| | | Headlines | ZBC TV goes live on the internet
Equity Bank enters Kenya mortgage market
White farmers begin returning to Zimbabwe
Kenyan program manager appointed: promise of more local content
Painting Africa with the corruptor's brush
Cyber space criminals on the increase in Uganda
Zapped! Lightning strike sparks iPod safety debate
Ethiopian journalists face death penalty
10 e-Commerce events that shook the last 10 years
Hawkins interview, Part 2: The price cuts and their impact
Uganda newspapers go mobile
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Marketing | | KENYA Equity Bank enters Kenya mortgage market
[Carole Kimutai] Equity Bank has announced its entry into the mortgage market after acquiring 24.9% in mortgage firm Housing Finance.
AFRICA Painting Africa with the corruptor's brush
The reputations of such African countries as Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe and, increasingly, South Africa, amongst many others, continue to take a battering internationally through runaway corruption that governments seem incapable of confronting.
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Branding | | EGYPT Egypt to sell public sector bank
Egypt agreed on Monday to offer 80% of the country's third-largest public sector bank, Banque du Caire, to a strategic investor, a cabinet spokesman told AFP.
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CRM | | SOUTHERN AFRICA SA contact centre industry set to become global player
While the South African contact centre industry is not immune to global challenges, the country is currently improving its promising position in the global market as a more coherent strategic focus becomes evident in the industry in SA.
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Digital | | GHANA African ICT summit opens in Ghana
[Emily Nyarko] Africa must develop adequate, sufficient and efficient systems for the distribution of frequencies and spectrum in the continent.
AFRICA Cyber space criminals on the increase in Uganda
It may sound like an old problem to other countries but in Uganda where use of information and communication technologies is relatively new, their arrival came with a new type of crime.
AFRICA Zapped! Lightning strike sparks iPod safety debate
A Canadian jogger happened to be carrying an iPod at the wrong place at the wrong time.
NORTH AFRICA Libya to receive fibre optic backbone
Alcatel-Lucent has signed a contract with Libyan Post Telecommunications & Information Technology Company (LPTIC) to supply a nationwide fibre optic backbone network that will serve all of Libya.
AFRICA Zombie nation
A bot is a computer whose operation has been secretly hijacked by malware. The infected computer, which is often referred to as a "zombie," has a Trojan program which directs the computer to connect to a remote location to download additional instructions. A group of hijacked zombie computers forms a botnet.
ALGERIA Djezzy GSM expands its connexion in Algeria
Orascom Technology Solutions completes deployment of Redline's RedCONNEX™ products to provide wireless backhaul for expansion of Orascom Telecom's Djezzy GSM service.
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Media | | COTE D'IVOIRE Robbers hit Ivory Coast media groups
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Cote d'Ivoire government to take urgent action after four media groups were robbed.
SOUTH AFRICA Is SuperSport soccer deal under threat?
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Football is Africa's most popular sport, with a huge following throughout the continent. Naturally, sponsorships are key to the success of the game – as is news surrounding the sport, its teams and players, and the broadcasting of games to the widest possible fan base. Recent events in South Africa have shown, however, that sponsorship issues are not always straightforward; in the case of the spat between the national broadcaster, pay-TV channel and the country's Premier Soccer League, even the government has got involved!
KENYA How free is Kenya's media?
Media freedom is taken as a given in Kenya, but problems persist and in this interview with Kenyan publisher Gitobu Imanyara, RAP 21 asked him to expand on a number of issues that still influence media freedom in the East African country.
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Mobile | | WEST AFRICA Benin: Moov and MTN networks cut over increased licence fees
The new Beninois Government decided to review all telecoms licensing arrangements when it came into office and tasked its newly independent regulator to carry out the task.
AFRICA Mobile phone giant calls for ease of mobile money transfer
Vodafone Plc, the mobile phone giant, has called for a new regulatory framework to allow greater access to financial services via mobile phones in developing countries.
NIGERIA Handset theft: NCC sets up price-fixing committee
[Jonah Iboma] The Nigerian Communications Commission has set up a committee to recommend an acceptable charge for the blocking and recovery of stolen handsets in the country.
SEYCHELLES Environmental protection goes mobile
[Gervais J. Henrie] The decision by Cable & Wireless Seychelles telecommunications company to introduce e-top up technology is expected to be a positive step towards environmental protection.
WEST AFRICA Mobile network connects rural Sierra Leone to the web
[Bai-Bai Sesay] In a war ravaged country like Sierra Leone where internet services can only be accessed from commercial internet cafe sites, the introduction of mobile internet services is gradually forcing other network subscribers to switch over.
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Newspapers | | ZIMBABWE Zimbabwean photojournalist detained for taking shots of police action
Photojournalist briefly detained, his camera briefly seized, for taking pictures of police action.
EAST AFRICA Ethiopian journalists face death penalty
The prosecutor in trial of four journalists convicted after being arrested during the violent suppression of anti-government riots in November 2005 seeks death penalty.
WEST AFRICA Niger takes on newspapers
The Niger authorities have suspended one newspaper and warned three others over their coverage of rebel group's activities.
AFRICA Zapiro zaps the competition
Jonathan Shapiro, the South African cartoonist who was detained by the apartheid regime – and is now being sued for defamation by a high-ranking member of SA's present ruling party – has seen off tough competition from other African cartoonists and won the Cartoonists Rights Network 2007 award for courage.
WEST AFRICA Gambian reporter goes into hiding
A freelance Gambian reporter went into hiding last week after several individuals, including an executive of the pro-government daily and suspected security agents, harassed him about his alleged links to the regional press freedom group Media Foundation of West Africa (MFWA), according to the group and CPJ sources.
UGANDA Uganda newspapers go mobile
[Walter Wafula] Banks, matchmakers, advertisers, marketers and a host of other businesses, are using phones to deliver their services. Now it is the newspapers' time.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Swazi editor riles MPs
Editor investigated for contempt of Parliament following critical reporting of House of Assembly.
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Online Media | | AFRICA African internet communications falling behind
[Remmy Nweke] More people depend on the internet for their communication needs but in Africa it's not the same.
NORTH AFRICA Tunisian editor charged
Omar Mestiri, editor of the on-line journal Kalima is to appear in court in on defamation charges.
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Radio | | EGYPT Conversations from Cairo
CKI FM's youth talk show, Conversations will be broadcasting live from Egypt at the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) Conference and Youth Summit from 21 - 26 July 2007.
EAST AFRICA Troops raid Somali radio station
Radio Shabelle raided four times in 48 hours, troops threaten to kill staff, following coverage of military abuses.
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Recruitment | | UGANDA Regional bank offers graduate youths career opportunities
[Walter Wafula] East Africa Development Bank has announced career opportunities for young graduates in the region as it prepares to expand into two new markets.
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Retail | | ZIMBABWE Hawkins interview, Part 2: The price cuts and their impact
On SW Radio Africa's 'Hot Seat' programme, journalist Violet Gonda interviews leading Zimbabwean economist Tony Hawkins. Read part 1. This is Part 2 of the interview.
ZIMBABWE Forced price cuts drive down production
A government operation forcing businesses to reduce prices by 50% will drive manufacturing under, push unemployment up and bolster the informal market as basic commodities become scarcer, analysts have warned.
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TV | | ZIMBABWE ZBC TV goes live on the internet
[Lebo Nkatazo] Zimbabwe's state television has entered into a deal with a Dubai-based internet technology firm to beam its programmes live on the internet.
KENYA Kenyan program manager appointed: promise of more local content
 [Carole Kimutai] M-Net has appointed a Kenyan program manager in a move aimed at developing local content for East Africa.
AFRICA SA pay-TV targets African pride
However, it's certainly not a case of ‘one size fits all'...
UGANDA Media group readies for broadcast media
[Walter Wafula] Vision Group, Uganda's most profitable media industry and commercial printing company is set to spread its tentacles in the broadcasting industry. The group is ready to set up a television and radio station according to the group's Chief Executive Robert Kabushenga.
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| | Business | | Cape Town ranked best city in Africa, Middle East
The prestigious Travel and Leisure Magazine in the United States has ranked Cape Town as the number one city in Africa and the Middle East region. [Business travel] | Australia issues a revised warning to its citizens travelling to Zimbabwe
The Australian government has issued a revised warning to its citizens against travelling to Zimbabwe as violence escalates in the country amidst the chaos accompanying the government directive on price cuts. [Business travel] | UCT conference to build Africa-India trade and investment bridges
The UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) is to host a high-level conference aimed at growing trade and investment between Africa and India. [Management] | White farmers begin returning to Zimbabwe
Scores of white commercial farmers who left Zimbabwe after their farms were seized as part of President Robert Mugabe's land reform policies are returning home as the promise of greener pastures elsewhere in southern Africa fails to materialise. [Management] | 10 e-Commerce events that shook the last 10 years
The advent of search engine giant Google tops the Software and Information Industry Association list of the top 10 developments in e-commerce during the past decade. [Technology] |
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| | Events to diarise | SatWiBB East & West Africa AITEC Africa - Lagos, Nigeria, 21 August
SatWiBB East & West will provide practical business and technology briefings to empower resellers, service providers and users to maximise their returns on the increasing investment that they will be making in satellite and wireless broadband technology over the coming years. | | | Capacity Africa 2007 Capacity Conferences - Cape Town, South Africa, 10 September
Capacity Africa 2007 is Capacity magazine's inaugural pan-African wholesale telecoms congress and brings together the strategic decision-makers from carriers and service providers across Africa and from international providers. | | | African Film Conference African Studies Centre - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, 9 November
The African film conference in Urbana-Champaign will explore how an appreciation of films as mode of expression and form can be combined with an understanding of their content. | | |
| | Upcoming events | Re-imagine business excellence in a disruptive age TSL Training Solutions - Nairobi, Kenya, 21 July Understanding the value of consumer segmentation Gordon Institute of Business Science - Johannesburg, 23 July JDF and PDF/X three-day conference Exell Technologies - Cape Town, 24 July | More... Submit an event | | |
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