finding services as well as data and information. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 [Carole Kimutai] South Africa Tourism launched a 2010 FIFA World Cup Campaign in Kenya exactly one year before the event. Last week, the annual one-day South African Trade and Consumer Show took place in Kenya and was attended by representatives from the South African travel industry who highlighted ways to increase business and leisure traffic to SA for the sporting event. Read more >>Digital
 IP Africa '09 takes place at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa from 30 September to 1 October 2009. The event covers four areas; mobility and wireless, unified communications, virtualisation and the underlying network infrastructure and security. It aims to attract CIO's and decision-makers investing in technology and solutions. Read more >>[Lesley Stones] Telecommunications company iBurst is planning to enter the huge Nigerian market, and will partly fund the venture through cash it will raise by listing on the JSE later this year. Read more >> Education and Training
JOHANNESBURG: Insead, an international business school, and France Telecom, a telecommunications operator whose key brand is Orange, have announced the development of the ‘INSEAD Orange Endowed Scholarship for Emerging Markets'. Read more >>Mobile
 PARIS: French media giant Vivendi said on Monday, 20 July 2009 that it was breaking off talks on buying telecom operations in Africa from Kuwait's Zain company. Read more >>Newspapers
Finance minister Tendai Biti has scrapped a 40% customs duty on imported newspapers and magazines, saying access to information was essential to enhance decision-making in a global environment. Read more >>Retail
 [Janine Erasmus] Brewing giant SABMiller has announced plans to build a US$125-million (R990-million) brewery and soft drink bottling plant in Luanda, Angola. The new projects will double SABMiller's investment in the Southern African country in the past 18 months. Read more >>The increasingly meager levels of crop output by some of the world's least developed countries has brought awareness to a need for better fertiliser utilisation for smallholder farmers, mainly in Africa. Affordability and access have been identified as major qualifiers in the soil infertility prevalent on African farms. Read more >>Uganda has launched a coffee roasting and packaging company, described as the first of its kind in Africa. President Yoweri Museveni launched the Good African Coffee factory on Friday, 17 July 2009. Read more >>[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi's scale of trading on its Malawi Stock Exchange (MSE), the Malawi All Share Index (MASI) has not shown any activity for the last four weeks raising more fears on its performance; the local shares market has not registered significant share price gains since the beginning of this year. Read more >>
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