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| Mobile-first consumer research platform, mSurvey, is expanding into Nigeria, consolidating its position as Africa's leading technology-powered customer loyalty platform...read |
| | | The 5th Annual Commonwealth Africa Summit in London, in March, will take place under the theme 'Common Good'...read |
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Burson-Marsteller Africa has announced a partnership with Reputation Matters across the African continent...read | 
African-linked films won nine awards at the Berlin International Film Festival...read | 
Nigeria wants to build Africa's biggest and most lucrative free-to-air television platform, becoming the "capital of television" on the continent...read |
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 | The African Union Commission, (AUC), has endorsed the 30th edition of the African Public Relations Association Conference... read |
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 | Issued By Loeries The Loeries, in partnership with AB InBev Africa, will host a networking function for creatives in Lagos on Thursday, 8 March 2018... read |
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 | Maiyo Febi Today the PR practitioner must be responsive and well versed in many areas, mainly: marketing, social media and influencer management, while remaining tuned into the latest trends likely to affect the industry... read |
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 | Shan Radcliffe The advent of social media has provided brands with an undisputed marketing opportunity - a direct customer engagement and promotional platform, where brands can build their identity and loyalty to their heart's content. But all good things come with a price... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Catherine Grenfell, ex-5FM presenter who co-founded and manages The Eye radio station, opened this year's IAB Digital Summit sharing her experience of digital and what she predicts for the industry... read |
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 | The winners of the 10th annual Bookmark Awards were announced at the conclusion of the 2018 IAB Digital Summit, both held at The Theatre on the Track, Kyalami, on 1 March 2018... read |
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 | Chad Fichardt With the ceaseless advancement of technology, the retail sector is inescapably looking down the barrel at change. Serious change... read |
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 | The Africa CEO Forum, which is holding its 6th edition on 26 and 27 March 2018 in Abidjan, will turn the spotlight on Africa's disruptive technologies... read |
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 | In Tanzania, criticising the President can lead to imprisonment, as authorities crack down on freedom of speech... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Here's how Fort Review is changing perceptions and giving a voice to issues of industry equality, as well as the rise of advertising that goes beyond just punting a product to actually solving a societal issue... read |
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 | Mastercard will use Facebook Messenger to provide technology to small businesses in Africa and Asia to drive affordable acceptance of electronic and mobile payments... read |
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 | Media Measure, an African media compliance and marketing insights business operating in nine African countries, has received investment... read |
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 | Undoubtedly the giant of Africa - with an estimated population of 194 million people - Nigeria remains the largest mobile market in the continent... read |
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 | From headsets that help you lose weight without dieting to a smart meat thermometer, here are some of the interesting devices on display at the Mobile World Congress... read |
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 | Hlumelo Ndoni Hlumelo Ndoni shares some thoughts on how to structure and budget for your future influencer campaigns... read |
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 | Khangelani Dziba If you have not seen it, global is fast looking at Africa more and more as a place of innovation... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Ten African startups have been chosen as finalists for the New Venture Competition being run by Harvard Business School's Africa Business Club, which is offering startups the chance to win cash prizes of up to $10,000... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Newly-formed startup Wisinomad is bringing together remote working professionals and digital nomads for co-working and co-living experiences in Africa, aimed at giving them the chance to dive into the African innovation ecosystem... read |
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 | Nigerian authorities should immediately drop plans to charge Timothy and Daniel Elombah, editor and chief executive respectively, of the independent Elombah news website, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... read |
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 | Richard Bensted The mythical land of SEO is so often shrouded in obfuscation and mysterious lingo that few marketers understand whether or not it's a strategy worth using... read |
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 | Burkina Faso filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo passed away over the weekend. He was hailed as a "towering figure of African cinema"... read |
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 | Eco@Africa is a sustainable African-European TV success story... read |
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 | The fourth DHL E-commerce MoneyAfrica conference, one of the continent's largest e-commerce events, is set to take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 14 to 15 March... read |
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 | Johanna McDowell Johanna McDowell writes that in 2018 more and more marketers will handle more and more digital marketing in-house... read |
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 | Roy Alves The majority of the world's citizens reside in urban areas and when cities are managed effectively, they can provide their inhabitants with vital opportunities for economic development... read |
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 | For those looking for free news online, the search is becoming harder... read |
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 | The 2018 Warc 100, an annual global index of the world's top marketing campaigns and companies based on their business impact has been released... read |
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 | Looking to the next 10 years, Airbnb has unveiled a roadmap designed to bring the transformative benefits of local, personal and authentic travel to every type of traveller... read |
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 | Stephanie Findlay It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie Black Panther. But "Transaqua" is a very real proposal for a very real problem - how to replenish the shrinking waters of Lake Chad... read |
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 | An increase in the accumulation of large datasets on agribusiness in Africa is proving crucial to the financing of a sector often overlooked by banks... read |
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 | Kenyan conservationists expressed outrage on Thursday, 1 March, after construction of a railway line began inside Nairobi's famed national park, saying this defied a court order halting the project... read |
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 | ACB has shared a new report, A review of participatory plant breeding and lessons for African seed and food sovereignty movements, which considers the role of smallholder farmers in plant breeding activities in partnership with formal public sector breeders... read |
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 | Bettina Büchel We are not only living in an age where women are being under-represented in many spheres of economic life, but technology could make this even worse... read |
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 | The Namibian government will next month host a workshop to review the Single African Air Transport Marketing (SAATM) agreement, which the country has not yet signed... read |
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 | A new report released by the Mastercard Foundation Youth Think Tank highlights the barriers and opportunities to the creation of agricultural technologies, their promotion and uptake by young people... read |
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 | Sean Smith By the end of this century, the world's population will have increased by half - that's another 3.6 billion people... read |
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 | The transformation of Victoria Falls to a modern tourist resort has started taking shape with the company formed to drive the process now seeking technical expertise to craft a tourism investment and development plan... read |
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 | Crop development in several areas of Southern Africa has been affected by water stress triggered by poor rains and hot temperatures. Dry weather and erratic rains earlier in the season signals multiple risks to agricultural yields... read |
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 | Blazing fast 5G wireless networks promise to unlock the potential of internet connected devices, or the Internet of Things -- making driverless cars and talking fridges a reality... read |
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 | This year, the Doomsday Vault near Svalbard - storing seeds of vital crops in an underground vault - marks its 10th anniversary. It is now the iconic home to seeds of around one million unique plants... read |
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 | Multi-unit franchising is becoming a growing trend globally and in South Africa, meaning a single franchisee owns more than one outlet in different geographies... read |
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 | SA's cultural goods exports are growing faster than imports, according to a new report that examined the growth and structure of the country's cultural and creative industries trade between 2007 and 2016... read |
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 | Datsun has announced that it is launching the Datsun GO, GO+, as well as the Datsun GO+ PV (panel van), into the Zimbabwean market... read |
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 | As debate swirls on whether artificial intelligence will be a boon or a curse for humanity... read |
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 | James William Comerford Plastics are incredibly useful materials with extremely diverse properties, allowing a multitude of different applications that benefit our lives... read |
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 | As the old adage states: 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' It is with this in mind that Signature Lux Hotels has announced its acquisition by Onomo Hotels. read |
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 | Adam Sneyd Political experts have continued to raise pointed questions about the continent's food future pertaining to production processes, trade flows, sources of finance and, crucially, science and sustainability... read |
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 | The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has entered a new era towards a historic turnaround after President Mnangagwa officially commissioned $400 million coaches, wagons and locomotives... read |
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 | A vast new marine protected area has been created in the Indian Ocean around the Seychelle islands, the government announced on Thursday, 22 February... read |
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 | Countries need to promote a rural and structural transformation that fosters synergies between farm and non-farm activities and that reinforces the linkages between rural areas and cities - including processing, packaging, transportation, distribution, marketing and service provision... read |
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 | CSOs from across Southern Africa met with officials from SADC, ARIPO, and country authorities to discuss the current wave of developments and reforms being made to seed law and policy in the region, and the impact this will have on small-scale farmers and agricultural biodiversity... read |
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