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ELLANA LEE
Every week, 'African Voices' highlights three different figures from Africa, who lead the narrative to show 'their Africa' to our viewers... read
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EGYPT
After five years in jail, Eqyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, also known as Shawkan, has been released...read
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NIGERIA
STEPHEN ONYEIWU
One of the main reasons newly-elected Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari had been widely expected to lose his bid for a second term was the poor state of the country's economy...read
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BURKINA FASO
Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 'Miraculous Weapons' scoops Ecobank Foundation Prize at FESPACO...read
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KENYA
MultiChoice has revealed its new project, the mobile app, called MyDStv which has been tailored to the Kenyan market to ensure minimal data consumption... Read
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MALAWI
The Malawi Government-owned Digital Broadcast Network Limited together with TNM, has introduced its new digital TV, Kiliye Kiliye... Read
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AFRICA
The African Channel will air a collection of 20 new primetime series representing premium drama, lifestyle, and news programming from Africa during 2019... Read
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MAURITANIA
CPJ calls on Mauritania government to release blogger Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
YPO hosted the world's largest gathering of CEOs right here in Cape Town on 6 and 7 March 2019, for its Global Leadership Conference and YPO Edge, with the theme, 'Life of Re'. Here's how the C-Suite in general and media creative specifically can take the theme to heart and make a difference through positive change in society beyond the bottom line... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEO VAN DE POLDER
Frank Mayer and Associates, Inc.'s company thought leaders are peeking into their crystal balls to predict what the coming 365 days have in store for the retail and point-of-purchase industries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANGIE WHITE
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez started day 2 of Design Indaba on a high note when he presented on the Ooho! - the disappearing biodegradable water-filled bead made from brown algae and calcium chloride (seaweed)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LISA STEINGOLD
Marketers need more than just optimised ad spend and clever campaigns to thrive in fast-changing times. We need thinkers who are prepared to shift business as usual... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Ad-women.com, a global register of female talent linked to the advertising industry has launched... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JETHRO FITZ-PATRICK, ISSUED BY 365 DIGITAL
365 Digital has announced its partnership with major Nigerian digital news publisher, Punch Nigeria. The move is set to improve brands' access to premium sub-Saharan inventory through the use of the latest in programmatic buying methods... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
King James was honoured with 11 Golds and 1 Silver Ingot, Mortimer Harvey received 7 Silver Ingots and 5 Finalist Certificates and FCB Africa scoops 1 Gold, 11 Silver Ingots and 4 Finalist Certificates... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TERRY LEVIN
Three days of Design Indaba inspiration culminated in headline act David Droga, whose career in advertising traverses Saatchi & Saatchi in London, Publicis, NYC, to starting his own New York-based agency, Droga5 in 2006... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RAW Material Company's Koyo Kouoh will serve as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa's (Zeitz MOCAA) new executive director and chief curator... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY HKLM
Sixteen years since leading African strategic branding and communications agency, HKLM, created the original brand name, positioning, identity and visual language for the then-new Nigerian telecommunications company, Glo, the agency has recently refreshed the brand with a new look and feel... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GRAEME MCLEAN
Have you ever searched for a product online in the morning and gone back to look at it again in the evening only to find the price has changed? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The International News Media Association (Inma) has announced finalists in the 2019 Global Media Awards competition, featuring six South African entries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Two SA retailers, Supersave Food Town Hyper in Pietermaritzburg and Take n Pay Food Town Hyper in Chatsworth, were recognised at the 2019 IGA International Retailers of the Year awards... Read
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AFRICA
ISSUED BY KHANYA COMMS
The African Leadership Magazine UK, Africa's leading premier leadership magazine, recently held the Persons of the Year Awards dinner and induction of CEOs into the African Business Leaders Hall of Fame... Read
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AFRICA
International Women's Day: DW launches Facebook account 'DW Women'... Read
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AFRICA
Coke Studio Africa announces an all women finale to commemorate International Women's Day... Read
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AFRICA
MTN and Huawei have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the objective to offer more digital services to African consumers and businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
The IAB Insight Series held the last edition of its Q1 instalment, namely 'The Future of Work', this time focusing on transformation in the digital economy and the principles of future focus... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TIISETSO MALOMA
Tiišetšo Maloma shares the two most important quotations in marketing he says will help you to become an expert in customers' eyes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Woolworths has partnered with Spier Wine Farm, the Sustainability Institute and its AgroEcology Academy to launch the Living Soils Community Learning Farm - a three-year pilot project with the aim to establish demonstrative ecologically-restorative methods to grow nutrient-rich foods... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RIRHANDZU SHENGWENYANA
It's critical that social media managers understand the overall corporate strategy and the company's position so that this guard them when dealing with backlashes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
An effective loyalty programme will positively influence the relationship between a service provider and the customer through rewards and incentives - but the days of offering points as the frontline reward are long gone... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ROBERT GENTLE
It needs to take control of its public narrative... Read
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TANZANIA
Authorities in Tanzania should allow journalists to report on matters of public interest freely... Read
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NAMIBIA
Total Namibia announces the winners of the Startupper of the Year by Total Challenge... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Chief marketing officers believe brands like Amazon, Google, Apple, Nike and Starbucks are getting customer experience right... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Pantene maker Procter & Gamble (P&G) has introduced its first new retail hair care brand globally in four years, and the launch kicks off in the Mother City... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANDY WALKER
Facebook is working on a cryptocurrency for its chat service WhatsApp, a New York Times report suggests... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DORINE REINSTEIN
Mozambique has seen a phenomenal increase in demand for meetings, conferences, incentives and events in recent years, a trend that is likely to continue to intensify with the recent opening of the country's new Maputo-Katembe suspension bridge... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In only a few decades, traditional dryland farming on drained peat soils will be increasingly difficult as the rich organic soils vanish and flood prevention becomes too costly... Read
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AFRICA
MARIAM ABDULLAHI
While the telco industry may have seen its traditional revenue streams decline further in 2018... Read
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SEYCHELLES
Effective 3 June 2019, Air Seychelles will add a Monday flight to its weekly South Africa timetable... Read
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AFRICA
M NIAZ ASADULLAH AND ANTONIO SAVOIA
The world is making remarkable progress in combating poverty... Read
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DR CONGO
YAP BOUM, JEAN-JACQUES MUYEMBE & SABUE MULANGU
Since August last year the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been facing its 10th Ebola virus disease outbreak. As of early March this year, 907 cases and 569 deaths have been reported... Read
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MALAWI
The Faculty of AgriSciences at Stellenbosch University will play a part in helping the Malawian economy move away from its dependency on tobacco farming towards other viable alternatives... Read
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BOTSWANA
Cape Town Air Access (CTAA) has welcomed the announcement by Air Botswana's resumption of flights between Gaborone and Cape Town, effective 1 March 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Government says it remains committed to expanding the availability of renewable power to enhance the country's energy mix... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JASPER KNIGHT
The City of Cape Town - and southwest Africa more generally - experienced its worst drought on record between 2015 and 2018... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The liquor industry has signed the Guidelines for Good Business Practice for South African Companies Operating on the African Continent... Read
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AFRICA
FEDERICO DAVILA, ALICE MWEETWA, DANA CORDELL, FRANK MNTHAMBALA, GUDINA TUCHO, RUBEN SAKRABANI
One solution to help Africa's agriculture can come from an unlikely sector: sanitation... Read
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BOTSWANA
ROSS HARVEY
Botswana has an elephant poaching problem. The numbers far exceed previous years according to a new survey... Read
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AFRICA
JAMES GELDENHUYS
The overall state of air travel and aircraft finance on the continent remain positive, with many carriers managing to weather the political and economic storms of the past few years... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BARRY BREDENKAMP
What once was science fiction is an everyday reality thanks to digitisation, and this is just the beginning... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Dawie Maree, Head of Information and Marketing for FNB Agriculture, says agricultural technology innovation is evolving at an unprecedented pace, leaving farmers with no choice but to adapt and reinvent themselves... Read
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GLOBAL
Taking place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 27 April-1 May 2019, the event will comprise ATM 2019 and ILTM Arabia as well as CONNECT Middle East, India and Africa 2019... Read
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GLOBAL
Since World War II, Europe's agricultural sector has been very receptive to new technology, and the result has been staggering productivity gains - for four generations, farmers have produced more than their parents did. At the same time, however, agricultural prices have fallen around the world and price subsidies have been cut. This has led to a cruel paradox: while farmers have never produced so much, many can no longer make a living from farming. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
International Women's Day was celebrated on Friday, 8 March with the 2019 campaign theme of #BalanceforBetter. With reports that the global gender pay gap is actually widening despite increased awareness of the issue, we need to go beyond giving working women flowers and cupcakes in recognition of their contributions on the day... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Teff is in demand because it has various health benefits. It's high in fibre and rich in iron, calcium, magnesium, protein, and amino acids. But what's really contributed to its enormous popularity, is that it's gluten free... Read
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