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•Date: 16th July 2010 • Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
•Date: 9th July 2010 • Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Telecoms continuity
•Date: 18th June 2010 • Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: BC statistics
•Date: 11th June 2010 • Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: DR general
•Date: 6th May 2010 • Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
•Date: 14th Jan 2010 • Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
Mauritius continues its bid to be an international centre for back-up, disaster recovery and business continuity services.
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•Date: 10th July 2009• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
Expropriation — the confiscation of privately-owned assets by a government — was the dominant political risk of the 1970s, but may make a comeback due to the instability created by the global financial crisis.
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•Date:9th June 2009• Region: Various •Type: Article •Topic: Operational risk
•Date:8th April 2009• Region: Africa •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
Strategic location makes it the ideal off-shore disaster recovery hub: according to Mauritius Board of Investment.
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•Date:10th February 2009• Region: Africa/World •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
A United Nations official has warned that a UN-led team of experts is in a race against time in its attempt to halt a vast plague of caterpillars, known as armyworms, which has already swarmed across northern Liberia and threaten to march into neighbouring West African countries, destroying all crops and polluting water supplies in its path. The enormous infestation of tens of millions of armyworms, one of the most destructive of insect pests, has forced the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, to call a national emergency in a country where access to food is already precarious. Each moth can fly up to 1,000 kilometers and lay 1,000 eggs.
•Date:30th Jan 2009• Region: Africa •Type: Briefing
•Date: 23rd Dec 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
ContinuitySA, Mauritius Telecom and Blanche, Birger partner in Mauritius business continuity venture.
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•Date:10th Dec 2008• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
Complete team of twenty business continuity professionals pass BC diploma course.
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•Date: 26th Sept 2008• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
After declaring war on western oil companies, Nigerian militants attack and destroy a Shell facility.
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•Date: 17th Sept 2008• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Terrorism
R18.5m acquisition will strengthen ContinuitySA offerings.
Read article•Date: 2nd July 2008• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
Continuity Central’s quarterly peer-reviewed advanced level publication.
Read article•Date: 31st January 2008• Region:World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
Unprecedented unplanned power outages have seriously impacted many businesses in South Africa over recent weeks and months and the situation has reached such a serious position that the government has declared that the situation ‘must now be treated as a national electricity emergency’.
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•Date: 31st January 2008• Region: S.Africa •Type: Briefing •Topic: Power man.
Jorgen Nielsen highlights business continuity issues that South African companies must be prepared for.
Read article•Date: 15th January 2008• Region: S.Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
What changes and challenges does the new year hold for the business continuity profession? David Honour speculates.
Read article•Date: 3rd January 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
Eight Southern African and Indian Ocean nations have joined forces to participate in a United Nations-backed plan to combat the effects of natural disasters.
Read article•Date: 19th Dec 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Disaster recovery
An outbreak of a disease of unknown etiology is currently ongoing in Cacuaco municipality, Angola, affecting businesses and communities. The first cases were reported on 2 October. As of 15 November 2007, a total of 370 cases had presented for treatment at the Municipal Hospital in Cacuaco. The clinical symptoms of the disease are extreme drowsiness, waking only to painful stimuli. Patients recover slowly, over a number of days, but remain ataxic with many unable to walk unaided. The symptoms are most extreme in children. The WHO is assisting local health authorities with their response to the disease.•Date: 20th Nov 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Briefing
Facility developed by Uunet Kenya.
Read article•Date: 13th Nov 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
Company has extended and upgraded its recovery centre in Midrand, South Africa.
Read article•Date: 6th Nov 2007• Region:S.Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
Company partners with Channel Data to offer PC data protection, e-mail continuity and e-mail archiving services in the region.
Read article•Date: 4th October 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
WHO responding rapidly to investigate; an important aspect of pandemic planning is to monitor outbreaks of all new communicable diseases.
Read article•Date: 6th Sept 2007• Region: Africa/World •Type: Article •Topic: Pandemic planning
Call centre operator Dialogue Group has announced that is to acquire 51 percent of the shares of South Africa based business continuity specialist Continuity SA for R41m.
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•Date: 3rd August 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: BC markets
New option for South African businesses.
Read article•Date: 3rd July 2007• Region: Africa •Type: Article •Topic: Recovery facilities
GlobalOptions Group, Inc. has announced that its James Lee Witt Associates unit (JLWA) has formed a multi-year agreement with Kuwait-based International Investors Group Holdings k.s.c.c. (IGH), to jointly provide emergency planning, crisis management, business continuity planning, training and exercises, and continuity of government services to governments and corporations throughout the Middle East and North Africa. www.wittassociates.com•Date: 21st June 2007 • Region: Various •Type: Briefing •Topic: BC markets
Ten things to consider adding to your to-do list. By David Honour.
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•Date: 3rd Jan 2007• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: BC general
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