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 As part of McCann Africa's plan to re-ignite its pan-African offering, the African network hub, previously based in London, has now been moved to Johannesburg, South Africa. McCann is currently present in 32 African countries. Read more >> Ogilvy Cape Town has recently won an international project in a three-way pitch held in Casablanca, Morocco for a new global brand under the Coca-Cola umbrella. The new brand is to be revealed during the launch in North and West Africa later this year. Read more >>Digital
Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania are to receive US$151 million from the World Bank to improve their communication sectors. The funding is part of a wider project aimed at linking eastern and southern Africa to reliable and high-capacity communication services. Read more >>Intel Corporation is supporting an initiative in Kenya that aims to provide rural schools with training for students on computers as a learning tool and a way to gain skills. The project by the US-affiliated NGO - Kageno - worth approximately Ksh3 million plans to be launched countrywide through a mobile solar computer classroom targeting initially five schools in Rusinga Island. Read more >>Eventing
 HKLM and Terry Sutherland & Associates have together been awarded a contract for the relocation of 32 black rhino from South Africa into the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Read more >> [Dan Oshodin] Nigerian brand scholar and communication strategist, Uche Nworah, has been appointed to the 2010 Rebrand 100 Global Awards jury. Now in its sixth year, it is projected as a highly respected and coveted awards valued by businesses, brand strategists and various organisations worldwide. Read more >>Magazines
[Walter Wafula] After selling his works to other publications for 14 years at an “unfair value”, Natty Dread Barbara is moving into selling and marketing his works through his own publication he has named Top Events. Read more >> Media
The 2009 Highway Africa Conference, from 6 - 8 September 2009, at Rhodes University, Eastern Cape, South Africa is set to host the eighth edition of the SABC-Highway Africa New Media Awards. Nominations are open for the awards as well as the Highway Africa-OSIWA ICT Journalism Awards. Read more >> [Colleen Lowe Morna & Pat Made] It is late afternoon in Namibia and a current affairs programme at Base FM is about to go on air. Namibian singing sensation Stella Kavendjii breezes in unannounced, baby in her arms, and does an impromptu interview on her new album about HIV and AIDS. Such is the homely atmosphere at this woman-led community radio station that if anyone has an issue, they come in and chat about it. Read more >> [Colleen Lowe Morna & Pat Made] Research released today, Thursday, 6 August 2007, by Gender Links, a Southern African non-governmental organisation, points out that media is still not a very friendly environment for women to work in. “Glass Ceilings: Women and Men in Southern African Media” presents data and findings from 126 media houses (approximately half of all media houses in the region), representing 23 678 employees. Read more >> The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), earlier this week, condemned the charges brought by Sudanese authorities against Amal Habani, a female journalist and editor of the column "Tiny Issues" in Ajrass Al Horreya newspaper for having denounced the prosecution of Sudanese women who wear trousers. Read more >>[Dan Oshodin] Registration has commenced for the forthcoming Conference on Journalism and New Media Technologies in Africa organised by the School of Media and Communication of the Pan African University in Lagos, Nigeria. The conference is scheduled in Lagos from 23 - 27 August 2009 at the Honeywell Group Auditorium of the Pan African University's Lekki, Lagos campus. Read more >> Mobile
Vodafone is at loggerheads with yet another labour movement in Africa. First it was in South Africa with COSATU and now the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in Ghana is up in arms over the telecom giant's decision to lay off 950 employees. Read more >>Newspapers
Hoosain Karjieker has been appointed CE and Anastacia Martin publisher of all print and online operations at M&G Media; current CE Trevor Ncube will move into the position of executive deputy chairman. This succession plan should see new blood running the day-to-day operations, while freeing Ncube to focus on strategic issues and explore business opportunities in Zimbabwe and the region. Read more >>Online Media
 HARARE: Zimbabwe's MWeb and Africa Online will soon merge following the recent takeover by South Africa's telecommunications giant Telkom, an official told media. Read more >>Production
 According to Peter Rorvik, director of the Durban International Film Festival and the Centre for Creative Arts, attendance at the 30th edition increased significantly compared to previous years. Read more >>Recruitment
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya will soon have certified public managers, should a law regulating the practice of management be passed by parliament. This means that anyone bearing the title of 'manager' will need to be certified. The Bill titled, The Kenya Institute of Management Bill 2009, will among other things register practicing managers and bind them to a code of conduct. Read more >> Research
The results of the latest MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women's Advancement saw South Africa's Index score decline by five points from 90.6 to 85.7 between 2008 and 2009. The Index was released yesterday, Tuesday, 4 August 2009. Read more >>Retail
[Gregory Gondwe] As shortage of foreign currency threatens to derail Malawi's economic growth, authorities have clamped down on illegal dealers of foreign currency with the court fining a Chinese National who was caught trying to smuggle out thousands of US dollars and arresting two local businessmen found in possession of fake foreign currencies. Read more >> [Molly Slothower] The urban poor have been hit the hardest by the global hunger epidemic, which has been fueled by the ongoing food, economic, financial, and environmental crises. Read more >> NAIROBI: The US should rethink subsidies for American farmers and relax stringent market rules, among other measures, to encourage trade in agricultural commodities from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), says an advocacy group. Read more >>[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's retail giants are facing stiff competition from an emergent crop of small retailers who have taken a significant share of the market. But the big players said they will leverage their brand and life-sized operations to outperform the new rivals and regain market share. Read more >>  NAIROBI: Procter & Gamble, through a local distributor, Hasbah Kenya, re-launched a new formula of Ariel washing powder in Kenya. The company staged a consumer, stakeholder and media launch at the open grounds of Uhuru Park, Nairobi earlier this week. Read more >>[Gregory Gondwe] As Malawi is still struggling to get enough foreign currency on the market, its central bank, the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has unleashed its latest whip on forex bureaus for what it called non-compliance to rules set in the Exchange Control Regulations 2007. Read more >>  MBEERE SOUTH: Faced with increasingly unreliable rains, farmers in Kenya's eastern district of Mbeere South have started growing drought-tolerant crops to meet their food and subsistence needs instead of the staple maize. Read more >>[Alison Walkley] Seventy five Zimbabweans have officially graduated from a small business-training program, each specialising in a skill from which they can reap economic benefits. The program, run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), the Zimbabwe Women's Bureau, and sponsored by the Spanish government, has already turned out 45 graduates who have launched successful new businesses. Read more >> [Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's central bank said it had intervened to help bring in Visa International back into the country ahead of a surge in international tourist arrivals during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Read more >> TV
 [Gregory Gondwe] Multichoice DStv Malawi branch manager for north and central regions of the country, Titania Katenga Kaunda, has disclosed that the company will soon be launching a new W7 satellite. Read more >>Research
Vision Africa, a full-service marketing and stakeholder research company, has completed the fieldwork for its MediaMetrics study that measures media penetration, consumption and preferences in Namibia. Read more >> Vision Africa, a full-service marketing and stakeholder research company that operates within Namibia, Angola, Botswana and Zambia as well as other African countries, has appointed Liz Curtis as Accounts Director. Read more >>
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