The world’s media eyes will soon squarely focus on South Africa, with millions from across the globe tuning in via multimillion-dollar broadcasts. Yet, as Deborah Walter points out, even as the international media and big broadcasters move in, and journalists descend from all over the world, in South Africa, like much of Africa, community radio is still a key source of information and news for many communities, linking local activities and issues with international perspectives.
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South Africa has one of the highest rates in the world of unemployment for comparable middle-income countries, writes Kimani Ndungu, with the latest official statistics showing that by December 2009, around 4.2 million people out of a total labour force of 17 million were officially unemployed. But this figure does not include almost 2 million individuals who have simply lost hope of ever finding a job. For women, says Ndungu, the situation is nothing but drastic.
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This month Afronline meets Ecodel, a NGO from Morocco, that works with the women of the Larache Province, in the region of Tangeri.
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KIGALI – On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. But the situation is different in Rwanda.
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In the past weeks Nigeria was the stage of a brutal massacre in state of Jos, where mainly women and children were murdered by members of the Dogo Nahawa tribe. Following the shocking killings, thousands of women organized an event of demonstration both in Jos and in Abuja to protest against this situation. Afronline.org interviewed Mrs. Esther Ibenga, one of the coordinators of the Jos demonstration.
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Feb25
Women are Heroes, which will be in theatres in 2010, is the first movie shot by JR - an alternative photographer who uses all the walls of the world to spread his work.
In 2008 he left Paris looking for stories linked to women. The film shows the adventures of the project Women Are Heroes, released after three years of travelling around Africa. From the artistic project made with the citizens of a little village in Liberia to the creation of a collage into a slum, to the creative laboratory made in a slum in Kenya, Women Are Heroes is a tribute to women.
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