AFRICA

Media work to bring Cup to Africans

It's a four-and-a-half-hour flight or a three-day drive to get from Uganda to the World Cup in South Africa. Combine that with ticket prices of US$80 (€65) apiece for the cheap seats, and the first World Cup on African soil is beyond reach for almost all Ugandans, whose average income is just over one dollar a day. Read more >>

AFRICA

LOC will not interfere with Nigeria decision

JOHANNESBURG: World Cup organisers in South Africa say they will not to get involved with the decision by the Nigerian government to suspend that country's football team from international football events for two years, following the team's poor showing at the tournament. Read more >>

AFRICA

FIFA confirms trophy theft

JOHANNESBURG: After conflicting media reports, FIFA confirmed on Wednesday, 30 June 2010, that seven replica trophies valued at 2100 Euros (about R21000) each, were stolen from the football body's Johannesburg offices. Read more >>

AFRICA

Five ways to leverage Twitter without tweeting

[Catherine Parker] As everyone's favourite micro-blogging platform, Twitter's high rate of adoption by businesses isn't surprising. Among other reasons, Twitter's large user base, especially in countries like the US, means it is an effective way to extend your brand's reach to large groups of people at a low cost, as well as to interact with your past, present and future customers. Read more >>

AFRICA

2010 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards winners

LONDON: Diageo last night, Thursday, 1 July 2010, announced the winners of the 2010 Africa Business Reporting Awards at a ceremony in London. This seventh edition received 770 entries with winners from the eleven categories from nine different countries. Read more >>

AFRICA

WAN-IFRA Women in News project launched

Eighteen media professionals from Botswana, Namibia and Zambia are meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1-2 July for the launch of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' (WAN-IFRA) Women in News (WIN) initiative. The programme aims to help women in middle management in southern African news media advance their careers. Read more >>

AFRICA

Countdown to Highway Africa begins

The Highway Africa conference takes place from 4-7 July 2010 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Themed 'African Voices in the Global Media Space', speakers include former Ghanaian president John Kufuor, Advocate Pansy Tlakula, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and founder and head of 20FourLabs.com, Matthew Buckland. Read more >>

AFRICA

WAN-IFRA to release World Press Trends at Publish Asia

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) plans to release its annual World Press Trends report at the Publish Asia 2010 Conference and Expo, to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 3-5 August 2010. Read more >>

EAST AFRICA

Ethiopian newspaper reports tampering of its mail

NEW YORK: Ethiopia's postal service should conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the tampering of mail addressed to the country's leading critical newspaper, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on 29 June 2010. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya: ISPs sound alarm over cyber crooks

[Carole Kimutai] Banks are now the next target for cybercrime, ICT experts have warned. Tom Omariba, UUNET MD, says cyber criminals have perfected the art of hacking into people's or organisations' bank accounts through replication of domain names. They then use the information to acccess banking details that enable them to withdraw money from their victim's accounts. Read more >>

AFRICA

Trade: The end of EPA acrimony may be in sight

[Servaas van den Bosch] WINDHOEK: Southern African trade ministers have pledged to sign a significantly scaled down economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) before the end of 2010. Could this be the conclusion to years of divisive negotiations? Read more >>