  
BET Announces Best International Act: Africa Nominees Photo: Toya Delazy Tuface and Ice Prince have been nominated for the 2013 Black Entertainment (BET) Best International act award. The ceremony is taking place at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on June 30. The two Nigerian music stars were nominated alongside R2bees from Ghana, Radio and Weasel from Uganda, Donald from South Africa, and Toya Delazy from South Africa. The award will hold 30th June. National Producers Urged to Invest More in Gospel MusicThe Diaspora Can Help Fuel Rwanda's Technology and Digital AmbitionsNew Karoo Array Telescope in South Africa Observed Giant Outbursts From Neutron Star The first scientific results using the new Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, have been published by an international team of astronomers this week.
Software Firm, Velsoft, Opens In South Africa New Glasgow online training content and technology company, Velsoft, has officially expand its reach in Africa by opening an office in Johannesburg; reinforcing the focus and momentum seen over the last 18 months. Fitt scouted for locations and employees in South Africa in March. Techno Partners With Qualcomm, Etisalat to Launch New Smartphone As part of plans to reposition itself in Africa's smartphone market, Chinese phone maker Tecno has partnered Qualcomm Incorporated and Etisalat to launch the Tecno P3 smartphone into the Nigerian market. "Our desire is to flood the Nigerian and African mobile phone markets with Tecno smartphones." Boukali Mounir is the Director, Brands and Marketing, Tecno Telecoms said in an interview early this month. Zambia Lose Key Defender Sunzu In WC Qualifiers Zamabia will do without key defender Sunzu through knee injury while facing Sudan and Lesotho in World Cup qualifiers next month Africa's Technology Entrepreneurs Should Focus on Solving the Continent's Problems by Michelle AtaganaEditor's note: Michelle Atagana is the managing editor of memeburn.com, a social media and technology news site. She has a Masters Degree in New Media and Journalism, her thesis focuses on social media technologies in the South African journalistic space with some focus on the public sphere. In today's world of catchy buzzwords, a current favorite is "Africa is rising." Africa's tech scene is a soaring firebird and all the techies on the continent will tell you something game-changing is coming and Africans will build it. Syria: the First Conflict of the Post-superpower Era For Barack Obama indecision is now strategy: heavy-handed intervention is over. Syria's tragedy is nothing has taken its place As Turkey threatens reprisals for bombings that have left up to 50 dead, Syria's war is already sucking in the wider Middle East. But the one country on which all sides would previously rely for leadership is paralysed with indecision. Pictured: Barack Obama and David Cameron shake hands at a joint news conference at the White House on 13 May: 'Cameron said he and Obama had the same aim as Putin: a stable, inclusive and peaceful Syria free from the scourge of extremists.' Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS
New Pakistan Government Will Face Serious Challenges Two-time former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, is poised to become Pakistan's head of government for a record third time after his party's victory in Saturday's parliamentary elections. But serious economic and security challenges await the new government.The historic May 11 polls were held to elect the 272-seat National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, and four provincial legislatures. Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League, or PML-N, claims it won a clear majority at the national level and captured two-thirds of the seats in the country's most populous province and political power base, Punjab. Pictured: Former prime minister and leader of Pakistan Muslim League-N party, Nawaz Sharif, gestures while speaking to members of the media at his residence in Lahore, Pakistan, May 13, 2013.
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