| | | Headlines | Yahoo reaches for relevancy with new 'smart' ads
Brother Gulf gears up to achieve 100% growth in three years
UPS offers wireless tracking via SMS
Omnifone opens music buffet for hungry EU mobile markets
Calling Zimbabwe? Be careful… Someone might be listening
Leading economist queries Dell's claims on Zimbabwe collapse
Agency urges caution on net neutrality
Join the club!
Indigenisation Bill just another means to steal
Profile: Dangote – Nigeria's leading businessman and billionaire
Celebrating water and dreams at the 10th Zanzibar Film Festival
Companies ignore order to cut prices
Egyptian blogger still faces charges
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Advertising | | AFRICA Yahoo reaches for relevancy with new 'smart' ads
Yahoo has offered its advertisers a way to make their ads more relevant to individual viewers through the search engine's new SmartAds program.
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Cinema | | AFRICA Africa features in SA film festival with a difference
Think of film festivals and your first thought is usually art films, foreign films and that sort of thing. Well, this one is not.
AFRICA Celebrating water and dreams at the 10th Zanzibar Film Festival
 The 10th annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), a multi-disciplinary art and cultural showcase, kicks off its 'Celebration of Waters and Dreams' on Friday, 29 June. Attendants can look forward to 10 days of art, discussions, workshops, entertainment and networking, with over 80 films from more than 25 countries on the line-up.
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Digital | | EGYPT Brother Gulf gears up to achieve 100% growth in three years
Brother Gulf, a global leader in the development and manufacturing of printing, communication and digital imaging products for homes, SOHOs and enterprises, has announced that it is targeting to double its revenues within the next three years.
ZIMBABWE Calling Zimbabwe? Be careful… Someone might be listening
The Interception of Communications Bill, awaiting only Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's signature to become law, will further constrict the flow of information already hampered by other laws deemed repressive, claimed civil society groups.
AFRICA Agency urges caution on net neutrality
[Carole Kimutai] The US Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday urged policymakers to proceed cautiously on any regulation of high-speed Internet traffic.
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Magazines | | SOUTHERN AFRICA Businessman sues Swazi magazine
News magazine faces defamation charges over article critical of company.
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Media | | AFRICA African journalists present 50-year retrospective
[Lavinia Mahlangu] As the African Union Heads of State and Government Summit kicked off in Ghana's capital on Sunday, 1 July, the continent's journalists presented a demonstration of their profession in the form of a recently launched book.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Media banned from Swaziland hospital
On 24 June 2007, the Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Njabulo Mabuza, banned the media from entering the Mbabane Government Hospital, Swaziland's biggest hospital, in search of news.
AFRICA New book celebrates five decades of journalism in Africa
Two West African organisations have joined forces to publish a book that explores the key periods of African journalism over the past 50 years.
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Mobile | | AFRICA UPS offers wireless tracking via SMS
"Our customers have become more mobile as their businesses have grown, and their lives converge with their day-to-day work activities. So we find a lot of customers are using our mobile capabilities to extend their flexibility and productivity outside of work," said Jeff Reid, UPS's director of customer technology marketing.
AFRICA Omnifone opens music buffet for hungry EU mobile markets
 Omnifone has unveiled a new subscription-based music download service called "MusicStation" for mobile phone users in several European countries, and Africa could also benefit soon.
WEST AFRICA Release of MTN services in Benin put on hold
[Gérard Guedegbe] The government of Benin has prevented the official launching of MTN services in Benin on 15 June 2007. The argument put forward by the regulation authority was that the hosting mobile network company, Areeba, did not complete all the administrative formalities prescribed by the law in case of denomination change or licence transfer in Benin.
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Newspapers | | EAST AFRICA Somali newspaper office firebombed
Attackers have firebombed the offices of a newspaper in Somalia (Puntland) and the attack has been condemned by the IFJ, which has also called on the Somali authorities to bring those responsible for the firebombing to justice.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Lesotho reporter harassed at rally
A ‘Public Eye' reporter, Kabelo Masoabi, was verbally attacked at the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy's (LCD) rally in Makhaleng, Ha Ramabanta, in the Maseru district, over the weekend.
EAST AFRICA Somali mayor slaps reporter, has him arrested
Journalist struck and his arrest ordered by the mayor of Somaliland capital.
WEST AFRICA SOD's report gets SOD suspended sentence
A Mali court has imposed prison sentences on the teacher who set the assignment, and on the journalists who reported on a school essay assignment that mocked an imaginary president.
MOROCCO
Moroccan journalist wins press freedom award
Well-known for his audacious pen, Ahmed Reda Benchemsi has been named winner in the Journalist category of the annual Samir Kassir award for Press Freedom.
NORTH AFRICA Djibouti government slammed for allegedly harassing media
Government's authoritarian excesses condemned on 30th anniversary of independence.
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Online Media | | NORTH AFRICA Yemeni journalist held for another month
A Yemeni security court has decided against releasing an opposition journalist, and he will be detained for at least another month.
EGYPT Egyptian blogger still faces charges
Court refuses judge's request to block websites, but allows for their censorship and prosecution; investigation of blogger continues.
EGYPT New guide for bloggers and online journalists launched in Cairo
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information has welcomed the publishing of a new guide for citizen journalism on the internet. The guide, which is prepared by Stephen Franklin, a journalist and a media trainer, is short and simple and aims at helping beginning bloggers who desire to work as citizen journalists on the internet.
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Production | | KENYA 48Fest film contest for Africa
Staying Alive, MTV International's ongoing HIV and AIDS prevention campaign, and African music channel MTV base are joining forces to bring its thought-provoking film competition 48fest to Kenya for the first time, it was announced on Tuesday, 26 June 2007.
AFRICA Hollywood's lion roars in Jordan
Metro-Goldwyn-Myer (MGM) Studios Inc. and Rubicon, a Jordan-based animation, edutainment and multimedia company, have announced a multi-level business alliance, which includes an exclusive licensing and merchandising agreement for the Greater Middle East and North Africa region.
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Radio | | ZIMBABWE Leading economist queries Dell's claims on Zimbabwe collapse
On SW Radio Africa's 'Hot Seat' program, journalist Violet Gonda interviews leading Zimbabwean economist Tony Hawkins, and poses the question whether US Ambassador Christopher Dell is right to say President Robert Mugabe will be forced to quit by record inflation of over 1,5 million percent by year end.
EAST AFRICA Comoros reporter held
A Comoros reporter from a state-owned radio station has been imprisoned for three days, and was allegedly mistreated while in detention.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Lesotho urged to drop charges against radio host
The Lesotho radio host who was detained by the authorities has been freed on bail, but has also been charged with "failing to report subversive activity".
ZAMBIA Zambian minister's threat against radio station: what threat?
Zambian minister denies he threatened to revoke radio station's license following interview with opposition leader.
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Retail | | ZIMBABWE Companies ignore order to cut prices
Zimbabwean companies have ignored what many regard as nonsensical an order by the government to cut prices by 50%, and for some products, by over 60%. In announcing the order, the Zimbabwean government said it set up a unit drawn from all its security agencies to enforce the cuts.
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TV | | NORTH AFRICA Eritrean TV presenter detained
Woman journalist employed by state TV held in military camp.
NIGERIA Nigerian government bulldozes broadcaster
African Independent Television (AIT), a leading Nigerian independent broadcast network, says it will take the government to court after authorities demolished three new station facilities in the capital, Abuja.
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| | Business | | Ghana prepares for new, simplified currency
"The value is the same" is the message being spread by the Bank of Ghana regarding the new denomination of its currency, the cedi. [Management] | Ghanaian tourism sector aims to improve standards
Ghana's tourism sector has realised that the country is a sought after business and leisure destination and thus aims to improve its services. [Business travel] | Join the club!
KLM Club Africa is an exclusive community where business people can enhance their network and business contacts. KLM Club Africa offers a unique online networking portal and is supported by live networking events. [Business travel] | Indigenisation Bill just another means to steal
An Opposition MDC Member of the Zimbabwe parliament says that Mugabe's new law requiring 51% of all businesses to be placed in the hands of black Zimbabweans is nothing more than yet another law to legalise theft by the state. The main target appears to be mining companies, but foreign-owned advertising, marketing and media will also be affected. [Corporate wellness] | Profile: Dangote – Nigeria's leading businessman and billionaire
A profile on one of Africa's leading business leaders, and the man often called Nigeria's top business leader. So, what makes him tick? [Management] |
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| | Events to diarise | Reporting Africa Nordic-SADC Journalism Centre (NSJ) - Grahamstown, South Africa, 9 July
This course aims to help participants develop awareness for media representation and the sociology of news production. | | | TotalPack Summit EMEA '07 Aspire Events - Singapore, 5 August
The annual show for the packaging industry will bring together strategic buyers from FMCG industries and suppliers on board Star Cruise, Singapore for a face-to-face meeting! | | | Rural and poverty reporting NSJ - Swaziland, 6 August
This course will cover issues related to poverty and how to best report on them. | | | iPAD Central Africa iPAD Africa - Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 9 October
This conference, exhibition and round-table meetings/executive briefings focuses on opportunities in the energy, mining and infrastructure sectors in the DRC and in Central Africa. | | |
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