Launching of AFRIK 21

Is your view of Africa changing?
Maybe… But what do you know about the actors of the green economy
that reinvent the cities and territories of Africa on a daily basis?

 

The first daily, bilingual news site on the green economy and the environment in Africa, the AFRIK 21 site reports on the proliferation of initiatives across the continent: policy initiatives, projects, achievements, investments, innovations…

To bring together, inspire, connect… AFRIK 21 was born to stimulate green economy actors and citizens concerned about environmental protection in Africa. To enable them to exchange among themselves and to imagine together new projects in the service of sustainable development.

Created in Paris by a Franco-German publisher, with a desk located in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and an editorial staff composed exclusively of young African journalists, the website AFRIK 21 targets actors of change, from Casablanca to Cape Town, from Dakar to Nairobi, via Abidjan, Lagos, Kinshasa, Kigali, etc.

Simple, fast and fully responsive, the website AFRIK 21 is aimed at decision makers and local actors in companies, eco-companies, local authorities, government departments, associations and international institutions, who are concretely committed to Green Africa and the MDGs.

AFRIK 21 intends to function as an accelerator for projects on the field. At a time when Africa is undergoing an urban revolution in a context of complex emergence, the challenge of sustainable growth is shaping the future of the continent (and that of its partners). It is on this momentum that AFRIK 21 reports.

The website AFRIK 21 is structured into five main sections: Sustainable Cities; Renewable Energy; Water & Environment; Biodiversity; Economy & Climate. These sections are further divided into about fifty specialised thematic subsections, accessible via the menu.

In keeping with its vocation to process information at the local level, the entire website AFRIK 21 is also organised into regional categories, broken down into subcategories by country, which facilitate, at the end of each article, navigation according to geographical criteria.

Written in French by bilingual French-English journalists, who monitor in both languages and on all African countries, all articles are translated directly into English by the editorial staff and put online in the process. The language barrier between South and North, East and West, Anglophone Africa and Francophone Africa is thus abolished.

 

Contact: Christoph Haushofer, publisher and founder of AFRIK 21,
former journalist and Deputy Director of Environment Magazine, Hydroplus,
Recycling Recovery, Energy & Environment.