"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
On the eve of the legislative election of February 22, 2013, in the Republic of Djibouti, Hafez Mohamed Hassan, a 14-year-old schoolboy, was shot dead by the secret service of President Ismaël Omar Guelleh’s regime while he was taking part in a demonstration organized by a group of teenagers protesting the lack of sports facilities in their region of Obock. This is what happens when Djibouti is preparing for an election.
The European Commission signed a cooperation agreement with the African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) on November 26 inZanzibar-Tanzania. The move is aimed at improving the protection of traditional agricultural products (geographical indications or “GIs”) inAfrica.
More than a third of global food production, the equivalent of 1.3 billion tons, was partly burnt out. Reducing this waste is a challenge that all countries must seize said Michael Hailu, Director of the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CTA) ACP-EU during the last Brussels Development Briefing* which was held in Brussels in late June on wastage in the food chain.
The South African journalist, Tanya Farber, is the winner of the Lorenzo Natali Human Rights Journalism Award 2011 for the ‘Africa’ section. Focusing on South Africa and published in the Cape Times, her work draws attention to persistent homophobic attitudes as well as other societal prejudice.
As food prices rise and become more and more volatile it becomes less and less likely that we will achieve the goal of halving the number of people in the world who go hungry by 2015. Afronline.org, in collaboration with Unicredit Foundation, Fondazione Cariplo and AgiAfro, organises an international conference in Milan (Italy) on Food security in Africa and financial speculation. The event takes place on November 30, 2011.
The European commission unveiled on Tuesday (25 October) its new communication on corporate social responsibility (CSR). It sets out how European enterprises can benefit from CSR as well as contributing to society, even in Africa, as a whole by taking greater steps to meet their social responsibility.
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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