ZIMBABWE

Imara takes Zimbabwe investor indaba to the UK

Imara, a pan-African financial services group, and Fleming Family & Partners will co-host a Zimbabwe investment indaba in London, UK on 24 September, 2009. Attendance is limited to one delegate per financial institution or investment fund. Read more >>

AFRICA

Skype launches CNN International multimedia campaign

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LONDON: CNN International and Skype have signed an advertising partnership around the network's nightly programme, Connect the World. Skype will advertise around the show's 'Connector of the Day' feature segment and will advertise on the show's website and mobile WAP site. A spot campaign will also run to raise awareness of Skype features. The campaign will play out to CNN audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America from this week.

AFRICA

PAWS book cover submissions open

The Penguin African Writers series, launched in 2009, showcases writing from Africa for contemporary readers in Africa and the rest of the world. In 2010 it is expanding the series and is a calling for submissions for artwork to be used on the covers of the forthcoming titles. Read more >>

AFRICA

Better policies key to high internet connectivity

[Walter Wafula] According to Ben Akol, information and communication technology and media programme manager at the Open Society Initiative of West Africa, more people in Africa will be connected to high capacity and fast internet through fibre optic cables if governments as regulators put in place better policies. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya: Consumers furious over high internet prices

[Carole Kimutai] SEACOM and the East African Marine Systems (TEAMS) undersea fibre optic cables went live about a month ago but internet consumers in Kenya are yet to enjoy price cuts. The arrival of the much hyped fibre optic cable raised expectations amongst Kenyan consumers who were looking forward to faster speeds, more bandwidth and cheaper connectivity costs. Read more >>

AFRICA

Raising Africa's digital dialects

The following article, "Raising Africa's digital dialects" is taken from Open Source - a daily paper produced during the Highway Africa Conference reporting on the various projects presented and the issues discussed during the panels at the event. Highway Africa concluded yesterday, 8 September, 2009 in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

TCTS manages SEACOM cable system

MUMBAI, INDIA: Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS), a provider of business transformation, telecom BPO and consultancy services, have launched NOC operations, subsequent to SEACOM commissioning the 1.28tb/s, 17,000km cable system. Read more >>

AFRICA

Artists of Africa Exhibition launches in SA

The launch of the Artists of Africa Exhibition will be hosted by the City of Johannesburg at the Joburg Theatre, South Africa on the 16 September, 2009. The pan-African exhibition has been recognised as an official 2010 FIFA World Cup host city event for the City of Johannesburg. Read more >>

AFRICA

Telling their own stories

[Thandeka Mapi and Gabi Falanga] Bambara, Lingala, Fula, isiZulu and Swahili: no, they're not names of pan-African Highway Africa delegates, but five of the nine African languages used on a new blogging platform called Maneno. The project started a year ago and is run by six people from different countries, spanning from Cameroon to America. Read more >>

WEST AFRICA

Gambia: journalists freed

Six Gambian journalists who had been convicted of defamation and sedition were pardoned and released last week. They had been sentenced to two years in prison in August 2009 after calling on President Yahya Jammeh to recognise his government's responsibility for the unresolved murder in 2004 of journalist Deyda Hydara, an outspoken critic of Gambian media laws. Read more >>

AFRICA

Yvonne Chaka Chaka to open AfricaCom Awards 2009

The 2009 AfricaCom Awards ceremony takes place on 11 November, 2009 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa. According to the Com World Series, the 2009 event has received a record-breaking number of entries for the ten award categories. Read more >>

AFRICA

MTN partners with Africa the Good News

The MTN Group this week announced its partnership with Africa - The Good News. Published by SA the Good News, Africa - The Good News is an online publication that aims to tell positive African stories from an African perspective. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

Malawi: Bata Shoe Company turns 115

[Gregory Gondwe] The Bata Shoe Company is celebrating its over 115 year survival in the business of making footwear by refurbishing its 32 shops across Malawi - a venture that will cost K50 million. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

World Literacy Day reintroduces serials

PARIS, FRANCE & DARMSTADT, GERMANY: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) is providing the world's newspapers with an eight-part serialised story for publication around International Literacy Day, yesterday, Tuesday, 8 September 2009, to help parents and teachers instil a love of reading in young people. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Closing date for applications for course around the corner - hurry and book now! - Quo Vadis Communications

There are only three more weeks left until the start of Quo Vadis Communications' Organisational Communications course begins in Cape Town. The six-day course runs over two sessions of three days each, with the first session beginning on 28th September. Read more >>