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SOUTH AFRICAClios looking for future gold
NEW YORK: Applications from around the world for the 2008 Clio Future Gold | Young Creatives Programme are now open until 1 April 2008. The programme, with its mission to elevate and inspire up-and-coming talent in the advertising industry, is run by the 49th Annual Clio Awards and Festival, a global awards competition for advertising, design and interactive, in conjunction with ihaveanidea. 7 Mar 2008 09:01

AFRICAMandela Rhodes Scholarship students announced
[Gabi Khumalo] For the past 18 years, Chipateni Nyirenda from Lusaka, Zambia, wanted to meet her role model former President Nelson Mandela. Her dream was realised on Tuesday, 4 March 2008, as she, along with 23 students from across the continent, sat next to him to receive her Nelson Mandela Rhodes Scholarship. 6 Mar 2008 12:56

KENYAKenya gets major health drive boost
[Carole Kimutai] Thousands of new mothers in Kenya are set to receive free child health tips as part of an ongoing maternal health awareness program funded by Reckitt Benckiser, makers of Dettol. 3 Mar 2008 10:41

KENYAUniversity's re-opening a lesson in peace amid diversity in Kenya
Kenyatta University, the first public university to re-open since Kenya's post-election crisis began, has put in place elaborate measures to ensure learning goes on uninterrupted, despite continuing violence and tension in parts of the country. 8 Feb 2008 06:42

AFRICABoost for education in Rwanda
[Walter Wafula] Rwanda has been chosen as the first country to benefit from support by the Global Education Alliance, a creation of several stakeholders in The World Economic Forum. 29 Jan 2008 06:35

EAST AFRICAMalawians study Uganda ICT projects
[David Muwanga] A delegation of 11 government officials from Malawi is in Uganda for a study tour on the implementation of information communication technology (ICT). 28 Jan 2008 11:31

UGANDAEducation ministry to promote e-Learning
[David Muwanga] Uganda's ministry of education and sports is to promote the use of information and communication technologies in all schools to enhance the quality of teaching. 10 Dec 2007 12:43

WEST AFRICAWest Africa: Meeting education targets - access versus quality
Midway to the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000, several West African countries have made vast efforts to achieve universal education and gender parity in primary schools by 2015. But education officials and teachers' unions say the push for increased access to education has come at a cost. 7 Dec 2007 09:58

AFRICAMusic video project for Africa
Pan-African music entertainment network MTV Networks Africa and oil marketer Shell have partnered to boost Africa's contemporary music industry. 22 Nov 2007 14:43

EAST AFRICAArusha catches up with Britain's Parliament - and sees red (and amber... and green)
Yes, it's true - traffic lights (otherwise called robots) were first introduced outside Britain's Parliament in 1868. Now Arusha, the Tanzanian town in the shadow of Kilimanjaro, has caught up just 139 years later and its first traffic lights have been installed. 23 Oct 2007 11:11

GHANAGhana: Positive attitude can enhance service delivery in hospitality industry says official
Neequaye Sasraku, Deputy Director in-charge of Studies at the Hotel Catering and Tourism Training Institute (HOTCATT) has observed that the hospitality industry had problems with quality service delivery and urged operators to adopt a positive attitude when dealing with their clients. 9 Oct 2007 14:48

AFRICAWhen someone telephones your company...
Do they get a response that encourages them to stay – or are they driven towards your competitors? How your staff talks to people who call can attract – or repel – those people. And that means a better business, or a failing one. 7 Sep 2007 07:45

AFRICASwaziland hopes to reverse the skills flight
The haemorrhage of skilled and educated people from both the public and private sectors in Swaziland, which is already facing a chronic shortage of capacity, will continue unabated unless lucrative jobs start keeping people at home, a government survey has found. 16 Aug 2007 11:15