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CPJ calls on SADC heads of state to prioritise press freedom and the safety of journalists... read
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AFRICA
WAN-IFRA has announced the 2019 finalists for the prestigious African Digital Media Awards...read
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AFRICA
IME ARCHIBONG
Africa's young population could be its greatest asset in an age where many other regions in the world are aging as a result of declining birth rates...read
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AFRICA
Finalists announced in annual AWIEF Awards to celebrate women leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa...read
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AFRICA
CNN International's African Voices is entering a new era in its quest to profile outstanding individuals across the continent with a new name, a new host and new format... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
The Loeries is only the second international award show after the D&AD awards to introduce "unconscious bias" workshops for its judges. Asha Ranchhod Patel, head of marketing at Google South Africa, explains how the workshops work to sensitise judging panels and help them recognise their own inherent prejudices, while removing these from their judging decisions... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Ethiopian authorities arrest Sidama Media Network workers in southern Ethiopia amid unrest... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SABC3's new reality show, The Next Brand Ambassador, is set to inspire the country's budding entrepreneurs... Read
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AFRICA
StarTimes has secured transmission rights for UEFA Euro 2020 as well as Qualifiers to EURO 2020, UEFA Nations League 2020/21 and European Qualifiers to FIFA World Cup 2022... Read
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SOUTH SUDAN
Authorities in South Sudan have detained Michael Christopher, editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan... Read
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AFRICA
Digital Entertainment On Demand (DEOD) will now offer FilmBox Africa, FilmBox Arthouse, Fast&FunBox HD, DocuBox HD, 360 TuneBox, Gametoon HD and FashionBox HD... Read
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NIGERIA
Airtel Africa has declared it will soon introduce its mobile money business in Nigeria... Read
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SENEGAL
Authorities in Senegal should immediately release and drop all charges against journalist Adama Gaye, the Committee to Protect Journalists said... Read
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CAMEROON
Cameroonian authorities should immediately release without charge, pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi, the Committee to Protect Journalists has demanded... Read
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EAST AFRICA
East Africa's Got Talent, a talent show competition which is part of the Got Talent franchise owned by Simon Cowell, launched last weekend with a live screening at the Coca Cola headquarters... Read
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UGANDA
BABA TV, the highest-ranked new channel in the 'family' with the best quality picture has been launched on DStv platform in Uganda... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RIRHANDZU SHINGWENYANA
The process of brand management is not as complicated as a lot of non-brand or marketers sees it... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Raylene de Wet, director of event sales at Hyatt Regency Johannesburg, unveils six trends that will likely disrupt and elevate South Africa's events industry in the coming year... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARY-CLARE TOMES
Recently, a client embarked on an ambitious new branding initiative that delivered results... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA BARRELLA
Many businesses can give testimony to the fact that social media has been an extremely vital tool to grow their business and promote sales... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MO AREFF
Omnichannel customer engagement revolves around so much more than just a technology-driven approach. A cross-channel strategy needs to be an integral human one if organisations are to remain competitive... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
AHMAD BELTAGUI, ACHILLEAS SESIS AND NIKOLAOS STYLOS
The first conviction for 3D printing a firearm was recently reported in London, not long after 3D printed masks were used to trick face recognition. Should we be afraid? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
British American Tobacco's acquisition of South African e-cigarette maker Twisp won approval from South Africa's Competition Tribunal on Tuesday... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Afrima (All Africa Music Awards) international committee and the AU (African Union) have announced the regional and continental nominees of the sixth annual awards show... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Celebrated South African artist, designer and businesswoman Carrol Boyes passed away Wednesday night at the age of 65... Read
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NIGERIA
ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
By encouraging self-expression, Budweiser's King's Stitch campaign created a movement that rippled across Nigeria, changing societal norms. Isobar's Nneoma Ohazurume tells us more... Read
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AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
Facebook on Wednesday announced a partnership with fact-checking company Africa Check to bring local African language support to its third-party Fact-Checking programme... Read
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AFRICA
In the last 25 years alone, Africa has lost half its wild lion population, pushing the species closer to extinction... Read
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AFRICA
MUSHAMBI MUTUMA, ISSUED BY AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURS CONFERENCE
Mushambi's talks are for entrepreneurs, businesses and leaders who want to level up, achieve positive growth on the African continent and unlock a sustainable future... Read
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AFRICA
BBC Studios appoints Pierre Cloete as commercial director for branded services, Sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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AFRICA
StarTimes subscribers are set to enjoy a new fascinating telenovela series... Read
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AFRICA
APO Group will grant an African journalist an all-expenses-paid trip to AHIF conference... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Advertising firm WPP has released its interim results and CEO, Mark Read commented that WPP's performance in the second quarter was slightly ahead of its internal expectations but in line with its full-year guidance and three-year strategic targets... Read
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UNITED STATES
The One Club for Creativity has promoted Kasia Karolak into a newly-created role to lead its gender equality programming and has also announced inaugural gender equality conference ... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
American mass media company Condé Nast has made some changes to its global leadership team... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Now in its 16th year, the WWF-SA Black Rhino Range Expansion Project (BRREP) has just completed its 12th successful black rhino move, including translocating its 200th rhino... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
To spearhead a shared marketing agreement between Cape Town and New York City, Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism and Alderman James Vos visited Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) to oversee a campaign installation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Roelie van Reenen, Supply Chain Executive of the Beefmaster Group, discusses how the South African beef industry can capitalise on this economic opportunity... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Legal liability for climate change is an emerging risk for lenders in South Africa - a risk that is by no means limited to projects in the fossil fuel industry... Read
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UGANDA
YAP BOUM
In August 2015 Dr Sakoba Keita, who led the Ebola response in Guinea during the largest Ebola outbreak the world has ever seen, declared... Read
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SENEGAL
SEBASTIAN WAGNER
After decades of struggles against a deficient power generation system, Senegal is now at the verge of a paradigmatic shift that could put many of its troubles to rest... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DEON DE SWARDT
According to the World Economic Forum, 70% of Africa's population is under the age of 30, signalling a significant opportunity for the growth and advancement of the continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The much anticipated National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill has officially been released by Parliament - paving the way for public participation and engagement on it... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Just weeks after unveiling its R280-million Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP), Samsung South Africa has announced its Research and Development (R&D) Academy Project... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Flexible working is close to celebrating its 30th birthday. Advances in technology and societal trends mean it has been a possibility for workers for decades. Yet, while this is not new, the last 10 years have seen working flexibly become widely accepted, and even demanded in South Africa... Read
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AFRICA
According to the most recent 12-month data from STR, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has posted Africa's highest average daily rate (ADR) of $163.79... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CLAUDETTE THORNE
We've all heard about the glass ceiling. It's that invisible - but very real - barrier to climbing further up the corporate ladder; with women and minority groups typically the ones who hit their heads against it the hardest... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The National Tourism Safety Awareness Campaign has been launched at Table Mountain in Cape Town, following isolated incidents of violence directed as tourists... Read
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AFRICA
Host of the 10th annual Africa Property Investment (API) Summit Kfir Rusin asks: as Central and Eastern Europe become increasingly popular for South Africa's property sector due to subdued growth potential and earnings locally, should these funds not be investing closer to home? Read
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DR CONGO
MOSOKA FALLAH
The most recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) rages on. There's been a continued increase in the number of new cases for a year since the outbreak was first declared... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
According to the latest survey from Fasa, 39% of franchisors have businesses in Africa, outside South African borders. This is equivalent to 1,775 stores in the SA franchise population... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
By networking with like-minded, professional business owners, entrepreneurs and industry leaders you will be able to nurture relationships... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
Yolandi Strauss is the Agile Head of Product Delivery for Basalt, an international tech solution provider... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Increased complexity in the workplace requires specialisation when it comes to successfully completing multiple projects within the strict confines of deadlines and budgets... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) has designed and co-developed incubator programmes with Innovator Trust to support, grow and inspire emerging tech entrepreneurs in Cape Town... Read
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NIGERIA
AIMEE LAURENCE
Startup businesses are popping up everywhere and many people, both young and old, have amazing small business ideas that could potentially change the world... Read
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KENYA
The additional service will commence from 27 October 2019 on a Boeing 737-800... Read
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R CONGO
Early projections from recent onshore discovery made in the Delta de la Cuvette deposit in the Republic of Congo indicate that the deposits could produce up to 359-million barrels of oil... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
With headlines about burnout and the impact of poor work-life balance a more frequent occurrence, how easy is it to just step away from your desk once you've done your eight hours for the day or 40 hours for the week, and only think about work again when you return the next day... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town has been named as Africa's leading digital city... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The most-prescribed antimalarial drug is less effective in severely malnourished children, a University of Cape Town study shows... Read
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NAMIBIA
The movement of all cloven-hoofed animals and their products within, into and out of the Zambezi region has been banned after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed at Sigwe village... Read
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CAMEROON
MUSA MUTALI
Trachoma is a disease that can cause blindness and visual impairment in about 1.9-million people every year. Poor communities in rural areas of countries in Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East are most affected.... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ALEX VAN DEN HEEVER
Performance in South Africa's two tier health system - the public and the private - has been worsening for some time. Politicians have attempted to attribute the decline in the public sector to a myriad of ills, none of their making... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
"Addressing gender disparities in the agricultural sector is a prerequisite to increasing women and youth participation in the sector, creating much-needed employment opportunities and ensuring food security." Read
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