WEST AFRICA

Equatorial Guinea suspends journalist over Libya mention

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned Equatorial Guinea's censorship of coverage of events in North Africa, the Middle East, and Ivory Coast. A state radio presenter's reference to Libya during a live radio program on Friday, 25 February 2011, led censors to abruptly force the journalist off the air and order an indefinite suspension from the country's tightly monitored national airwaves, according to local journalists and news reports. Read more >>

ANGOLA

Angolan journalist gets year in prison for defamation

NEW YORK: A court in Angola's southwestern province of Namibe sent a journalist to prison yesterday, 3 March 2011, without due process over his coverage of a sexual harassment scandal that implicated the province's top judicial official, according to local journalists and news reports. Read more >>

WEST AFRICA

Cameroon editor charged over leaked official document

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has expressed its concern for the safety of a Cameroonian editor who is being prosecuted in connection with a leaked official document, according to local journalists and news reports. Read more >>

ZIMBABWE

Zim designers regroup to resuscitate association

[Staff reporter] Zimbabwe's graphic artistes came together to resuscitate the Graphics Association of Zimbabwe (GRAZI), which had been dissolved after an exodus that hit the advertising sector during Zimbabwe's economic crisis. Read more >>

AFRICA

Sheen seduces 1.3 million Twitter fans in two days

LOS ANGELES: Troubled American actor Charlie Sheen was on Thursday (3 March 2011) reveling in the fact that his new Twitter account had attracted some 1.3 million followers in just two days. Read more >>

EGYPT

UNESCO to help reform journalism education in Egypt

PARIS: The UNESCO office in Cairo, in cooperation with the Cairo University, launched a project this year to strengthen journalism education and communication research in Egypt. The initiative aims to reform the curriculum of the Faculty of Communication at the Cairo University. Read more >>

ZAMBIA

Education transformation comes to Zambia

LUSAKA: The Ministry of Education (MoE), USAID and various stakeholders in the education sector of Zambia met earlier this week in Lusaka for an Intel education transformation workshop. The objective of the event was to promote the transformation of the education system in Zambia to better prepare and equip learners current world realities. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africa Fashion Week hits London in 2011

In 2011, London will host Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) between 5-6 August at the Gibson Hall. The showcase will present UK and non-UK based fashion designers while the Revelation shows within AFWL aim to provide new and emerging fashion designers the opportunity to showcase to the UK and international press, buyers and stockists of high street and independent stores. Read more >>

ZAMBIA

Fitch awards Zambia B+

LUSAKA: Internationally-recognised credit ratings agency Fitch has assigned Zambia a B+ sovereign rating in recognition of the economic strides the country has taken under President Rupiah Banda. Zambia received the fourth-highest non-investment grade rating supported by a "stable" outlook from Fitch. Read more >>

AFRICA

New schedule for CNBC Africa

CNBC Africa launched a change in its programming from Wednesday, 1 March 2011, with the new lineup dropping a few long running shows such as Africa's Boardroom, Eureka! and The Real Estate. New shows such as On the Couch, Mad Markets, Hot Stoxx, Wealth Quest, Power Talk and Destination Africa will be introduced in March and the speciality technology show Tech@Work will return for a second season. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM

Search Alliance no threat to Google, just more of the same

LONDON, UK: Greenlight is more pessimistic than optimistic about any significant shift in search engine user behaviour Read more >>

UNITED STATES

ADC launches ADC Young Guns 9 Competition

NEW YORK, US: The Art Directors Club, the organisation for integrated media and the claimed to be the first global creative collective of its kind, has announced the upcoming launch of the ADC Young Guns 9 (www.adcyoungguns.org/) competition for creatives and designers age 30 or younger. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Feel like a stretch limo... or possibly a muscle car?

By urgent instruction, a 12.5m stretch limo and two muscle cars, a Chevy Camaro 1973 and Corvette Stingray 1972, will fall under the Auction Alliance hammer on March 15. Oh, and by the way, if any of you petrol-heads out there are also into things wet, then also up for auction is a collection of leisure power boats including a Luhrs 3420 Sports Fisher charter boat and five moorings at Granger Bay, Cape Town. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

February cars sales: More good news for manufacturers, dealers

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Commenting on the new vehicle sales statistics for February 2011, released this morning, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) says that new car sales in particular, as well as medium and heavy commercial vehicle sales, have registered exceptional gains compared to the corresponding month last year. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Biz.Travel Q&A with Lew Rood

[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] While there may be a better safari experience many will say there is no dispute that Singita is the bespoke safari product with the best marketing. As Singita's public relations and trade relations manager, the softly spoken Lew Rood has had a deft hand in creating arguably the most sought-after safari brand. Brian Berkman met him at The Taj Hotel, Cape Town for coffee. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Comair on track with expansion plans into Africa

Comair Limited, operator of British Airways in southern Africa and kulula.com is again expanding its African route network, and effective Tuesday, 3 May 2011 will commence flights from Lanseria airport to Maputo in Mozambique and Gaborone in Botswana. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

All in One's opening night

[Michael Britton] Billed as a "musical voyage through space and time with three masters", the opening night of All in One at the Fugard Theatre was a special delight featuring three remarkably talented musicians in Errol Dyers, Steve Newman and Hilton Schilder. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Yellow Brick Road filled with guests

[Gwen Watkins] Having attended Thursday, 24 February's first night's performance of the Pop Up Cinema in South Africa at Arts on Main, I urge that film buffs follow on Facebook to catch its next movie event, which is in Cape Town. The effort made by TCM to recreate the wonderful land of Oz was exceptional; great décor and characters dressed to perfection - a wonderful cowardly lion, flying monkeys darting here and there, and my personal favourite, the witch, who attempted to lure guests into alleys and dead ends. Read more >>