AFRICA

Loeries Young Creatives entry closes soon

Entrants for the 2010 Loeries Young Creatives Award have a week left in which to submit their portfolios. Entries will be judged by a panel of industry creatives within the brand communications field. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Chemical company gets Best Global Business in Africa award

Yara International ASA, one of the world's leading chemical companies that convert energy, natural minerals and nitrogen from the air into essential products for farmers and industrial customers, has won the 'Best Global Business in Africa' award. Other nominees were BMW, Barclays, Anglo American and Diageo. Read more >>

AFRICA

DCI 5.0: underdevelopment in Africa

The 2010 Digital Citizen's Indaba (DCI), a project of the Highway Africa Conference, will be held on 7 July 2010 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. This year's theme, 'Africa's Underdevelopment: Digital citizens talk back', plans to explore citizen media and the exploitation of natural resources, disasters, climate change and mega events. Read more >>

UGANDA

Makerere University to collaborate with Techzine

[Walter Wafula] To deepen the utilisation of information, and communication technologies (ICTs) in Uganda, Makerere University has pledged to collaborate with Techzine, a new magazine in the country. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

WB train Malawi media on developmental stories

[Gregory Gondwe] Around twenty journalists assembled in Lilongwe where they underwent a World Bank-tailored training aimed at ensuring that they are able to generate reader-friendly stories from developmental activities taking place in the country. Read more >>

AFRICA

Opening film for DIFF 2010 announced

The 31st Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) will open with the world premiere of the South African film, State Of Violence directed by Khalo Matabane. The festival runs from 22 July to 1 August 2010. Read more >>

AFRICA

Naspers expects higher core earnings

Media group Naspers advised on Thursday, 17 June 2010 that it expects core headline earnings per share for the year ended March to be between 15% and 25% higher than the comparable period's 1,179 cents. Read more >>

EAST AFRICA

Ethiopia expels US journalist reporting in rebel area

ADDIS ABABA: Authorities in Ethiopia expelled an American journalist on Thursday, 17 June 2010, who had been reporting near a rebel area in the east of the Horn of Africa country, according to local journalists. Read more >>

ZIMBABWE

Orascom elects listing Zimbabwean unit on ZSE

[Dumisani Ndlela] Orascom Telecom has spurned members of an investment consortium bidding for shareholding in Telecel Zimbabwe and instead proposed a listing of its Zimbabwean unit on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). Read more >>

AFRICA

Thinking Mobile 2010 early bird special still open

The Thinking Mobile 2010 Conference and Exhibition early bird special for delegate seats is still available until Wednesday, 30 June 2010. The special allows a 10% discount on bookings for the event to be held 16-18 September at the Misty Hills Country Hotel Conference Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Trevor Ncube's brave new Zimbabwe

[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetZA] Trevor Ncube, the owner of the Mail & Guardian newspaper, has leaped back into the brave new world that is Zimbabwe today with a new daily newspaper, NewsDay. The Zimbabwean publisher and entrepreneur, who remained a thorn in Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's side with his two weekly newspapers even after he left Zimbabwe, talks to Bizcommunity.com about the business of launching a paper in a wrecked economy. Read more >>

MOROCCO

WAN-IFRA condemns Moroccan newspaper director sentencing

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editor¹s Forum have condemned a six-month jail sentence handed down to Moroccan journalist and editor, Taoufik Bouachrine, and have called on Moroccan authorities to overturn the sentence. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

YSL is Bridal Africa sponsor

Yves Saint Laurent's (YSL) Parisienne fragrance will be Bridal Africa's official perfume and its make-up range, the official range for the show, taking place from 6-7 November 2010 at Sandton Convention Centre. Read more >>

WEST AFRICA

West Africa agricultural investment forum a success - WFP

DAKAR: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) late last week congratulated the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and West African governments on a successful forum on the financing of regional and national agricultural investment plans. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM

Investment in speech analytics in call centres set to double

[Published by Ovum, part of the Datamonitor group] GLOBAL: Call centre spending on speech analytics is set to double worldwide, growing from around US$95 million in 2009 to US$180 million (about R720 million to about R1.36 billion, respectively) by 2014 according to Ovum. Read more >>