UGANDA

Journalists shy away from suing the army - HRN

[Walter Wafula] Ugandan journalists, who were tortured for covering protests against the high commodity prices last month, are shying away from suing officials of the Uganda People's Defense Forces, according to the Human Rights Network for Journalists (HRN). G.W. Ssebaggala programmes coordinator HRNJ-Uganda says most of the journalists who were allegedly tortured by the army and police in Masaka district are not interested in pursuing legal action against the security forces due to fear. Read more >>

AFRICA

BRICS account for 19 of the top 100 brands

New data out on Monday, 9 May 2011, commissioned by advertising and marketing services group WPP has found that emerging markets account for 19 of the top 100 valuable brands, while Apple superseded Google's four-year term at the top. Read more >>

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Kenya urges South Africans to support its tourism growth

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Seventeen years after being re-admitted into the club of 'respectable nations', South Africans have begun to emerge as the well-travelled citizens of the continent, with their overwhelming presence being signalled from Mbabane to Cairo via Nairobi, Kinshasa and Luanda. Now Kenya, which registered 33 076 SA tourists in 2010, is casting its net on SA, marketing itself aggressively and forging ties with local tour operators. Read more >>

ANGOLA

Indaba 2011: Angola recovers from war, longs for tourism growth

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Angolan tourism officers and tour operators working at their country's two stands at the Tourism Indaba 2011 in Durban, South Africa, welcomed warmly everyone who was looking for information about tourism in Angola. Their spirit of optimism is a clear indication that the country is longing for stability and development after a devastating 27 years of civil war. Read more >>

AFRICA

Basu appointed Millward Brown East Africa MD

Prasun Basu has been appointed the new MD of Millward Brown East Africa. Basu will report to Charles Foster, MD of Millward Brown Africa. As well as his appointment as MD of the East African office, Basu will also be the Africa regional head of tracking for Millward Brown. Read more >>

AFRICA

International agencies registered for 2011 Maputo International Ad Festival

Agencies from around the world have already registered for the 6th Maputo International Advertising Festival, according to event organisers AMEP (Mozambican Association of Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations). The festival will take place from 25-27 May 2011 in Mozambique. Read more >>

AFRICA

Josh Spear, Herman Chinery-Hesse to keynote Tech4Africa 2011

The Tech4Africa 2011 conference, to be held from 27-28 October at the The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa, will feature a line-up of international and African technologists. The event aims to provide attendees with the opportunity to learn firsthand from technology evangelists about the role that the web plays in African business and development. Read more >>

AFRICA

IMEXPO to bring China to Africa

The 2011 IMEXPO trade and investment forum will take place from 18-20 May 2011. The exhibition, hosting China, the SADC, and South African investment agencies, aims to 'break through trade and investment bottlenecks and highlight the mutual benefits that flow from investment cooperation.' IMEXPO will take place at the MTN Expo Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa; entrance to the expo and B2B events is free. Read more >>

MALAWI

Malawi: Posthumous media award for Nkolokosa

[Gregory Gondwe] Jika Nkolokosa who died on 27 December 2010, aged 53, while working as executive director for the Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) was posthumously awarded the decorated Life Time Achiever Award for his contributions to Malawi's journalism growth. Read more >>

AFRICA

MTV, MTN give voice to African youth

LAGOS: MTV Networks Africa and MTN have partnered in a pan-African multimedia campaign aimed at inspiring African youth by connecting them with some of the world's most influential personalities. They will partner to produce MTV Base Meets...with MTN, an eight-part youth empowerment initiative and TV series that creates a dialogue between young people and political, business and cultural leaders. Read more >>

FRANCE

AFP goes live from Cannes on Facebook

CANNES, FRANCE: Follow all the latest news from Cannes on AFP's special Facebook page, with stories, videos, pictures and graphics in English and French. Read more >>

UNITED STATES

MMA publishes latest issue of International Journal Of Mobile Marketing

NEW YORK, US / LONDON, UK / SINGAPORE / SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL: The MMA (Mobile Marketing Association) (www.mmaglobal.com) has released for public consumption the Winter 2010 issue (Vol. 5. No. 2) of the award-winning International Journal of Mobile Marketing (IJMM). Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Cool city slicker Micra

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] In line with latest trends in the car market Nissan has given its cute Micra city car a massive dose of more... More height, more length, more width, more passenger and load space, more environmental friendliness and more cash in buyers' pockets thanks to more fuel efficient engines. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Accessibility hampering domestic tourism growth - Indaba 2011

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] As South Africa begins working hard towards achieving its target of becoming a top tourism destination by 2020, including increasing the number of domestic travellers to 18 million from 14.6 million, some observers remain sceptical about the feasibility of the project, stating that the issue of accessibility is too critical to be ignored. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

AA Travel Guides American Express Accommodation Awards winners

The winners in the 2011 AA Travel Guides American Express Accommodation Awards programme were announced at a gala awards ceremony at the annual tourism Indaba in Durban earlier this week. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Say cheese!

[Ilse van den Berg] The word "cheese" is not a typical word that interests me or gets me excited. Well, maybe some variants of the word or in some contexts. For example: saying "cheese" to a camera; telling someone that they used a "cheesy" line; giving a person a "cheesy" smile or even listening to DJ Fresh's "cheese" of the day. Yes, this is usually when "cheese" makes me happy. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Coldplay to tour South Africa

[Ruth Cooper] Let me put it out there from the start, I'm not ashamed to say that I was ridiculously smitten with Chris Martin in my early teens. Seeing him moodily and earnestly strolling along a miserable-looking beach in 2000 sent quite the "rush of blood to my... head". He was nerdy, he was poetic, he was talented, he was beautiful; I wanted to marry him. Damn you, Gwyneth Paltrow, and your long legs for getting in there before me. Read more >>