Solutions Journalism adopts a solutions-oriented approach to journalism; telling rigorous, investigative, and compelling stories of responses to existing social problems so that they can be scaled up or replicated elsewhere. It differs from the traditional, often problem-focused journalism because it highlights what works, as opposed to what does not, and goes further to investigate why an intervention or solution to a social problem was able to bring change. Solutions-oriented journalism also looks at what could have been done differently to improve or solve similar problems in other places. It can be used as an effective tool to hold policymakers to account demonstrating how solutions have been found to social problems.
African students in India ask their governments for help
The deepening COVID-19 crisis in India has put the African higher education community in the country on high alert and has brought into sharp focus the response of Indian universities to protect their students and lecturers, including thousands of African students.
By 6 May, India had recorded 21,077,410 COVID-19 infections, including 230,168 deaths, according to World Meter.
The Association of African Students in India (AASI) has called on universities, embassies and other organisations involved in higher education to support foreign students and to help them to access vaccinations.
This comes amid rising anxiety following reports that Emmanuel Harrison Ngowi, a Tanzanian national, died of COVID-19 complications in the city of Vadodara while undergoing treatment.
The Managing Editor of Nigeria Health Watch, Vivianne Ihekweazu, said the partnership was to engender solution-based reportage through reports of positive happenings around the country.
She said the programme would last for eight months with three journalists from Media Trust engaged in intensive training and mentorship in producing stories of positive impact on the health sector.
“They’ll be the first cohort of the programme. There are a lot of positive stories in Nigeria which are deflected by negative stories which we all face on a daily basis and are aware of. We felt Daily Trust is an important newsroom to start with due to your reportage.
Nigeria Health Watch
IN ZANA 3, Wedza District, 131 kilometres south of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, Talent Zindi, 21, a subsistence farmer, is inspecting the ear flowers of a maize plant in her field.
She will be harvesting her maize crop in two weeks. Zindi says the harvest season reminds her of the stress that she went through in March 2019 trying to get transportation to Igava Clinic, 14 kilometres away from her home to deliver her baby.
Luckily, back then, Zindi’s friend introduced her to Mobility for Africa, an NGO that offers electric tricycles, known locally as Hambas, to people in Wedza.
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Vaccines are vital to the prevention and control of infectious-disease outbreaks. They protect us from the time we are children into adulthood. Today there are vaccines available to protect against at least 20 diseases, such as diphtheria, tetanus, influenza and measles. Together, these vaccines save the lives of up to 3 million people every year.