Printers: counting the cost of the peripherals; Inkjet of laser
printer? The simplest answer is this: think about your output an
IF YOUR NEED is for a lot of business letters and other text files,
then go the laser route. The machines are fast, inexpensive and
reasonably cheap to produce professional quality pages. If . . .
Communications revolution in Uganda.(Information
Technology)(Financial report)
THE UGANDA COMMUNICATIONS Commission says there was major growth in
the telecommunications sector in the financial year 2006/07. It
registered an increase of 20 per cent in revenue generated . . .
Tailor-made printing solutions pay dividends: today's
multi-functional devices mean fewer machines producing higher quality
prin
THE DAYS OF one-size-fits-all are over. Just a few years ago,
buying a new office printer or copier was one of the more
straightforward decisions that an office manager might face. With a
limited . . .
Common market for East Africa: Mwangi Mumero reports on the
effect of union on small traders and business executives in the bord
ENTERPRISING TANZANIAN TRADER Said Ahmed takes orders for supply of
cereals to Kenyan businesspersons in the central Kenyan town of
Nyahururu. For the last three years Ahmed, from Mwanza town on . . .
Business and leisure travellers make new demands: the environment
in which Africa's hotel groups operate is changing fast. The o
AFRICA'S CENTRAL PLACE in the world's tourism industry
has never been more evident. The 10 per cent rise in visitor numbers to
this year's INDABA trade show (Africa's biggest tourism event,
held . . .
Tourists head for sunshine, safaris and soccer: Ronald Watts, who
first visited South Africa by rail and ship in 1958, enthuses
ABERCROMBIE & KENT is now a world-wide company and leads in
providing carefully-tailored holidays from the Antarctic to the Valley
of the Kings in Egypt. This business was started 40 years ago . . .
Balancing robust growth with financial stability: South Africa
has achieved years of robust growth, but now the economy shows si
THE RAINBOW NATION is building on more than a decade of political
stability and improving economic fundamentals. Growth has become more
diverse, investor confidence has improved and South . . .
EAC partners take Uganda overload.(Business Travel)
KENYA AND TANZANIA will accommodate any excess flights at Entebbe
International Airport during the CHOGM. "Jomo Kenyatta
International and Mwanza Airports will be accessible to Uganda during
the . . .
Emirates opts for long range planes.(Business Travel)
EMIRATES HAS WELCOMED the first of its 10 Boeing 777-200LRs on
order, bringing the airline's fleet count to 108. This new aircraft
also represents the 50th 777 to have joined the fleet of the . . .
Air Tanzania chooses Mercator.(Business Travel)(Brief
article)
AIR TANZANIA HAS selected the Revenue Accounting Bureau Service
offered by Mercator, the airline IT solutions provider of the
Dubai-based Emirates Group.
Tanzania's flag carrier has outsourced . . .
Executives' calendar.(Calendar)
OCTOBER
4-6 Expo Uganda KAMPALA
International Trade Show for Consumer and Industrial Products.
Innovations Exhibition Organiser, Dubai, UAE.
. . .
Oil and gas shows scheduled for Marrakech.(Oil News)
THE INAUGURAL OMNA 2007 (Oil, Gas and Mining Technology NorthWest
Africa Exhibition) and MAPG 2007 (1st Moroccan Association of Petroleum
Geologists Conference) will take place in the historic . . .
Namibia.(Oil News)
DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS FOR the Kudu offshore gasfield took a step
backwards when Tullow had a disappointment with its Kudu-8 appraisal
well. The firm had hoped that the well would establish . . .
Equatorial Guinea.(Oil News)(Brief article)
US FIRM NOBLE said a well appraising its Belinda discovery,
offshore in Block O, exceeded expectations. The 0-3 well proved
additional reserves and indicated "even better" reservoir
quality than . . .
Nigeria.(Oil News)
THE GOVERNMENT OF Nigeria has launched a plan to break-up the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and to replace it with five new
entities. The state's 55-60 per cent interests in the . . .
Algeria.(Oil News)
SONATRACH SAYS IT will carry out the Gassi Touil integrated
project--covering the development of gasfields in Gassi Touil, Rhourde
Nouss and Hamra, and the construction of a new liquefied natural . . .
Ghana.(Oil News)(Brief article)
THERE ARE HIGH hopes for a major deepwater discovery, following a
find in the Deepwater Tano licence which is likely to be connected to a
discovery 5.3 kilometres away in the West Cape Three Points . . .
Angola offers exploration blocks in new licensing round.(Oil
News)
ANGOLA'S STATE OIL company, Sonangol, announced in September
that a new licensing round will open by end-year. Ten blocks of
territory will be on offer, giving explorers a range of prospects . . .
US's Fed cuts rates more than expected.
A GREAT DEAL was made of the US interest rate cut mid-September,
more about its size than its timing. Another more modest one is expected
later this month. This was the first fall in four . . .
Forecast movements against the dollar.(Financial Forecast)(Market
share report)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
Forecast movements against the dollar
21 Sept
2007 early Nov January
Country (actual) 2007 2007
Japan (Yen) . . .
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