Brain drain is hitting Uganda hard as it is estimated that 35 percent of Uganda's graduates live in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The ILO programme officer for Africa region, Mr David NII Addy, said this on May 26 at Hotel Africana in a regional meeting on Labour Migration for International Development in East Africa. "According to recent data of OECD, Uganda has over 35 percent of its graduates living in an OECD country. Comparable data for Tanzania is slightly higher while that of Kenya also stands at about 35 percent," he said.

With little time left before the end of the school year and exams, 1,600 Togolese refugee children went back to school on Monday in camps set up in Benin for refugees who have fled Togo’s post-election unrest. Children of all ages, from nursery school children to teenagers hoping to complete their final secondary-school exams, flopped down on mats laid out on floors of makeshift classrooms provided by the UN children’s agency UNICEF at the Lokossa refugee camp, which lies 18 km away from the Togolese border.

On Saturday 2 July 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Wangari Maathai will address hundreds of Africans gathered in London at the annual African Diaspora & Development Day (ad3) to explore ways to further mobilize the diaspora’s resources to support the creation of enterprises, jobs and wealth in Africa. “The message for Africans (of my winning the Nobel Peace Prize) is that the solutions to our problems lie within us,” says Professor Maathai. ad3 will present Africans in the UK and Europe with a unique opportunity to build upon their ongoing work in support of Africa’s development to the priority set by Africans themselves for their lives.