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The African Public Relations Association (APRA), will be hosting the 31st APRA Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, from 13-17 May 2019... read
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AFRICA
VUKANI MNGXATI
The 'digitisation of everything' trend is evolving at pace and Africa cannot afford to play catch-up...read
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AFRICA
DR ADMIRE MARE AND DUMISANI MOYO
Newsrooms in Africa, like their counterparts around the world, are embracing new media tools like analytics or editorial metrics to aid in the editorial decision-making process...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South African finance minister Tito Mboweni, during the 2019 Budget Speech, says budget spending has to focus on getting the country ready for technology...read
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RWANDA
Nigeria's innovation centre, Co-Creation Hub, has expanded to Kigali, Rwanda... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Eutelsat Communications has partnered with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation and the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters for video capacity... Read
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LIBERIA
Liberia's telecommunications market is enriched by a new broadband internet service provider... Read
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NIGERIA
The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has collaborated with Google and an ISP partner to launch Google Station in 11 UBA branches in Lagos State as part of plans to roll out 200 stations in the country... Read
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MOZAMBIQUE
The global trading system must support least developed countries, says Mozambique... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CRAIG JOHNSTON
Craig Johnston, marketing manager at Seidor Bluekey, says that data and knowledge are not the same thing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LOUISE HUNT
While companies compete for headspace in a noisy and crowded environment, thought leadership as a tried and trusted PR tactic is coming into its own in the South African media space... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GARETH HAWKEY
It's no secret that local retailers are having a torrid time. The economy remains in the doldrums with investors and consumers spooked by debilitating load shedding, ongoing job cuts... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Serving the connected individual requires a different approach; one that focuses on creating connected brands. These connected brands will be created by The Connected Marketer... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DEVIN ROSS
Devin Ross from Arc discusses how the strategist role can reinvent itself going forward, to add real value to clients and to be a cog in the process of creating great and effective creative work... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JSE-listed Grand Parade Investments is closing all Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins outlets in South Africa following poor performance... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WAYNE FLEMMING AND ZUBEIDA GOOLAM
Authenticity is a key component in influencer marketing. But studies show that brands often shy away from terms like 'sponsored' and '#ad' on paid partnership posts, for fear of having a negative impact on consumer perception... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY GORDON INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS SCIENCE
Africa offers exciting possibilities for companies looking to access new growth markets in a constrained global economic climate... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANIELLA SHAPIRO
Who cares what it looks like on the outside when it's what's on the inside that counts, right? Wrong! At least when it comes to product packaging, that is... Read
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KENYA
Kenya's retail sector is diversifying with the entry of new players and international brands into the market. This is despite the retail sector growing at a "lethargic rate"... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
QUINN LUBBE
There is no doubt that video content is more informative, more engaging and more likely to gain lead conversions than any other format, but with such an overwhelming amount of content, what trends should marketers be paying attention to in order to ensure that their carefully crafted message is not simply lost in the quagmire?... Read
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WEST AFRICA
ISSUED BY NIELSEN
Ghana's latest Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for the fourth quarter of 2018 shows a five point decrease to 108, while Nigeria's CCI has dropped one point to 117, presenting a diverse picture of consumer sentiment across West Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
IRINA HERF
Can performance-based pricing models be the future of offline advertising in South Africa? This is one of the industry issues that were discussed in a roundtable discussion in Cape Town last week... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
It is hard to believe that billions of connected devices and sensors - the Internet of Things - are forecast to be worth a staggering $US94bn by 2025 in the retail sector... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
HOWARD FELDMAN
Forget marketing South Africa to foreign investors. The campaign promoting SA Inc needs to begin with the marketing of the country to South Africans... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
If 2018 was the year of limited-edition packaging and personalisation (think FIFA World Cup 2018), 2019 promises to be the year of retro designs and futuristic formulations... Read
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EAST AFRICA
ISSUED BY NIELSEN
Kenya's latest Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) score for Quarter 4, 2018, has rebounded by a healthy eight points since the previous quarter to 102... Read
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AFRICA
NTOMBI MHANGWANI
Digitalisation has led to customers having an overwhelming number of choices in purchasing choices, brand selections and everything they do... Read
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GHANA
Ghanaian operator Surfline Communications has partnered Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) to provide free Wi-Fi connectivity to members of public libraries in the Greater Accra Region... Read
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NIGERIA
'Our Perfect Wedding Nigeria' is a new reality TV show coming to Multichoice Nigeria... Read
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KENYA
This year's Africa Shared Value Summit will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 23-24 May 2019, at the Radisson Blu Hotel... Read
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BURKINA FASO
The Ecobank Foundation has lent its support to the African Film Industry through its sponsorship of a FESPACO prize... Read
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NIGERIA
Nigeria's digital publishing platform, Publiseer, has been selected to pitch at Startup Turkey Top 100 Demo Day... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
French beauty giant L'Oréal has launched a digital skin diagnostic based on people's selfies... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Chanel has named Virginie Viard, Karl Lagerfeld's closest collaborator for more than 30 years, as the company's new creative director, after Lagerfeld passed away in Paris this week... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JEREMY SEEKINGS AND NICOLI NATTRASS
To reduce unemployment South Africa needs to prioritise labour-intensive work instead of higher wages, write professors Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
FARREN ROPER
Every now and again, a rising technology comes along and fundamentally changes the way we work. Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been at the forefront of recent discussion... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHERRY ZAMEER
In a world of increasing connectivity and digitisation, our interactions with devices and services demand highly secure identity authentication for access... Read
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NIGERIA
OYEWALE TOMORI
The first case of Lassa fever in Nigeria was recorded in 1969. A zoonotic disease endemic to West Africa, the disease was named after the town in Nigeria where the first case occurred... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ERNST WITTMANN
Mobile technology has transformed the way we live and work, and it can be expected to rapidly change the ways in which children learn as smartphones and tablets become more widely accepted at primary and high schools... Read
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EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Equatorial Guinea has received the official backing of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Secretariat, which seeks to address key governance issues of transparency and accountability... Read
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GHANA
A reported 75% of girls in Ghana attend primary school, but there's a significant drop in girls in high school and college. Research by the WWW Foundation further revealed that women in poor urban areas in developing countries are 50% less likely to use the internet than men. FemiTi aims to change all that... Read
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ANGOLA
Caio Verde is a new sustainable city currently under development in the Angolan province of Cabinda... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RYAN KNIPE
Digitalisation, automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have changed the way we work. Industry has evolved from being powered by steam and weaving looms in the 1700s to today's cyber physical systems and internet of things (IoT)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RUMINA DHALLA
This year, climate change topped off the agenda at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland... Read
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EGYPT
Launching the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) pilot project in Egypt, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), under the framework of the Egyptian Cotton Project, is supporting Cotton Egypt Association's Egyptian Cotton branding... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Greater international cooperation is needed to prevent unsafe food from causing ill health and hampering progress towards sustainable development... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Rolfes Leather, a division of JSE-listed, Rolfes Holdings, will explore the beam-house market in Ethiopia this year... Read
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KENYA
PETER MACHARIA & EMELDA OKIRO
The number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday is closely monitored as a marker of social well-being and national development. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JG BEZUIDENHOUT
JG Bezuidenhout has compiled a list of my top 5 tools that can help control and regulate franchisees marketing with minimum friction... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ELAINE WANG
There has been an increase in interest by multinationals in the deployment of local cloud data centres in South Africa over the past year... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Companies in almost every sector of the economy must become increasingly technology-focused as more devices are connected to the internet... Read
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SEYCHELLES
Seychelles will conduct a feasibility study later on this year ahead of 2020 deadline on the moratorium for building large hotels on the archipelago... Read
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AFRICA
Participants in the recent meeting of the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) Institutional Collaboration Platform (ICP) in Uganda adopted a five-year strategic plan that emphasises three climate research priority areas... Read
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