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Today's top stories
Special focus on media freedom
[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has warned that he will start arresting journalists that are writing false articles that are aimed at ridiculing his government. Read more >> Advertisement:
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed Wednesday's (25 August 2010) ruling by Uganda's Constitutional Court declaring the country's criminal sedition offense, which has been used to prosecute journalists, unconstitutional. Read more >>Marketing
[Dumisani Ndlela] British American Tobacco Zimbabwe (BAT) has announced that it has raised the bar in appropriate marketing of its cigarette brands, but called on regulators to ensure sensible and proportionate regulations based on scientific evidence. Read more >> Advertising
 The Loerie Awards released the finalists in this year's event, excluding Student, this morning, Thursday, 26 August 2010. All winners will be announced at the festival weekend, 1 - 3 October at the Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more >>CSI
 According to MTN, the company has registered over 1,8 million SMS petitions for the 1GOAL: Education for All campaign after its subscribers across its footprint in Africa and the Middle East responded to a call to support the FIFA-endorsed campaign to accelerate universal access to education. Read more >>Magazines
LOME: A Togolese court ordered on Wednesday (25 August 2010) the regional magazine Tribune d'Afrique to pay more than €96,000 (US$121,000) in damages to a half brother of Faure Gnassingbe for defamation. Read more >>Media
 ALGIERS: Several Algerian writers and intellectuals have signed a petition denouncing organisers of Algeria's international book fair for banning books from Egypt in a dispute over football. Read more >>Advertisement:
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Researchers said on Thursday (26 August 2010) that distributing drought-resistant varieties of maize to smallholder African farmers could earn the continent between US$900 million and US$1.53 billion by 2016. Read more >>NIAMEY: It's a trade that requires no capital, only courage and endurance. A group of 200 women are making ends meet - sometimes even a bit more - by selling sand. Read more >>PRETORIA: The economic future for China, South Africa and Africa in general is bright, says President Jacob Zuma. Read more >> SINGAPORE: For the second year, Spikes Asia has teamed up with Cheil Worldwide to form a dedicated Academy for 15 students from across Asia Pacific offering a unique educational programme during the regional annual advertising and communications festival. Read more >> HAMBURG, GERMANY: The first three of eight jury presidents have been announced for Eurobest, Europe's premier creative advertising and communications awards. Now in its 23rd year, the Eurobest Awards form part of the Eurobest Festival, which takes place at the Handelskammer in Hamburg on 7-8 December 2010. Read more >> DENVER, US: Quark announced on 26 August 2010 that Gavin Drake has been promoted to vice president of marketing. In his new role, Drake is responsible for the global marketing initiatives across Quark's desktop, enterprise, and small and medium business software and services, and will report directly to Quark president and CEO, Ray Schiavone. Read more >>
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Aren't hybrid cars supposed to be ugly, boring and constipated? Well, if that's the case then Honda definitely got it wrong with their CR-Z hybrid just launched in South Africa -- because not only does is it a cockily cute good-looker, it's also quite zippy and it handles amazingly well. Read more >>
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