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December 12, 2009

Yet Another Update on "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"--Plus Additional Odds 'n' Ends

Over the past few weeks, I've still been concentrating on digging up additional sites/feeds (again, for various purposes); therefore, I still haven't been able to resolve the issues relating to posting the (planned) Widgetbox-based replacements for what had been the batch of RSS feeds of news from Africa.  Likewise, there have been no changes to the Sudan-, DR Congo-, Somalia-, and Zimbabwe-related batches of feeds.

Since the last update, I've come across feeds for the African Forest Forum, Conciliation Resources, Architecture for Humanity, the International Development Exchange, the International Accountability Project, the bilingual (French/English) site of Comité d’Aide Médicale, the bilingual (French/English) site of Aide Médicale Internationale, the "African Morning News" blog (affiliated with Senegal's [French-language] "Le Matin"), the Kenya Ports Authority, the (related) Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa, Girl Child Network Worldwide's blog (thanks to Mr. Okafor), Kenya's (unrelated) Girl Child Network, the Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa, the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Great Lakes Region of Africa, the Congo Basin Forest Partnership, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (also thanks to Mr. Okafor), the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, the Zimbabwe-news site "Great Indaba", the Cabrini Ministries in Swaziland blog (thanks to Aid for Africa), the Christian AIDS Bureau of Southern Africa, South Africa's "MyBroadband", the "OpenForum" blog (affiliated with the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights), and the European Network on Debt & Development--as well as the largely bilingual (Somali/English) news sites "Bartamaha", the "Somalian Press", "Dadkeyga", "Maqaal", "Somalia24", and "Somalifans".

Separately, McClatchy has recently closed its bureau in Nairobi (with Mr. Bengali transferring to a position in Washington, D.C.), and AlertNet has started regularly reprinting IPS content. - EJM

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