"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
An initiative has been launched to promote the scale-up of innovative technologies for reducing post-harvest losses in Sub-Saharan Africa and help combat malnutrition, food insecurity and poverty.
A wave of homegrown leaders, movements and activists is sweeping across the continent and bringing with it African solutions to Africa’s LGBTI people.
The group of donors to the State of Mozambique Budget has decided to suspend international aid to the country, following the revelation of hidden debt in the public accounts, two international partners told Lusa.
Mozambique is been plagued by rising tensions and violence between the government police forces (PRM) and opposition Renamo. One of the most active fronts of political and military conflict is in the northern province of Nampula, where an elite squad of the government forces was sent to restore order. The weekly magazine, Verdade, media partner of Afronline, and Savana, interviewed an agent of the Special Forces Rapid Intervention Unit (FIR) of PRM, who reveals several “missions” to eliminate targets identified by his commanders.
Imagine fleeing from your home because you feel unprotected by the people who are required to do so by law. And when you get to where you feel safer, the very same people come to persuade your keepers to let you come back with them, claiming you are running away from nothing!
One day after the international day of democracy on September 15, it was truly a day of democracy in Mozambique.
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.
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.
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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