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Zain to sponsor inaugural ‘Mandela Day' celebration in NY

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:42:00 +0200

BAHRAIN: Zain has announced that it plans to sponsor the first ‘Mandela Day' concert to be held at New York's Radio City Music Hall on 18 July, 2009, Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday to raise funds for his foundations. The concert is being staged by 46664, a campaign the foundation named after Mandela's Robben Island prison number, with the support of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
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Africa's Big Seven exhibition draws closer

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:32:00 +0200

Africa's Big Seven (AB7) exhibition, showcasing the food and beverage industry, will take place from 19 - 21 July 2009 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa. The event plans to host over 300 exhibitors from 35 countries offering trade opportunities to attendees.
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FAIR offers peer mentoring service

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:03:00 +0200

The Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR) is offering a new peer mentoring service for African journalists. The service aims to directly connect journalists to FAIR peer mentor, Charles Rukuni.
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Africa: Helping small farmers feed a continent

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:31:00 +0200

DAKAR: As an African Union summit on agricultural investments opens in Libya, donors and non-profits are calling participants' attention to the role smallholder farmers - mostly women - can have in feeding their communities.
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EAB sponsors Tusker Project Fame 3 reality show

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:21:00 +0200

NAIROBI: East African Breweries (EAB), through its flagship brand Tusker Lager, is continuing its sponsorship of the Tusker Project Fame reality show that's now in its third year running with an investment of approximately Kshs200 million. Auditions for the musical talent reality show will launch concurrently this weekend in Kenya Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda.
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Journalists' trauma book launched in Kenya

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:32:00 +0200

The Kenya Correspondent's Association (KCA) and Kenya Association of Photographers, Illustrators and Designers (KAPIDE) launched a journalist's trauma booklet, The Healing Messenger, on 26 June 2009. The booklet is published by the International Media Support (IMS), and provides insight into the trauma experienced by journalists covering the post-election violence in Kenya in early 2008.
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Africa Business Reporting Awards 2009 winners announced

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:04:00 +0200

Diageo announced the winners of the 6th Africa Business Reporting Awards at a gala ceremony at Sheraton Park Lane, Piccadilly, London last night, 2 July 2009. Xan Rice from The Guardian and the New Statesman won the award for Journalist of the Year 2009.
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Economy-Uganda: Traders go down as prices go up

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:50:00 +0200

KAMPALA: With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the country's currency, the Ugandan shilling, against the dollar. Especially importers have not been able to bring goods in which were ordered when prices were lower.
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Mozambique: IMF approves US$176 million for exogenous shocks

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:46:00 +0200

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, 1 July 2009, approved a 12-month, SDR of 113.6 million (about US$176 million) for Mozambique under the IMF's Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF) to cushion the country from the effects of the global economic downturn, said Felix Fischer, IMF resident representative in Mozambique.
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Branded TV entertainment keeps audiences glued

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:38:00 +0200

It remains a serious battle for advertisers to draw TV target audiences into watching commercials and then entice them to act upon the ads. Viewers are fond of channel hopping during ad breaks; in Nigeria, for example, the lack of television content has been blamed for this avoidance, yet even with the introduction of satellite TV and local stations loaded with content, this has not changed.
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