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| Brics leaders are united in their cause to secure their spots in the imminent Fourth Industrial Revolution...read |
| | | How to unlock up to $2bn of annual box office revenues in Africa...read |
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 | Chinese president shares thoughts on world's next decade, at BRICS Business Forum... read |
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 | United Nations human rights experts have urged Egyptian authorities to release a poet and songwriter arrested for writing a song critical of government policies... read |
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 | Entries for the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Awards are now open for best journalistic coverage of the United Nations and UN agencies... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan 20 startups have been selected to form the second cohort of Senegalese accelerator Jambar Tech Lab, kicking off the six-month programme with a week-long immersive bootcamp... read |
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 | JG Bezuidenhout The popularity of smartphones means that they are the preferred way for users to get access to the information they want when they want it... read |
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 | According to a recent study conducted by MSCI on behalf of the SACSC, the current size of the South African retail market is estimated at around 23.4 million square metres (sqm)... read |
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 | Brian Eagar Communicating on purpose is not about changing you into an inauthentic communicator. It's about making sure that your message does not get lost in translation... read |
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 | Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW) has appointed market leaders responsible for growth and innovation in the Europe and Africa (E&A) region. South Africa's Robyn de Villiers will head up Africa.... read |
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 | Africa's customer experience experts descend on Cape Town to address customer experience issues facing corporations in Africa... read |
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 | On July 14, police evacuated the state government-owned radio and television broadcaster, the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State, locking its doors... read |
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 | Authorities in Ethiopia should investigate an attack on a news crew from the state-owned Dire Dawa Mass Media Agency that led to the death of the crew's driver... read |
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 | Focussed on building high-performing engineering teams with Africa's most talented software developers, Andela, in partnership with the Government of Rwanda, has launched a pan-African technology hub in Kigali, Rwanda... read |
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 | Ogilvy South Africa has announced the appointments of both Nkosinathi Biko and Nonzukiso Siyotula to its board of directors, appointments that expand and deepen the skills and experience at the agency... read |
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 | Frank Ouyang The customer's experience is one of the major factors that can make or break your retailing business if not managed properly. With the increasing competition in the market nowadays, it is only important to keep your customers happy and satisfied with product and service to keep them loyal to your business... read |
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 | Issued By Loeries Catch Mzamo Masito, Chief Marketing Officer for Google Africa, at the DStv Seminar of Creativity on Friday, 17 August... read |
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 | Megan Roper Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Malawian hub mHub has partnered GrowthAfrica, Dutch investment firm Accesserator, UNDP Malawi and the Norwegian Embassy to launch the country's first startup accelerator programme... read |
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 | Nairobi hosts consultative meeting in preparation for AfCFTA Phase II negotiations... read |
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 | Gareth Paterson With the rise of e-commerce in South Africa taking some bold steps during the last few weeks with the merger of Superbalist and Spree, it seems that mobile e-commerce may finally be on a path to reaching its full potential... read |
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 | Chris Bischoff Research has proven that incentives increase survey responses. Whether you choose to incentivise your survey or not, data quality needs to be at the centre of this decision... read |
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 | Inna Lazareva South Sudan's local film industry is thriving and hopes to shift mindsets while telling the brutal stories of its conflict-ridden history... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Musa Kalenga, chief future officer at the House of Brave, opened the Association for Communication and Advertising's Apex 'Next Level of Thinking Masterclass' last week where he spoke about the shifts that are taking place and why he believes we ought to solve real human problems before we think like brands... read |
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 | Alison Treadaway Over the past few months, a spate of high-profile security breaches and scandals (most notably Facebook-Cambridge Analytica) have made the average person far more aware of how their data is used online... read |
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 | Uju Okoye Beijing watchers say China's activities in Djibouti are a blend of commercial and military interests... read |
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 | Tom Jackson The Ugandan government's taxes on social media and mobile money, is surely one of the most regressive steps taken by an African government in the tech space to date... read |
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 | With the 2018 Fifa World Cup Russia officially over, it has been revealed that iconic beer brand, Budweiser's digital strategy has propelled them to become the most talked about brand during the tournament... read |
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 | New York Festivals World's Best TV & Films competition is open for entries and has announced new categories... read |
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 | It has been reported that iconic British luxury fashion label Burberry destroyed its unsold products to the value of £28.6m last year to make its brand more exclusive, adding to the total value of £90m worth of goods it has destroyed over the last five years... read |
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 | Njiraini Muchira Kenya and Tanzania are among nine African countries set to benefit from an ambitious US-led initiative to invest in gas-powered power plants... read |
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 | DHL Global Forwarding and Ethiopian Airlines have signed a new agreement to form DHL-Ethiopian Airlines Logistics Services Ltd, a cargo logistics provider joint venture company in Africa... read |
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 | Kefa Otiso A new road in Nairobi, Kenya, is set to displace up to 30,000 Kibera slum residents... read |
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 | It's not just the smuggling of rhino horn, narcotics and other substances that is big business in South Africa. Although not as high profile, illegal clothing and goods trafficking also come with a hefty price tag... read |
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 | The U.S tomato market totalled $12.8bn in 2017 in wholesale prices, which was $2.2bn (15%) less than the year before and $5.4bn (30%) less than its highest level observed in 2018... read |
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 | One of the most common practices for the control of salmonella in feed products was the use of formaldehyde as a feed additive. However, the EU Commission has recently voted to ban the use of formaldehyde for this purpose (EU 2018/183)... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Africa could be a "gold mine" for fresh produce if the right solution to prevent excessive post-harvest wastage is found and the husband and wife team behind Kenyan startup, Taimba thinks they have the answer... read |
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 | Josephine Wawira Jumia Travel engages Kelvin Mwasi, the commercial manager of Skyward Express to shed some light on the state and potential of the aviation sector in Kenya... read |
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 | Members of the industry, businesses and other organisations outside of the industry, mentors, teachers, lecturers and individuals are encouraged to nominate phenomenal women in ICT before 12 August 2018... read |
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 | Certain medicines containing the active pharmaceutical ingredient, valsartan, have been recalled by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority... read |
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 | Heat Island Limited is the African winner of the Cities for our Future competition... read |
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 | The business world has moved beyond the idea that if it isn't made of bricks and mortar, then a company has no value... read |
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 | Dhesigen Naidoo From a water perspective, we live in a 'world of Cape Towns'... read |
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 | HIV is the epidemic of our time, with up to 38.8-million people living with the disease worldwide in 2015-2016, and around two-million new cases diagnosed in 2015... read |
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 | Luko Onke Binase We have reached a technological crossroad for payment services where adaptation and innovation will have to pave the way... read |
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 | Poultry production in the European Union (EU) rose by nearly 4% in the first quarter of the year due to fewer outbreaks of avian influenza and new poultry units coming on stream... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Ghanaian agri-tech startup Complete Farmer has launched its web farming platform, which allows users to sponsor farms in exchange for guaranteed returns on investment after harvest... read |
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 | With more than one-billion people still living without electricity, which severely inhibits economic development and basic human rights including health, education, safety and security... read |
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 | The summer holidays are in full swing - and protests against overtourism have begun (yet again) in a number of popular European cities... read |
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Albert Einstein "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." Alexandre Dumas "Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it." Peace Pilgrim "If you realised how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." |
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