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In addition to ReConnect Africa Magazine and our popular ReConnect Jobs website, we've listened to the things that you've told us concern you in your professional lives and come up with some ways to address these.

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In Reporting Skills, Omari Issa, the Omari Issa, CEO of the Investment Climate for Africa (ICF), talks about the groundbreaking training programme for African journalists organised by the ICF and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Kenya is looking for a way into Knowledge process outsourcing, which is forecast to become the next growth sector in the global outsourcing industry. Rachel Keeler takes a look at how likely these ambitions are to be realized in Knowledge Process Outsourcing: The Next Big Thing?

If you are new to training or need some advice on improving your training skills, in 5 Top Tips for Trainers, training consultant Vincent Owen outlines his key tips for delivering high impact and effective training. In this month's Ask the Career Coach, our Career Coach gives advice on Dealing with an Unreasonable Boss.

In Top Scores for Africa! We report on the recent SCORE4africa Awards in London, an occasion designed to reward those using the power of football to transform lives in Africa.

In Where have all America's Black Accountants Gone? we look at a new study asks whether enough is being done to balance ethnicity in the US tax profession.

Our guest interviewee in this month's '5 Minute Interview' is an illustrious son of Ghana and we were delighted to have Professor Alexander A Kwapong share with us some of the life lessons he has learned along the way.

We go back into the ReConnect Africa Archives and give you another chance to read our interview with Julia Doe, in Singing with Soul. Julia talks about the challenges of making the transition to singing and how she is fulfilling her passion to transform lives through her music.

January sees an exciting line up of events in the UK and overseas and our Events listing gives you details of what's on this month.

We are delighted to bring you constant breaking news from Africa through Thomson Reuters on the ReConnect Africa website and our News Round article will now cover bite-sized news from the UK and around the world.

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