Pretoria, South Africa – Sixteen UN information centres (UNICs) in sub-Saharan Africa, marking World Information Society Day, today launched new websites in an effort to bring the work of the United Nations closer to its local constituencies around the continent. 

In her latest Digital Diary, UNICEF Radio youth reporter Livey Van Wyk, 21, takes her recording equipment into the streets and youth centres of her community outside Windhoek , Namibia . She asks young people to talk to her about their country’s future and their thoughts about HIV/AIDS.

The United Nations World Food Programme today announced that unless it receives new contributions urgently it would be forced to halt food distributions to 90,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Namibia by the second half of December because of a critical shortage of funding.