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| The Committee to Protect Journalists will honour journalists from Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela, and Vietnam with its 2018 International Press Freedom Awards...read |
| | | The African tech hubs pioneering innovation: How digital transformation can drive growth and job creation across emerging economies...read |
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 | Global Business Leaders to address 2018 Africa Trade and Investment Global Summit in Washington, D.C... read |
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 | Kwesé TV to bring the Rugby Africa Gold Cup 2018 live, via streaming and its free television model... read |
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 | Issued By Shift Social Development One of the strongest themes of the 2018 Africa Shared Value was the importance of businesses investing in the creation of sustainable Shared Value ecosystems for long-term success... read |
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 | Kaspersky Lab's latest Parental Control report reveals what Nigerian kids are searching for online... read |
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 | Shazam is launching an original campaign with Heineken in Nigeria on Monday around the World Cup... read |
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 | A popular Tanzanian blogging site, Jamii Forums, has shut down following government enforcement of harsh new online content regulations... read |
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 | Reports on emerging technologies officially launched at African Innovation Summit, last week... read |
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 | For the last few years, packaging industry professionals have been curious about the future of smart packaging. Whilst barcodes and QR codes were once considered the "next big thing", the acceleration of technology is transforming smart packaging... read |
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 | Mike Wright The customer communication management space, once dominated by document output software companies, has seriously embraced digital transformation... read |
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 | Lisa MacLeod, head of digital at Tiso Blackstar Group, South Africa has been elected vice president of Wan-Ifra... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg BlockMesh is enabling cost-free communication by creating a global mesh network which allows its users to skip typical cellular and ISP "toll roads"... read |
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 | Edward Carbutt Do you remember your first car? That great feeling of freedom that came with the ability to drive yourself wherever you wanted or needed to go, without having to ask for a lift, take public transport or cycle or walk... read |
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 | The African Development Bank, together with partners, launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Google has opened applications for class two of its Launchpad Accelerator Africa programme, extending it in the process to a further 12 African countries... read |
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 | Shaune Jordaan Shaune Jordaan argues that, in order to produce real business results, marketing needs to be data-driven, creative, and (most importantly) people-based. read |
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 | Unathi Dyani Unathi Dyani contemplates what it really means to be a creative in the advertising industry... read |
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 | "Retailers have been given to January 2019 to use their existing stock of plastic straws. We are going to start an intensive education programme as we also need to present importers with alternatives rather than just stating that we are imposing a ban." read |
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 | Minnie-lee Tagwirei Most people do not know where to draw the line between PR and marketing hence I have constantly found myself trying to distinguish the not so obvious differences between PR and marketing... read |
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 | Issued By Sama Oeuvre Brand Communications Sama Oeuvre Brand Communications will host the Business Leaders in Africa Summit on 16-17 October... read |
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 | The Cape Town International Film Market and Festival will take place from 9-19 October 2018 at venues across the V&A Waterfront as well as in select sites across the city of Cape Town... read |
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 | Africa's agribusiness and food sector registered strong private equity deal activity during May 2018, according to industry information service Africa Private Equity News. read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Jessica Tennant interviews Tom Stein, chairman and CCO of Stein IAS to find out what delegates can expect from his talk at B2B Marketing Africa in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 19 June and his view of the B2B marketing landscape from a global perspective... read |
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 | Entrepreneur, Shaka Sisulu has announced that he has acquired a 51% stake in Retroviral Digital Communications... read |
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 | Carmen Murray With the rise of the connected individual, marketers must re-think the way they build a brand to be future fit for the digital savvy consumers... read |
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 | Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has been announced as the winner of the 2018 PEN Pinter Prize for her writing and activism... read |
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 | This week around 2,000 guests from 100 countries will discuss various aspects of 'Global Inequalities' at the Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (GMF) in Bonn, Germany... read |
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 | Kenyan startup Onesha is an online marketplace offering businesses access to a pool of vetted, skilled and trusted creative professionals... read |
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 | Eben Esterhuizen Forbes' richest people in the world list says Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, earns $107.4 million per day, so he must be doing something right... read |
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 | The One Club for Creativity has announced the latest group of Portfolio Night All-Stars, the top young creative as selected by industry professionals from each of the 19 cities around the world that participated in its recent global Portfolio Night 14... read |
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 | Alawi Masare SafariBookings.com compiled a definitive list of Africa's best safari parks and after in-depth study which included more than 2,500 reviews from safari tourists and industry experts alike, Serengeti was rated the best African Safari Park with an overall rating of 4.9 out of 5... read |
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 | Beatrice Materu Tanzania has realised a 1.3% GDP growth from its mining sector, attributed to new stringent laws and regulations... read |
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 | Zainab Gaafar All over the world corporate buildings are used to create a visual architectural statement as they represent the face of their business... read |
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 | Cari Coetzee NYC & Company became a major blip on our radar when it locked in the first ever city-to-city partnership with Cape Town to boost tourism between the two iconic cities. We caught up with Makiko Matsuda Healy, MD of tourism market development, to find out what New York tourism is all about... read |
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 | In an effort to boost agri-business and enhance food security in Africa, the African Development Bank Board has approved a $15m equity investment in Africa Food Security Fund (AFSF), to support enterprises in agribusiness SMEs and enhance food security in Africa... read |
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 | The United Nations Environment and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released a report outlining the state of waste management in Africa... read |
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 | Radisson Blu's portfolio has spiked significantly in Africa to include 86 hotels (17,800 rooms) in operation and under development... read |
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 | John Green Solar energy has been viewed as an integral energy resource by experts, sourcing its strength from the sun. It is an environmentally friendly means with great potential to steer the economic prowess of any country... read |
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 | The MoU aims at further enhancing the existing friendly relations between the two countries through development of cooperation in the fields of fisheries, fishing, seafood processing, trade of fish and fish products... read |
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 | Kristie Ebi Current understanding of plant physiology suggests that major cereal crops - particularly rice and wheat - respond to higher CO2 concentrations by synthesising more carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and less protein, and by reducing the quantity of minerals in their grains... read |
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 | According to Lucky Masilela, CEO of ZA Central Registry NPC, there's a sense of renewal in the air and it's, therefore, the perfect time for SOEs to ditch the .com and revert to .za domains to show their commitment to building South Africa... read |
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 | The increased global consumption of sesame seeds is mainly due to the heightened demand for the product from the growing Asian and African populations... read |
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 | The association forms part of the official African chapter of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, which enables those working in this industry to network and share best practices... read |
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 | Africa has the dubious honour of being the second most polluted continent on the planet, and therefore must take both the responsibility and opportunity to pioneer world-leading waste management methods... read |
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 | A two-day conference themed "Regional Connectivity: Making inter-state transport work in Africa" will take place from 11-12 July 2018 at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit... read |
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 | Mercè Labordena Electricity lifts people out of poverty and improves their health and standards of living. Yet 1.3 billion of the world's people don't have access to it. And more than half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | Eldon Opiyo Agriculture is a risky business in Africa due to dangers such as uncertain weather and poor rural infrastructure, but a new detailed guide on the status of and opportunities for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) could offer farmers the much-needed break. read |
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 | Tourvest has partnered with a crafting consortium comprising 18 local women with the aim to support and develop local entrepreneurs by providing its lodges with lunch boxes weaved from dried banana skins to reduce its impact on the environment... read |
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 | Underscoring how persistent conflicts and adverse climate shocks are taking a toll on food security, no country exited the list... read |
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 | Rapid population growth and urbanisation of African cities will see nearly 350 million new city-dwellers by 2030, and a billion more by 2063[1]... read |
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 | Shingirai Nangombe At the end of the century, if carbon emissions aren't reduced faster, the global temperature is likely to be... read |
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 | "We are working with countries to ready them to take climate action in the near future. This includes enabling the poorest families to produce food while adopting low-emission systems and building their climate resilience." read |
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 | Whether you're new to business travel or a veteran corporate jet-setter, here are Flight Centre Business Travel's top tips to making business travel a healthy part of your lifestyle... read |
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 | Huge international sporting events are becoming significant cyberattack targets, ordinary individual attendees included... read |
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 | The Franchise Association of South Africa's (Fasa) Awards for Excellence in Franchising held recently, saw health food brand Kauai walk off with multiple awards including the coveted title of Franchisor of the Year... read |
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 | Jacob Henry I was drawn to how Bourdain upended the travel show genre, telling compelling and complicated stories about people and places most Western viewers tend to view through a lens of simplistic stereotypes or caricatures... read |
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