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African News Website Shout-Africa.Com Launches

June 22, 2010

LONDON – The newly developed African News Website http://www.shout-africa.com goes live on the World Wide Web. Shout-Africa.com aims reach out to all audiences interested in news on and about Africa by providing quality and latest news on the continent, its people, culture, the arts, entertainment sports, politics, the diaspora, business, environment, world news, science and other related news.

“Our online audiences will have an absolutely unique African experience, hear stories about the continent, its people and get fair view of Africa,” says Misheck Mberi, the Shout-Africa.com project manager.

In addition to a news archive and other online research tools, the news website offers users interactive options for comments as well as a direct link to share on social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. Shout-Africa.com is organized to provide marketing and advertising opportunities for organisations wishing to tap into the vast African markets and it gives direct access to much diverse and wider African audiences.

Among the features on Shout-Africa.com, are the categories; Events & Parties, Fashion, Health & Lifestyle, Human Rights & Immigration, Jobs, Notices, Opinion, and Travel. The site also has section for images .

Shout-Africa.com will also appeal to international audiences who may know little about Africa but simply enjoy browsing the Internet for news updates, engaging ideas, images and entertainment.

“Shout-africa.com is an ideal platform for dissemination of news and events happening across Africa,” says Mberi. “The news site will be updated regularly with high-quality videos, hard news, current affairs, investigative features, and stories that will be constantly capture the moments, the experiences and the moods of the African people, Shout-Africa.com aims to make an extensive coverage of the continent, its people and its descendants. We seek to create a platform more reliable and accessible to a global audience of all ages

and backgrounds.”

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About the Shout-Africa.com

Shout-Africa is an African news hub featuring latest news on the continent, her people, the diaspora, the arts and culture, sports, business, religion and more. The news hub carries relevant pan-African news published in African countries and abroad, and seeks to provide avenues for cooperation and to optimize coverage of major news events in the continent.

BACKGROUND

The news hub was first discussed informally by the Africans in the diaspora and those in the diaspora. Encouraged by the warm fellowship among them and the success of several other such news platforms, they decided to pursue not only the news on africa but the celebration of the entire continent with the goal of improving the coverage of African affairs by African media. In June 2010, during the FIFA WorldCup championship hosted for the first time in Africa, Shout-Africa is launched.

OBJECTIVES

1. To enhance and improve news coverage of African affairs.

2. To provide readership with reliable access to news sources in Africa.

3. To help promote and advance the professional development of journalism in the continent.

PROJECTS

Shout-Africa shall partner with organisations or projects that will generate news for the continent.

Contact: Misheck Mberi

Email: m.mberi@shout-africa.com

Phone: +447958037653

www.shout-africa.com