Protests have broken out in the Senegalese capital Dakar and in the southern city of Mbour over continuing power shortages. In Dakar, several government buildings were set on fire including the offices of the state electricity firm, Senelec. Security forces in Mbour fired tear gas to disperse thousands of demonstrators. The trouble over power cuts, which has lasted 48 hours in some areas, comes just a week after rioting against the president. Video by: VOXAFRICA
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To recognise and enhance the crucial role women play in Africa and “award them with the Nobel Peace Prize 2011″. This is the proposal promoted by CIPSI, an Italian NGO that coordinates 48 international solidarity-based associations. A campaign that Ami Stuart has decided to support with this video.
The agriculture ministers of major economies, rich as well as emerging, meeting for the first time as the world verges on another food crisis in only four years, have disappointed.
In a bid to give more attention to the discussion of art in public spaces, Goethe Institut Lagos in collaboration with three companies – XMLab, Ushaidi, Pixelchiefs – created a new website, www.liveinlagos.org.
The World Bank has teamed up with JP Morgan in encouraging farmers and food producers in poorer countries to use some of the same financial tools that are criticized in the hands of speculators, in order to protect themselves against swings in prices.
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.
