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Botswana's supporting role in 2010
Denmark contributes $2.4 million to ITC trade programme
Vast opportunities in for SA in West Africa
ZBC in crisis as it haemorrhages staff
DHL wins new agreement with world's largest retailer
Zimbabwe levies duty in forex for underwear
Malawi slashes funding for broadcasters
MTN is again Uganda's top taxpayer
Chirundu becomes one-stop border post
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Marketing | | WEST AFRICA Vast opportunities in for SA in West Africa
South Africa is looking to realise the vast opportunities and huge potential for mutually-beneficial growth with West Africa, home to some of the world's top oil producers such as Nigeria, writes Shaun Benton.
ZIMBABWE Desperate times bring desperate measures in Zim
A new breed of entrepreneur has evolved in Zimbabwe's ever-deteriorating economy, adapted to take advantage of an environment characterised by food shortages and increasingly scarce basic commodities.
SOUTH AFRICA Volcano forges links with leading Nigerian agency - Volcano Advertising
 Volcano Advertising has established an association with Integrated Marketing Communications Holdings Ltd (IMC), one of the fastest growing marketing communications companies in Nigeria, with branches in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
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2010 FIFA World Cup | | BOTSWANA Botswana's supporting role in 2010
When South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, this presented an opportunity for Botswana to position itself and take advantage of the many football spectators, tourists and potential investors that are expected to visit southern Africa during that time.
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Africa | | ZAMBIA Chirundu becomes one-stop border post
Zambia and Zimbabwe have signed a bilateral agreement that will see the transformation of Chirundu into a one-stop border post - and that will reduce transit times for imports and exports through border.
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Branding | | AFRICA Microsoft introduces a new breed of portable mice
Microsoft struck again in the consumer hardware space on Wednesday, rolling out new hardware with special emphasis on notebook computers. Two new mice are focused on laptop use, and one of the new webcams the company unveiled is designed for notebooks as well. One of the mice features Bluetooth connectivity, while the other has a transceiver containing a 1 GB thumb drive.
KENYA DHL wins new agreement with world's largest retailer
[Carole Kimutai] DHL has announced a new three-year agreement with Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retail chain.
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Cinema | | SOUTH AFRICA ‘Edutaining' using film as a medium
The fifth North West Film Festival (NWFF), which takes place 14 – 23 September 2007 across the North West Province, will ‘edutain' using film as a medium. The theme is Ke Ya Rona (Setswana for “It is ours”) and its primary objective is to encourage people to take ownership of the industry either as active audiences or film makers.
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Digital | | ZIMBABWE No throughway for VoIP in Zimbabwe
[Dumisani Ndlela] The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) has failed to come up with regulations to govern Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), raising fears this could be a deliberate attempt to protect state-owned telephone operator, TelOne, whose fortunes have crumbled since the advent of the mobile networks 10 years ago.
NIGERIA Schools to benefit from Nigeria's USPF
[Remmy Nweke] A total of 109 primary and secondary schools have been selected as beneficiaries of the first phase of the 'Schools, University Access Programme to Digital Lifestyle' project of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
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Education and Training | | WEST AFRICA Senegal: New efforts underway to educate in local languages
With formal education systems crumbling in much of sub-Saharan Africa, educationalists are looking more to informal systems of education taught in local languages.
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Eventing | | AFRICA Highway Africa @ a glance
[Emrakeb Assefa] The Highway Africa conference and training has come a long way in empowering African journalists since its inception in 1997.
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Media | | AFRICA Who must tell Africa's story?
[Rebecca Wanjiku] The longest and loudest complaint by African leaders is that western media portray Africa as desperate and hopeless, and the west has now responded.
AFRICA Maintain high ethical standards - Badat
[Zachary Ochieng] The 11th edition of Highway Africa took place in Grahamstown, South Africa, this week, under the theme: Quality and professionalism: The case for new media. Speaking during the opening ceremony, Dr Saleem Badat, Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University reaffirmed the institution's commitment to promote responsible journalism on the continent and praised the pan-African nature that the conference has been associated with over the years.
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Mobile | | WEST AFRICA Sudatel enters the Senegalese market
[Musa Saidykhan] Sudanese telecommunications company, Sudatel, has won a new comprehensive telecommunications licence to provide mobile services in Senegal.
UGANDA MTN is again Uganda's top taxpayer
MTN Uganda maintained its position as Uganda's number one taxpayer for the third time in a row.
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Newspapers | | NAMIBIA NAB 'owns' in Namibia
NAB Africa now offers its advertisers the full spectrum of the Namibian market after being awarded the representation of the Namibian Sun, a new tabloid to be launched by Democratic Media Holdings (DMH) on 21 September 2007.
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Online Media | | AFRICA 10 Great SEO Tips, Part 2
[Paul Korzeniowski] Garnering the attention of the search engine vendors requires a delicate balance. While there are some steps that companies can take to improve their ranking, there are other items that lower the company's search rankings, and can even result in them being blacklisted in some cases. Consequently, they need to maintain a proper balance.
AFRICA From 'Rock Paintings to Mental Acrobatics'
[David Kezio-Musoke] 'Mental acrobatics' is the personal blog of Daudi Were, a native of Kenya. Were, who prides himself on being an African patriot, was also described as a digital citizen of the world during Wednesday's opening session of the Digital Citizen Indaba (DCI), the second African blogging conference, held in Grahamstown.
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Production | | SOUTH AFRICA Creative Vision's animators pull out all the stops for the MTN Sony Ericsson Pink concert - Creative Vision
 When Metropolitan Republic approached Creative Vision to do a three-minute animation in the short space of just five working days, it was well aware that it was actually a three-week job. The brief was to do the best possible with the limited time available.
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Radio | | AFRICA Malawi slashes funding for broadcasters
The opposition-dominated Parliament of Malawi has cut funding to public broadcasters over claims that the government uses them as propaganda tools. The move is likely to mean more competition for private broadcasters for a slice of the radio advertising revenues in Malawi.
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Retail | | ZIMBABWE Bull run on the ZSE: heads you win, tails you win
Financial markets, previously in a form of paralysis, were relieved to see the back of the Supplementary budget presented by the Minister of Finance last Thursday. Significantly, the budget indicated that the country's domestic debt has soared to Z$8,1 trillion largely due to high interest payments, which at 6.1 trillion accounted for 75,4% of total debt.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Limited supplies, biofuel demand push maize prices up
Increased global demand for biofuel has pushed up the already buoyant price of maize in South Africa, forcing aid agencies to procure food from elsewhere to feed an expected more than six million food-insecure people in southern Africa.
EAST AFRICA Ethiopia, EU, US agree on coffee trademarks
European and American coffee roasting and distribution companies have signed an agreement to use Ethiopia's coffee specialty trademarks.
ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe levies duty in forex for underwear
Struggling to boost its foreign currency reserves, a cash-strapped Zimbabwe government this week began charging duty in forex for imported footwear and clothing items, including underwear, we can reveal. A Zimbabwean opposition MP described the latest move as “absolutely barmy.”
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Sponsorship | | AFRICA Denmark contributes $2.4 million to ITC trade programme
Denmark has contributed nearly $2.4 million (13 million Danish kroner) to fund International Trade Centre development programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America in 2007, with over 20% of the total earmarked for efforts to expand exports from poorer countries of organic products.
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TV | | SOUTH AFRICA MTV Networks Africa takes sales in-house
Pan-African entertainment platform MTV Networks Africa is to expand its in-house commercial sales team, delivering more integrated and targeted solutions to maximise value for its growing list of blue-chip clients. On top of its existing pan-African remit, the expanded in-house team will also take over responsibility for managing airtime sales in South Africa.
AFRICA ZBC in crisis as it haemorrhages staff
[Lebo Nkatazo] President Robert Mugabe's main propaganda arm – the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation – is in crisis following massive staff resignations, New Zimbabwe.com can reveal – 111 staff have left in the past nine months.
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