AFRICA

Chinese investment better than Western aid for Africa

China's investments in Africa are doing more for the continent's development than Western aid programmes, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said. Current trade flows between China and Africa are estimated to be of over 100 billion US dollars per year. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Happiness key in Rio's branding triumph

[Dr Nikolaus Eberl] When Brazil was awarded the rights for hosting the 2016 Olympic Games, analysts were astounded not so much by the fact that Rio de Janeiro came out on top, but that it won so convincingly. Everyone in Olympic circles had expected that the presence of Barack and Michelle Obama in Copenhagen would tilt the voting towards Chicago. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

World Food Day - join FoodBank in caring

FoodBank is planning an extensive media and publicity campaign, as well as launching its donations platform internationally to highlight World Food Day, an UN-sponsored event to highlight the issues of food security and global hunger that culminates on Friday, 16 October 2009. Read more >>

AFRICA

New initiative to clarify land ownership in Africa

The World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Rural Development Institute (RDI) are launching a new initiative that aims to improve the livelihoods of farmers by creating a system of web-based multimedia tools to illustrate and communicate complex property rights issues in Africa. The initiative is funded with a grant to WRI and RDI from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more >>

AFRICA

African opportunities in the digital era

ACCRA: The 2009 Africa Media Leadership Conference took place 4 - 7 October 2009 in Accra, Ghana. The media summit hosted 100 CEOs and editors-in-chief of African media who debated how their companies could harness and monetise youthful audiences, who are increasingly using mobile phones and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate and access news and information. Read more >>

AFRICA

Media training workshop at the AU Commission

ADDIS ABABA: The Division of Communication and Information of the African Union will be hosting, in collaboration with the United States Mission to the AU (USAU), a media training workshop from 13 - 16 October 2009, at the AU headquarters. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Learn tourism from Nigeria, Mozambique, Angola at HICA

Hospitality Investment Conference Africa (HICA) will take place from 4 - 6 November 2009 at the Sandton Sun and, amongst other topics, will offer new and unique insights into some key African destinations; Mozambique, Nigeria and Angola. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Cement international fair successful

Last month saw the first Pan Mixers International Product Fair where international and local exhibitors showcased their latest wares in Jet Park Johannesburg. Read more >>

EAST AFRICA

Somali journalist awarded International Press Freedom Award

MOGADISHU: Mustafa Haji Abdinur, an Agence France Press (AFP) correspondent in Mogadishu and editor-in-chief of independent radio station Radio Simba, has won the International Press Freedom Award, administered by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Africa's mobile Internet growth changing lives

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] For an average African a cellphone is a digital centre, a library, a laptop, a viable source of news, a vital device for mass telecommunications and a social media tool for communication, leading to self-perpetuating growth and prosperity, says Brett Loubser, Samsung product and technical support manager. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Mobile Web Africa conference opens in Johannesburg

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Harnessing the potential of Internet and applications on mobile devices is the main theme of the inaugural two-day Mobile Web Africa conference that has opened today, Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at the Michaelangelo Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Live tweeting from Mobile Web Africa

The inaugural two-day Mobile Web Africa, for which Bizcommunity.com is a media partner, kicked off yesterday morning, Tuesday, 13 October 2009, at the Michaelangelo Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg. To follow live tweeting from various delegates on Twitter, click here and here.

AFRICA

Technology, not everything - IFRA Expo 2009

The IFRA Expo 2009, currently being held from 12 - 15 October 2009 in Vienna, Austria, held a session on newsroom strategies and examined multimedia integration, social media tools and other emerging trends. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Print expo draws crowds, exhibitors

IFRA Expo 2009, reputed to be the world's largest trade fair for the newspaper publishing industry, drew 284 exhibitors from 27 countries, including printing press manufacturers, editorial and advertising system providers and other suppliers to the newspaper industry. It opened Monday, 12 October 2009, on an optimistic note for the future. Read more >>

AFRICA

Zain customers win trip to Kenya MAMAs

LAGOS: The winners in Zain's MTV Africa Music Awards SMS competition; Sanni Olujuwon Eniola, Uche Olodu, Attah Edwin Ogbo and Edward Ojobo, were sponsored by Zain Nigeria to attend the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain at the Indoor Arena, Moi International Sports Complex, Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, 10 October 2009. Read more >>

AFRICA

Multichoice Malawi partners with TNM for BBA rep

[Gregory Gondwe] Multichoice Malawi has joined hands with local mobile phone company TNM to support Malawi's Big Brother Africa (BBA) representative Mzamo Chibambo. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Afri-Forum protests action against Nestlé in Zim

[Michael Hamlyn] The right-wing lobby group, Afri-Forum, has protested that the decision by the Zimbabwean authorities to freeze the bank accounts of Nestlé in the country shows that true political change has not yet come about there. Read more >>

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Shoprite halts Zim investment plans

NEWSWATCH: South Africa's Shoprite has put its latest investment plans in Zimbabwe on hold according to a report on Mail & Guardian online yesterday, Monday, 12 October 2009, due to the unstable socio-economic and political landscape in the country. Read more >>

NIGERIA

Nigeria: Government steps in to curb farmer-nomad clashes

KANO: The national government has started marking out grazing reserves across Katsina and Bauchi states in northern Nigeria, as well as the capital Abuja, to curb often deadly clashes between farmers and nomads over pasture. Read more >>