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• Can These Animators get Africa to Finally Honor its Female Heros? – Learn about the women that have “shaped the continent as much as men” and how they might finally be getting the recognition they’ve so long deserved.

African Newspapers in the Classroom – African Media

• Africa.com
• African Arguments
• African Center for Strategic Studies
• Africa is a Country – a site of media criticism, analysis, and new writing
• All Africa.com (formally Africa News). All Africa.com carries regularly updated news stories, primarily from African presses
• Daily Maverick
• Mail & Guardian
• News Directory -Lists by country all African newspapers which have websites.
• Pambazuka
• Teaching About African Crisis in the K-12 Classroom -Most of the news stories featured in the U.S. and western press focus on crises in Africa . At Exploring Africa we are dedicated to helping educators and students obtain a more balanced perspective on Africa . However, we do not suggest that educators and students ignore crises in Africa , but that they address these crises through a more thorough, balanced, and nuanced investigation than the western press normally offers its readers and viewers. We offer the following suggestions for investigating and addressing African crises in your classrooms.
• American Media:
  • New York Times
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • The Washington Post
• Other Media on Africa
  • BBC
    The BBC Africa Desk offers print versions of stories carried by the British Broadcasting Service about Africa (updated several times a day).
  • Le Monde
  • IRIN
    Integrated Regional Information Network of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This news service provides daily up-dates from all regions in Africa.

• Fri - Dec 3, 2021: New Omicron variant: Are low vaccination rates in South Africa a factor? - BBC News - Africa
  Has the slow rollout of vaccines in southern Africa allowed coronavirus mutations to develop?
• Fri - Dec 3, 2021: Ethiopia closes schools to boost civil war effort - BBC News - Africa
  The government wants secondary school students to harvest crops to help frontline fighters.
• Fri - Dec 3, 2021: South Africa: Fourth Wave Sees 'Stark' Increase in Covid-19 Infections in Children Under Five - AllAfrica News: Latest
  [SAnews.gov.za] The fourth wave has sparked an increase in hospital admissions in children under the age of five, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said.
• Fri - Dec 3, 2021: 2022 World Cup: Fifa dismisses appeals from South Africa and Benin over qualifying incidents - BBC News - Africa
  Fifa dismisses an appeal from South Africa, who claimed they were "robbed" in their 1-0 defeat by Ghana in World Cup qualifying.
• Fri - Dec 3, 2021: Cape Verde: Renewable energy via solar panels helps connect communities - BBC News - Africa
  95% of Cape Verde has access to the electricity but a third of the population still relies on firewood and charcoal for cooking.