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Today's top stories
Special focus on media freedom
KIGALI: Amnesty International (AI) has condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run-up to the presidential election on 9 August 2010 and has called on the government to ensure the poll is held in an atmosphere where Rwandans can freely express their views. Read more >>NAIROBI: Police accused the online editor of The Ugandan Record, Timothy Kalyegira, of sedition on Tuesday (3 August 2010) and searched his house on Wednesday, 4 August, Kalyegira told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Read more >>Branding
 The Best of series publishing concept is a home-grown South African success story which now covers the globe, with these B2B coffee table books currently being published in over 45 countries from Australia to Chile, Kenya to Britain, Belgium to Egypt ... and beyond. Read more >>Digital
ABUJA: On the second day, 5 August 2010, of the experts' session of the Third AU Conference of Ministers in charge of Communication and Information Technologies (CITMC-3) in Abuja, Nigeria, from 3-7 August, experts brainstormed on e-applications such as tele-medicine and tele-education, e-schools and e-post. Read more >>Media
A Cameroonian journalist who was due to have been deported from the United Kingdom on Monday (2 August 2010) has been granted a last-minute temporary reprieve. News website allmediascotland reported on Tuesday that the forced deportation of Charles Atangana had been deferred. Read more >>Mobile
 [Gregory Gondwe] Malawi's only two mobile phone service providers, TNM Limited and Zain, have migrated to usage of the local currency, the Malawi kwacha, starting 1 August 2010. Initially, the two companies were charging its services in US dollars before government pointed out to them that this was against the country's laws. Read more >>Advertisement:
Newspapers
 According to the just-released World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers' (WAN-IFRA) annual world press trends update, newspaper circulation worldwide fell just slightly in 2009, despite the economic downturn, and the impact of the global recession on newspaper advertising revenues appears to be easing. Read more >>Online Media
 [Walter Wafula] Luo and Runyakitara, two widely spoken languages in Uganda are the latest additions to Google's diction in the country. The two languages which are spoken by more than five million people, including Kenyan relatives of US President Barack Obama, were launched earlier this week at Makerere University in Kampala. Read more >>Advertisement:
Retail
ANTANANARIVO: The Government of Madagascar's application to join the Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice) has been approved by the organisations council of ministers. Madagascar is one of the biggest per capita consumers of rice in the world. Read more >> [Dumisani Ndlela] The Coca-Cola Company has entered Zimbabwe's energy drinks market in a demonstration of renewed interest in a country that had become a pariah to international investors due to an unprecedented economic crisis. Read more >>LUSAKA: Small-scale traders on either side of the Mwami Border Post between Zambia and Malawi are key to meeting local demands that larger importers do not. Read more >> REDMOND, US: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, the next version of the leading productivity suite for the Mac, will be available in more than 100 countries around the world at the end of October. Read more >> KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: WAN-IFRA, the world association of newspapers and news publishers, yesterday, 5 August 2010, presented the winners of the 9th Asia Media Awards at its annual gala dinner at the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Read more >>
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