Marketing & Media Africa daily newsletter - 25 May 2016

25 May 2016

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	AFRICA Africa Day: Call for AU to protect journalists Africa Day statement from Right2Know calls for freedom of expression in Africa... read

TANZANIA
Pizza Hut opens in Tanzania

Pizza Hut celebrates opening of restaurant in Tanzania, its 100th country, with special delivery to summit of Mt Kilimanjaro... read

Africa Month

A selection of images from Khan's , © her blog, .

SOUTH AFRICA
#AfricaMonth: Exposing the secret life of a freelance travel journalist

Leigh Andrews

Not your typical South African travel journalist story of local girl transplanted somewhere fancy, New Yorker Sarah Khan fell so in love with our landscape that she made the permanent transition a few years ago. She shares her love story with our land below and the key to her peripatetic work/life balance... read

SOUTH AFRICA
[Biz Takeouts Lineup] 175: Agency focus with Havas Boondoggle

Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show on 26 May 2016, from 9-10am, as show host Warren Harding chats to Pieter Goiris... read

ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwean high school students design car

Melody Mashaire

Zimbabwean high school students design car set to be manufactured in two years... read

AFRICA
Need for open source skills in Africa

Matthew Lee

The most pressing needs are to start taking those first steps to build in-house capacity or to attract more advanced open source talent... read

ETHIOPIA
National payment system for Ethiopia

BPC Banking Technologies delivers payments interoperability for the first time in Ethiopia... read

AFRICA
World-first mobile biometrics console at Securex

Local biometrics experts Ideco will showcase its new all-in-one mobile biometrics unit at Securex from 24-26 May 2016... read

KENYA
Kenyan taxi app Maramoja adds luxury vehicles

Tom Jackson

Kenyan network-based taxi app Maramoja has added luxury vehicles to its suite of options to remain competitive... read

RWANDA
In Rwanda, a phone text can save a baby

A mobile health project in Rwanda is saving the lives of babies and their mothers... read

GHANA
Growth in mobile money transfers

Ghanaian diaspora embrace MTN Mobile Money when sending home with WorldRemit.... read

SOUTH AFRICA
First AMEC Awards shortlist for Africa

Issued by Ornico

Ornico's campaign analysis of the inaugural CEO SleepOut in 2015 has been shortlisted in two categories for the prestigious AMEC Awards recognising excellence in communications measurement and evaluation... read

SOUTH AFRICA
Major Mauritian delegation to Source Africa

More than 1,500 professional decision makers are expected to arrive at Cape Town's CTICC on 8 and 9 June, 2016, for Source Africa, which will feature more than 180 exhibitors interested in expanding their exports... read

New events to diarise

AAA School of Advertising Open Day - Johannesburg
AAA School of Advertising - 28 May 2016, Johannesburg

Essentials of newspaper management
.Sol Plaatje Institute - 30 May 2016 to 3 Jun 2016, Grahamstown

GIBS Corporate Communications, Reputation Management and Stakeholder Relations
GIBS - 31 May 2016 to 1 Jun 2016, Johannesburg

Business of Africa Executive Programme
Gordon Institute of Business Science - 1 Jul 2016 to 9 Jul 2016, Johannesburg

Adobe Creative Cloud
Multidimensions - 20 Jul 2016, Johannesburg

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Rwanda DecorExpo 2016
ELAN EXPO - 26 May 2016 to 28 May 2016, Kigali

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AFRICAAfrica Day: Call for AU to protect journalists

TANZANIAPizza Hut opens in Tanzania

SOUTH AFRICA#AfricaMonth: Exposing the secret life of a freelance travel journalist

SOUTH AFRICA[Biz Takeouts Lineup] 175: Agency focus with Havas Boondoggle

ZIMBABWEZimbabwean high school students design car

AFRICANeed for open source skills in Africa

ETHIOPIANational payment system for Ethiopia

AFRICAWorld-first mobile biometrics console at Securex

KENYAKenyan taxi app Maramoja adds luxury vehicles

RWANDAIn Rwanda, a phone text can save a baby

GHANAGrowth in mobile money transfers

SOUTH AFRICAFirst AMEC Awards shortlist for Africa

SOUTH AFRICAMajor Mauritian delegation to Source Africa

AFRICA
Africa Day: Call for AU to protect journalists