CNBC Africa opens office in Mozambique

CNBC Africa, a CNBC International franchise owned by Africa Business News, has entered into a joint venture with Mozambique's state broadcaster, Televisão de Moçambique (TVM), and will open a bureau in Maputo. CNBC Africa's country bureau representative will be Sunnyboy Mshengu. 24 May 2012 11:35

Broadband satellite connects inland, rural Africa

Satellite services continues to fulfil an important role in providing the telecommunications infrastructure for Africa's inland and remote rural areas, while the dozens of optic fibre cable networks now reaching the continent's shores will - at least initially - have limited penetration inland. 24 May 2012 10:01

CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 finalists announced

The finalists in the 17th CNN MultiChoice African Journalist competition were announced on 18 May 2012, by Ferial Haffajee, chair of the independent judging panel. This year the competition received entries from 42 countries across the continent, including French and Portuguese speaking Africa. 18 May 2012 11:49

CNBC Africa celebrates five years of broadcasting

CNBC Africa, the pan-African financial and business channel, will celebrate five years of continental business broadcasting across Africa on 1 June 2012. 16 May 2012 11:42

For girls, 'it is possible to dream big'

[Jocelyne Sambira] Juliana Rotich, a tech entrepreneur, co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company in Kenya that developed a web-based reporting system used to collect information from the public through multiple channels, speaks to Jocelyne Sambira about how increasing the number of female techs could positively influence Africa's future. 14 May 2012 10:51

AITEC Africa to host 2012 BFMA conference in Nairobi

The 2012 Broadcast, Film & Music Africa (BFMA) conference, hosted by AITEC Africa, is set to take place from 10-11 July 2012 at the Oshwal Centre in Nairobi. The conference is aimed at evaluating opportunities for growth in the industry. 14 May 2012 09:55

Uhuru sues the Star over Hague photograph

The deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta is suing the Star for linking him to a man who allegedly plotted to assassinate former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga. In a suit filed in Nairobi, Uhuru alleges that the Star published a story on 24 April 2012 linking him to city businessman Joseph Thuo Njoroge, who was roughed up by Njenga's youths when he visited the former Mungiki leader's Hope International Church at Thome estate on 22 April. 10 May 2012 09:57