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 | Al Jazeera is urging people to send their own personal messages to the detainees, Peter Greste, Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, on social media using the hashtag #FreeAJStaff on Twitter, Vine and Instagram. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Cromhout So many articles were written last year, making reference to the fact that loyalty doesn't pay. So many radio interviews, one of which I was part of, on Bruce Whitfield's Money Show, were questioning whether loyalty pays. Read more >>
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 | The new value of the Nigerian economy includes data from telecommunications, airlines, information technology and Nollywood, the country's homegrown film industry which now accounts for around 1.3% of total output. Read more >>
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 | After reportedly becoming the market leader of broadband internet in Cameroon, Swiss-based provider of mobile broadband internet in sub-Saharan Africa, YooMee Africa has launched its operations in Côte d'Ivoire. Read more >>
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 | To inspire and empower brand builders in Africa, award-winning global African brand and reputation architect, adviser and authority, Thebe Ikalafeng, is launching a series of pan-African Africa Branding Masterclasses across several African countries. Read more >>
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 | Chemory Gunko We speak about good bosses and bad bosses all the time... okay, no wait, we actually only speak about bad bosses all the time. Read more >>
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 | This year the theme for the Association of African Business Schools' (AABS) 2014 Annual Connect Conference will be 'The Role of Business Schools in Building Lasting Institutions in Africa.' Read more >>
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 | MTN Uganda has launched a new SIM based service, ContactXchange, which enables customers to share contacts after making calls with the aim of helping them to easily stay connected. Read more >>
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 | MTN Group and Bharti Airtel has partnered to launch an international money transfer service that seeks to remove the hassles of transferring money between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso for the operators' Mobile Money customers. Read more >>
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 | CPJ reports that police in Somaliland raided the Hargeisa offices of the independent Somali-language paper Haatuf and its sister English-language weekly, Somaliland Times, and suspended them indefinitely. Read more >>
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 | Banele Rewo Until recently, no other outdoor advertising media business model has benefitted the consumer and their community directly such as community-centric mural outdoor advertising. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Alliance Media Alliance Media Zimbabwe, the country's largest provider of billboards and outdoor advertising media, has partnered up with the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) by sponsoring a number of billboards for the organisation. Read more >>
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 | The new Al Jazeera documentary series, Lifelines: The Quest for Global Health, is filmed by an award-winning South African team in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. (video) Read more >>
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 | Times Media Group of South Africa has bought a 49% stake in Radio Africa Limited. TMG acquired the minority stake in Radio Africa for $18.62m (Sh1.58 billion). Read more >>
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 | Juliette Attwell What can you do differently to stand out? This week we look at different finding ways to get into the industry in which you really want to be. Read more >>
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 | Juliette Attwell This week we look at some ideas on how to gain experience as well as making an impact with your cover letter. Read more >>
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 | According to ZenithOptimedia's new Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, global adspend will be boosted this year by the three 'semi-quadrennial' events... Read more >>
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 | In the next two to three years Woolworths is planning to open 15 stores in sub-Saharan Africa, including in Kenya, Mauritius and Namibia, reports Reuters. Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad Famous Brands on Wednesday, 9 April 2014, said it had established a strong platform for growth in the Middle East and North Africa regions with the signing of a master license agreement for Saudi Arabia‚ Lebanon‚ Morocco‚ Iran and Egypt. Read more >>
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 | Danette Breitenbach Africa is the story, actually the big story is Africa*. This was the message from Malcolm Horne, of Broll at the fourth South African Council of Shopping Centres (SACSC) annual research conference. Read more >>
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 | Abdirizaq Hussein Wananchi's pay-TV provider, Zuku, has expanded its subscription satellite bouquet in Uganda by adding Bukedde 1 and TV West to its platform as a part of its ongoing efforts to broaden its consumer offering. Read more >>
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 | In an aim to expand the reach of its digital terrestrial television (DTT) offering in sub-Saharan Africa, MultiChoice will expand its C-band capacity on Intelsat 904 at 60º East to distribute content to its terrestrial towers for DTT services. Read more >>
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 | Joining 15 other World Fellows selected this year from thousands of applicants across the globe, Biola Alabi, until recently the Africa managing director of M-Net, has been named a 2014 Yale World Fellow. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, US: The facts are the focus as part of a trend in journalism spreading from the United States to many places around the world. Read more >>
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 | CANNES, FRANCE: The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has announced the final names that will make up the 17 juries coming together in Cannes, France, for this year's Festival and Awards. Read more >>
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 | MediaCom, one of the world's leading media communications specialists, has signed a deal with mobile advertising server Medialets as part of its drive to simplify mobile tracking for advertisers. Read more >>
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 | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor To plug an important price and size gap between its i20 and i30 models Hyundai has launched another attack on the highly competitive B-segment with the introduction of a neat and practical five-door Accent hatchback. Read more >>
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 | Rod Baker 'Long Beach Resort is not so much a hotel or resort as a village - a village in which we set out to have something for everyone - to create a holiday destination to which guests will return, time and again' - Nicolas de Chalain, Long Beach's first GM. Read more >>
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Henrie Geyser: motoring editor |
Henrie Geyser: motoring editor |
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Visit the CTICC, 13 to 14 May, for the African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa Conference and Exhibition Read more >> |
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Andrew Jackson "One man with courage makes a majority." Margaret Thatcher "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." Charles Swindoll "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." |
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