"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
A dumpsite in the Johannesburg inner city has been transformed into a 1-hectare food garden supplying fresh vegetables to children and HIV-positive people, in a project demonstrating the enormous potential of urban agriculture.
While Denmark is preparing for the up-coming conference on climate change, which will last two weeks from 7 to 18 December 2009, the official campaign RAISE YOUR VOICE has been launched.
In the following video produced by COP15, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu‘s call to action on climate change.
African countries are ready to conclude the Doha Round on the basis of current proposals, but warn against any attempt to renegotiate them at the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that opens in Geneva today. Meanwhile, the Africa Trade Network demands a moratorium on the Doha talks.
Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, is one of Sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest public hospitals. A massive structure, now the gateway for a unique unit in Kenya. A onestop programme to identify and assist victims of sexual violence
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According to AP, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has named the 26 people he wants to help him drive the EU’s day-to-day agenda for the next five years, including nominees for new posts that reflect major shifts in policy priorities, notably climate issues.
“Man RDP!” sighs Martha Hamukoto, sitting on the steps of a Windhoek office block. She is lamenting the breakaway faction, the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP).
The party formed after a split with the ruling party almost two years ago and will be contesting the elections for the first time this year.
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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