UGANDA

World Cup trophy arrives in Uganda next month

[Walter Wafula] The FIFA World Cup trophy is expected to arrive in Uganda in November 2009, as part of its 86-nation tour, after its short stint in Cairo and Liberia. The trophy will be in the country, between 14 November and 16 November 2009. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Get YoungGun offers now before closing date

There are just 14 days left to enter the Young Guns advertising and digital awards, which close on Friday 30 October 2009; entries for student awards close on Friday 6 November 2009 and creative briefs is Friday 13 November. Read more >>

KENYA

Refugees take on digital jobs

Refugees living at the world's largest makeshift camp in Kenya are being offered the opportunity to earn up to two US dollars an hour by participating in a digital pilot project. Read more >>

AFRICA

EASSy on track says SA's Neotel

Neotel has announced that the construction of the East African Submarine Cable (EASSy), one of four undersea cables in which the converged network operator is involved, is still on track. This follows the recent Management Committee of the EASSy Cable held at Livingstone in Zambia at which Neotel is represented. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africa almost a 'no-show' at MIPCOM

[Sylvain Béletre] MIPCOM 2009, the international event for co-producing, buying and selling media content, was held last week in Cannes, France, 5 - 9 October 2009. African exhibitors were almost absent from the trade floor except for South Africa's National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF), which facilitated SA's presence in the market via the provision of a SA pavilion. Read more >>

AFRICA

Moshito rated a success

Moshito 09 attracted nearly 500 delegates a day during its four days at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg. All provinces except the Northern Cape were represented, together with Africa, Europe, Australia, North America and South America. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Broadband brawn on display

The public, keen to know what the true power of broadband can mean to their lives can visit a week-long public exhibition, the SEACOM Broadband Experience Expo, at the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg and see what SEACOM, Cisco Systems, Dimension Data, Microsoft and Neotel can offer. The show opened yesterday, 14 October 2009 and runs until 18 October. Read more >>

ZAMBIA

Veteran Zambian editor charged with contempt

NEW YORK: The editor-in-chief of Zambia's largest newspaper was criminally charged for the second time on Wednesday, 14 October 2009 after running an op-ed critical of controversial pornography charges against a journalist, according to local journalists and news reports. Read more >>

AFRICA

Media oppression persists in Azerbaijan

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the World Editors Forum and the International Association of Sports Newspapers have protested against the jailing of four journalists in Azerbaijan for defamation. President Ilham Aliyev's administration had previously promised that measures were being taken to decriminalise the offense. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Mobile Internet revolution targets Africa's rural areas

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] After sweeping the urban population off its feet, the mobile Internet revolution is now targeting the rural areas of Africa, where more than 70% of the continent's 890 million people live in extreme poverty and in the fringes of society, thanks to governments' ‘discriminatory' policies prioritising urban areas. Read more >>

AFRICA

IFRA Expo 2009 a success, despite economy

IFRA Expo 2009, the world¹s largest trade fair for the newspaper industry, closed in Vienna, Austria on Thursday, 15 October 2009. The four-day event hosted approximately 6,700 visitors from 78 countries. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

State of ICT in NGOs released

The State of ICT in South African NGOs 2009, was released yesterday Thursday 15 October 2009, by market research organisation, World Wide Worx and NGO technology facilitator SANGONeT. Read more >>

AFRICA

Economic crisis exposes fragile global food system

PRETORIA: The economic turmoil sweeping the globe has lead to a sharp spike in hunger affecting the world's poorest, uncovering a fragile global food system requiring urgent reform. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

Air Malawi's survival dependant on public

[Gregory Gondwe] Air Malawi CEO Wisdom Mchungula has confessed that the debt-riddled airliner is surviving by the mercy of Malawian public. The CEO made these confessions in the presence of the Malawi Parliamentary Committee on Budget and Finance in Lilongwe last week. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Local sourcing lowers Shoprite costs in Africa

Managing significant risk in African markets has been key to Shoprite's success on the continent. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Mobile Money Africa appoints Clickatell VP Jeppe Dorff to advisory board - Clickatell

Clickatell and Mobile Money Africa have announced the appointment of Clickatell's Jeppe Dorff, VP of Mobile Financial Services, to the publication's esteemed advisory board. Other members are global leaders involved in the advancement of 'mobile money'. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Diallo Entertainment awarded branded content account! - Diallo Entertainment

Zain, a global mobile telecommunications, has once again commissioned the services of South African-based TV production company, Diallo Entertainment, to develop a concept for a branded entertainment television show in Niger. Read more >>