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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 >>
ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT - 1. By Abdoulaye Gandema OUAGADOUGOU - Music fans in Bukino Faso these days are turning to local physician Hamade Ouedraogohopefully to hear words of comfort despite the lack of song. MORE >>
ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT - 4. By Beverly Andrews DETROIT - History has gained a greater significance in the United States in recent yearsparticularly among African Americans through such books and films as "Roots" and "Amistad." MORE >>
ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT - 1 By Philip Ngunjiri NAIROBI - Judging from the turnout at this year's Pan African Children's Book Fair, Africa's premier showcase for children's literature, is losing its lustre. MORE >>
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