"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
IRIN series “Heroes of HIV” – a powerful and moving series of short films on HIV/AIDS – closes with Elizabeth Ngugi, a university professor and former nurse who has dedicated the last twenty years of her life to help girls and women trapped in Kenya’s sex trade. Since 1989 she has helped more than 600 sex workers retrain and find alternative incomes.
By IRIN – www.irinnews.org
The same kind of worldwide solidarity that helped bring down apartheid is necessary to free the global South from economic domination. According to Dakarayi Matanga, member of the Southern Africa Social Forum, “global solidarity has proved to be the only sustainable mode of confronting the divergence in the economic and social development of the industrialised world and the developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as exemplified by the liberation struggles that were fought in the 20th century”.
A 24-hour toll free helpline for victims and members of the public to report human trafficking was launched in Johannesburg this week. 08000-RESCUE is a joint initiative between The Salvation Army and BE HEARD, an organization with ten years experience in operating anonymous tip-off services.
Elder statesmen, over 200 members of the House of Representatives and world powers yesterday made strong statements on the continued absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua from the country which has left a power vacuum in Nigeria.
Ibrahim Gambari, who recently took up his new post as the head of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur, has met with the Defence Minister to discuss peace prospects in the strife-torn region as part of a series of meetings with Sudanese officials.
The seizure of large commercial farms – almost all white-owned – has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country’s farm workers say they are the biggest losers.
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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