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 | Tonderayi Mukeredzi Between January and June 2017, nine countries globally experienced internet blockades, including three in Africa - Cameroon, Egypt and Ethiopia... read |
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 | The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2017 (FIFAfrica2017) is set for 27-29 September 2017. The event convenes various stakeholders from the internet governance and online rights arenas in Africa... read |
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 | The doors are set to open at iRise, the first ever tech incubator and co-working space to be established in the Somali capital of Mogadishu... read |
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 | Orange to deliver world class mobile streaming service from Kwesé TV... read |
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 | Louise Marsland Student Village released research earlier this year that looked at what students spend their money on... read | |  | Shlomo Ben-Hur How well do businesses really understand millennials and what are their perceptions based on? Finding the data to plug the generation gap... read | |
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 | Online kitchenware retailer, Yuppiechef, has announced the launch of its first brick and mortar store signaling the start of its omnichannel journey... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Angelika Kempe, executive consultant at AdOps Value, shares what to look out for when assessing production cost estimates, as well as the impact of the ANA's recent report that advertising agencies and their holding companies are less-than transparent regarding production costs and the risk associated with it... read |
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 | Here's a list of some of the top African business leaders to follow on Twitter... read |
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 | Asian direct selling company, QNet, is expanding its operations into East Africa. The company forms part of the $200 billion global direct selling industry... read |
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 | A new edition of Digital Africa, an innovation competition to take up the challenge of digital transition in Africa, has launched... read |
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 | Today, Friday, 22 September, nine of Senegal's most promising seed-stage startups will compete to represent the country at the regional and global Seedstars Summits... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach The recent launch of the Mastercard SpendingPulse Report is a first for South Africa. The Report is an early indicator of consumer spending trends... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Peter Sondergaard, Gartner executive VP for research, addressed CIOs and senior IT executives in his keynote at the annual Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Cape Town... read |
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 | Cameroon's broadly worded anti-terror law is being used by authorities to arrest and threaten local journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in a report released this week... read |
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 | Monde Mawasha The rise of the fourth industrial revolution is adding intricacy to future economies and their employment outcome... read |
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 | Kingsley Ighobor Governments are reforming to woo private capital, according to the UN, in this third and last part of the partnership in Africa series... read |
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 | Structures endorsed by the African Union have been finalised to promote the audiovisual and cinema industry in Africa which accounts for US$5 billion in continental GDP... read |
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 | In partnership with Payless Pharmacy, Engen has launched its first pharmacy-service station concept at its Hurlingham branch in Nairobi, Kenya... read |
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 | Each year the BBC awards an outstanding African journalist with the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award... read |
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 | Bitcoin payments could soon be commonplace at Pick n Pay. For a limited period, customers at the retailer's head office campus store are able to use the cryptocurrency as a payment method... read |
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 | WTM Africa 2017 saw $365,950,813 of business generated, proving that exhibitions remain a powerful marketing tool for business... read |
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 | Mike Freedman Building a business or working in a job is meaningless unless it is done with purpose, knowing that making money is not the purpose, it is a result... read |
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 | For many years, African countries served as the growth engine for the global smartphone market. In 2016, however, global smartphone sales grew at a modest 2% and the landscape in Africa also saw a dip... read |
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 | The private sector in Africa is working with governments to fund mega development projects, according to the UN, in this second part of the partnership in Africa series... read |
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 | Tripartite Free Trade Area market access negotiations between the Southern African Customs Union and the East African Community... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Ethiopian startup Meda Messenger is hoping for swift uptake after rolling out its cross-platform social app that allows users to chat and make payments... read |
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 | Doug Woolley “You are some of the world's greatest organisations and you are leading through a time of unprecedented change and opportunity. This is your show. It's about how you are changing the world..." read |
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 | In this three-part series from the United Nations, we look at how partnerships in Africa spearhead growth across various industry sectors... read |
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 | Issued by Alliance Media Alliance Media was awarded with first place in the Media Owner Africa category at the Most Awards in Johannesburg... read |
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 | Cannes Lions will launch the Sustainable Development Goals Lion in 2018, marking a new drive to advance awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)... read |
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 | The deadline to enter the 2018 New York Festivals AME Awards for the World's Best Advertising and Marketing Effectiveness is 30 November 2017... read |
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 | New research from Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council, SAP Hybris and SellingPower magazine indicates that sales and marketing need to own customer experience strategy... read |
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 | ‘World News Publishers Outlook 2017, the new report from World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (Wan-Ifra), examines what are the world's top media executives' priorities in profitable news media businesses around the world... read |
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 | Many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have agreed to better labelling of products by 2020 in a bid to radically cut food waste... read |
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 | Sixteen scientists solving Africa's and the world's challenges have been announced as part of the Next Einstein Forum's (NEF) second fellows class... read |
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 | The chocolate industry is indirectly driving massive and illegal deforestation in Ivory Coast, fuelling a catastrophic decline in wildlife... read |
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 | Alex Ezeh, Nelson Sewankambo and Peter Piot There is huge diversity within and across the 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The challenges these countries face in achieving health outcomes that are at par with low and middle income countries in other regions of the world are numerous and diverse... read |
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 | Boaz Blackie Keizire Asked where the next crop of African billionaires will come from, the president of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, without batting an eyelid, declared that they will be farmers... read |
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 | The signing of a record number of new investments and partnership agreements for inclusive agricultural transformation at the 2017 AGRF have boosted Africa's economic growth prospects... read |
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 | Key to the sustainable commercialisation and modernisation of African agriculture are sustainable business models... read |
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 | Bev Postma It is imperative that we incorporate climate resilience into all aspects of crop breeding and food innovation... read |
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 | Svein Tore Holsether The cocoa sector in West Africa is facing many well-known problems. That is a fact. Only by joining forces can we solve the challenges and contribute to sustainable growth and development of the cocoa sector... read |
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 | Cari Coetzee Associate Dean and Professor at ESL, Dr Achim Schmitt, participated in a panel discussion on HR and education issues in the hospitality industry at the THINC Africa conference... read |
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 | Oz Desai As we celebrate Tourism Month, there's an opportunity for us to acknowledge what achieving open skies in Africa would mean for the business community and business travel in general... read |
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 | Ernest Harsch Grassroots initiatives promote changes in livelihoods... read |
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 | Lindsay Samson The unique wooden structure maximises daylight and natural ventilation... read |
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 | Hosted by German trade fair specialists fairtrade Messe, the third edition of AfricaBuild Lagos will take place 6-8 March 2018 at the Landmark Centre in Lagos, Nigeria... read |
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 | Kenya recently approved freight tariffs for the standard gauge railway, as the government seeks to meet its target of transporting 40% of cargo from Mombasa port by rail... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Having quantifiable, measurable, and verifiable data about justice needs and challenges is essential for the legal profession to move into the 21st century... read |
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 | FAO director-general José Graziano da Silva has joined in calls for a renewed global commitment to zero tolerance on food loss and waste... read |
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 | Fertiliser and agribusiness leaders will meet in Maputo, Mozambique for the East and Southern Africa Agribusiness Conference from 9-11 October... read |
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 | Philippe Roudier Countries in the Horn of Africa - particularly Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya - are suffering from severe drought due to historically low rainfall and high temperatures... read |
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 | Pavithra Rao Billionaires Bill Gates, Aliko Dangote come together to fund healthcare projects... read |
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 | Nigerian entrepreneur and business leader, Aliko Dangote told investors: "Agriculture, agriculture, agriculture. Africa will become the food basket of the world." read |
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 | Lisa Vives Experts wary over corporate takeover of education in sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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Malcolm X "You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself." Theodore Roosevelt "I am a part of everything that I have read." Vincent Van Gogh "I dream of painting and then I paint my dream." |
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