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 | Facebook gets behind African entrepreneurs in a 'celebration of tech' week as part of its sponsorship of TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Africa... read |
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 | Authorities in Equatorial Guinea should immediately release cartoonist and blogger Ramón Nsé Esono Ebalé, whom they have held without charge for weeks, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... read |
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 | Olajide Fabamise Local manufacturers lost an average of $3 billion annually due to the preference of Nigerian government and consumers for foreign goods... read |
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 | Yoray Narainpersad It's heading towards that time of the year when all e-commerce website owners tend to adjust their website in efforts to drive more traffic and increase sales... read |
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 | To date the Shoprite Group has purchased over 20 million cartons of apples and pears for its Shoprite and Checkers customers in 2,689 outlets throughout 15 African countries and the Indian Ocean Islands from Tru-Cape... read |
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 | Ebenezer Asante has been appointed as vice president (VP) of MTN Group's expanded Southern and East Africa and Ghana (SEAGHA) Region, effective 1 October 2017... read |
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 | Hilton has committed $50m over the next five years towards the Hilton Africa Growth Initiative. The funds are intended for the conversion of around 100 hotels into Hilton branded properties... read |
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 | Nico Gous President Jacob Zuma missed the deadline for appointing an SABC chief operating officer because none of the candidates "met expectations", Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo said... read |
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 | The Loeries has released its annual official rankings which provide a comprehensive overview of the annual performance across the brand communications industry throughout Africa and the Middle East... read | |
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 | Jessica Tennant Business of Design (BoD) is back with a speaker lineup of note. The two-day seminar is held annually in Cape Town and Johannesburg during October and doesn't just focus on design in itself but has a much broader vision for the field in all areas of business... read |
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 | Promoting the island as an attractive film shooting destination, Mauritius Cinema Week is expected to attract film directors, actors and celebrities from India, South Africa, France, the UK and the USA... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This year's 6th-ranked CCO according to the just-revealed Loeries Rankings, Graham Lang is off to Toronto from end-November... read |
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 | Peterson Tumwebaze Rwandan tea will now be marketed under the Rwanda National Tea brand name as one of the ways to strengthen consumer confidence, as well as promote and ensure its competitiveness on the local and global markets... read |
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 | Ann Crotty A Sens statement confirming the termination of Novus Holdings' single most valuable printing contract hit the company's share price on Tuesday, taking it back towards the all-time low reached two weeks ago... read |
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 | The South African Communist Party (SACP) says President Jacob Zuma's failure to appoint a new board has created a "governance vacuum" at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)... read |
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 | AB InBev Africa has appointed Dentsu Aegis as its media planning and buying agency for its Africa business... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Sabelo Sibanda and Thulisile Volwana are the founders of Millbug, an electronics manufacturing company, as well as Tuse, an Android app that tackles connectivity issues... read | |  | Leigh Andrews Shawn Shewchuk, founder and publisher of Results Press in the US, shares why entrepreneurs need to rethink the elusive ideal of work-life balance and rather strive for harmony... read | |
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 | Romy Honneysett Banking is something we all rely on, but when faced with the thought of having to deal with your bank, your emotions tend to go to a negative place... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Business of Design (BoD) is back with a speaker lineup of note. The two-day seminar is held annually in Cape Town and Johannesburg during October and doesn't just focus on design in itself but has a much broader vision for the field in all areas of business... read |
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 | International mobile content and application providers looking to target Africa's 900 million cellphone users seriously underestimate the sophisticated regulatory and legislative framework in South Africa... read |
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 | The first edition of the Women in Africa Forum featured a global network of leaders, women and men, working together for economic empowerment and carving out a greater role for women in the industry... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Business of Design is back with a speaker lineup of note. The two-day seminar is held annually in Cape Town and Johannesburg during October and doesn't just focus on design in itself but has a much broader vision for the field in all areas of business... read |
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 | Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business South Africa must take a vested interest approach to help address the crisis in Zimbabwe, former Zimbabwean deputy prime minister and internationally acclaimed robotics professor Arthur Guseni Mutambara says... read |
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 | Christopher Madison, Issued by Dentsu Aegis Network The digital advertising industry in Kenya has often been accused of being fixated on the future, discussing hypothetical solutions that aren't yet available locally... read |
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 | Issued by 34° The age-old practice of storytelling falls front and centre of the African experience: it's how information is disseminated, skills are exchanged, and histories are kept alive... read |
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 | Issued by Meltwater On 1 September the Supreme Court announced that the Kenyan elections had been annulled. Global media intelligence company Meltwater tracked and analysed the social media and online editorial mentions... read |
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 | How do you know you got your logo right? C+R Research and Digital Third Coast track how logo evolution relates to revenue for some of the most iconic brands in the world... read |
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 | WASHINGTON - Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr, who built a vast international publishing empire that included prestigious and influential publications from The New Yorker to Vanity Fair and Vogue, died today, reports in those publications confirmed... read |
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 | PARIS - Photographers have risen up in revolt at the way fashion labels and influencers are using their street style images without crediting them, highlighting discontent about the "work for free" culture in the multi-billion dollar industry. read |
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 | WASHINGTON - Facebook said Thursday it was testing a new button to allow users to get more context about a news source, in the latest move by the leading social network to curb misinformation... read |
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 | It can take up to three months or even more for food to travel from the farm to table. “The longer this supply chain, the less control you have over the product and the harder it is to maintain quality and safety.” read |
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 | The inaugural Africa Architecture Awards was held on Thursday, 28 September, at the newly launched Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town... read |
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 | AGCO Agribusiness Programme is being established to develop talent to fill vital junior management roles in African agriculture and the supply chain... read |
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 | A delegation of South African companies is currently on a trade and investment mission in Tunisia and Algeria, where they are exploring export markets... read |
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 | Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa grower, set its minimum rate for farmers at 700 CFA francs per kilo for the 2017-18 crop, a steep drop over the previous year, due to falling global prices... read |
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 | Evan Fraser Last year about 11% of the total human population (approximately 850 million people on the planet) suffered from daily hunger... read |
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 | Benin's top court has rejected a bid by French group Bollore to recover control of a rail project to link Cotonou with Abidjan... read |
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 | Is it possible for travel managers to truly offer reliable advice on African destinations if they've never travelled into Africa themselves? read |
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 | Fastjet's plans to expand into Mozambique in the near future have been welcomed by tour operators. The carrier announced that it would raise $44m to fund expansion in South Africa and Mozambique... read |
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 | The 2017 Tusk Conservation Awards winners were revealed in Cape Town on Wednesday evening, 4 October... read |
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 | Sebastian Mhofu In Zimbabwe, researchers say they are breeding maize that is drought and heat resistant as part of efforts to fight hunger across Africa, where maize is a staple food... read |
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 | Samsung is growing young girls' capacity in ICT skills in Accra, Ghana through its annual employee volunteer programme... read |
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 | Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) said on Thursday it had completed a deal to sell its 54.5% in Coca-Cola Beverages Africa... read |
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 | DHL Express and Mall for Africa have extended their partnership to enable African businesses to sell their locally manufactured products to customers in the United States... read |
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 | South Africa and Chad on Sunday, 8 October, signed an agreement that will see the re-introduction next year of critically endangered black rhino to the central African country... read |
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 | Sani Tukur The Nigerian government needs about $16 billion to construct and modernise major rail lines, an official said... read |
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 | Primrose Properties Ghana (PPG) has received a follow-on investment from the Atlantic Coast Regional Fund (ACRF) for the development of a middle-income housing community in Sakumono, Accra... read |
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 | Safari Par Excellence will host the inaugural Zambezi Whitewater Rafting Festival which will see rafting teams of six compete in class five rapids to claim the title of Zambezi Champion.... read |
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