"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
Italy has decreased funding to aid for development and will not meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs). It was announced on July 19 that seventy per cent fewer projects would be financed this year compared to 2009. And in the meantime, staffing problems at the Directorate General are preventing the €30 million credits NGOs claim to have from being settled.
Civil society groups across South Africa have launched a campaign to collect one million signed pledges against xenophobia, intolerance, intimidation and violence in South Africa. A website - www.uniteasone.org.za – and a Facebook page have been set up.
Over the past six months, the levels of food insecurity and malnutrition in the Sahel belt of West Africa have increased at alarming rates, putting over 10 million people at risk across the region – particularly in Niger and Chad, Ips Africa reports.
PARIS – African countries should deepen their tax bases to collect more revenues to finance their development, build state institutions and to improve national dialogue and, more generally, their social contracts with citizens.
The first ever World Cup on African soil has now come to an end. South Africa says it is now ready to tackle an even bigger challenge: the first Olympics on African soil. South Africa’s port city of Durban has been punted by authorities there as a possibility for 2020.
President Barack Obama will host a town hall meeting next month with African youth leaders as part of a U.S. celebration of 50 years of independence being marked this year by 17 African countries.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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