AFRICA

Independent broadcasters harassed by Burundi government

According to reports by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), president of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza and his government are attempting to silence critical press coverage of his administration with incessant judicial harassment of two of the country's independent broadcasters. Read more >>

AFRICA

Target on journalists continues in Iran

NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have expressed dismay following news reports in Iran indicating that furloughed journalists are being summoned back to prison while new journalists continue to be convicted on manufactured charges. Read more >>

AFRICA

The age of engagement and how to conduct your customer feedback/polls

[Greg Mason] We are heading into a customer-centric consumer age faster than a teenager sprouts new pimples. So how do you give your customers the power to be heard and more importantly how do you listen? Read more >>

AFRICA

Bizcommunity helps kick-start Mamelani Projects computer room

Bizcommunity.com yesterday, Thursday, 4 August 2011, made a contribution towards Mamelani Projects, and its youth development program Project Lungisela, in the form of laptops. The company held an official hand-over at its Cape Town offices, with Mamelani Projects operations manager Monika Edwards accepting the contribution on behalf of the Cape Town-based organisation. Read more >>

AFRICA

Are you the world's most networked person?

[Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] Western Union, the multinational company specialised in money transfer, is celebrating its 160th anniversary by launching a global online network - a Facebook-linked platform meant to hunt for the most networked person in the world. The South African launch took place yesterday, Thursday 4 August 2011, in Rosebank simultaneously with Ghana, Kenya and Morocco. Read more >>

AFRICA

Highway Africa New Media Awards extends deadline

The deadline for the 11th SABC-Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards has been extended to Monday, 22 August 2011. Winners will be announced at a gala event during the 15th Highway Africa Conference to be held at the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) from 19-22 September 2011. Read more >>

AFRICA

Somalia: NUSOJ mourns the loss of a colleague

MOGADISHU: The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has mourned the death of Farah Hassan Sahal, a media executive at SIMBA Radio, who was gunned down at the premises of the station on Thursday, 4 August 2011. Read more >>

AFRICA

Congo provincial minister suspends radio host

PARIS: Reporters Without Borders and Journalist in Danger (JED), its partner organisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, addressed a letter to Naason Kubuya Ndoole, the provincial minister responsible for information and media in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu to express their complete rejection of his decision to suspend Mishapi Voice TV radio host Jacques "Djasadjasa" Nyamugenda until further notice. Read more >>

AFRICA

2011 PAMRO meeting announces speakers

The 13th Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) meeting and All Africa Media Conference, to be held from 21-24 August 2011 in Dakar, Senegal at the Le Méridien President Hotel, has announced its top panel of speakers. Read more >>

AFRICA

Kenya: Treasury sets aside Sh15 billion for food projects

Kenyan finance minister, Uhuru Kenyatta announced yesterday, 3 August 2011, in addition to the Sh10.5 billion approved by the cabinet last month to deal with the drought situation in the country, a further Sh15.6 billion has been set aside at enhancing food security. Read more >>

NORTH AFRICA

Sudan: Seed, tools for conflict-affected people in Darfur

GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has provided seed and agricultural tools for almost half a million conflict-affected people in Darfur, in time for the planting season and the first rainfall. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM

Project your imagination

LONDON, UK: Bombay Sapphire is a brand created by marketing. For all its Victoriana dressing and what's optimistically known in the branding world as 'heritage cues', the gin in the famous blue bottle was actually created in 1987, supposedly based on a long lost recipe from 1761. Read more >>

AUSTRIA

Newspapers find their place in a multi-media world

VIENNA, AUSTRIA: Rolv Erik Ryssdal, CEO of Norway-based Schibsted, and Eugen Russ, one of the newspaper industry's most innovative publishers, have joined the programme for the 63rd World Newspaper Congress, to be held in Vienna, Austria, from 12 to 15 October next. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

New Merc coupé no party animal

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Mercedes-Benz South Africa is on a roll and just weeks after unwrapping its new generation C-Class saloons it has added a glitzy coupé to the range - and this time round it is not just a revamped show-off CLC but a true two-door coupé, styled in the classic tradition. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Workers pelt tourists at God's Window

Tourists travelling to God's Window near Graskop in Mpumalanga were pelted with stones by angry strikers who are demanding salary increases of 15%, a R1500 housing subsidy and a R1000 standby allowance, reports The Star. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

1time introduces route changes

1time Airline has announced that it would be withdrawing from its Maputo route as of 31 August 2011. Read more >>

NEW ZEALAND

Get the low-down on the Rugby World Cup

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND: World Cup visitors can now get their very own digital guide to the local 'hood' thanks to a new city guide, compiled by a Who's Who of fashion, food, art, shopping and fun in downtown Auckland. Read more >>