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PEDRO GUERREIRO
Beyond boundaries: the impact of free trade and technology on Africa's accelerating economic development... read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The colours of the 711 winners of the 98th global ADC Annual Awards were revealed on the first evening of the One Club for Creativity's Creative Week, held on 6 May 2018 at Metropolitan West in New York, with a Merit Award coming home to SA, for Grid Worldwide's #HopeJoanna...read
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RWANDA
The African Public Relations Association (APRA) will host its annual African Public Relations Conference, in Kigali, Rwanda from 13 to 17 May 2019...read
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SOUTH SUDAN
WAN-IFRA announces 2019 Laureates of the Women in News Editorial Leadership Award...read
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ETHIOPIA
MUTHOKI MUMO
Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's media have more freedom but challenges remain... Read
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NIGERIA
JONATHAN ROZEN
'You cannot muzzle the media' - Nigerian journalists on press freedom under Buhari... Read
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AFRICA
Africa's mobile entertainment app, Kwesé iflix, has strengthened its commitment to offer more local content to its subscribers... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR
In this webinar Dr Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and Graham Page, MD for Offer at Kantar's Insights Division, will share evidence of what they know works well, and how to navigate your brand towards successful purpose driven advertising... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL ZAHARIEV
Now that we're in the ninth year of what's dramatically been dubbed 'the retail apocalypse', local retailers have felt the pinch... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BigFive Digital has chosen Cape Town as host for its inaugural summit... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TIFFANY MARKMAN
Explainer videos. Also known as whiteboard animations, illustrated stories, and fast-draw videos. They're either the best thing ever for your product, service or brand, helping you to unpack what you do quickly and compellingly. Or they're an expensive piece of website filler that few visitors watch, and almost no one views all the way to the end... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
In our annual #AfricaMonth catch-up, Loeries CEO Andrew Human chats about what to expect from Loeries 2019, why judges are briefed to look for locally relevant experiences and communications, and the rising importance of brand humanity and problem-solving in creativity against the continued shift away from merely punting the client product or service... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
Argility is a South African enterprise software development and services company focussing on using industry 4.0 technologies in the retail and supply chain arena... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As more and more trading takes place through an online channel with a consequent reduction in comparative trading densities, we can expect a shift in how malls inform their key metrics such as tenant mix and rent-to-turnover ratios... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ERNEST NORTH
Over the past 10 years, we have seen digital technology reconfigure the relationships between brands and consumers. The rise of globalised competition has given people more choice than they have ever had before... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEO VAN DE POLDER
One of our Shop members, Leon Nicholas, VP of retail insights and solutions at Westrock, explains the importance of POP and describe 4 big trends in the area of the retail environment... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
REFILWE MALULEKE
Brands need to show up in relevant environments with tailored offerings and a seamless purchasing journey... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RYAN FALKENBERG
Ask the leadership of any reasonably-sized company what technology they're looking to implement and they'll almost invariably mention artificial intelligence... Read
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AFRICA
APO Group and Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) partner for deeper impact on African women's entrepreneurship... Read
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KENYA
Kenyan audio production and podcast startup, PortableVoices has opened its first recording studio in Nairobi... Read
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SENEGAL
The Senegalese authorities want to cut the signal of analog television... Read
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AFRICA
Asoko Insight and African Business magazine announce African Business DealRoom partnership... Read
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UGANDA
The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Uganda's media regulator to immediately rescind an order suspending staff from 13 radio and television stations over their coverage of opposition politician, Bobi Wine... Read
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CAMEROON
Cameroonian journalist Monica Nkodo wins APO Group invitation to attend the 2019 EurAfrican Forum, one the most prestigious EU-Africa events... Read
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NIGERIA
Playfre intends to be Africa's first real answer to Spotify, with over 40 million songs available to play for free... Read
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GUINEA
TV operator TNT Sat Africa to launch its services in Ivory Coast and Guinea... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The second of two award nights for One Show 2019 is done and dusted, having taken place at Cipriani Wall Street earlier on Friday, 10 May, with South Africa bringing home a further Silver and Bronze Pencil... Read
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NIGERIA
ISSUED BY 365 DIGITAL
365 Digital, supported by Google, hosted the Ad Tech Masterclass in Lagos, Nigeria, aimed at fostering a greater unified online advertising ecosystem... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Nike's Dream Crazy campaign has won favour across the globe, having just scooped up top honours at the One Show Awards in New York. Caster Semenya, who features in the campaign, has also further proved her place on the winner podium... Read
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NIGERIA
UZOMA UKAH
Nigeria's social media space is a very volatile place, and going viral should be treated like a double-edged sword... Read
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AFRICA
Innovation and technology trends are on the agenda at the annual Women in Business Annual Leadership Meeting 2019... Read
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AFRICA
JOAQUIM BRETCHA BOIX
Why local insights and research associations like PAMRO are important... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Over the past few months, a Walmart Neighborhood Market in New York has quietly transformed into the company's first Intelligent Retail Lab... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Coca-Cola's new Signature Mixers range, which will launch in the UK from June, marks the first time the brand has expanded into the alcohol space and taps into the growing premium mixer market... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
By 2021, only one-quarter of midsize and large organisations will successfully target new ways of working in 80% of their initiatives, according to Gartner, Inc. New ways of working include distributed decision-making, virtual and remote work, and redesigned physical workspaces... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NEELAKSHI MUNGRA, KRUPA NARAN & TRISHANA NUNDALALL
The exorbitant costs of cancer drugs make it difficult for public and private healthcare systems to provide the latest treatments to patients... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Scientists from a transdisciplinary research team are investigating how investments in ecological infrastructure protect society against hydroclimatic risks, including droughts and floods... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A century of medical progress is threatened by worldwide antimicrobial resistance. This is according to a new report released by the United Nation's Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG)... Read
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MADAGASCAR
The Radisson Hotel Group has signed an agreement with Groupe Talys, for three hotels to enter Madagascar, namely the Radisson Blu Hotel Antananarivo Waterfront, Radisson Hotel Antananarivo Waterfront and Radisson Serviced Apartments Antananarivo City Centre... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The business model for energy investment needs to change. There are far too many players that are comfortable with the same structures for investment, selling to an SOE (state-owned enterprise) with a government guarantee... Read
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KENYA
MICHAEL OKOTI
Changes in weather patterns have made life a great deal more precarious for pastoral communities... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
FUNDISIWE MASEKO
The app is the latest agritech development that aims to actively increase productivity, saving farmers hundreds of hours that are usually spent detecting and documenting problems in the field... Read
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SOMALIA
Through a phased approach, the he UK-funded Esres in partnership with the Somaliland's Ministry of Energy and Minerals (MoEM) is addressing the high costs of electricity in Somaliland... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
#TechBytes is a nine-part video mini-series that shares nine simple steps any business can apply to generate qualified leads... Read
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NIGERIA
Nigerian government officials and key investors have endorsed the African Development Bank's Special agro-industrial processing zones initiative, describing it as a pathway to Africa's agricultural revolution... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
While still an immature industry in South Africa, employee volunteering is growing rapidly in the country and punching above its weight... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
It's obvious that many small businesses want to grow, but growing your small business isn't easy... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CARLA TSAMPIRAS & NOLWAZI MKHWANAZI
Imagine bringing the best of all academic disciplines, artistic creations, activist experience and healthcare knowledge to bear on understanding and addressing current healthcare concerns... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As an SME, you understand all too well that digital has become the cornerstone of doing business today... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
FIONA ANCIANO AND LAURENCE PIPER
Recent devastating flooding in parts of South Africa as well as the second massive cyclone to batter neighbouring Mozambique and Zimbabwe in just two months has raised alarm bells about the effect of climate change on the region... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANETTE BREITENBACH
In 2018, 67 million international tourists visited Africa, a growth of 7% - more than the global average of 6% - and 8.5% of Africa's GDP, supporting 24 million jobs, and/ or 6.7% of all jobs on the continent... Read
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NORTH AFRICA
Many of these properties represent first-in-country openings for Hilton Garden Inn and for the Hilton enterprise as a whole, including Botswana, Zambia and Uganda... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The SA Innovation Summit has launched ANDZA, a competition for entrepreneurs to win investment funding and acceleration... Read
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AFRICA
African businesses are being challenged to wake up to the economic, social and environmental power of the Blue Economy... Read
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AFRICA
With mobile money continuing to dominate the continent's commerce growth, opening doors to business to everyone from a rural farmer to an entrepreneur, and cross-border seeing inter-country transactions on the rise, the continent is making a play to be the world's biggest e-commerce opportunity... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The City of Cape Town calls for innovative and smart ideas that will help to mitigate the current energy crisis... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Growth continues to top the list of CEO business priorities in 2019 and 2020, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TANIA AJAM
For governments to function optimally, there must be a good relationship between politicians and administrators. This "political-administrative interface" is a key theme of public administration, both in theory and in practice... Read
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UGANDA
Rwandan PaaS (platform as a service) startup Ared has marked its first international expansion by setting up 10 women-run 'smart business in a box' solar-powered kiosks in Uganda... Read
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