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2010 FIFA World Cup
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Africa's human trafficking, which is at its peak as the 2010 FIFA World Cup draws near, looks like an ‘incurable disease' due to the complexities of the situation - South Africa's lack of legislation, economic vulnerability, victims' determination to seek their fortune, ‘corrupt' immigration officials, syndicates' reckless methods, porous borders and inadequate funding. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] The number of tickets sold so far for the 2010 FIFA World Cup has reached the two million mark, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke told a media briefing yesterday, Wednesday, 27 January 2010, at the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Anti-South Africa sentiments over SA's hosting of the 2010 World Cup, particularly in Germany and UK, have angered FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke, and raised questions about the real motives behind European Afro-pessimism. Read more >>Digital
 [Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. Read more >>[Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. Read more >> Media
 The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the International Publishers Association have called on the French foreign affairs minister, Bernard Kouchner, to monitor press freedom violations in Tunisia and urge authorities in the North African country to respect their international commitment to freedom of expression. Read more >>At least 3,000 people marched through the streets of Abidjan in Ivory Coast on Tuesday, 26 January 2010, to protest against state media coverage ahead of the country's national elections. The protesters claim President Laurent Gbagbo has a "stranglehold" over state media and demanded opposition parties be given equal access to it. Read more >>Mobile
 PARIS: Alcatel-Lucent, earlier this week, announced that it has been awarded a €22 million contract by Togo Cellulaire to extend its network capacity in GSM and to build the first 3G wireless broadband network in the country. Read more >>Newspapers
 [Gregory Gondwe] In its 24 January 2010 edition, The Sunday Times for a fifth year running carried out a special supplement that has assessed President Bingu wa Mutharika and his 21 ministers on their governance performance from May to December 2009. Read more >>Radio
OTTAWA: John Cheburet, a journalist from The Organic Farmer, a magazine and a radio show aired on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, won first prize in an Africa-wide scriptwriting competition on smallholder farmer innovation. Fourteen other radio broadcasters and producers also won prizes for their entries. Read more >>Retail
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Nigeria's consumer confidence scored a huge 89.4, making it by far the most optimistic market surveyed in Africa and the second most optimistic market in the entire Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa region after Vietnam at 90.0, according to a recent survey released yesterday, 28 January 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa by MasterCard Worldwide. Read more >> Following the first two pilot retail stores, Mozambican cellular operator, mcel has reappointed international branding company, HKLM to continue the retail roll-out with the design and shop-fitting of a further 15 outlets. Read more >> Standard Bank has won five awards from Euromoney's Project Finance Magazine in its 2009 ‘Deals of the Year'. The awards recognise expertise in project finance, particularly the telecoms, mining, infrastructure and power sectors and celebrate the best deals in 2009. Read more >>TV
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's much hyped launch of TV2 has failed to take off. According to sources, ZBC which is struggling to attract viewers due to its archaic and partisan programming, delayed the launch due to “technical unpreparedness and lack of programmes to fill up the schedule”. Read more >>
Media Law course Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) - Johannesburg, 9 February
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