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| The African Development Bank and its East and North African Governors have stressed the need for urgent measures to match the continent's growing population and youth unemployment...read |
| | Gabriella Mulligan Kenyan independent news channel A24Media has announced the launch of a US$1 million investment fund to back innovative media technology developers from around the world...read |
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Daniel Munslow How Africa's communicators can aid the United Nations in communicating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...read | 
Juanita Pienaar Nickelodeon's Alexi Wheeler shares about the talk he presented at the 2018 CTIAF, how he feels about the role of women in the animation industry and elaborates on what he thinks the industry as a whole can still improve on...read | 
Dustin Homer In Africa, the potential of data to improve governance is just beginning to make itself felt...read |
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 | Climate change, youth political participation, the economy and security, top the agenda at the Commonwealth Africa Summit 2018 in London this week... read |
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 | iflix is coming to Kenya through a partnership with Safaricom, bringing the largest selection of TV shows and movies from all over the world to East Africa... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg In the search to become 'more than a store', retailers in Africa need to put their customer at the heart of the operation, says Frans van der Colff... read |
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 | Victor Moreriane Victor Moreriane analyses the current crisis management related to the outbreak of listeriosis... read |
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 | Africa's most innovative social and business entrepreneurs under the age of 22 are being invited to enter the annual Anzisha Prize. 2018 applicants will have the opportunity to win a share of $100,000, connect to a global network of leaders, and receive business consulting support... read |
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 | Founding Women is a book that aims to increase the visibility of role models for young African women and girls... read |
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 | Nomfundo Dlamini The media is a key platform for dissemination of information around medications on the continent in Africa, where virtual spaza shops for drugs proliferate... read |
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 | Mpumi Nhlapo Local retailers have an incredible opportunity to get a head-start on competition, by applying the science of digital platform thinking, to transform decades-old practices... read |
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 | Food microbiologist and food safety specialist Professor Lucia Anelich of Anelich Consulting is hosting a website to address public concerns about the recent Listeriosis outbreak... read |
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 | Wynand Smit Wynand Smit takes a fresh look at how video can be used in the channel environment, like how AI-enabled video screens can "learn" from the data you create when interacting with them... read |
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 | A successful business in Africa, like MTN, has a number of key principles that underpin the success of businesses in Africa, including building a strong market position while maintaining a challenger mindset, a strong brand, modern technology and great people... read |
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 | EnergyNet and African Business have joined forces to produce the annual Africa Energy Yearbook and a special energy report on African energy for global distribution... read |
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 | Discovery Communications has rebranded to Discovery Inc after completing its acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive... read |
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 | The Injini team will be travelling to Accra, Lagos, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, and Nairobi in search for another eight early-stage tech businesses with innovative, scalable solutions to African education challenges... read |
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 | Nigerian journalist Tony Ezimakor released; colleague remains behind bars... read |
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 | The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) kicked off the 'Moving Rwanda' digital mobility concept in Kigali together with key players from the private sector... read |
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 | Bonnie Ramaila Enterprise Foods is facing a reputation nightmare. Bonnie Ramaila gives a few tips on how she thinks the company should approach the crisis... read |
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 | Andy Walker Well well well. It seems that Swedish music streaming giant Spotify may finally make a play in South Africa.... read |
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 | A United Nations report identifies 60 verified incidents which violated the legitimate exercise of the right to freedom of expression in South Sudan... read |
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 | Ecobank has launched an African markets website to provide key facts for businesses and investors on the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | By 2050, the African population will double, to reach 2.5 billion - half of whom will be under the age of 25. Investing in education, in particular e-education, and digital skills, has to be a priority... read |
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 | Bradley Elliott Influencer marketing today is very different from its origins of celebrity product placement and is proving more effective than digital ads, which are increasingly filtered out by ad blockers... read |
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 | Issued By Dentsu Aegis Network Dentsu Aegis Network will be taking over media planning and buying duties across 10 sub-Saharan African BAGL markets including Absa and the Barclays Africa network... read |
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 | Netflix, the SVOD giant, and Dubai-based pay-TV, OSN, announced that the companies will enter a partnership which will focus on both the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) markets... read |
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 | Africa is now at a stage whereby it is continuously seeing new and existing winning companies - due largely to disruptive and innovative business models... read |
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 | While growth in youth travel globally seems a sure thing, a critical factor remains for attracting more millennial and Gen Z travellers - and it's not avocado toast or free Wi-Fi... read |
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 | French supermarket group Carrefour said on Tuesday it would expand its blockchain-based food traceability programme, which is currently in place for some chickens, to eight other products... read |
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 | The efficient monitoring and reporting on forest cover and land use is essential in monitoring progress on Sustainable Development Goals and crucial for countries adapting to and mitigating climate change... read |
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 | Nick Lavars After ramping up its efforts to shift towards more sustainable materials in 2015, perennial purveyor of plastic blocks Lego is making good on that promise and is set to launch a new form of eco-friendly playthings... read |
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 | IATA's global passenger traffic results for January 2018 show that traffic rose by 4.6% compared to that of January 2017. These results indicate the slowest year-over-year increase in nearly four years... read |
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 | Jason Snyman This week in tech, we take a look at an app SA desperately needs. Also, you may already be sitting next to a robot at work. They're among us... read |
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 | The ten-week 2018 Top Tech Tools for Women in Business course, hosted by the Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative, in partnership with the City of Cape Town, will kick off on 4 April 2018... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Airports Company South Africa's George Airport and King Shaka International, as well as another African airport, Nairobi Airport, were honoured at the ACI Airport Service Quality Awards... read |
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 | Pieter Zylstra Africa is no stranger to financial innovation. Mobile financial wallets have been rapidly adopted by the younger population, with partnerships between telcos and banks set to dominate the future of the mobile payment industry... read |
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 | Jeremy Schwartz and Mari Armstrong-Hough When the World Health Organisation created an essential medicines list in the early 2000s, the aim was to provide a list of medicines that should be made available and accessible to country's entire population... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Despite last year's global and local turmoil, tourism continues to be an economic driving force with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation estimating that international tourist arrivals to Africa grew by 8% in 2017... read |
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 | Moraa Obiria The drought-tolerant tea trees come with the advantage of a ready market, the farmers said... read |
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 | 2017 proved another evolutionary year for Africa's hotel market as the continent continued to attract investment while economic and political events, currency shifts, and fluctuating tourism demand meant both risk and reward... read |
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 | Twice a year, the camp moves within the Serengeti National Park, following the masses of wildebeest and other animals... read |
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 | Celebrating human rights this month, Cape Town will play host to the first in a series of Top Women Conferences, providing a platform to address challenges around women empowerment and women-driven economic growth... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg According to online retailer Action Gear, their passion for outdoor technical products is second only to their love for stellar customer service... read |
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 | Nicci Botha The bank of the future is not necessarily about apps, but about engaging people where they are spending time... read |
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 | Kieran Whyte In Africa, greenfield investment continues in the energy sector, particularly in renewables, which is forecast to grow in coming years... read |
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 | Inadequate and erratic rainfall poses a growing threat to food security in southern Africa as well as in eastern Africa, where many rural households have suffered from four consecutive drought-affected agricultural seasons. read |
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 | On 21 March 2018, Hotel Verde Zanzibar - Azam Luxury Resort & Spa will open its doors to guests for the first time... read |
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 | Sylivester Domasa The government has reportedly started screening more than 30 global firms which applied for contracts to supply electric trains to ply the standard gauge railway (SGR) line of which construction just started... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg The source of the world's largest Listeriosis outbreak has been traced to an Enterprise Foods facility in Polokwane, Limpopo... read |
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 | Talking fast and dreaming big, William Elong shows off the first "made in Cameroon" drone at his sixth-floor workshop in downtown Douala, minutes from the economic capital's Atlantic seafront... read |
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 | Derek E. Lee Higher densities of giraffes and dik-diks have been recorded and participating villages are receiving a direct share of income from wildlife tourism... read |
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 | Global food commodity prices went up in February with lower prices for vegetable oils offset by rising prices for staple grains and dairy products... read |
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