Live and learn The 2010 FIFA World Cup sales process has been extended with a new phase to be launched 9 February to 7 April 2010. The entire process of obtaining tickets for the event has been a daunting one, specifically for the man in the street. Complaints have varied from costs to the actual process; some are not happy with having to apply for a ticket and would have preferred it working on a first-come-first-served basis. Perhaps FIFA and the 2010 LOC should have explained in more detail to the general public why the sales phases work in the manner they do. The 2010 African Cup of Nations in Angola is a great opportunity to gather useful information and pointers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in terms of security as well as broadcasting rights. Two radio stations in Malawi have been banned from broadcasting live commentary on any AFCON game using television footage broadcast by MultiChoice Malawi as this is illegal. This is a case other African radio stations should definitely take heed of during the World Cup. Congratulations to the three African designers, Black Coffee (SA), Deola Sagoe (Nigeria) and Loin Cloth and Ashes (Tanzania) who were chosen to showcase their work at the 2010 New York Fashion Week - a dream come true for any fashion designer the world over. Sindy Peters, content manager
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 Chemicals & Marketing (C&M) Company has been appointed as the official distributor of Engen's full range of lubricants and selected chemical products in Malawi, both companies announced late last week. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 FIFA has agreed to create a new participating member associations (PMAs) sales phase between 9 February and 7 April 2010, it announced on Friday, 15 January 2010. Only one such phase had previously been planned, which closed on 13 January 2010. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] For the past five years, human traffickers have been using the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a ‘bait' to lure people to work in South Africa at construction sites and accommodation establishments, as escorts, stadium marshals and many more, a Bizcommunity.com investigation has found. Read more >> [Bongani Nkosi] An eye-catching minibus with a difference is currently zipping around Johannesburg, South Africa, to teach the public about the history of the beautiful game and build excitement ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in June 2010. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] The 2010 Local Organising Committee (LOC) has expressed concerns about the slow pace of the FIFA World Cup tickets sale in Africa, with less than 150 days to go for the kick-off in South Africa. Read more >> [Proffesor Ndawonde] PRETORIA: The attack on the Togo national soccer team in Angola will not risk South Africa's security measures during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, says National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele. Read more >>Branding
 [Esther Karuku] With the current economic recovery taking root in Kenya, business owners have reason to smile. Rising from the effects of the global economic meltdown, company profits are slowly but surely increasing. To confirm this, are the impressive 2009 third quarter financial results posted by local banks. Read more >>Digital
LONDON: Longphone, a European carrier and VOIP call termination provider has selected Gateway as a strategic partner for its call-termination service in Africa. Read more >> SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has announced an alliance with Internet security specialty firm McAfee to get members of the world's leading online social network to better defend their computers. Read more >>Eventing
[Carole Kimutai] Next month, Kenya will play host to AITEC's annual Banking & Mobile Money Conference for the COMESA region. The event will be held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre 24 - 25 February 2010. Read more >> Media
 [Justice Malala] On Friday, 8 January 2010 three members of Togo's football squad were killed in a machine-gun attack on the team's vehicles in northern Angola. The team was in the country to participate in the African Nations Cup. Read more >>WINDHOEK: The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Namibian authorities to thoroughly investigate an alleged attack by four assailants against freelance journalist John Grobler on 8 January 2010. Read more >>Press freedom in Kenya is under threat, according to media owners, after the government reintroduced measures to limit press freedom despite earlier agreeing to water down proposals. Read more >> Isha Sesay, who hosts Inside Africa, CNN International's weekly look at political, economic, social and cultural affairs and trends in Africa, will co-host the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, to be held in Kampala Uganda on 29 May 2010. Read more >>NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists yesterday, 11 January 2010, called on Angolan authorities to ensure the safety of sports journalists covering the African Nations Cup following the death of a Togolese sports journalist on Friday, 8 January 2010. Read more >>MOGADISHU: The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is concerned over the continuing violence being directed towards the journalists in Somalia following the injury of a radio journalist in Beletweyne town of Hiran region on Sunday, 10 January 2010. Read more >>Mobile
 [Gregory Gondwe] Zain Malawi, on 12 January 2010, launched a pilot phase of a new service that will enable customers to carry out financial transactions using their mobile phones. The mobile commerce service dubbed ZAP Khusa M'manja (money in your hands) is being rolled out this week in Malawi following a successful performance in East Africa Zain operations. Read more >>LUSAKA: Four firms from Russia, India, Angola and Libya have been shortlisted for the next round of bidding for a partial stake in Zambia's state-run telecom company, Zamtel, an official said Wednesday, 13 January 2010. Read more >> [Walter Wafula] Zain has extended Zap - its mobile phone-based commerce service to Niger, Sierra Leone and Malawi following its roll-out in East Africa in February 2009. Read more >>Newspapers
 WAN-IFRA has announced the appointment of Christoph Riess as the new group chief executive of the WAN-IFRA industry representative body. The appointment will take effect from 1 February 2010. Read more >> The IFRA Expo 2010, scheduled for 4-6 October 2010 in Hamburg, Germany, is designed to offer an abundance of innovations, a WAN-IFRA report stated yesterday, Tuesday, 12 January 2010. Read more >> The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have called on the Iranian government to release all jailed journalists and end its crackdown on the media that began after the disputed 2009 election. Read more >>WASHINGTON: Newspapers and other "traditional media" still generate the bulk of news that gets to US consumers despite the rising importance of online media, according to a study released Monday. Read more >>Online Media
NOUAKCHOTT: Hanevy Ould Dehah, the editor of the website Taqadoumy.com, continues to be detained illegally in Nouakchott's Dar Naim prison although he should have been freed on 24 December 2009 on completing a six-month sentence on a charge of “offending public decency.” Read more >> SAN FRANCISCO: Google said it will let people store pictures, videos, and other kinds of digital files online at Google Docs, adding virtual hard drives to services offered "in the cloud." Read more >>Out Of Home
 The MTN Ekasi TV sites are screening the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola games live. The first permanent big screen TV went up in Diepsloot in December 2007 and the project now consists of 19 sites across the country. Read more >>Production
 Standard Bank and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) are seeking an iconic image that captures the passion, excitement and euphoria of the 2010 Orange Africa Cup of Nations. They are hosting a competition for professional photographers accredited to cover the event in Angola. Read more >>Public Relations
[Wanyaka Gituku] As I was surfing the internet, I stumbled on an article in the Daily Nation. The article reported that a survey revealed that top opinion shapers in the United States view Kenya as a corrupt nation with a culture entrenched in impunity. Read more >> Radio
[Gregory Gondwe] Multichoice Malawi has taken to task two radio stations in Malawi that were relaying proceedings at the Africa Cup of Nations currently underway in Angola by conducting commentary of games the radio personnel were watching on television. Read more >> Retail
 ARISE, global style and culture magazine, has announced the names of top African designers who will feature at the 2010 New York Fashion Week as part of the magazine's African Collective Part III. It is part of the magazine's commitment to showcase African fashion through a series of international ARISE-branded events. Read more >> Brussels-based international organisation EMRC will host its first agricultural economic mission to Hyderabad, India where 35 African delegates will be immersed in the high-end agricultural technology of India. Read more >>[Walter Wafula] A group of at least 56 African tax administration officials are set to meet in Cairo, Egypt next month, to tame the growing transfer pricing problems on the continent. Read more >> [Jocelyn Newmarch] The global recession could end only in 2012, but Africa could take advantage of a likely shift in manufacturing jobs to the continent. Read more >> [Michael Hamlyn] An international treaty designed to protect seeds from commercial exploitation is allegedly being violated by the US and Brazilian governments and a Texas university. Read more >> TV
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya has begun migrating to digital broadcasting technology ahead of the June 2012 deadline. In December 2009, Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki launched the Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial (DVB-T) technology. Read more >> "You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait." - Ellen Metcalf "The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." - Pierre Corneille "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
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