Africa News Highlights

Africa News High­lights — Each day impor­tant events involv­ing the African con­ti­nent hap­pen around the world. Some of these events, unprece­dent­ed, oth­ers mun­dane in nature, attract the atten­tion of jour­nal­ists, blog­gers, and ordi­nary cit­i­zens alike. Why news man­agers chose to high­light some sto­ries and not oth­ers, leav­ing impor­tant sto­ries on the back end, is a ques­tion at the core of the mis­sion of Agen­da Agen­da and Africa News Mat­ters. These dai­ly, week­ly, and some­times month­ly high­lights are a way to bridge the gap between the need to keep you ade­quate­ly informed about the African con­ti­nent and the desire of news man­agers to take the easy way out. This approach may bring in the rat­ings, and yet leave you uninformed.

Each day — week or month  — our writ­ers and edi­tors take the time to sift through the hun­dreds of sto­ries about the con­ti­nent cir­cu­lat­ing — to get you what you need to know and why things hap­pened. Even while we strive to use soft­ware tools to get the news into a sin­gle spot for easy under­stand­ing, we still scout for the news man­u­al­ly, read­ing and watch­ing the news our­selves and being on the alert. This is what watch­dogs do.

We hope it will be help­ful in sort­ing out the impor­tant stuff in a world inun­dat­ed with infor­ma­tion and break­ing head­lines, and bring your atten­tion to the issues that may not have got­ten the most cov­er­age dur­ing the week. Please sup­port this effort by mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to Africa News Mat­ters and Africa Agen­da! Thank you!