| | | Headlines | Police in Congo arrest suspects in journalist's murder
Police arrest arts director
DStv speaks out on English Premier League broadcasting rights
Chinese censors wield cutlass on Captain Sparrow's adversary
NCC orders Reltel to stop mobile services
World's first borderless mobile network expands into Central Africa
The new bargain hunters
Coping with the rising tide of sponsorships
Kenyan bank wins Africa investor award
Supermarket chain attains Superbrand status
Critic of Africa's dependency on aid dies
Royal raspberry gets activists arrested
China's hunger is Africa's pariah
Media Council of Zimbabwe launched
Gambian reporter convicted
Burkina Faso journalist gets death threat
Extended exile for Tunisian journalist
Nigerian newspaper offices stormed
Why were Somali stations closed?
Cell phone giant enters broadcasting and multimedia
Africa to become world leader in IT
Nigerian author bags Orange for fiction
IRB about to score an own goal?
Egypt: media barred from Brotherhood trials
Virgin introduces fourth African route
Tunisian newspaper harassed
Mobile's non-voice is a new voice in East Africa
New African magazine launched
SuperSport confirms live coverage of Super Four matches on DStv
Zimbabwe parliament passes "snoop" bill
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Marketing | | AFRICA The new bargain hunters
[Malcolm Ray] It's a trillion dollar game, played by exuberant high stakes rollers. It's decidedly schizoid: It built the colossal American industrial empire by floating bonds, and geared the spectacular technology boom that funded the stampede of IT geeks into Silicon Valley.
AFRICA China's hunger is Africa's pariah
[James Kynge] A beaten-up red taxi took me home one afternoon as spring was turning to summer. The driver's accent, which tagged a lazy ‘er' sound onto the end of most words, identified him as ‘lao Beijing', or ‘old Beijing' — a singular description.
AFRICA Africa's most powerful business leaders
When Business in Africa set out to list the continent's top business leaders, they assumed the exercise would be fairly straightforward. Little did they know that top talent in the continent is not as obvious to us in Africa as, say, the captains of industry in Europe and the United States...
AFRICA New African magazine launched
African Banker, a new quarterly magazine on banking and finance in Africa, has been launched.
ZIMBABWE Menace to society
[Kumbirai Mafunda, Senior Reporter] Despite the industry's best efforts in promoting what should be one of Zimbabwe's major earners of foreign exchange, police brutality in that country continues to ruin tourism recovery efforts.
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Branding | | EAST AFRICA Kenyan bank wins Africa investor award
[Carole Kimutai] The award follows years of a turnaround process that has transformed the bank from a struggling enterprise to a blue chip organization.
KENYA Supermarket chain attains Superbrand status
[Carole Kimutai] One of Kenya's largest supermarket chains has received the Superbrand status.
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Cinema | | ZIMBABWE Police arrest arts director
[Natasha Hove] Zimbabwe police yesterday briefly arrested renowned arts director; Cont Mhlanga before banning the premier of his controversial political play saying it 'revoked memories of Gukurahundi.'
AFRICA Chinese censors wield cutlass on Captain Sparrow's adversary
The character portrayed by a Chinese actor has so upset that country's authorities that the censors have cut his scenes by about half.
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Digital | | AFRICA Africa to become world leader in IT
What are the IT services challenges in the African continent?
SOUTH AFRICA New digital music production collection launches - Gallo Images
 Gallo Images has launched Digital Vision Music, a range of easy-to-access, royalty-free music specifically composed for commercial use with a repertoire ranging from silky smooth and chilled-out classical arrangements through to groovy urban rock and electronic beats.
ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe parliament passes "snoop" bill
The lower house of Zimbabwe's parliament passed a Bill on Wednesday, 13 June 2007, allowing the government to monitor phones, mail and the Internet to protect national security. While conceding the country needed to protect itself against terrorism, opposition members said they feared the bill would pave the way for President Robert Mugabe's government to curtail freedom of speech and breach privacy. The Interception of Communications Bill sailed through the lower house without amendments and will now be sent to the upper house, where it is expected to face little opposition. Transport and Communications Minister Chris Mushohwe said the Bill was necessary to combat criminal activities that could threaten national security. Read the full article on New Zimbabwe.com
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Education and Training | | SOUTH AFRICA USB-ED launches Business Women's Academy - USB-ED
 The Business Women's Academy, the first of its kind in the country concentrating on women in business, was launched last month by USB Executive Development (USB-ED) of the University of Stellenbosch Business School, in association with HERS-SA. HERS-SA is a leading non-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of women.
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Eventing | | AFRICA 'Raise the Bar' with the World Economic Forum on Africa
Over 700 high-level delegates are expected to participate in the 17th annual World Economic Forum on Africa, to be held in Cape Town from 13 - 15 June 2007.
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Media | | AFRICA Convicted Ethiopian editors face life or death
On 11 June 2007, Ethiopia's High Court convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government's handling of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to local journalists.
AFRICA Critic of Africa's dependency on aid dies
Senegal's leading film-maker and author Ousmane Sembène, who was a staunch critic of Africans taking aid from the West, has passed away.
MOROCCO
Royal raspberry gets activists arrested
Seven activists have been arrested, two allegedly tortured, and all have been sentenced to prison for criticising Morocco's monarchy during the recent Labour Day event.
ZIMBABWE Media Council of Zimbabwe launched
The launch of the Media Council of Zimbabwe on May 10 has left the future of the statutory Media and Information Commission hanging by the thread.
WEST AFRICA Burkina Faso journalist gets death threat
Angry youths have threatened to kill a Burkina Faso journalist and burn his home down.
NIGERIA Nigerian author bags Orange for fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author, has won the twelfth Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction with her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate).
AFRICA IRB about to score an own goal?
The International Press Institute (IPI) claims that the International Rugby Board (IRB) is trying to restrict media coverage of upcoming World Cup. If so, could it backfire?
EGYPT Egypt: media barred from Brotherhood trials
The proposed military trials for Brotherhood leaders are flawed say human rights groups, as the media have been barred from observing the trial.
AFRICA International newspapers flag press freedom restrictions
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) currently meeting in Cape Town has issued a number of resolutions highlighting restrictions to press freedom around the world and how this could be dealt with.
AFRICA The scourge of Africa
The absence of press freedom is inhibiting development on the continent and depriving millions of Africans of their rights, the President of the World Association of Newspapers has said.
CENTRAL AFRICA Justice at last for murdered DRC journalist?
Eleven months after his death, the alleged killers of independent journalist face trial.
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Mobile | | NIGERIA NCC orders Reltel to stop mobile services
[Everest Amaefule] The Nigerian Communications Commission has ordered Reliance Telecommunications Limited to stop offering mobile or roaming services within seven days. The ultimatum was contained in a letter to the company dated June 4, and signed by the Director of Legal Service, NCC, Steven Andzenge.
AFRICA Cell phone giant keeps growing
Cellular network operator Vodacom has announced its annual financial results for the year ended 31 March 2007 - recording a 20% growth in all key areas of business. Its highest growth rates were achieved in its newer markets outside South Africa.
EAST AFRICA World's first borderless mobile network expands into Central Africa
Leading pan African mobile phone network expands its One Network to include Central Africa and more than 160 million people in six countries.
KENYA Kenya set to lower excise duty on mobile phone airtime
[Joyce Joan Wangui] Following the high elasticity of demand for mobile services in Kenya, mobile service providers have been urged to lower excise duties on mobile phones and airtime in a bid to increase the demand for these services.
EAST AFRICA Mobile's non-voice is a new voice in East Africa
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), a non-voice value-added service that allows information to be sent and received across a mobile telephone network, is proving to be a very useful supplement to today's circuit switched data and short message service for cellular phone users in East Africa.
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Newspapers | | CENTRAL AFRICA Rwandan government strips new journal's licence after first edition
Rwanda's Information Minister revoked the publication licence of a newspaper without a required court order three days after the paper's first edition.
WEST AFRICA Mauritanian opposition party chairman withdraws complaint against journalists
The chairman of the opposition Popular Front political party, Ch'bih Ould Cheikh Malainnie, has withdrawn complaints of defamation he filed against three journalists from privately-owned Nouakchott-based newspapers.
WEST AFRICA Gambia's Fatty Lamin freed after failing to pay fine
Convicted journalist briefly detained for failure to pay fine, later released following press union's intervention.
WEST AFRICA Gambian reporter convicted
Newspaper journalist convicted for publishing false information.
NORTH AFRICA Extended exile for Tunisian journalist
Just as he ended his period of internal exile, the Tunisian authorities have extended Abdallah Zouari's internal exile by a further 26 months.
NIGERIA Nigerian newspaper offices stormed
Gunmen have stormed the Port Harcourt offices of The Punch newspaper; one employee was seriously injured during the attack.
NORTH AFRICA Tunisian newspaper harassed
In a campaign to increase pressure on the Kalima newspaper, police are preventing journalists from the entering premises to work.
NORTH AFRICA Tunisian journalist under house arrest for five years
Rights group HRinfo has called on the Tunisian government to release journalist who has been under house arrest for five years.
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Online Media | | NORTH AFRICA Algerian blogger charged
An Algerian blogger charged with criminal defamation for criticising a government official.
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Out Of Home | | SOUTH AFRICA Right Stuff at the Durban Beach Festival - Right Stuff
 Right Stuff was recently awarded the 2007 Durban Beach Festival branding and activation contract. The brief is to brand the area, to bring the event into focus to make it more streamlined and eye-catching, ensuring that it is less intrusive than in previous years and giving prominence to the Beach Festival throughout the entire event area.
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Public Relations | | AFRICA China's PR battle in Africa
[Martyn Davies] Political risk, conflict, government corruption, bureaucracy, infrastructure bottlenecks, underdeveloped capital markets, cultural and linguistic differences and the lack of skilled labour are all challenges of operating in Africa. Local, multinational and Chinese firms alike face these challenges.
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Radio | | CENTRAL AFRICA Police in Congo arrest suspects in journalist's murder
On 14 June, police arrested two suspects in the killing of a broadcaster for United Nations-sponsored Radio Okapi in the eastern border town of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the station's journalists told CPJ.
EAST AFRICA Minister lifts ban on Somalian radio stations after four days
The federal government has allowed three privately-owned radio stations - HornAfrik, Shabelle and Quran Kariim (Holy Koran) - to resume broadcasting, four days after it ordered them to suspend operations.
EAST AFRICA Why were Somali stations closed?
The Somali government is being urged to explain exactly why three radio stations were closed recently.
NORTH AFRICA Concerns over arrested, fleeing Eritrean journalist
Rights organisation is concerned as to the fate of a public radio journalist who was arrested as he tried to flee across the Eritrean border and into Ethiopia.
WEST AFRICA Chopper crash claims pioneering female journalist
The Togo helicopter crash on Sunday claimed the life of journalist Olive Messan Amouzou, the first woman to head a radio station in Togo.
AFRICA US unhappy over Somalia FM station closures
The Somali government has closed down three main FM stations in the capital - Shabelle Media Network, Horn Afrik and IQK (The holy Quran Media). The US is concerned at the move.
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Research | | SOUTH AFRICA Music Matters – music piracy fact sheet - Synovate
Music piracy remains an ongoing problem in Asia according to the Branded, MTV and Synovate Music Matters survey released at the 2007 Music Matters Asia Pacific Music Forum in Hong Kong.
SOUTH AFRICA Survey reveals music trends rocking young urban Asian consumers - Synovate
Convenience, convergence and growth opportunities from connecting with consumers are the three big trends driving the consumer music market in Asia according to the Branded, MTV and Synovate Music Matters survey released last week at the 2007 Music Matters Asia Pacific Music Forum in Hong Kong.
SOUTH AFRICA Synovate launches new market potential solutions - Synovate
Synovate has introduced a suite of models and simulators for quantifying the market potential of a product or service, coinciding with the creation of Synovate MarketQuest, evolved from its Product Design & Development specialist division.
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Sponsorship | | AFRICA Coping with the rising tide of sponsorships
[Emeka Enyadike] Sponsorships are now very much a part of the traditional marking mix and hardly a day goes by without a major company receiving a request to sponsor an event, a team, an individual, a project or just about anything else requiring funding in some form or another. The question is: what should be sponsored, and why, and to what extent? More over, how does one separate the genuine from the spurious, the wheat from the chaff?
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TV | | KENYA DStv speaks out on English Premier League broadcasting rights
 [Carole Kimutai] The English Premier League attracts millions of viewers around the globe. The latest pay TV entrant in Kenya – GTV – is also promising to broadcast the premier league – a cause of worry for competition and good news for Kenyan viewers who will now have a choice.
AFRICA Pace, Power, Passion
The COPA AMERICA 2007 gets set to roll on pay-TV!
AFRICA Cell phone giant enters broadcasting and multimedia
Vodacom, one of South Africa's cellular networks, has formalised its entry into the broadcasting and multimedia market by announcing that it had secured an exclusive pay-TV agency agreement with MultiChoice.
NIGERIA SuperSport confirms live coverage of Super Four matches on DStv
SuperSport, the leading, all-inclusive sport broadcaster on the African continent, has announced that it will, for the second year running, provide live coverage of all the six matches at this year's Super Four league competition. Coverage will be throughout Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA CNBC – global outlook, African flavour - CNBC Africa
More and more there is an acceptance that we live in a global village, and that much of what happens in the world will affect what happens locally. “To understand, therefore, what is happening locally, it is necessary for the media to track global trends and interpret them for local use,” says Peter Ndoro, Head of Corporate Communications at CNBC Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA Welcome, CNBC Africa! - CNBC Africa
The fledgling democracy at the southern tip of the African continent is about to take another step towards going global. On 1 June 2007, CNBC Africa, the first 24-hour, live international business channel in sub-Saharan Africa, began broadcasting from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| | Business | | | Strike looms in NigeriaSouth Africa is currently in the grip of a strike by government workers; now there is a threat of as big a strike in Nigeria. [Corporate wellness] | | Angolan tourism industry nets billionsAngola is perhaps not a country that immediately springs to mind when one thinks of tourist destinations. But things seem to be changing... [Business travel] | | South Africa to join the OECD's Anti-Bribery ConventionSouth Africa is to become the 37th signatory and first African country to join the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention. Adopted in 1997 and ratified so far by 36 countries, this Convention outlaws the bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions. [Corporate wellness] | | American and European airlines are bilking African passengersGhanian writer claims that a number of foreign airlines are charging African passengers far more than is fair - and he reckons there's a second agenda behind what he claims are excessive charges. [Business travel] | | Content management software system launched in UgandaAn electronic document management and workflow solution has been launched in Uganda by the Tanzanian-based company COSEKE. [Management] | | Angola among Africa's best performing economiesThe Angolan economy is among the 10 best performing ones in Africa, according to a report from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on regional economic developments in 2006. [Management] | | Virgin introduces fourth African route [Business travel] |
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| | Forums | | AFRICA Will apathy kill the 2010 World Cup?Does anyone know how to successfully make contact with the local organising committee for 2010 World Cup? What is your view? | | More... Submit a Forum | | |
| | People | | AFRICA New president takes the helm at IFJ - more info | | More... Submit a Person | | |
| | Events to diarise | Securex 2007 Securex - Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 June
Visitors will be exposed to a wide range of security, safety, fire and protection solutions available in South Africa, including high-tech surveillance solutions. | | | Africa Skills Development Audit & Evaluation Melrose Advanced Professional Training - Fourways, South Africa, 25 June
The aim of our skills development conference is to create awareness to both public and private sectors to develop and implement learning and skills development strategies that will improve individuals and organisational performance, that will result in improving our country's economy and job creation. | | | The WiMAX Africa Development Summit 2007 Lab Epitomy - Sandton, South Africa, 6 August
Recent WiMAX tests, regulations, financial and technical challenges. | | | Resource Centre Management MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation - Arusha, Tanzania, 7 August
According to the MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation, information management systems are crucial in the daily functioning of organisations. | | | Sign Africa 2007 & The Africa In-store Show SignAfrica - Johannesburg, South Africa, 5 September
The international event will be an opportunity for all suppliers and manufacturers of all means of visual communication including signage, display, POS, road signs and outdoor advertising mediums to present their latest products, designs and trends to the public. | | | International Executive Media & TV Workshop Center for Development Communication - Accra, Ghana, 24 September
The IEMTW is an intensive hands-on learning event designed to help spokespersons and media practitioners better engage the media around their issues to increase public support and visibility for the organization. | | |
| | Upcoming events | MediaTech Africa 2007 MediaTech - Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 June The 3-Day MBA Astro Tech - Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 June Face the media with confidence The Communication Academy - Cape Town, 13 June Digital and Mobile Content Management 2007 Koetsa Holdings - Sandton, South Africa, 16 June VoIP World MENA 2007 - Dubai, UAE, 17 June GSM>3G West Africa - Dakar, Senegal, 19 June | More... Submit an event | | |
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| | Quotes | | | "You suffer from smoke produced by the firewood you fetched yourself." - African proverb | | "Rain beats a leopard's skin, but it does not wash out the spots." - African proverb | | "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African proverb | | More... Submit a Quote | | |
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