EAST AFRICA

East Africa gets regional business directory

[Walter Wafula] Finding contact information about businesses operating within the East African Community is set to ease following the publication of the East African Business Directory unveiled to the public yesterday, 9 February 2010, in Tanzania. Read more >>

AFRICA

Unicef asks Protektorvest to remove advertisement

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) will ask the company marketing stab-proof vests to visitors to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa to remove Unicef advertising from its website. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Calling community heroes

The 2010 Jet Community Awards, which have opened for entries, will recognise community projects and grass roots organisations in four categories. With more than R1 million in prize money, the competition is open to entries from South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland, with the proviso that winners are obliged to reinvest their winnings into their community building initiatives. Read more >>

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Ericsson prepaid, postpaid system for Telma

Telma will use Ericsson's real-time Charging System for the launch of its fixed pre- and post-paid convergent system in Madagascar. Under the terms of the agreement, Ericsson will migrate 150 000 prepaid fixed subscribers, currently on a FERMA service node, to Ericsson's Charging System. Read more >>

WEST AFRICA

Cameroonian security agents detain two journalists

NEW YORK: Security agents in Cameroon have detained two journalists since Friday, 5 February 2010, in an apparent effort to learn the source of a purported memo from the chairman of the state oil company about the purchase of a luxury boat, according to local journalists and news reports. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

2010 mobile advertising boom in SA, Africa?

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] There is a clear indication that the South African mobile advertising sector is headed towards a massive boom as the 2010 FIFA World Cup draws near - thanks to the phenomenal growth of the continent's cellphone market and soccer passion. Read more >>

AFRICA

No new bids for African assets: Zain

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's telecom giant Zain group denied reports that it has received new offers for the purchase of its operations in 15 African nations. Read more >>

AFRICA

africapractice to manage Google PR in Africa

JOHANNEBSURG: Google has appointed africapractice, a pan-African strategic communications consultancy, to manage its PR campaigns in the sub-Saharan countries of Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and South Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africana range available on website

A wide selection of Africana is among the nearly 200 books offered by the AuctionExplorer online book auction which started mid last week. Books include tomes on the history of the Cornish miners on the Witwatersrand at the turn of the 20th century, and on the Viedge family, who for generations were traders in the Transkei, as well as books by Denys Reitz and Percy Fitzpatrick. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Illovo to spend R6bn on Africa expansion

[Margie Inggs] Illovo Sugar aims to spend about R6bn on its African expansion over the next five years in a bid to increase the group's annual sugar production from 1,7-million tons to between 2,5-million tons and 2,7-million tons. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Gearhouse SA supplies 2010 Oriflame Diamond Conference - Gearhouse SA

Gearhouse South Africa supplied full technical production - sound, lighting, AV and video, staging, sets, rigging and power - and one of their massive new In2Structures SupaDome venues for Swedish cosmetics multinational Oriflame's 2010 Diamond Conference. Read more >>