Oscar winner on location in Uganda

Uganda is becoming a popular destination for Hollywood movie productions and the stars that come along with them. This could help efforts to beef up the country as a tourism destination, as it also provides a film legacy of the spectacular scenery of the country which provides the movies’ backdrops. The Oscar-winning star of “12 Years a Slave,” Lupita Nyong’o, is presently in Uganda for the shoot of the Mira Nair-directed film, “Queen...

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Sustainable development of air transport in Africa

Tourism development of the Vanilla Islands is closely linked to air transportation. To take advantage of world tourism growth, air connectivity must be on the priorities list of the islands’ authorities. A meeting on the sustainable development of air transport in Africa is taking place from March 25 to 27, 2015 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The Vanilla Islands is echoing the word of the Indian Ocean islands, especially on searching how to...

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AIG nominated for International Corporation of the Year Award

The Africa CEO forum is a high profile annual event for African Business leaders where awards are presented to deserving organisations operating across the continent. This year, the third edition of the African CEO forum took place on the 16th and 17th of March, 2015 in Geneva, a city chosen for its cosmopolitan, multilingual environment and its flourishing financial center. The award for the ‘International Corporation of the Year’, according...

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Phase3 Telecom to link Niger to Nigeria with aerial fibre

With one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in West Africa, The Republic of Niger will now have the opportunity to leverage on the huge bandwidth capacity. Phase3 Telecom has revealed plans to begin the deployment of an aerial fiber optic infrastructure from Kano in Nigeria to Gazaoua in the Republic of Niger. According to Phase 3 Telecom, the network will run from Kano state through Katsina state before arriving at Gazaoua....

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Pre-Order Campaign Kicks Off March 30th

Samsung Electronics West Africa has announced that the FUTURE IS NOW with its latest exciting collection of smartphones, Galaxy S6 edge and S6 duos which will be available for pre-order in Nigeria from March 30th, 2015. The devices will be available in 32GB and 64GB for the S6 edge and 32GB for the S6 duos.Emmanouil Revmatas, director of Information Technology and Mobile, Samsung, said that the Galaxy S6 edge and S6 duos represent...

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HTC One M9 launch date for South Africa

The date of the South African launch event for the HTC One M9 has been announced The HTC One M9 will be introduced to the South African market on 8 April 2015, according to an invitation to the local launch event that the smartphone maker sent out. “You’re invited to the launch of the new HTC One, the number One designer smartphone in the world,” the invitation reads. This is just two days before the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are...

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Nigeria: MasterCard launches e-payment for MSMEs

Global payment technology company, MasterCard, has introduced electronic payment system technology to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the country. The company described the e-payment system as Nigeria’s first MSME-focused acceptance development programme that would extend the security and convenience of e-payments to merchants and their customers who previously depended on cash to transact. To begin the programme, MasterCard said...

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'Facebook money transfer to benefit African users'

Digital finance experts in Kenya say African users will increasingly benefit from the introduction of a money transfer service onto Facebook's instant messaging platform. Facebook said last week that users on its social media and networking platform will now be able to send money to each other using its "more convenient and secure" money transfer service which it will offer for free. Frederick Abot, the Cooperative Bank of Kenya's head of...

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CommProve Wins Strategic African Networking Monitoring Contract

A leader in end-to-end network management for actionable customer insights, has today announced its working with an African telecommunications regulator to monitor the Quality of Service (QoS) of multiple mobile network operators (MNOs) in country. “Typically, a telecommunications regulator has no way of determining the actual customer experience, or monitoring if the customer experience is improving or degrading,” says Darren Harding,...

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New 'visa' fee to Burundi irks Gisagara residents

Border residents in Gisagara District have expressed concerns over a newly introduced fee for people travelling to Burundi, which they say has limited their movement to the neighbouring country. This follows a decision last month by the Burundian local authorities to introduce a fee of FBU700 (about Rwf350) for anyone entering Burundi through porous borders. A pre-existing arrangement between Gisagara and Bugaburo commune in Kirundo...

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South African sevens moves to Cape Town

Cape Town will host the South African leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series for the next four years, the national rugby union announced Friday. Western Cape Town George and Eastern Cape city Port Elizabeth were previous South African hosts of the two-day event. The multi-sport Cape Town Stadium, built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, will stage the event rather than the Newlands stadium home of Cape Town rugby. Cape Town Stadium, among the...

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Tunisia museum to reopen following massacre

Tunisia's National Bardo Museum is set to reopen to the public Tuesday after a jihadist attack that killed 20 foreigners, as the country looks to restore faith in its tourism sector. Museum officials said the reopening, which will be marked with a ceremony, was "a message" to the gunmen who killed the tourists and a police officer there last Wednesday. "It's a challenge but also a message... we want to show that they haven't achieved their...

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Major Neurosciences Initiative Launched At UCT and GSH

A major neurosciences initiative has been launched at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, in partnership with Groote Schuur academic hospital complex. The Neurosciences Initiative will bring together clinicians and researchers from a wide range of specialties, fostering collaboration in the treatment of a number of neurological disorders, including stroke, central nervous system infection and trauma, among others. An ideal...

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Inaugural Conference and AGM of Wi-Fi Forum of South Africa

The newly-established Wi-Fi Forum of South Africa (Wi-Fi Forum SA) is holding its inaugural conference today in Johannesburg, South Africa. Wi-Fi Forum SA will play an active and positive role in the development of the Wi-Fi industry in South Africa, and will represent the views of all stakeholders in the sector, as well serve as provide for a knowledge-sharing and networking platform. Established in November 2013, today’s inaugural...

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Firefox OS comes to Africa with Orange's $40 package deal

Mozilla's major new ally will sell its Klif phone and six months' network service in 13 countries in Africa and the Middle East. Orange likes Firefox OS's inexpensive hardware requirements and expects to sell millions. The Orange Klif is Firefox OS phone that the French carrier will sell in 13 African and Middle Eastern countries starting in the second quarter of 2015. The price of up to $40 includes six months of voice, text, and data...

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