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NAIROBI: Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala and his South African counterpart, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, have signed an agreement on modalities to encourage tourism investment in both countries. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 Numerous upgrades and construction projects, training centres and community driven initiatives are being implemented in the city of Durban in prerparation for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. Women have played an active roll in these preparations working in the building industry. Read more >>Media
 [Colleen Lowe Morna & Pat Made] Based on findings from 126 media houses and representing 23 678 employees, "Glass Ceilings: Women and Men in Southern African Media" shows great strides forward when it comes to gender equality in media, but also how much work remains to meet commitments outlined in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development. Read more >>HARARE: MISA-Zimbabwe held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Harare on 15 August 2009 during which its chairperson, Loughty Dube, urged the inclusive government to fulfil its obligations as required in terms of regional and international instruments that protect media freedom and freedom of expression. Read more >>PARIS: Over the last 29 years UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) has been providing support to developing countries for projects related to freedom of expression, media pluralism and community media. The number of applications for IPDC funding from East African countries has increased since the last two years. Read more >>Activists have expressed concerns that Tunisia's largest journalism union is being controlled by a group of pro-government reporters. The organisation, Reporters Without Borders says the move, which undermines the independence of the union, will damage reporting in the forthcoming presidential elections in October 2009. Read more >>HARARE: The Parliamentary Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC) on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 said it had endorsed 12 persons whose names have been submitted to the president for appointment to the statutory Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) contrary to media reports that the process had been put on hold. Read more >>Mobile
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] From the year 2005, when cellphone banking had little international interest, was uncertain and disputed and therefore not used, the service has massively grown by 2009 to become one of the largest electronic channels in South Africa, with more than 3000 new FNB customers registering every day to make use of the service. Read more >> Production
 The Film and Publication Board's 2008 banning order on Argentinian film "XXY" has been overturned. Out In Africa (OIA) plans to present "XXY", director Lucía Puenzo and actor Inés Efron, at this years OUT IN AFRICA South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The event takes place in Johannesburg from 3 - 13 September 2009 and in Cape Town from 10 - 20 September 2009. Read more >>Organisers of the Aluta Film Festival, a South African township cinema event, are calling for entries from South Africa and international filmmakers for seventh edition of the festival in 2010. Entries close on Monday, 30 November 2009, and winners will be screened at the festival in Kimberley, Northern Cape, 22-28 February 2010. Read more >>Radio
 The International Federation of Journalists (FIJ) called on Thursday, 20 August 2009, to lift the suspension meted to Sky One, a private radio station broadcasting from Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon. Read more >>Retail
 NJORO: Two months before harvest time, the maize in Kenya's Rift Valley should be tall, lush and green, bursting with life. Instead, crops in the province's Lare division are stunted, barren fields of parched browns and pallid yellows. Read more >>[Amy Lieberman] Water scarcity left 1.4 billion people living in “closed basin” regions in 2008, though that number is expected to grow to 1.8 billion by 2025, according to Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organisation that focuses on global sustainability issues. Read more >> [Gregory Gondwe] Malawi has hailed the establishment of a regional procurement market for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) which is scheduled to be launched next month. Read more >> [Stanley Kwenda] HARARE: Zimbabweans like to believe that there is strength in numbers, which is the idea behind a local non-governmental organisation's attempt to organise small-scale rural cotton farmers in cotton producer associations. Read more >> TV
 On 22 August 2009, BBC World News plans to launch the Africa Business Report, a new show featuring the triumphs and challenges of doing business in Africa. Presenter Komla Dumor will travel the continent meeting new entrepreneurs and the international companies shaping the economic environment. Read more >>AFRICA Discovery Channel launches Everyday Heroes Discovery Networks EMEA, in September 2009, will launch the first season of Everyday Heroes on the Discovery Channel. To promote the Everyday Heroes season, Discovery has created an on-air campaign which focuses on five Everyday Heroes - a logger, construction worker, oil rig worker, verminator and trawlerman - and the experiences that accompany their unorthodox occupations, compared to average day jobs.
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