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Extraordinary Meeting of African Development Bank Governors: "Make the right decision" for Africa
to achieve its objectives, says Alassane Ouattara, President of Côte d'Ivoire... read
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AFRICA
LOUISE MARSLAND
A resolution taken at the annual Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum conference, calls on the economic empowerment of women to be linked to the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)...read
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AFRICA
LOUISE MARSLAND
Women need to access the new economic Pan-Africanism on the continent, said Dr Vera Songwe, UN ECA head...read
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KENYA
Kenya's state corporation inks partnership deal with StarTimes to boost local film industry... Read
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NIGERIA
JONATHAN ROZEN
There is a global trend of law enforcement seizing journalists' mobile phones and computers-some of their most important tools. CPJ has documented device seizures around the world, from the United States to Slovakia to Iraq... Read
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AFRICA
MADELINE EARP
A program run by the Seattle-headquartered Tor Project, OONI created OONI Probe, software that anyone can use to investigate their own network for signs of censorship... Read
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AFRICA
With the i5 Innovation Hub, Africa University seeks to develop and protect African intellectual property... Read
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NIGERIA
The National Broadcasting Commission of Nigeria reports that plans are underway to begin analogue switch-off in six localities, starting with Abuja next year... Read
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UGANDA
Ugandan journalist Nila Yasmin wins the 2019 APO Group African Women in Media Award... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
THERESA TERBLANCHE
A decade ago, building a profitable mall was simple. If you got the location, size, layout, parking and access routes right, you had retailers and shoppers in the bag... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SINDY PETERS
Vacant rooftops across all major cities around the world are a dime a dozen. Their concrete surfaces aren't just a waste of space in a highly urbanised world, but also contribute to the heat island effect that afflicts these built-up areas. So why not farm on them? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JACQUELINE RAW
There is no denying that social media is a powerful tool to generate leads, build brands and grow businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
These are the highlights of Bas Verkaik's presentation at the SingularityU South Africa 2019 Summit... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TYRAN DE BEER
Have measurement frameworks ever confused you? Just how do you go about deciding which framework is best for your marketing efforts? Let me help... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Ecommerce Forum South Africa has launched its Safe.Shop Trustmark. The EFSA provides the Trustmark badge to e-commerce platforms that have been confirmed as being compliant... Read
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AFRICA
The EU, the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations have signed a €40m, five-year programme to boost the development of sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BEATE STIEHLER-MULDER
As marketers, we've been told - and taught - to differentiate, differentiate and differentiate... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRONWYN WILLIAMS
The middle class as we know it is endangered. Formerly, the middle class was defined by what it owned, its consumption. Today, we need to re-think what it means to be middle class... Read
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NIGERIA
Carbon for Business is a digital financial services platform that provides startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and fintechs with the services and technology they need... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Godfrey Parkin from Britefire presented a talk on the fragmentation of social media into niche social platforms at the 2019 Social Media Landscape Briefings... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARK LIU
Is fashion styling the next field to be disrupted by artificial intelligence, or will the human eye remain supreme? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Turn.io, a startup incubated by Praekelt.org, recently announced the launch of its chat platform for social impact... Read
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KENYA
Kenyan B2B food distribution company, Twiga Foods, has raised $23.75 million in a Series B equity round led by Goldman Sachs... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Local representatives from market research and consulting firm IPSOS recently shared a preview of some of the key insights gleaned from its yet to be released global trend survey for 2019... Read
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AFRICA
Yannick Kimanuka from the Democratic Republic of Congo was crowned her the winner of the 2019 Anzisha Prize... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The eighth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards concluded with the much-anticipated announcement of the overall and category winners... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GERRIT DE VILLIERS
With subdued investment levels and consumer spending being curbed, there is no doubt that local businesses face an uphill battle... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association says local ICT service providers that don't support the latest version of the Internet Protocol are potentially threatening the country's participation in 4IR... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Mobile Marketing Association South Africa's Smarties Awards took place on Wednesday, 30 October at Monte Casino, Johannesburg, awarding bronze, silver and gold winners as well as Marketer of the Year, Agency of the Year and Agency of the Future... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Marketing insights continued at Kantar customer experience (CX) advantage 2019 masterclass when Collective ID's Zanele Ntulini took to the platform to share a practical guide in explaining what we often forget in aligning the customer experience with the brand promise when tackling customer experience projects... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY NAHANA COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
South Africa's advertising and marketing communication industry has a new group of agencies, Nahana Communications Group... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Local marketing media is in a flurry over news that FCB has rebranded as Nahana Communications Group. Brett Morris explains what's changing and what's staying the same... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JSE-listed management group Taste Holdings has announced plans to sell the South African Starbucks franchise for R7 million... Read
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AFRICA
Nestlé and its regional partners have joined forces to launch the Regional Alliance for Youth in sub-Saharan Africa to promote employability for young people... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEE NAIK
Research shows the majority of businesses are only 'okay' in the eyes of their customers, so how do they bridge this expectations gap? Read
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NIGERIA
Federal government in Nigeria seeks technical assistance in India for Nollywood... Read
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AFRICA
The fourth annual Community Networks Summit seeks to connect communities in Africa to the global internet... Read
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GLOBAL
Warc has forecasted global advertising investment growth across the 19 categories it monitors - which is expected to result in a 6% ($656bn) increase... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
Facebook on Friday announced that it has begun testing a new "dedicated place" for news on its platform called Facebook News... Read
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GLOBAL
It's full steam ahead for the 2020 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which is now officially open for business... Read
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GLOBAL
JOAN OSTERLOH
As early as December 2017, Forrester's Brendan Witcher warned that marketers need to be aware of the "creep factor" when deploying strategies of personalisation and individualisation in their marketing efforts... Read
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DR CONGO
EMMA GLENNON & FREYA JEPHCOTT
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently surpassed 3,000 infections... Read
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CENTRAL AFRICA
Central Africa is fighting to maintain momentum in its battle with malaria in the face of various health challenges, climate change and other threats... Read
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AFRICA
Maize meal is the most widely grown crop in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 40% of the continent's production and 0.3% of global maize production in 2017... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Bidvest Panalpina Logistics (BLP), in a quest to face down market volatility, skills shortage and crumbling road infrastructure, is increasing its competitive edge by using its business-implementation service offering... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KONANANI LIPHADZI
Let's move away from treating gender issues as "something at the end-of-the-day" business... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A new report has revealed the major changes predicted to shake up the world's mining sector by 2023, including specific South African predictions... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
So far this year, 4.1 billion private records have been exposed as a result of breaches and cyber attacks... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHELLE MOSS
Second only to emotional intelligence (EQ), cultural intelligence (CQ) is fast becoming one of the most in demand skills for executives in today's culturally diverse world of business... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The demand for certified organic honey is rising rapidly worldwide and supply cannot keep up with demand... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Fastjet plc has confirmed that from midnight on Saturday 26 October 2019, that Fastjet Mozambique will suspend its flight operations in Mozambique. This will include flights under its code-share arrangements with LAM Mozambique Airlines... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Russia and Ethiopia have signed an intergovernmental framework agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of atomic energy on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Economic Forum in Sochi... Read
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KENYA
Kenya has launched a national immunisation programme (NIP) for the human-papillomavirus (HPV - the main cause of cervical cancer. Read
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AFRICA
ALBERT N. KIMBU, EWOENAM A. AFENYO-AGBE, ISSAHAKU ADAM
The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women's participation in tourism... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The many complexities of the mining industry means that the outdated tactics used when establishing stakeholder communication are no longer an option... Read
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AFRICA
The vital role being played by SAPICS, The Professional Body for Supply Chain Management, in skills development in Africa was recognised at the recent APICS Regional Learning Partner Awards in the United States. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Airports Company South Africa has suspended Air Zimbabwe from using its airports. The airline has not adhered to the cash basis terms for using airports owned by Airports Company South Africa... Read
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CAMEROON
Three power projects financed by the African Development Bank for $121.4m in 2010-2011 are at last starting to provide long-suffering Cameroonians with much more reliable electricity... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MIKE MULLER
It has been a hot, dry October in much of the interior of South Africa. And the rains have started later than usual... Read
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AFRICA
BRICS countries should establish more networks of researchers dedicated to invasion science if they wish to curb the spread of invasive species... Read
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NIGERIA
TAHIRU AZAAVIELE LIEDONG
Nigeria recently partially closed its border with Benin in an effort to stem the smuggling of rice. It then went on to close its land borders to the movement of all goods from Benin, Niger and Cameroon, effectively banning trade flows with its neighbours... Read
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AFRICA
Despite a downward trend in donations in some of the world's wealthiest places, large swathes of the African continent are defying the trend... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Despite a challenging economic landscape, South African small and medium enterprise (SME) owners remain positive about the potential for achieving future business growth... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUSTINE SWEET
Worldwide, corporates are increasingly expected, if not compelled, to exercise sound environmental management practices and ensure compliance with prevailing environmental law... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The regional finalists in the second edition of the Southern Africa Startup Awards (SASAWARDS) have been selected... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
There's been much in the media about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and how it has the potential to change South Africa's economy for the better... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
RISE Academy of Entrepreneurship isn't just your average academy; its core function is to make business skills available to the youth in a way that speaks their 'language'... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
We know that when it comes to your health information, you need your data on hand, as well as that of the ones you love... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
OfferZen's first State of the Software Developer Nation survey reveals skills, experience and salary trends in SA tech community. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The winners of the 2019 South African Loyalty Awards were announced in Cape Town this week... Read
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