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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:13:28 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Adidas shifts $512m global media account to new agency</title>
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	<description>Adidas has shifted its global media agency business, reportedly worth $512m, following a competitive pitch, that included Omnicom Media Group, WPP and Publicis Groupe, in the final pitch.</description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Publicis Groupe Africa appoints managing director: Rest of Africa</title>
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	<description>Gideon Khobane has been appointed managing director: Rest of Africa (excluding West Africa), for Publicis Groupe Africa.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Africa’s football boom is creating value that local markets miss</title>
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	<description>Africa’s football talent fuels a multi-billion-dollar industry, yet the continent captures only a fraction of the value it creates. That imbalance is starting to shift, but not fast enough.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>TotalEnergies taken to court in France</title>
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	<description>Several nonprofits, including Friends of the Earth France, sued oil major TotalEnergies in a French civil court, seeking to obtain environmental documents related to an onshore Nigerian oil asset it is attempting to sell.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>How CMOs can move from martech mayhem to measurable business value</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/how-cmos-can-move-from-martech-mayhem-to-measurable-business-value-620171a</link>
	<description>As global martech spend races toward $215bn, most CMOs still struggle to extract value from increasingly complex stacks. Now, a real-world, data-driven framework that predicts the business value of martech investments based on company size, industry, maturity and strategic priorities has been introduced by the CMO Council, in partnership with MartechTribe.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Mastercard launches new Africa cybersecurity centre in SA</title>
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	<description>Mastercard has launched the Africa Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence, a pan-African initiative aimed at strengthening cyber resilience and improving collaboration across the continent’s digital economy.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Africa’s power market is changing fast — and private capital is driving it</title>
	<link>https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/africas-power-market-is-changing-fast-and-private-capital-is-driving-it-842703a</link>
	<description>Over the past few years, several African countries have sparked change in their grid infrastructure and electricity generation by involving the private sector.</description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>#CannesLions | Africa’s winning roundup</title>
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	<description>Africa has wrapped up the 2026 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity with one Grand Prix, three Silver Lions and five Bronze Lions, led by a historic first for Kenya.</description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Fossil fuels still dominate in Africa’s electricity future – study tracks 3,139 power plants</title>
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	<description>Only about 57% of the people in Africa have access to electricity, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa. To meet the United Nations goal of everyone having access to affordable electricity by 2030, African countries will need to rapidly expand electricity generation. </description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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	<title>Delivering AI systems at the speed and scale to meet consumer demand</title>
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	<description>WPP Enterprise Solutions, the global business transformation operating unit of WPP,  has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with  Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) to operationalise agentic AI for brands.</description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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