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Washington, DC — AllAfrica Global Media founders, Reed Kramer and Tamela Hultman,have been selected by the Africa America Institute (AAI) to receive the prestigious AAI Award of Special Recognition for Lifetime Achievement in Media. The D.C. based media executives will be presented their award at AAI's 17th annual awards dinner, New York's largest annual event focused on Africa, on November 13, 2001 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Established in 1953, AAI is a non-profit, multi-racial, multi-ethnic organization whose mission is to promote African development, primarily through education and training. AAI is wholesale pearl jewelry headquartered in New York with offices in Washington, D.C., and a presence in 19 African countries.

In selecting Kramer and Hultman, AAI President Mora McLean noted the exemplary and often unheralded work of the husband and wife team, who have been making the case for increased blister pearl media coverage of Africa for more than 30 years.

Kramer and Hultman serve as the Chief Executive and Chief Strategy Officers, respectively, of AllAfrica Global Media, a multi-media service provider, systems technology developer and the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the company serves clients, including freshwater pearl Comtex News Network, Lexis Nexis, Bloomberg, Reuters Business Briefings, Financial Times and AvantGo, with over 500 stories daily in English and French, from its own award-winning reporters and from over 90 African news organizations. AllAfrica's web site, allAfrica.com, is the leading Africa destination on the Internet, serving a user base, which has this year topped 8 million monthly page views.

AllAfrica.com, un des plus grands sites d'informations et de nouvelles sur Internet avec, plus de 7.5 millions de pages vues par mois, diffuse chaque jour des centaines d'articles de presse en provenance de ses propres correspondants ainsi que de plus d'une centaine de sources d'informations dont 90 journaux et publications partenaires repartis aux quatre coins du continent. Les trois quart (¾) des internautes visitant ce site proviennent de l'Amérique swing machines du Nord, les 25% restant étant disséminés à travers le monde.

Avec une diffusion moyenne de plus de 600 articles de presse par jour, allAfrica.com dispose également d'une base de données consultable de plus de 250 000 documents. Grâce à wholesale pearl jewelry l'utilisation de technologies de pointe et l'application d'outils d'éditions les plus sophistiqués, le site de AllAfrica fait un tri des nouvelles repartis dans 85 catégories : pays, régions, sujets (économie, finances, marchés, arts, sports, santé, science et technologie, religion…) etc.

Outre allAfrica.com, le groupe AllAfrica Global cultured freshwater pearl Media détient Allafrica News Wire qui est le plus grand collecteur et distributeur online d'informations sur l'Afrique avec des centaines de clients parmi lesquels Comtex News Network, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters news brief, Isyndicate, Lexis Nexis, Financial Times, ainsi que Omnisky et AvantGo pour les applications sans fil. Le groupe AllAfrica a également signé un partenariat stratégique avec Africa News Service qui administre le Centre pour l'Afrique et les Média de Duke University en Caroline du Nord, le Programme Charlayne Hunter Gault destiné aux femmes journalistes du continent ainsi que avec AfricaNet Trust, une société de production radio et télévision dont les programmes seront également

Radio France Internationale (RFI), avec une audience de plus de 100 millions d'auditeurs à travers la planète, dont quelque 30 millions en Afrique, est considérée comme une des plus importantes sources d'informations dans le monde. "L'accord signé avec Allafrica.com met à disposition de notre partenaire les émissions de pearl wholesale RFI sur Internet et nous permet de bénéficier de son implantation en Amérique du nord en tant que portail de référence pour l'information africaine", explique Philippe Couve, rédacteur en chef-adjoint.

" Contrairement a une idée très répandue, il existe, à travers le monde, une véritable soif d'informations et de nouvelles en provenance du continent ", précise Amadou Mahtar BA, le Président de silver pearl necklace AllAfrica Global Media. " Le Groupe Allafrica a été crée pour satisfaire ce besoin, et nous sommes particulièrement fiers d'inclure les productions de RFI dans notre offre " a-t-il ajouté.

Dans un premier temps, les émissions de RFI en pearl strand wholesale français à destination de l'Afrique sont disponible sur www.allafrica.com. Dans les jours qui viennent, les émissions en anglais et en portugais (toujours consacrées à l'Afrique) de RFI s'y ajouteront. Viendront ensuite les émissions en langue arabe.

AllAfrica Global Media, the largest distributor of African news and information worldwide, has signed a strategic agreement with Afcom International, a Fairfax, V.-based international technology consulting firm. The agreement provides for a joint effort to help Africa bridge the digital divide. AllAfrica, based in Africa with U.S. headquarters in Washington, D.C., disseminates more than 400 stories daily to financial, corporate, institutional and media clients and operates the leading Africa site on the Internet. AllAfrica's Services and Infrastructure division utilizes its proprietary, interoperable cultured pearl jewelry technology platform to create accessible and scalable applications.

Afcom International is a provider of telecommunications and technology solutions and training for government and commercial clients. The firm's annual All Africa Telecommunications & Information wholesale pearl jewelry Technology Conference attracts key international players in the fields of communications and technology from both public and private sectors.

AllAfrica and Afcom plan to collaborate on a range of initiatives to increase the distribution of technology information and services for and about Africa. Among them are projects related to the upcoming Afcom gathering in Arlington, Va., whose theme is "Bridging the Digital Divide."

This year's conference to be held July 17-19, the tenth anniversary of the event. Expected among the several hundred participants are communications ministers from governments; managing directors and other senior officials of public posts and telecommunications entities; private telecom-company operators; satellite, cellular naughty castles and Internet service providers; equipment manufacturers and investors in the sector.

"For our tenth anniversary, we are planning a bigger event. We are proud to team up with AllAfrica to take advantage of its position as the leading Africa news resource on the Internet to promote this year's forum," said Dr. Raymond Akwule of George Mason University, Afcom International's president.

Dr. Raymond Akwule of George Mason University, Afcom International's president, says that in the past decade, Afcom has become the forum where African telecommunications decision makers share ideas, present business opportunities in their respective countries, see new products, and discuss the latest developments wholesale pearl jewelry in a fast-paced industry. "For our tenth anniversary," Dr. Akwule says, "we are planning a bigger event. We are proud to team up with AllAfrica to take advantage of its position as the leading Africa news resource on the Internet to promote this year's forum."

AllAfrica Global Media's president, Amadou Mahtar Ba, also welcomes the new partnership. " Although the continent has made some progress since the early 1990s," he says, "Africa remains a disaster-stricken place when it comes to telecommunications infrastructure. When all of sub-Saharan Africa has less telephone lines tin cup pearl necklace than Manhattan, we need cooperation to attack the problems. If African decision makers really want to bridge the digital divide, they will have to keep abreast of developments across the industry. There are only two ways to do it: get accurate information and network with African and non-African professionals. AllAfrica provides the news resource and Afcom provides the networking event."

Over 500 delegates from Africa, America, Asia and Europe cultured pearl jewelry are expected to attend Afcom 2001. Regular updates will be carried on allafrica.com before, during and after the July conference.