African News Online

www.africanewsonline.co.uk

Africa online is UK based non-political news network on Africa. It is a round the clock information and news portal covering all subject matters about the continent that shapes and affects lives of the people. It intends to keep track of historical and contemporary developments that create epoch around the continent. Special coverage would feature cases of unemployment, business, climate change/environment, economy, living conditions, health care, mortality rates, education, crimes and terrorism, currency valuations, tourism, life expectancy and infant mortality, security, poverty, road networks/transport, accidents and deaths, violence, robbery, kidnappings, sports etc. The list is far from finite as developments are ever fluid.

It is designed to serve as sure channel of unbiased news that furnishes the public with facts from local sources close to point of break. Sourcing news from firsthand witnesses would encourage authenticity, eliminate bias and build trust in the people who felt abandoned and neglected. Such locally generated reports help in changing certain paranoid narratives about the continent and its people.

News items that ordinarily would not make it to reportorial desks but nonetheless are essential part of a story in completing the circle would be granted spaces.

Frequent and comprehensive publications depicted in tables, graphs with whole range of statistic relating to a country’s performances would be published in videos, still pictures and write ups etc.

For ease of coverage, the traditional five geo-political divisions consisting of Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western and Central zones of Africa would be maintained. Therefore no country on the continent shall be spared scrutiny on state of affairs and none shall be maliciously targeted. No holds would be barred from this site provided it is based on factual commentaries. The good, the bad and the ugly shall receive equal focus coverage with clear cut data to support it.

The overarching aims are two folds, firstly to create a force for good that would advocate fairness on behalf of the silence majority without a voice. Secondly, to act as watchdog of some sort in monitoring peoples’ conditions of living and government’s inability or unwillingness to cater for their needs.

It is intended to highlight and celebrate achievements, human developments, inventions and breakthroughs as well as to expose all manner of foibles from a particular country either from the leadership or the led. Exposures would help in countering poor habits and encouraging more noble ideas, achievements and developments. This would serve as catalyst to spark off healthy rivalries among countries leading ultimately to incentivise human and economic growths.

At the end of it countries would be internationally celebrated for lifting its people out of poverty and for the provision of enabling environments for developments and growth.