"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
JOHANNESBURG – Making the World Aids Day Deceember 1st 2010 Sheila Tlou, former Minister of Health in Botswana, took over as UNAIDS director for East and southern Africa in November, just a month before the deadline for achieving universal access to treatment, prevention, care and support expires.
PODOR – The harm done by female genital mutilation is still enormous in Podor, a city in the north of Senegal, say officials at the local hospital. While the practice is declining slightly, some religious leaders in the region still support it.
A widespread farming catastrophe could hit Africa if global temperatures rose by four degrees Celsius or more, according to a study that calls for urgent planning for a much warmer future and investment in technology to avert disaster.
NAIROBI – Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga broke the silence on gay couple intervention in Kenya on sunday by reciprocally ordering the arrest of gay pairs in the country.
ZURICH - Newspapers see the acceptance of an initiative to deport criminal foreigners as a sign of popular uncertainty facing a rapidly changing social landscape.
JOHANNESBURG - A new round of U.N. climate talks opens on Monday with 172 nations meeting in the Mexican coastal resort of Cancun. In this story the corrispondents of Ips Africa looks at the next year’s conference in South Africa, which is the continent’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
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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