I presume you don't mean afrol? (they have a website of that name, if you care to look) That is an independent news agency covering Africa as a whole - but have no idea if they work with reuters.

Certainly sounds like a good idea - though I just assumed really that this kind of thing already existed - reuters 'employing' local journalists.

What kind of station? Railway? Radio? And why are you shouting?

I have friends, both African and other (including my sister) who live in both the cities and the bush, so get a 'real' side of the story.....the bits we in the uk dont often get to hear about. Most of it the doom and gloom that Costa refers to. Not a lot of good things happening in Africa lately, apart from the headway being made in controlling malaria and Aids in certain places, but the hospitals are still in the dark ages in some places (my auntie is a nurse in tanzania). T'is tragic times.