A media network for North Africa

A meeting will be held on January 8 through 11 in the Tunisian city of al-Hammamat ( the Baths) to launch an unofficial African media networking for non- governmental organizations, according to the organizers of this event.

The meeting is organized at the initiative of the UN general secretariat in collaboration with the Women's association ( Tunisia 21), which is the regional coordinator of this networking for north Africa.

The meeting, however, aims at establishing a networking for non- governmental organizations at the level of the African continent with the aim to ensure best co-ordination and to develop its own potentials to move at the national, regional and international levels.

This meeting, comes at the response of the recommendations of the UN conferences and the UN social and economic council to support the civil society and the media and telecommunications technology.

The meeting is attended by 15 non- governmental organizations representing the five branch districts in Africa, namely Northern, Eastern, Western, Central and Southern Africa.