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| Kinshasa — Le président américain Barack Obama a dévoilé hier lundi 19 octobre la nouvelle politique du dialogue musculé que son pays compte appliqué envers le Soudan. Ce changement de position s'inscrit dans le cadre des promesses naughty castles électorales du président Barack Obama. Le président Barack Obama a dévoilé hier lundi une nouvelle politique de dialogue musclé que les Etats-Unis comptent appliquer envers le Soudan. Sortant de la logique de freshwater pearl confrontation qui prévalait jusqu'alors, Washington entend, selon Reuters, proposer des «incitations» au gouvernement soudanais s'il améliore la situation sur le terrain et avance sur la voie de la paix au Darfour, mais renforcer au contraire les sanctions à son encontre s'il n'agit pas. Barack Obama a ajouté qu'il renouvellerait dès cette semaine les sanctions déjà en vigueur contre Khartoum. Washington continue d'accuser le gouvernement soudanais de génocide dans la région occidentale du Darfour, une accusation cultured pearl jewlery vivement rejetée par Khartoum. Le changement d'approche reflète cependant l'opinion de Scott Gration, nommé en mars par le président américain comme émissaire au Soudan. Pour ce dernier, de nombreux problèmes en suspens au Soudan peuvent être réglés en coopération avec le gouvernement du président Omar Hassan al Bachir. | ||
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| The foundation's health project is designed to provide current news, extensive research and data, educational materials, institutional linkages and a forum for discussion. "HealthAfrica will use the reach and influence of allAfrica.com to highlight Africa's health emergency – and the opportunities for effectively confronting it," said Tami Hultman, AllAfrica's chief strategy and content officer, and a director of the foundation. "Policy makers and health professionals need a constant stream of easily accessible information silver pearl necklace and a neutral platform for interaction and dialogue," she said. "Governments and NGOs, as well as international organizations, have told us that this effort is a missing piece of the puzzle for making their work successful. Launching the project in Liberia will demonstrate the role that complex and powerful - yet user-friendly - software tools can play in bridging and supporting both effective policy development and efficient community engagement." Central to the project is a path-breaking online tool-set to map and track funding for health, providing the first integrated database of donors, recipients, projects, goals and outcomes. Because the government of Liberia places a priority on public health, on transparency of public institutions and potato pearl use of public resources, and on collaborative partnerships between policymakers and funders, the AllAfrica Foundation plans to inaugurate the initiative in Liberia, as a prototype for a subsequent country-by-country rollout. Among the initial elements is an online facility for mapping and tracking funding for health projects and monitoring results – in other words, for continuously updated information on who is doing what, where, for whom and with what results. Numerous international organizations engaged in health work, such as the Roll Back Malaria campaign, the United Nations Foundation, the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria and TB have pledged cultured pearl jewelry cooperation with the effort. "AllAfrica is pleased to demonstrate – by its presence here – that a high-technology based, globally recognized media operation can function productively in today's Liberia," Dr. Hultman said. | ||
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| Akwe Amosu (founding executive editor / director, AllAfrica Foundation) has 20 years of expertise in content acquisition and production, project development, and negotiating strategic alliances. Prior to taking a leave to jump-start an African-based naughty castles broadcast production company in a joint effort with AllAfrica, she was a senior executive at the British Broadcasting Corporation, responsible for a flagship World Service program and for Africa Service feature programs, including sports, arts, educational, documentary and audience-participation shows. Among her special assignments, she forged a joint venture between the BBC and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She has been an editor at the Financial Times (London), a reporter for West Africa magazine, and a management consultant. She also is a director of a company representing African publishers. She grew up in Nigeria and was educated there and in England. Kwindla H. Kramer (chief technology officer and director) spent three years as a research associate at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he was a Motorola Fellow. While there, he developed new methods of distributing network functionality and control. He has served as a technology consultant for such companies as Motorola, LEGO, Mattel, Kraft and Intel, and has been building Web-based systems since 1994. Proficient in a number of programming pearl pendant languages, he has extensive experience managing Unix systems, Web servers, and production networks. He developed the programming language for the Lego MindStorms robotic toy lines and wrote the first embedded virtual machine for the Java programming language. After living and traveling in Africa, he graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and speaks French and Arabic. He has a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Matambira Mate (corporate treasurer) has two decades of global experience in a variety of settings. From 1990 to 1999, she was an investment officer in the World Bank, working on infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa. From 1988 to 1990, she was CFO of Meridien Management Services in Zambia (a financial services group comprising leasing, financial advisory blister pearl services and corporate finance). From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Mate worked as CFO of a Zimbabwe-based conglomerate and as an investment banker with the Merchant Bank of Central Africa. She holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in England, and qualified as a CPA with Deloitte and Touche (then Deloitte Haskins and Sells) in London. | ||
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| Chief executives from more than 30 African media organizations meeting in Dakar on November 4 and 5 issued a call for a stronger push for media development in Africa and agreed to collaborate so that media can play a more proactive role in Africa's development. "The future of media in Africa lies in convergence and partnerships," said Linus Gitahi, CEO of the pearl jewelry Nation Media Group in Kenya. "We cannot wish away an idea whose time has come." The event "African Media Leaders Forum: Shaping the Future of Africa's Media," was co-sponsored by AllAfrica Global Media, the largest electronic distributor of news from and about Africa, and the World Bank. Additional sponsorship was provided by Ecobank, the Gates Foundation and Coca Cola. "Media constitute an essential part of the dialogue on development in Africa," said Eric Chinje, manager for Africa Region External Affairs at the World Bank. "The Forum freshwater pearl jewelry was an important opportunity to engage media leaders and help place media at the heart of the development process in Africa." The "Dakar Declaration" issued by African media leaders agreed to: * Strengthen collaboration, share experiences and content, and adopt international norms of good corporate governance and sound management of media organizations; * Invest in strengthening the skills and knowledge of media professionals and journalists; * Develop a charter for African Media Leaders; * Support establishment of the pearl earrings wholesale African Media Initiative (AMI) as a permanent corporate entity in Africa to, among others, support the activities of AMLF and serve as a resource for media development across the continent. "The Forum, the first of its kind, was a great success," said Amadou Mahtar Ba, president of AllAfrica, which operates the popular allAfrica.com site, the leading online source of Africa news and information. "The far-reaching Dakar Declaration will help to strengthen media development efforts across Africa, and contribute to journalistic excellence on the continent." | ||
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| Reed Kramer (chief executive officer and director) was a founder, president and managing editor of Africa News Service, a non-profit U.S.-based agency producing award-winning news and information for broadcast and print media. Under his direction, Africa News Service was a consistent early adopter of communications technologies, and he created and developed Africa News Online - the first as well as the largest Africa-related information source pearl wholesale on the Internet. He has reported regularly for the Washington Post, National Public Radio and the BBC and has served as a news consultant and guest for CNN, the "Today" show, Court TV and the NewsHour on public television. His economic and political reporting has appeared widely in major North American and international publications. He is a graduate of Duke University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Amadou Mahtar Ba (president and director) is a marketing and banking executive with Africa-wide experience, including coordinating the privatization of the Panafrican News Agency (PANA) and developing its Internet strategy. He was director of marketing for PANA until 1997, when he became director of communications for BICIS, a French-owned West African financial institution. He also remained active in the process of remaking PANA into a viable, independent news agency. He also has consulted for a variety of Keishi pearl international organizations, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; has worked on assignment for the London bureau of ABC television (U.S.); and has assisted prize-winning novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene in exploring collaborative pan-African film production. Mr. Ba, who was educated in Senegal, Spain and France, is widely traveled in Africa, Europe and the United States and is fluent in several languages, including French, English, Spanish, Fulani and Wolof. Tamela Hultman (chief strategy and content officer and director), also a founder of Africa News cultured pearl jewelry Service, has been its chief editorial officer and fundraiser. Among her business development projects for Africa News, she conceived and edited an African cookbook, published by Viking Penguin, which sold over 100,000 copies, and developed a corporate-sponsored series on Africa for National Public Radio (U.S.) - that network's largest institutional collaboration to date - for which she also served as Executive Producer. She also has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a broad range of international media, including: the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, International Television News (UK), NBC Television (U.S.), the Washington Post and Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris). In addition, she was a Freedom forum Fellow at the University of North Carolina and the founding Director of the Center for Africa and the Media at Duke University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her MA is in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures and her PhD is in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina. | ||
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