"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
HARARE – Thousands of Zimbabwean households are feeling the effects of lost remittances from family members forcibly returned from neighbouring South Africa since that country resumed deportations of undocumented Zimbabwean migrants in October 2011.
NAIROBI - At least 900,000 people in Karamoja, northeastern Uganda, are facing severe food insecurity due to four consecutive years of failed rains and poor harvests, says the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
Southern Sudan has been recovering from a two-decade civil war and remains one of the least developed parts of the world. Although the civil war with the north ended in 2005, there is still conflict between rival communities in Southern Sudan.
Out of the total of 8.29 million, half of the population of Southern Sudan are said to have been exposed to huge food shortages.
Clashes persist in the country, with new mortar attacks by Somali rebels that disrupted a parliamentary session Monday as heavy fighting between the militia and African Union-backed government forces killed seven civilians, officials said to The Associated French Press.
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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