Future bodes well for Africa![](https://biz-file.com/b/1002/40002.jpg?1) It seems the African markets' ability to withstand the economic crisis of last year will hold the continent's emerging markets in good stead during the decade to follow. According to a report released recently by Business Monitor International, emerging markets will see a sharp rise in consumer spending power and by 2018 should equal the developed world's GDP, contributing 50% to world GDP. While these figures may apply more to BRIC countries these findings do bode well for the African continent as it too develops and grows into an industrial-based entity. While Africa may have it's ups and downs on the business front with Zimbabwe's newsprint plant, Mutare Board and Paper Mills remaining inactive, but South Africa's Oasys expanding into the West African turf of Nigeria, we still have many lessons to learn in corporate governance before playing with the rest of the powerhouse nations. ICTs have and will play a huge role in our development and have influenced many of our lives not just in business, but personally as well. eLearning Africa is hosting an online-based photography competition asking people from the continent to enter their images that reflect how ICTs affect their daily lives. So get snapping if you want to win! Sindy Peters, content manager
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JOHANNESBURG: South African-based brand and reputation intelligence company, Ornico has entered the Nigerian market through a joint venture partnership with Lagos-based investment group, AData. Established in 1984 by Oresti and Spero Patricios, Ornico has offices in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and Nigeria. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
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[Gregory Gondwe] The Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) has decried the Malawian government's decision to withdraw state advertising from certain media institutions in Malawi. In a letter addressed to the Information and Civic Education Minister Leckford Thotho, JUMA president Levi Zeleza Manda has appealed for government to rescind the advertisement ban in some private media institutions. Read more >> Newspapers
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[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's sole newsprint producer, Mutare Board and Paper Mills (MBPM) will remain inactive due to the low prices of paper, forcing newspaper publishers to import from South Africa. Read more >>Production
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/44025.jpg) LUSAKA: eLearning Africa has launched an online photography competition inviting people from Africa to submit images that show how they live, learn and work with information and communication technologies (ICTs). Read more >>Research
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[Nthambeleni Gabara] PRETORIA: A Chinese renewable energy company, Yingli Green Energy, has joined the list of prestigious 2010 FIFA World Cup sponsors. In a statement released jointly with world football's governing body, FIFA, the company said it was the first Chinese company to seal a global sponsorship deal with FIFA. Read more >>"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." - Martin H. Fischer
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