KENYA
Recent rainfall in Kenya boosted by the El Niño phenomenon is expected to result in a bumper maize crop from mid-February. The latest report from the Kenya Food Security Steering Group anticipates a strong harvest in the country's coastal and south-eastern regions. 5 Feb 2010 07:53
UGANDA
Two Ugandan journalists were arrested on Wednesday, 3 January 2010, and charged with libelling President Yoweri Museveni. 5 Feb 2010 07:49
KENYA
[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. 4 Feb 2010 11:31
UGANDA
[Walter Wafula] Yampe, a new local dialect newspaper in Uganda is set to increase its circulation to 5,000 copies per month this year to meet increasing demand from its readers, according to the proprietor. Yampe is named after the Lufumbira language word for “informer.” 3 Feb 2010 11:01
EAST AFRICA
NEW YORK: An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday, 29 January 2010, in connection with a January 2008 column that criticised Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, according to local journalists. 3 Feb 2010 08:47
SOUTH AFRICA
One Young World, a global leadership summit for young leaders age 25 and under, united from all the world's 192 countries to address major global challenges, will be held in London from 8-10 February 2010. 1 Feb 2010 11:53
EAST AFRICA
[Walter Wafula] Orange Uganda, the operator licensed to distribute iPhones in East Africa is upset by distributors of fake iPhones in Uganda. Edouard Blondeau, the chief officer strategy, Broadband at Orange Uganda says there are unlicensed retailers selling duo-SIM card iPhones in the market yet, Apple do not manufacture duo-sim products. 1 Feb 2010 08:58
KENYA
[Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. 29 Jan 2010 07:53
SOUTH AFRICA
Good news from FIFA: not only have two million tickets been sold to date, a recent poll reveals that South Africans are ‘overwhelmingly positive' about hosting the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 28 Jan 2010 12:41
SOUTH AFRICA
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The number of tickets sold so far for the 2010 FIFA World Cup has reached the two million mark, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke told a media briefing yesterday, Wednesday, 27 January 2010, at the Sandton Sun Hotel in Johannesburg. 28 Jan 2010 12:19
KENYA
[Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. 28 Jan 2010 09:54
SOUTH AFRICA
The 2010 Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards have added sector-specific categories to reflect the important role that various industries play in economic development. Entries are free and can be on any platform - online, print, broadcast. The closing date for entries is 26 March 2010, with the awards ceremony being held on 1 July 2010 in Central London. 27 Jan 2010 12:57
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EAST AFRICA
Malawi's third mobile phone service provider, G-Mobile, has recently entered into a partnership with Alliance Media, Malawi and Africa's largest airport and outdoor media company to install billboards across the country, in the run up to its launch. 5 Jan 2010 17:22