Media: Stage set for pan-African TV network

A consortium of professional broadcasters, journalists and business people, plan to set up a pan-African satellite TV network based on the highly successful al Jazeera network.

The group is led by Salim Amin, whose father was renowned photojournalist Mo Amin, responsible for alerting the world to the famine in Ethiopia.

Salim Amin told media,"We are not here to do PR for Africa. But we want to balance the hard news stories with stories about the successes on the continent -- the people, the fashion, the entertainment, the sport, the music."