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Internet Radio Powers on After Arab Spring By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau* CAIRO - When an Egyptian court fined former president Hosni Mubarak and two aides a total of 90 million dollars for cutting mobile and Internet services during protests that led to his ouster, it indicated the value placed on communication services in this Arab country. MORE >>
Where Men Now Fear to Tread By Hannah Rubenstein UMOJA, Kenya - No man, except for those raised here as children, lives in Umoja village in Kenya; one has not for two decades. It is a village only of and for women, women who have been abused, raped, and forced from their homes. MORE >>
Somalis Hopeful of London Meeting Despite Media Scepticism By Shafi’i Mohyaddin Abokar MOGADISHU - With an international meeting aimed at resolving the political crisis in Somalia set to take place Thursday, the local media in this East African nation is awash with scepticism, referring to the efforts as a new system of re-colonising the country. MORE >>
Kenyan Chief Tweets His Way to Reducing Crime By Daniel Sitole NAKURU, Kenya - Using 140 characters or less, Chief Francis Kariuki in Kenya, has tweeted his way to reducing crime in his and surrounding villages. MORE >>
UGANDA Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War By Andrew Green* GULU, Uganda - Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda. MORE >>
CAMEROON Anglophones Feel Like a Subjugated People By Ngala Killian Chimtom YAOUNDE - When Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced that the 50th anniversary of the reunification of French and British Cameroon will take place later this year, it resurrected bitter feelings among Anglophone Cameroonians who say they do not feel like equal partners with their Francophone counterparts. MORE >>
MALAWI Street Vendors Lose Customers after Stripping Women Naked By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - A campaign to stop people buying merchandise from street vendors is gaining momentum in Malawi’s main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu after the small-scale traders went on a rampage undressing women and girls wearing trousers, leggings, shorts and mini-skirts. MORE >>
CAMEROON Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic By Ngala Killian Chimtom YAOUNDÉ - Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses plastic to wrap the corn-fufu that she sells to her customers. She now uses banana or plantain leaves instead, because these are "natural and it is our African culture to use leaves in wrapping food." MORE >>
FILM-SENEGAL Curses Fall on 'Karmen' DAKAR - Screened at the Cannes film festival and feted by critics abroad, 'Karmen' should have been Senegal's film of the year. MORE >>
AFRICA Optical Fibre Submarine Cable to link African Countries GENEVA - A coordinating committee for a project that will surround the African continent with a fibre optic cable to improve links among countries, and between the continent and the outside world, is to be convened here at the end of the month, officials said. MORE >>
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT - 5 By Adel Arab DAKAR - More than 20 Senegalese artists have discovered the virtues of cyberspace on the internet, thanks to a series of workshops for New Information Technologies (NIT) held in the capital Dakar recently. MORE >>
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