Pambazuka News 236: Cairo refugee massacre

Save the Children Sweden has been present in Côte d'Ivoire since 1999. We support children's own organisations, community-based initiatives, local NGOs, media workers and government structures to promote the respect for children's rights. We support initiatives to prevent trafficking, abuse and exploitation of children and we have a project to train military on child protection and the impacts of conflict on children. From 2006 we will expand our program to enhance quality education for child...read more

Newly elected Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete announced his cabinet on Wednesday (January 4), comprising 29 ministers and 30 deputies. The cabinet has many new faces and the highest number of women the country has had since independence. "This is a new government, with new goals and that is why we have several new faces. There are, however, several veterans around," Kikwete told a news conference at State House, his first since he was sworn-in as president on 21 December 2005.

King Mohammed VI today (December 16) approved the publication and public release of the final report of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (Instance Équité et Réconciliation or IER). The Royal Palace received the report on December 1, 2005, officially ending the Commission's 18-month mandate.

The sixth ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) wrapped up just before Christmas, but the results were anything but a present for Africa. The general consensus on the outcome was that a ‘development package’ failed to obscure losses in the areas of services, agriculture and export subsidies. In this article, Mohau Pheko and Liepollo Lebohang Pheko from the Gender & Trade Network in Africa, argue that Hong Kong will be remembered for creating an anti-development platform for Af...read more

A study of the African power sector, co-sponsored by ECA and UNEP and presented at a stakeholders meeting in Addis Ababa, said that reforms in Africa had not resulted in sustainability of the sector in Africa. The study, "Making the African Power Sector Sustainable" says the lack of sustainability is because power sector reforms in Africa were primarily designed to bridge short term generation shortfalls and enhance the financial health of state-owned power utilities.

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