How western media covers, views Africa

Why Western Media Still Pictures Africa Negatively  The African Exponent

The Western press doesn’t understand Ukraine. That is clear after weeks of reporting the demonstrations.

The referendum in Crimea has touched off, perhaps, the most dangerous crisis in Europe since the end of the Cold War. And Africa is, understandably, fretting about the probability of a new Cold War.

Crisis in childhood HIV treatment in western and central Africa  UNAIDSFor African women at risk of HIV, a woke world is still sound asleep  STATView Full coverage on Google News

The BBC's Sophie Ribstein visits a school in Yeoville, Johannesburg, to find out children's views on recent xenophobic attacks.

Africa’s attempts to ape democracy models, mostly from the West, have been the major causes of governance pitfalls, economic failures, democratic chaos and overall growth nightmares that continue to haunt the continent, according to development strategists and activists.

James Eberhard GeoPoll Founder.

GeoPoll (http://www.geopoll.com), the world’s largest mobile survey platform, and Kantar Media, global leader in media and marketing insights, announce their collaboration on a joint product, Kantar-GeoPoll Media Measurement (KGMM).  This product builds on GeoPoll’s existing media measurement service by adding Kantar Media’s research expertise and technology tools to GeoPoll’s unique mobile data collection methods. 

This announcement comes following the...

'We take from Africa, but we don't forget to give back'

OTT solutions provider Visual Unity Global is expanding its vuMobile platform into Africa after signing a new partnership agreement with Tanzanian media conglomerate Clouds Media. Tomas Petra (l) of Visual Unity with Joseph Kusaga of Clouds Media. Designed to rapidly mobilise mobile businesses and empower partners and resellers, the vuMobile platform will be white labelled, allowing subscribers to create mobile optimised websites in a fast and effective way, under the Clouds Media...