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![Kui Kariuki](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/408119-120x120.jpg) | Louise Marsland How does ‘going digital' in the television market affect content and viewership patterns? Kui Kariuki from Ipsos Kenya looked at what happened with Kenya's digital migration... read |
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![Bibi Bakare-Yusuf](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/408116-120x120.jpg) | Ten years on, TEDGlobal returns to Africa with a live event featuring more than 45 talks, interviews and performances in Tanzania... read |
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![Infrastructure investment is critical for Africa's growth and development](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/408115-120x120.jpg) | African governments need to create the environment for business to invest in infrastructure... read |
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![Massmart sticks to expansion strategy](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407984-120x120.jpg?2) | Colleen Goko Massmart says it has not given up on Africa and will continue to invest in its business on the continent... read |
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![#Loeries2017: TBWA/RAAD on winning a Grand Prix in the ‘mother of all categories'](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/408003-120x120.jpg?2) | Jessica Tennant TBWA/RAAD, The Disruption Company, not only took home a Grand Prix for Nissan's Camelpower integrated campaign at this year's Loerie Awards, which took place on Saturday, 19 August and Sunday, 20 August at the ICC in Durban, but also two silvers and one bronze... read | |
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![Juan Pablo Gonzalez © -](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407981-120x120.jpg?2) | The hashtag, the symbol attached to keywords to tag topics online, celebrates 10 years making social media just a bit more navigable... read |
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![Spice and all things rice: Lagos pays homage to jollof](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407950-120x120.jpg) | Gregory Walton In Nigeria, jollof rice isn't just a tasty West African dish - it's a national obsession... read |
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![Africa's app-based taxis battle Uber over market share](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407881-120x120.jpg) | Uber's entry into the African continent, where it now operates in 15 major African cities, could be changing the transport narrative forever... read |
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![The second ‘Scramble for Africa' reveals need for IP rights protection](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407873.jpg) | Carla Collett For the second time in history, the African continent has become a focal point for global expansion and brand protection is critical... read |
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![Pioneer Foods develops focus on reducing sugar and salt](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407729-120x120.jpg?2) | Pioneer Foods is part of the voluntary healthy food options industry initiative, being coordinated by the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa... read |
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![Fastjet Facebook community larger than any other airline brand in Africa](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407736-120x120.jpg?2) | Fastjet has become the airline with the largest Facebook community in Africa. The airline's Facebook pages for Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia collectively passed the 1.1 million followers mark... read |
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![Dani Richa and Gau Narayanan](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407771-120x120.jpg) | Juanita Pienaar Impact BBDO's Dani Richa and Net#work BBDO's Gau Narayanan shares combined insights into BBDO's Loeries 2017 experience... read | |
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![Quality of service a challenge in Ghana ICT market](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407738-120x120.jpg) | More consolidation on the cards for Ghanaian ICT market, says IDC... read |
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![rawpixel ©](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407403-120x120.jpg?2) | Tom Manners With growth and increased revenue taking centre stage as top priorities, generating demonstrable, bottom-line benefits for clients has never been more important... read |
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![Highlights for 2017 Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407447-120x120.jpg?2) | The Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival is back in Johannesburg from 6 to 16 September 2017 to celebrate technology, creativity, collaboration and innovation from across the African continent. read |
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![Innovation, product diversification drives forecourt retail growth](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407273-120x120.jpg?2) | Expansion in the forecourt convenience retail industry continues, despite the general downturn of the retail industry as a whole... read |
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![Enver Duminy, CEO, Cape Town Tourism](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407165-120x120.jpg?2) | Enver Duminy The site's user experience is outstanding, and that use of rich content such as video and tapping into global travel trends are what contribute to the site's success... read |
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![Delivering a true omnichannel experience: what you need to know](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407332-120x120.jpg?2) | Lynette Hundermark With so many buzz words thrown around, omnichannel amongst them, it seems that retailers have completely lost sight on what a shopping experience is about... read |
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![Seedstars Ethiopia.](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407380-120x120.jpg) | Tom Jackson LangBot, a gamified and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered language teaching chatbot, has been named the winner of the Ethiopian leg of global early-stage startups competition Seedstars World... read |
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![Zimbabwe turns the spotlight on customer experience](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407379-120x120.jpg) | Customer experience and service delivery symposium on the cards for Zimbabwe... read |
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![New USAID trade hub for Botswana](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407378-120x120.jpg) | USAID opens new Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub in Botswana... read |
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![Lagos, Nigeria.](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407235-120x120.jpg) | Integrated marketing and PR agency Irvine Partners has expanded to Nigeria, opening up an office in Lagos... read |
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![Angola is emerging as a growing tech hub on the continent](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407216.jpg) | An Angola-based internet exchange point (IXP) is now top-three in Africa, as Angola emerges as a growing tech hub on the continent... read |
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![How this Senegalese fintech startup is going pan-African](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407205-120x120.jpg) | Tom Jackson Fintech startup InTouch is a Senegalese company taking an unusual step by establishing a footprint across the continent... read |
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![#CEMAfrica2017: Empowered customer experiences lie in multi-focused design](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407123-120x120.jpg?1) | Lauren Hartzenberg Sven Schoof, head of customer experience at Spree, discusses how to empower customers to interact with your brand... read |
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![Sneha Shah, MD of Thomson Reuters Africa](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407099-120x120.jpg?2) | Nicci Botha Not so long ago, people would have scoffed at the notion that the UK would be pulling out of the EU or that Donald Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office... read |
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![Profitability the prerequisite for sustainable agricultural production](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406596-120x120.jpg?2) | “The single most important factor that determines the sustainability of agricultural production to provide food security to any country is the fact that it can only be achievable if the production of food is profitable." read |
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![Joe Fuster](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407088-120x120.png) | Louise Marsland There is an organisational shift taking place in the customer experience industry, where traditional siloed structures are breaking down to enable a culture of customer-centricity... read |
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![It's time to start thinking about our digital carbon footprint](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406752-120x120.jpg?2) | Pietari Kaapa The media is at the forefront of generating awareness over environmental issues... read |
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![Nielsen announces Africa's first digital audience metric](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407661.jpg) | Issued by Nielsen The entrenchment of Nielsen's Digital Ad Ratings (DAR) in the South African media market, heralds a new era of audience-based advertising metrics where advertisers now know who, as opposed to just what, consumers engage with... read |
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![Siri creator, Antoine Blondeau. Photo: AFP](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407001-120x120.jpg?2) | HONG KONG - It's 2050 and the world revolves around you... read |
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![Image Supplied](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407054-120x120.jpg?2) | Stuart Pallister Will Google come to dominate the industry, leaving online travel agencies and others in its wake? read |
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![Google and Walmart team up to take on Amazon](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407681-120x120.jpg?2) | Walmart, the world's biggest retailer, and Google, the internet's predominant search engine, are teaming up in an attempt to challenge Amazon... read |
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![Contactless to account for over 50% of POS transactions globally by 2022](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407164-120x120.jpg?2) | More than half (53%) of global transactions at POS (Point of Sale) will be contactless within five years, compared to just 15% this year... read |
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![City Lodge African expansion makes strong progress](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406870.jpg) | Issued by City Lodge Hotel The City Lodge Hotel Group expects to open the 147-room Town Lodge Windhoek, in Namibia, in September and is making good progress with the development of new hotels in Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique... read |
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![Porto do Caio, Angola's new deepwater port](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406994-120x120.jpg?2) | Miguel Damião Gago With forecasts of rising commodity prices, investors must now bear in mind that we are moving towards a sellers' market... read |
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![Image source:](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406991-120x120.jpg?2) | Olumuyiwa Adegun and Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo Nigeria is regarded as a hot country. Average maximum temperature can reach 38? - one of the hottest in sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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![Image source:](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406983-120x120.jpg?2) | Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday, 17 August, that the construction of Ethiopia's controversial Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile River would not impact water supplies to Egypt as feared by Cairo... read |
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![Zambia makes HIV testing compulsory](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406980-120x120.jpg?2) | HIV testing, counselling and treatment is now compulsory for patients at Zambia's public healthcare facilities... read |
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![African facilities management sector poised for growth](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407038-120x120.jpg?2) | In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the concept of specialised facilities management is still in the process of evolving, presenting an opportunity for growth in the sector... read |
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![domeckopol via](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406759-120x120.jpg?2) | Ahmed Tahir Ajobe Niger State government is set to boost poultry production through the introduction of mobile kits. The mobile poultry is part of the youth empowerment scheme with agriculture entrepreneurship as the driving force... read |
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![Kate HoltAusAID via](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406388-120x120.jpg?2) | Robert Kibet Accessing credit has long been a major hurdle for small-scale farmers in Africa, who produce some 70 percent of the continent's food... read |
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![Stanford GSB, De Beers in $3m partnership for entrepreneurs](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407068.jpg) | The Stanford Graduate School of Business, in partnership with the De Beers group, will invest $3m in an entrepreneurship educational programme in 2018 to empower young, budding entrepreneurs and owners of established businesses in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa... read |
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![Africa's travel market experiencing healthy growth, Lagos falls short](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406429-120x120.jpg?2) | According to an analysis conducted by ForwardKeys, Lagos has seen a substantial decline in both its domestic and international capacity... read |
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![Africa's emerging hotel markets attractive for foreign investors](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406487-120x120.jpg?2) | “The emerging markets are a sought after destination for foreign investors - it is in these markets where there are continued economic growth and a need for additional infrastructure." read |
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![Image by joyfull (Supplied)](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/406776-120x120.jpg?2) | Josephine Wawira Nairobi is the only city in Africa whose airports are recording higher growth for domestic capacity than that of international capacity, with a 22% boost... read |
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![Smart evolution of Africa's megacities will help address infrastructure challenges](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407682-120x120.jpg?2) | Facing rapid growth and evolution in Africa's megacities, radical and effective urban management is needed... read |
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![Alphamin Bisie tin mine](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407671-120x120.jpg?2) | When it reaches full capacity, the Alphamin Bisie tin mine will deliver 10,000 tonnes of tin per year, doubling the DRC's export of the commodity. read |
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![Mozambique readying itself for growth in business and tourism](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407710-120x120.jpg?2) | Prompted by the strong potential Mozambique offers to both hotel investors and operations, HVS, the host of the upcoming THINC Africa conference, will include a specialist round table on Mozambique... read |
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![L-R: Ag. Group Managing Director, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, Engr. Abdullahi Sule; Chairman, Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, Aliko Dangote; Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello; Niger State Deputy Governor, Ahmed Muhammad Kesto, at the MoU signing ceremony between Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc and Niger State Government on Sugar Project in Niger State. (Source: Dangote Group)](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407687-120x120.jpg?2) | Dangote Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Niger State government to establish a $450m state-of-art and fully integrated sugar complex... read |
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![Image source:](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407651-120x120.jpg?2) | Mike Cooray and Rikke Duus The United Nations (UN) estimates that by 2050, 66% of the world's population will live in cities... read |
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![Alien animals and plants are on the rise in Africa, exacting a growing toll](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407642-120x120.jpg?2) | Katelyn Faulkner, Brett Hurley & Mark Robertson Recently a number of alien species have spread extremely rapidly across the continent, posing a particularly high threat to food security and livelihoods... read |
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![Mteto Nyati, CEO: Altron. Photo:](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407616-120x120.jpg?2) | Altron is targeting double-digit profit growth as it accelerates its strategy of focusing on the information technology space... read |
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![US Ambassador Deborah Malac, Power Africa coordinator Andrew Herscowitz, and Irene Muloni, minister of energy and mineral development, award CEO of CODE Uganda.](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407516-120x120.jpg?2) | The US African Development Foundation (USADF), in collaboration with partners Power Africa and GE, recently announced the winners of the 2017 Women in Energy Challenge in Uganda... read |
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![What sub-Sahara can learn from India's 'Green revolution': the good and the bad](https://biz-file.com/c/1708/407409-120x120.jpg?2) | Renu MODI Sub-Saharan Africa has huge potential to become a global food basket, but it is far from being realised. India's “Green Revolution” could be a useful model if adapted to African conditions... read |
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