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African youth are the future of the world economy and entrepreneurship, the Africa 2018 forum in Egypt hears... read
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African countries must leverage their strengths to accelerate drive towards integration... read
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AFRICA
The winners of the first Google Impact Challenge Africa award were announced last week...read
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AFRICA
LAMIN M. MANNEH
Although the continent's "rising narrative" began to dim with effect from 2015, when economic growth rates started declining dramatically, the "Afro-optimism" is gradually returning...read
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AFRICA
Burson Cohn & Wolfe has released the Twiplomacy study about the most followed world leaders on Instagram...read
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RWANDA
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to create a single continental market for goods and services, with free movement of business persons and investments... Read
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RWANDA
Africa must focus now on its biggest resource for growth - its young people, experts urged... Read
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RWANDA
Africa Economic Conference 2018 focuses on Africa Visa Openness and integration... Read
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NIGERIA
Response Architects launches Nigeria's first international tele-shopping platform, Shopex TV... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Bizcommunity invites you to join us as four 'Afro-futurists', all published authors, all experienced global keynote speakers and trend consultants, impart their knowledge in one intensive morning session... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Festive goodwill is part and parcel of the holiday season and we're wrapping up our year with a hamper of promotional goodies... Read
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WEST AFRICA
ISSUED BY NIELSEN
Nigeria's latest Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for the third quarter of 2018 has shown a four-point decline to 118, while Ghana's CCI for the same quarter has risen five points to 113, all in all a fairly stable picture for West Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ITUMELENG MUKHOVHA
Advances in telecommunication technology have transformed the tools used for marketing and consumerism and ultimately, the way that businesses operate... Read
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AFRICA
Coca-Cola Africa has committed to investing $38million over three years to stimulate recycling industries across Southern and Eastern Africa, and also announced its new PET bottle... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEAGO MONARENG
CSR has evolved over the past few years as more and more organisations take a larger role in actively participating in social and community projects... Read
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EAST AFRICA
ISSUED BY NIELSEN
Kenya's latest Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) score for Quarter 3, 2018, has dropped a steep 10 points, since the previous quarter, to 94, revealing a volatile consumer mindset and underlying uncertainties... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JIM HOLLAND
A new age is dawning. For big companies, the oncoming era will require new skill sets, technologies, alignments and business models... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MIKE LAWS
Imagine you had only 24 hours to put together a passable mobile marketing plan. What mobile tactics would you prioritise over a day because they are such non-negotiables?... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have no chance of surviving the onslaught from e-commerce unless they invest in their customer experience... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEAGO MONARENG
It's time to revise our evaluation methodologies. If one of the world's leading professional body has declared its intention to send it into exile is perhaps an indication that it's time to move on from using AVE as a PR metric. ... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
During this week's IBTM World trade show conference, it was emphasised how South Africa has become a leader in business events; with the announcement of its hosting of the 2019 ICCA Association Meetings Programme and launch of its new business events campaign... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DOMINIQUE PIENAAR
Digital disruption in the public relations and communications landscape means that brands and their agencies now need to work closer together than ever, in order to identify new storytelling opportunities, publishing platforms, and harness data analytics to continually refine how and where they place their messaging... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SINESIPHO MANINJWA
With the conclusion of both SA Fashion Week and Africa Fashion week, Sinesipho Maninjwa asks if influencer marketing really does offer a financial return on investment... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The hot topic of digital disruption, and consequentially the accelerated pace at which our working lives are shifting, was tackled from three seemingly disparate directions at Marketing the Future, a recent event held by the IMM Graduate School... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR MILLWARD BROWN
Kantar has just released its perspective of the major trends that will shape the media landscape for brand owners, agencies and media platforms in 2019... Read
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NORTH AFRICA
Broadcasters are working on popular series for Snapchat's Discover page, with 32 shows across entertainment, sport and food... Read
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AFRICA
African subscribers of Netflix will soon be able to watch local shows. The global streaming giant has planned to add original series from Africa next year to its ever-growing roster... Read
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NIGERIA
MTN Nigeria has introduced the first Disney mobile web service in Nigeria... Read
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AFRICA
Africa's largest mobile money ecosystem has connected to China's largest payment service in real-time... Read
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NORTH AFRICA
Social media company Snapchat has inked new deals with 20 local media brands to publish its daily stories and shows in a content channel known as Discover... Read
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AFRICA
Pay TV provider Kwesé has delivered converter boxes that offer customers with traditional television sets a connection to the internet... Read
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NIGERIA
GE launched an e-learning portal for its Lagos Garage advanced manufacturing training program, to reach to thousands of Nigerians across the country... Read
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GLOBAL
SHEIDA NEMAN
Facebook has released its 2018 Year In Review, highlighting the top ways people around the world connected with their communities on Facebook... Read
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GLOBAL
NEWSWATCH: Unilever CMO Keith Weed will retire from the role next year, after 35 years at the company... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Unilever will acquire the Health Food Drinks portfolio of GlaxoSmithKline in India, Bangladesh and 20 other predominantly Asian markets for $3.8billion... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX
Sears did more than pioneer the mail-order catalogue over a century ago. It helped make America a more inclusive place at a time when Jim Crow was rampant... Read
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ZAMBIA
WorldFish and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa have created the COMESA Fish Inspection and Certification Facility on the Zambia-Zimbabwe-Mozambique border... Read
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AFRICA
NTERANYA SANGINGA
Africa's over-reliance on external institutions is undermining the continent's capacity to strengthen agricultural research and development for improving the livelihoods of millions of people... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
HARKRISHAN SINGH
In the age of disruption and fast data, the success of a new software solution is often dependent on being first to market... Read
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AFRICA
KATE ELIZABETH GANNON AND DECLAN CONWAY
Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa... Read
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AFRICA
KATE GANNON, & DECLAN CONWAY
Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa... Read
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GLOBAL
RACHEL CAREY, JENNIFER SHERIDAN AND KIRSTEN LARSEN
This article is part of a series focusing on the politics of food - what we eat, how our views of food are changing and why it matters from a cultural and political standpoint... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
As a writer, editor, interviewer, moderator and columnist in the tech media world, Mike Butcher covers everything - from the smallest tech startups to the largest tech giants... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Access to finance is needed to unlock Africa's agricultural potential but it cannot be focused on just one aspect of the value chain at the expense of others... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
There's a critical need to invest in a research & development (R&D) industry that could create a pipeline of jobs for science graduates in Africa... Read
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TANZANIA
The World Bank, the World Food Programme, UNICEF and the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution have come together to support the Government of Tanzania in the organisation of the Lake Victoria Challenge... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Marriott International has opened the AC Hotel Cape Town Waterfront; marking the debut of the brand in the Middle East and Africa... Read
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NIGERIA
TOLU OLAREWAJU
Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative offices in Nigeria... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JIM VELLA
Henry Ford once said: "A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organisation and stockholders"... Read
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MOROCCO
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) urged governments in Africa to maximise the positive social and economic power of aviation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The City of Cape Town recently signed an urban wastewater management loan with the German government-owned KfW Development Bank... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa retains its position as the top foreign direct investment (FDI) destination on the African continent, according to the 2018 Ernst & Young (EY) Africa Attractiveness Survey... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Mozambique presents great opportunities for South African businesses to invest in, said Mozambican Provincial Permanent Secretary of Cabo Delgado Province, Antonio Domingos Mapure... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RYAN CRAWFORD
People working in the manufacturing industry tend to see the Fourth Industrial Revolution as yet another nail in the coffin of an already weakened industry... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The impact of digitisation is rapidly disrupting business models across organisations. This is becoming more prevalent in the manufacturing sector, in particular, supply chain... Read
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AFRICA
OLALEKAN ADEKOLA
Most African countries have made strong progress in achieving major development goals in the last few years. Despite this much needed progress, the past decade has seen flooding damage or destroy much of this same infrastructure,.. Read
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