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APO Group launches enhanced press release monitoring service for Africa and the Middle East... read
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AFRICA
SOUHIR MZALI
How does growing international interest in Africa stand to benefit the continent...?read
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BOTSWANA
TAAZIMA KALA-ESSACK
Is the debate about cost versus worth in the communications space truly a PR problem, or a communications industry problem...?read
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NIGERIA
TOM JACKSON
Nigerian payments startup Paga has secured a US$10 million funding round in order to expand into other markets in Africa and across the world...read
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EGYPT
The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned an Egyptian court's sentencing of photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as "Shawkan," to five years in prison... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WAYNE HULL
Wayne Hull highlights that for CEOs and CMOs alike, addressing customer experience will be the key imperative in 2018 - and not merely at the B2C level, but B2B and B2B2C too... Read
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NIGERIA
Clickatell Transact enables United Bank for Africa (UBA) to launch Chat Banking on WhatsApp in Nigeria... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Investigative journalism is under threat as newsrooms continue to shrink, with technology disrupting media and collapsing its funding model... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICK DURRANT
The world has gone digital is a term we hear far too often nowadays, but it's not exactly true. There is an increasing distinction between those who are leading the change and profiting from it, and those who are falling behind and missing the many opportunities... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
The launch of the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing's Youth Report 2018 explained the confusing terminology of 'millennials', 'Gen Z', 'born frees', 'generation jobless' as well as the often-misquoted numbers... Read
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RWANDA
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
Zee TV is planning to combine content from Rwanda and other African countries to produce a fusion of Afro-Indian storylines for their audience around the world... Read
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AFRICA
DANETTE BREITENBACH
There is a demand for insight into African markets and much of the data collection is done via mobile, social media and CRM... Read
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GABON
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
Essential + brings three new channels: Canal + action, Canal + comedy and Canal + sport... Read
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AFRICA
AI Expo Africa is building the largest inclusive Pan-African AI Community to lead the 4th Industrial Revolution on the continent. The expo and conference takes place next week in Cape Town... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South African retail chain, Toys R Us and Babies R Us SA, is expanding its African footprint with a new store opening in Botswana set for October... Read
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AFRICA
ISSUED BY SAMA OEUVRE BRAND COMMUNICATIONS
Sama Oeuvre Brand Communications is hosting the inaugural Business Leaders in Africa Summit this October... Read
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AFRICA
2019 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards submissions opened... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Shoprite Group will be staging cleanup events across Africa on 15 September 2018, marking World Cleanup Day... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MIKE SAUNDERS
Social media is not a marketing channel, rather it's a mosh pit of conversations that surround our marketing channels. If it were a channel, we would be able to control its distribution and conversation better... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRENDON BAIRSTOW-KLOPPER
Brendon Bairstow-Klopper suggests that it is more sensible to take a macro-level view by practising the peak-end rule. The peak-end rule says that customers remember their peak-experience with a brand, rather than specific interactions... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WERNER THERON
Customers choose brands that value them and understand their needs... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Mann Made recently disrupted themselves before anyone else could with a rebrand. Here's how what started out as a wedding video company by three brothers in 2000 has transformed into a storytelling, forward-thinking, 65-employee strong experiential brand agency that hosts the SingularityU SA Summit... Read
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KENYA
mSurvey appoints NPS co-creator, Richard Owen, to board of directors... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TERRY LEVIN, ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Cinemark, the official South African Cannes Lions representatives, in partnership with Bizcommunity, hosted the annual Insights and Trends from Cannes Lions sessions, which took place in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 29 August, and in Cape Town on Friday, 31 August... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The future of payments ecosystems is taking shape in Africa as the continent paves the way for innovation that brings together retail, banking, financial services and mobile technology... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Findings from a recent survey revealed that 28% of customers have elected to boycott companies that have been shown to mishandle personal data... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOVANA STANISLJEVIC
No more chocolate by 2050? Several articles have pointed recently that we are heading to a major chocolate crisis... Read
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AFRICA
GABRIELLA MULLIGAN
South African edtech startup Snapplify has partnered Econet to make 240,000 e-books and educational resources available to readers around Africa at no data cost... Read
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GHANA
Ghanaian journalist abducted and beaten over critical story on opposition politician... Read
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AFRICA
On the surface, sub-Saharan Africa boasts the world's highest rate of women entrepreneurs at 27%... Read
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NIGERIA
Subscribers of StarTimes have started enjoying a reduced subscription rate on the classic bouquet... Read
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NORTH AFRICA
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
OSN and Huawei, will provide a turnkey IPTV solution which allows telecom operators to deliver a state-of-the-art TV experience along with premium content... Read
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AFRICA
GABRIELLA MULLIGAN
Startups have one week left to apply to the fourth annual AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, celebrating the best in mobile and tech from across Africa... Read
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NIGERIA
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
Pipul TV selects V-Nova Perseus Plus to provide +200 linear channels in Nigeria... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KEITH RATHBONE
Nike stirred up controversy on Monday when it unveiled its 'Just Do It: 30th anniversary' advertising campaign. It featured a variety of superstar American athletes including the polarising quarterback Colin Kaepernick... Read
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BOTSWANA
ROSS HARVEY
Early last week, global news outlets reported that 90 carcasses of illegally killed elephants had been found around a famous wildlife sanctuary - the Okavango Delta - in Botswana... Read
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GHANA
SETH ASARE OKYERE, ANASTASIA AMOAKO-ARHEN, MATTHEW
There's rapid urbanisation happening across Africa. But the rural population hasn't stopped growing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South African-based Point of Sale payments provider, Yoco, has raised $16million in a Series B funding round led by Partech, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
After contracting by 33,6% quarter-over-quarter in the first quarter of this year, the South African agricultural economy entered technical recession in the second quarter following a further 29,2% q/q contraction... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOSEPHINE WAWIRA
International tourist arrivals grew 7% in 2017, the highest increase since 2010... Read
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DJIBOUTI
An injunction restraining Djibouti's port company, Port de Djibouti S.A. (PDSA), from treating its joint venture shareholders' agreement with global trade enabler DP World as terminated has been granted... Read
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AFRICA
JÖRG PETERS
For decades, people in rural Africa have been using sooty kerosene lamps to dimly light their homes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The fifth edition of the HVI analysed the hotel values of 26 markets operating in 19 African countries, providing crucial information for investors... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The African Farmers' Association of South Africa and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries needed to collaborate to build on AFASA's work to support black farmers in accessing markets, land, water and energy... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICK DURRANT
The world has gone digital is a term we hear far too often nowadays, but it's not exactly true... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Standard Bank has launched a social campaign on Twitter to turn tweets into tangible educational tools... Read
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AFRICA
TOM JACKSON
Ed-tech startups connecting learners with tutors are increasingly prevalent across Africa, but these platforms are adding additional components to their models to increase impact. Read
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AFRICA
Africa's tourism competitiveness is below its potential, and despite the great progress that it has been made, the tourism industry on the continent remains behind other regions in terms of competitiveness... Read
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AFRICA
According to Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank, the time has come to view investment and development opportunities in Africa through a totally different lens... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Grocery stores have been given the green light to once again stock processed meat on shelves and pack them in lunch boxes... Read
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TANZANIA
VANESSA NAEGELS
With an annual GDP growth of 7% since 2013, Tanzania is one of the fastest growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa.... Read
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AFRICA
KAREN VILLHOLTH
Across Asia, man-made structures have stood powerless to avert tragedy after tragedy during 2018's rainy season... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
HELEN NICHOLSON
When it comes to learning and development, digitisation and tech-enabled learning are transforming the role L&D plays in the organisation. It's not only technology making waves, evolving human resources present some interesting disruptions of their own... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Avanti Communications Group, a satellite operator, providing Ka-Band satellite data communications services have officially launched in South Africa.... Read
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AFRICA
LOUISE GROGAN AND TSELMUUN TSERENKHUU
For nearly two decades, the United States has strongly pushed for the electrification of rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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AFRICA
TOM JACKSON
Unemployment rates across Africa are too high, but tech startups are coming up with more and more innovative ways of connecting jobseekers with opportunities... Read
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