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 According to the International Communications Agency Network (ICOM), Africa is an important region to the network's clients who are looking to expand in fast-growing markets. In addition, advertising and promotional activity is expected to increase in South Africa this year as the country hosts the FIFA World Cup in June. It has therefore appointed Gullan&Gullan Advertising as its exclusive South African member. Read more >>Digital
 [Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. Read more >>Media
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Collins Chabane, minister in the presidency in charge of performance monitoring and evaluation, and government spokesperson Themba Maseko last night, Thursday, 4 February 2010, made an impassioned plea to South African journalists to participate in the SADC Media Awards competition, saying it promotes regional integration and togetherness through excellent journalism. Read more >> [Walter Wafula] Various African presidents and ex-presidents have confirmed their presence at the inaugural Pan African Media Conference that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 18 - 19 March 2010, to mark the Nation Media Group's 50th anniversary. Read more >>The heads of 17 Nigerian media organisations have called for ailing president Umaru Yar'Adua to formally transfer power to vice president Goodluck Jonathan within seven days or resign. The owners of the country's top newspapers and media organisations issued a joint statement on Wednesday, 3 February 2010. Read more >>Two Ugandan journalists were arrested on Wednesday, 3 January 2010, and charged with libelling President Yoweri Museveni. Read more >>Authorities in Sudan have called in seven chief editors of newspapers to question them over news reports about dumping hazardous electronic waste. The move has prompted fears that the press could be censored ahead of the country's first democratic elections in 24 years due in April. Read more >>Mobile
 [Dumisani Ndlela] Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris' Orascom Telecom-controlled Telecel Zimbabwe is earmarked for a listing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) in a move meant to raise additional capital and broaden the shareholder base. Read more >>Production
 African filmmakers are invited to submit documentaries relating to the theme of the 2010 Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival to be considered for inclusion in the October festival at the Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland. The theme of the fifth festival is “Celebrations”. Read more >>Retail
 The World Bank has vowed to join efforts with China to invest in the development of a manufacturing sector in Africa that could boost industrialisation and create employment opportunities for local people. Read more >>[Gregory Gondwe] Government, through its office of the director of public procurement (ODPP) has set up new procurement procedures, which will support small-to-medium enterprise (SMEs), other local manufacturers and producers. Read more >> Recent rainfall in Kenya boosted by the El Niño phenomenon is expected to result in a bumper maize crop from mid-February. The latest report from the Kenya Food Security Steering Group anticipates a strong harvest in the country's coastal and south-eastern regions. Read more >>
"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch." - J. B. Priestley
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