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The African SABRE awards demonstrate excellence in the public relations industry across the African continent... read
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AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Bizcommunity, the wholly independently owned media brand made in Africa for Africa, is proud to announce the launch of the Bizcommunity.africa domain...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Anton Hugo, retail & consumer leader for PwC Africa and associate directors Rashaad Fortune and Andries Geertsema presented PwC's 2019 Global Consumer Insights Survey at the Peech Hotel in Johannesburg on 3 April...read
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MOROCCO
The Adebayo Adedeji lecture this year focused on the topic of digital transformation in Africa...read
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AFRICA
Kenyan Journalist Patrick Alushula bags overall award, Pan African Journalist of the Year... Read
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KENYA
Metropol Corporation launches 24-hour business TV channel, Metropol TV... Read
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NIGERIA
Ventures Africa explores the Future of Nigeria's tech with 10 leading women in its newly launched business series... Read
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AFRICA
BookBeak is an app that connects African writers with the world's readers through storytelling... Read
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COMOROS
Authorities in the Comoros should immediately release journalists Abdallah Abdou Hassane and Oubeidillah Mchangama held in detention... Read
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UGANDA
Deutsche Welle continues to expand partnerships with private and public broadcasters in East Africa... Read
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ZIMBABWE
ZBC TV continues to produce new television productions, all funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe under the Zimbabwe Digital Broadcasting migration project... Read
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NIGERIA
Pulse commits to continued delivery of quality reportage after Nigerian elections... Read
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KENYA
Kenya's 'Country Queen': The story behind the series... Read
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AFRICA
Chinese pay TV company, StarTimes will concentrate more on local content to enhance its viewership in African countries... Read
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TANZANIA
The Committee to Protect Journalists' #WhereIsAzory campaign launches to highlight the fact that the Tanzanian journalist has been missing for 500 days ... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Sacrosanct, supported by Nando's will see six SA designers boast their afro-contempo designs to the world... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
International trends spotter Marian Salzman joined local trend analysts Nicola Cooper and Khumo Theko in highlighting the top pop culture trends affecting females at an event held at Inner City Ideas Cartel in Cape Town last month... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Khumo Theko, trend spotter at Flux Trends highlights and identifies new urban tribes that brands should be aware of when communicating to their consumers... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Bizcommunity is proud to announce the launch of BIZ | Daily - a daily top story round-up, curated from across 18 industry sectors by most impressions and social media shares... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RIRHANDZU SHENGWENYANA
Government communicators need to realise that traditional communication is obsolete in this digital cultural age... Read
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RWANDA
MARIE E BERRY & LAURA MANN
Rwanda has emerged as a model for economic development. The country has taken great strides just 25 years since its horrific genocide... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Dove has taken action with Getty Images, Girlgaze and women around the world to create Project #ShowUs - the world's largest stock photo library created by women and non-binary individuals to shatter beauty stereotypes by showing women as they are, not as others believe they should be... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SARAH DEXTER
There appears to be an increasing focus amongst brands these days on delivering short-term results - a desire to deliver the "right" bottom line for this month/quarter/cycle, despite numerous studies suggesting that this is detrimental to the long-term health of a brand... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Professional African women have been underrepresented on the internet until now. This international women's month, Dove, Getty Images and Girlgaze launched the project #ShowUs stock image library, aimed at shattering beauty stereotypes, while Ellipsis and Picha collaborated to create their #MelaninModern stock images of professional African women. Here's why media and advertising alike need to get in on the action... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
It is near impossible nowadays for organisations to keep up with trends in business and technology... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NATASHA FOURIE
Market research and competitor analysis as part of the Ideation phase... Read
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AFRICA
The University of Pretoria has been lauded for the launch of its Future Africa research institute. The institute aims to address complex societal challenges and contribute to the achievement of Africa's sustainable, inclusive and equitable development through science and technology... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
IGGY SATHEKGE
Every week, around the world, an area of floor space the size of Paris is constructed. With building and construction comes harmful emissions that remain with us for decades... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) has announced the nominees for the 23rd Annual Webby Awards. Among those recognised this year in the Advertising, Media & PR categories are South Africa's Net#work BBDO and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Southern African Freelancers' Association (SAFREA) has released new insights into the South African freelance landscape... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KIRSTY DUGMORE
The concepts of behavioural economics, observed consumer behaviour and neuro-marketing are enough to make any marketer head for the hills out of the sheer fear of not knowing where to begin. Kirsty Dugmore of SugaSpice puts it simply... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Spoilt for choice and digitally-empowered, today's customers want exactly what they want, when they want it and the way they want it... Read
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ZIMBABWE
YEUKAI KARENGEZEKA, ISSUED BY ALLIANCE MEDIA
Alliance Media Zimbabwe, a pan-African company which specialises in outdoor billboards, has donated 30 tonnes of maize-meal to Cyclone Idai survivors... Read
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AFRICA
The 5th annual AWIEF conference, exhibition and awards are now open for registration. The event aims to promote and accelerate the growth of women-owned and women-led businesses for Africa's inclusive economic growth... Read
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AFRICA
GOtv will this month premier 'Mehek', the first Zee World production to star actors from the African continent... Read
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NIGERIA
Jiji, Nigeria's classifieds marketplace has reached an agreement with OLX to redirect OLX users in Nigeria to Jiji and to acquire OLX businesses in Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda... Read
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GLOBAL
Matthew Curry, CCO of BSSP in San Francisco and One Show 2019 Film judge liked how the spot made the culture of vanity seem okay, and thus made it his pick of the day. Or is that the greatest pick of all time?... Read
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GLOBAL
The winners of the Wan-Ifra's European Digital Media Awards were announced on Monday, 1 April, at the end of the first day of the Digital Media Europe Conference in Vienna... Read
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GLOBAL
#NEWSWATCH: Accenture Interactive, the marketing arm of international consulting firm Accenture, has acquired the formerly independent creative agency Droga5 by buying out Endeavor's 49% stake... Read
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CAPE VERDE
Nearly 630-million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to the diseases afflicting the population across the World Health Organisation's (WHO's) 47 member states in Africa... Read
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KENYA
DAVID OBURA
Kenyans have taken to social media to protest against what they claim is illegal sand harvesting off Diani beach, one of the country's most popular coastal areas. The Conversation Africa's Moina Spooner spoke to David Obura about why this is an issue. Read
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AFRICA
BRUCE M BICCARD
The in-hospital maternal mortality rate following a Caesarean delivery in Africa may be 50 times higher than in high-income countries... Read
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AFRICA
ISABELLA EPIU
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has come up with plans and tools to help countries ensure safer surgery in their hospitals and clinics... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently launched an online trading platform which will link registered small, medium and micro enterprises' (SMMEs) access to supply chain opportunities of large South African corporations... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRENDAN MCARAVEY
Our work is becoming ever more digital. No matter if you're an office worker, doctor, lawyer, warehouse clerk, or truck driver... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The symbolism of the map pays homage to the African continent and boasts a circumference of 30 metres... Read
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GHANA
Representatives from Ghana and Denmark signed a contract for a three-year agreement to ensure a collaborative effort for a safer maritime sector... Read
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AFRICA
Capital city of Tunisia, Tunis, will host the second Africa Blue Economy Forum (ABEF) set for 25-26 June this year... Read
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AFRICA
A new study published in the Nature International Journal of Science has revealed that improved housing had doubled in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2015... Read
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GHANA
AfricaOnline, Ghana's ISP and a Gondwana International Networks (GIN) subsidiary, has appointed Foster Plender as its managing director... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Regulatory uncertainty, lack of policy cohesion, infrastructural constraints and, in some instances, politics across Africa are clearly seen as deterrents, but there is great potential to attract investment if these issues can be addressed. Read
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GLOBAL
These centres have been created to foster high quality applied research and build relationships among the education community, the private sector, and policymakers... Read
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GLOBAL
The Skoll Foundation has announced the five winners of the 2019 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship... Read
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MOZAMBIQUE
Around 900,000 doses of cholera vaccine have been unloaded in Mozambique to help stave off a possible epidemic, in the wake of the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai. Read
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AFRICA
Farmers in Kenya will soon have their own market - the Nairobi Famers Market - by which they will be able to sell their produce directly to consumers, cutting off the traditional value chain which comprises middlemen. Read
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DR CONGO
ANDONI MAIZA LARRARTE & GLORIA CLAUDIO-QUIROGA
It was confidently billed at the time as the "deal of the century". The Sino Congolaise des Mines (Sicomines) was the most significant Chinese investment project in Africa when it was agreed in 2007... Read
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AFRICA
Africa's Travel Indaba media launch, which was held at The Plant Venue Co., Durban on 3 April 2019, provided the opportunity South Africa's tourism industry to tell their success stories... Read
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WEST AFRICA
PRAMILA RAJIL & ALAIN TOWNSEND
The Ebola virus outbreak of 2014 in West Africa caused more than 11,000 deaths. At the time, scientists were working on several experimental vaccines and treatments but none were licensed for use in humans... Read
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AFRICA
GERALD GONDO
Never before has the need for infrastructure felt so immediate and acute. This became apparent to me as I travelled to Nairobi, Lagos, Lusaka and Gaborone... Read
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AFRICA
Signing an agreement on the side-lines of the high-level event on Food and Agriculture in Times of Crises, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Africa-Europe Diaspora Development Platform (ADEPT) have joined efforts... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANIËLLE KRUGER
Alongside local African authorities, HP's ACF team have conducted two highly successful operations to stop the trade of counterfeit cartridges for HP printers across Uganda and Mozambique... Read
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AFRICA
JENNIFFER MABUKA-MAROA
For several months, my friend's father lay helpless in one of Nairobi's premier hospitals. There was no clear diagnosis... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Many people think that if only they worked for a 'cooler' company, had a different job or made more money, they would then be happy at work... Read
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ZIMBABWE
The Zimbabwean government have called hoteliers out after some of Bulwayo's top hotels and lodges hiked their rates by as much as 350% ahead of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Mobile apps are projected to have the most impact on business success by 2020... Read
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