PAMBAZUKA NEWS EDIÇÃO EM PORTUGUÊS 93: Moçambique: RENAMO insiste emgovernar 6 províncias | Crise política agudiza-se no Brasil
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SciDev.Net and UNESCO are pleased to announce a five-day training workshop on the use of information and communications technologies - in particular the Internet - to improve reporting on HIV/AIDS, which will take place in Uganda in April 2003.
This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills to enable operational personnel to implement high quality, state of the art malaria prevention and control interventions and be able to develop a process for the continuous improvement of the quality of these activities by using existing or adaptations of existing tools.
The South African government, together with the Wellcome Trust is supporting the development of African scientists who wish to attend the workshops listed below. There is an excellent line-up of speakers, together with the opportunity to take a solid course in genome bioinformatics. Funding is available for deserving scientists, especially those from poorer institutions. French speaking scientists from within Africa are especially encouraged to apply as there is specific support for French-speakers.
With environmentalists warning about Kenya's dwindling energy sources, the use of fireless cookers in poor households is becoming the answer - a small step that could save the countryside fuel sources in the east African nation of 32 million people.
The Court of Appeal of Lesotho has granted an application by the Canadian engineering company Acres International for the suspension of payment of a R22-million fine imposed on the firm for bribing a senior official of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
One avenue of investigation into South Africa's controversial arms probe has been closed, with accountant Ian Pierce being found not guilty of failing to produce financial records in connection with his company Futuristic Business Solutions (FBS).
Supporters stood at attention and sang the old Transvaal Republic's anthem as eight alleged rightwingers appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court last Thursday afternoon on charges of high treason, terrorism, and sabotage.
For the first time the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) has identified the countries guilty of most consistently abusing and defying international housing rights law. The list includes Burma (Myanmar), Colombia, Croatia, Guatemala, India, Israel, Nigeria, Pakistan, USA and Zimbabwe.
A group of more than 50 nongovernmental organisations, international organisations, governments, donors, people living with HIV/AIDS, private sector organisations and research institutions have launched the International HIV Treatment Access Coalition, a new initiative created to promote increased access to antiretroviral drugs and to advise developing countries on how to most effectively use the drugs.
Global civil society argues that the growth in corporate social responsibility has not come from business but from pressure by civil society organisations. However, research and knowledge of the precise actions and influence of civil society organisations on corporate social responsibility is lacking.
The Speaker of the National Assembly and Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum, Ms. Ntlhoi Motsamai, says the forum is committed to the struggle for justice, democracy, gender equality and equity. The forum is also committed to the rule of law, sustainable development and ensuring good governance in the SADC region.
A row has broken out between the Tanzanian government and some development partners over the control and disbursement of development funds.
Namibia's biggest trade union federation has accused the government of contributing to the flight of qualified nurses and teachers to overseas countries. The union says poor government salaries do not encourage professionals to stay in the country.
The nine trade union leaders detained by the Zimbabwe regime of President Robert Mugabe on 9 December have now been released. This follows protests to the Zimbabwe authorities from trade unions around the world.
Human rights activists in Angola have released details of widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the northern enclave of Cabinda, where the Angolan government recently renewed its military campaign against separatist rebels in the oil-rich territory.
Many Zimbabweans are now aware that the Patron of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union is Robert Mugabe and that the ZCU is planning to host part of the World Cup in Zimbabwe. A group called 'zvakwana enough is enough' [email protected] recently put out a report on the first One Day International cricket match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan.
Africa's women have borne the brunt of caring for the young, the old, the sick and dying, the survival of households, the sustaining of livelihoods and sustaining of the cycle of life itself, says UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Speaking upon receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Cape Town, at Columbia University in New York on December 9, Annan said there was no effective development strategy in which women did not play a central role. When women were fully involved, the benefits could be seen immediately.
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has again denied planning to rule Kenya from behind the scenes after he retires. In the last major official function of his presidency, Moi told a large independence day rally in Nairobi that he planned to use his time trying to end wars in Africa.
In a bid to revive what was once a diverse and dynamic press, several journalists in Zanzibar last week launched the archipelago's first private newspaper for 40 years.
After weeks of wrangling over the number of participants attending the Somali peace talks in the Kenyan town of Eldoret, faction leaders have agreed to a maximum figure of 300.
Following weeks of concern over low rainfall and the development of moderate El Nino conditions in Southern Africa, a drought warning has been issued by the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) Drought Monitoring Centre (DMC).
Drawing international attention to an unprecedented hunger crisis in Africa, where 38 million people face starvation, is the aim of a campaign officially launched on Monday by the World Food Programme (WFP).
An outbreak of an acute respiratory syndrome in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has affected Bosobolo, Gbadolite, Gemena and Karawa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported last Thursday.
Voters in Benin went to the polls last Sunday in the country's first municipal elections since the end of one-party rule in 1990. Some three million people were eligible to elect their mayors and municipal councillors, previously designated by the government
Members of the armed forces of 13 West African countries and of non-governmental organisations ended a five-day meeting in Dakar, Senegal, on Saturday with a call for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to request member states to reaffirm their commitment to international legal standards that protect children affected by armed conflict.
The human rights advocacy group, Amnesty International (AI), has said it is "gravely concerned" that up to 115 people face imminent execution for their alleged role in the January 2001 assassination of the former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laurent-Desire Kabila.
His detractors call Uhuru Kenyatta a political novice, untried, untested and inexperienced. He has never held elected office and his one stab at being elected backfired. Kenyatta’s critics also accuse him of being a puppet of the outgoing president. But his supporters say he will bring new blood to KANU and is precisely the fresh start Kenya needs.
A political grouping has been revived during the ongoing Somalia National Peace and Reconciliation conference in Eldoret. The delegates from the Sade community, also known as the Marehan, declared the relaunch of the Somali Democratic Party (SDP).
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said there is continued sexual harassment of female staff at various workplaces and called for an urgent law to address the matter. This is contained in the Gender Needs Assessment draft report done by the ILO Gender Project. It covered several government departments, National Organisation of Trade Unions and Federation of Uganda Employers.
Like the 1997 elections, the 2003 elections in Liberia in which Charles Taylor will serve as either a "candidate or the presiding authority" will be another false start, says Dr. Amos Sawyer. He noted that Mr. Taylor would not help in creating the enabling environment needed for free and fair elections in 2003. The Former Interim President of Liberia (1990 - 1994) was speaking at the Forum entitled "Liberia - Eye of the Hurricane" hosted by the United States Institute of Peace.
The Malawi Human Rights Commission has observed with "great concern" public utterances from some quarters - especially politicians - that carry racial discrimination overtones. "The Commission has also received complaints from indigenous and non-indigenous Malawians, as well as people of other nationalities, that they have been victims of racial abuse," said a press release.
The translation of an eviction notice into the local languages has delayed the eviction of pastoralists who have illegally occupied wetlands in the Teso region, a wetlands monitoring officer, Francis Sabino Ogwal, said recently.
A maize scam in which known top Zanu PF officials are allegedly purchasing the scarce staple grain in large quantities for resale at exorbitant prices on the black market has hit Gutu district.
The MDC has warned of a mass uprising against the government, which could lead to serious civil strife. The warning comes after a nationwide survey conducted by the MDC which showed people were determined to take any action possible to end what they called Zanu PF's oppressive rule.
The African National Congress (ANC) has shrugged off accusations that it is legitimising the lawlessness in Zimbabwe by inviting President Mugabe's Zanu PF to its congress this week.
In response to the call of many teachers, critics, researchers, and writers of African literature, this book is being offered as a groundbreaking source that brings together literary practitioners and librarians into a century of conversations.
This book provides a powerful and probing critique of the myths, meanings, promises, and perils of globalization, postcoloniality, and other currently popular discourses by interrogating their implications for Africa and African studies. It challenges misrepresentations and misappropriations of Africa in academic texts and in the popular media and reaffirms the importance of progressive nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and internationalism for Africa’s reconstruction, a project in which universities and African intellectuals—including those in the North—have a critical role to play in promoting productive trans-national literacy and conversations across the Atlantic.
For the first time in their history, Eritreans were engaged, as a sovereign people, in the making of the basic document by which they would be governed. Regarded by Eritreans as the culmination of their legitimate struggle for national self determination, the Constitution became an integral part of this continuous and crucial struggle.
This book is inspired by written celebrations of Harlem by many creative talents who have lived there. The collection of prose and poetry is from the pens of some of its famous sons and daughters, and others for whom it has been home for some time. Amongst the many contributors are Wole Soyinka, Wale Ogunyemu, Femi Osofisan, Niyi Osundare, Alain Ricard, Mabel Segun and Bode Sowande.
A non-governmental organisation filed a lawsuit in November against 21 multinational corporations and leading international banks for helping prop up the apartheid state. The Khulumani Support Group (Khulumani) filed the suit in its name as well as that of 85 of its 33000 members, in the New York Eastern District Court. This feature, by Jubilee SA and in Question and Answer format, answers some of the common questions around the lawsuit and delves into the issues raised.
Armed groups involved in conflict in countries from the Philippines and Afghanistan to the Congo have been using youths under 18 as soldiers despite international calls to stop the practice, the United Nations said on Monday.
Resurgences of malaria in East Africa are linked to rising temperatures over the past few decades, according to a new analysis. The findings in this week's issue of Nature challenge the results of a study published earlier this year. The authors of the first study found no significant connection between climate change and malaria prevalence in the region. But an international team of scientists now says that global warming and malaria prevalence are indeed linked, and that the original study's conclusions were flawed by its "inappropriate use" of climate data.
A group of more than 30 researchers from Africa and the United States has demanded that participants in medical trials in developing countries receive "fair benefits" from the research. Communities involved in medical trials must determine whether they will receive a fair level of benefits, both during and after the research, they say.
In mid-January 2003, Radio Netherlands will be releasing a CDossierTM on Angola, looking at the issues confronting the country in the wake of over a quarter of a century of civil war. It is entitled "Angola: Picking up the Pieces" and contains web, audio and video features with numerous personal testimonies. Among the issues covered are: the origins of the war, human rights abuses, the lasting legacy of landmines, family re-unification and the informal sector. For a full listing, check the web site: http://www.rnw.nl/humanrights/html/angola.html. The CDossierTM is available free of charge as a reference source to academic institutions and non-governmental organisations. The URL for the order form is: www.rnw.nl/cdossier
The international community must act forcefully and immediately to end impunity and stop flagrant violations of women's human rights in conflict and post-conflict situations, UNIFEM Executive Director, Noeleen Heyzer, told participants at a meeting here. The meeting, convened by UNIFEM, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, marked International Human Rights Day.
Women's Aid Collective (WACOL), a non-governmental organisation which seeks to protect the rights of women, has decried the high incidence of violence against women in the country and called on all relevant authorities to help stem the scourge.
The Women’s Dignity Project (WDP) is seeking two interns to work with WDP for six-month to one-year internships in 2003 and 2004 (internships for shorter periods are generally not available). A modest stipend will be paid to interns, but the bulk of costs will be the responsibility of the intern. If interested, please contact the Executive Director of WDP at [email][email protected] or at PO Box 79402, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Please allow me to salute the Centre for Research Education and Development (CREDO) for their terrific letter to Amara Essy, Chairman Ad Interim, Commission Of The African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (see OPEN LETTER ON AFRICA'S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD AND THE AFRICAN UNION, Pambazuka News 92). And thank you Pambazuka for publishing it.
I am particularly intrigued by the issue of "restriction on freedom of movement" for Africans within Africa in preference of non-Africans. And if at all Africans benefit from regional bodies like the EAC, the free movement between borders benefits our heads of state and not ordinary Ugandans, like me.
In addition, I wish the AU could address seriously the issue of citizenship for non Afro-Africans without discrimination and in particular Asian-Africans. Lastly, since all AU member states are male, we wish to see permanent seats allocated to a woman representative from each AU member state.
Namibians will have to pay a special 'orphan tax' from April next year because of the severe orphan crisis facing the country, Cabinet has announced.
Attempts to legalize repression of the media through the enactment of blatantly unconstitutional laws were the worst developments faced by Zimbabwean media during 2002, says the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). In a report entitled 'State of the Media', MISA said laws had been used to arrest, intimidate and harass journalists and media workers. The full report is available by clicking on the link provided.
President Joseph Kabila has said he will guarantee security for all citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo after a peace agreement was signed on Tuesday. Under a complex deal, Mr Kabila will stay in his post for two years, but rebel forces and the political opposition will be given government portfolios, including three of the four vice presidential posts.
Related Link and Background:
*Deal to end Africa's worst war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2582239.stm
* Leaders prepare for government posts
http://www.sabcnews.com/africa/central_africa/0,1009,49592,00.html
* Peace deal carries seeds of conflict
http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?a=37&o=13555
"Poverty and violence" are the tragic reasons pushing thousands of people to leave their home countries in search of a better future. Economic globalisation and the development disparities it has produced in the southern hemisphere and in Eastern European transition countries are every day pushing thousands of people to leave their home countries to find a form of subsistence in wealthier lands, says the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
Responsible for: following tribunal activities, requesting archival trial footage for Internews project productions, interviewing and filming interviews with tribunal officials, etc. Requirements include: strong English language skills, excellent communication skills, ability to work independently on long-term projects, knowledge and understanding of the work of the ICTR, and previous camera experience.
Responsible for providing technical assistance, managing/administering contractors, grantees and partners, monitoring and evaluation, program communication, and government and donor coordination. Previous experience in Africa a must and within a high prevalence HIV/AIDS country highly desirable.
Uganda was one of the first African countries to face the AIDS epidemic. Prevention programmes began in the late 1980s with strong political commitment. A study by the Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS in Uganda suggests that these efforts have produced a fall in HIV prevalence (the total number of people infected) and incidence (the number of people newly infected each year).
Testing and treating pregnant women for HIV reduces the likelihood of infecting the child. But do women want to know if they have HIV? Researchers with the Medical Research Council programme in Uganda investigated how rural women feel about counselling and testing for HIV during pregnancy. While most women are prepared to undergo testing, they are worried about confidentiality and the behaviour of medical staff.
Zambia faces a "tremendous crisis" if efforts to fight hunger and HIV/AIDS are not improved, Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary General's special envoy on HIV/AIDS, said on Sunday at the conclusion of a trip through Zambia and five other African nations.
The United States has held out against other members of the World Trade Organisation, refusing to agree to a third draft of an agreement on how to grant developing countries wider access to low-cost drugs, including antiretroviral medications, the Associated Press reports.
Looking 30 years into the future, FAO estimates that feeding the world's population will require 60% more food. Most of that increase will have to come from intensified agriculture, supported by irrigation. But water is already scarce in many countries, and competition for water from industrial and domestic users continues to grow. So where will we find the water to grow the crops that feed the world?
This report aims to provide an introduction to the key issues driving efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and accountability worldwide. It focuses especially on the links between the environment, labour rights, and human rights in the context of globalisation.
Older people in most African societies are a vulnerable group as a result of a lifetime of hardship, malnutrition, and poverty. The Aids pandemic is now posing an additional burden on them. In their old age, when they may require support and expect to be looked after, they have to take on the role of caring for others.
In the latest testimony in the trial of murdered journalist Carlos Cardosa, Mario Matola, who earlier admitted stealing the car used for Cardoso’s murder, has told the court his previous confession was false and that he had nothing to do with stealing the car. In the earlier statement, he said he worked with Anibalzinho (accused of organizing the killing, and now "escaped"), and that Anibalzinho made his living by trafficking in stolen cars between Mozambique and South Africa.
The Botswana Centre for Human Rights joined the international community in commemorating International Human Rights Day. The organisation Ditshwanelo and the Botswana Red Cross Society launched the Botswana HIV/Aids and Human Rights Charter 2002 in recognition of the day.
Must refugees be kept in camps? Are there viable alternatives to refugee camps that can benefit both refugee populations and host developing countries? What specific circumstances and problems do developing countries face when dealing with refugee communities.
AF-AIDS is a regional forum on HIV/AIDS in Africa, moderated by the Health & Development Networks Moderation Team (HDN, www.hdnet.org) with technical support from Health Systems Trust (HST) on behalf of the AF-AIDS Policy and Steering Committee (HST, HDN & SAfAIDS). To join, send a blank message to [email protected]
McDonald's is the world's largest retailer of fast food and fast food culture. Its Big Macs and Happy Meals are popular, but its food is high in fat, sugar and calories, and a cause of obesity and Type 2 diabetes. McDonald's is a controversial symbol of Americanism and globalization, and it targets children with an onslaught of clever advertising. Its purpose, as required by law, is to make money. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund is the world's foremost advocate for children. Its mission is "to save children's lives and build children's futures" and is dedicated to the well-being, including good health and nutrition, of children everywhere. Now UNICEF and McDonald's have agreed "to team up to raise money on behalf of the world's children." Visit www.corpwatch.org to sign a letter protesting the partnership.
Three months ago the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it had adopted a new set of lending guidelines that would permit borrowing countries to take control of their economies like never before. But over the past week, the Fund flexed its muscles over two of the world's poorest countries and imposed conditions that critics predict will be disastrous for the poor in those nations -- and that signified business as usual for the Washington-based institution. The IMF told Zambia -- an African country ravaged by debt, mismanagement, and disease -- that it will delay one billion dollars in debt relief until the poor nation sells its state-owned commercial bank, the Zambia National Commercial Bank.
“This system is taking us back to square one,” said Mvenda Masalas, an unemployed father of three fighting eviction from an inner city tenement in Johannesburg. He was among 150 poors, many of them already homeless, who marched on the offices of the provincial Minister of Housing last Saturday.
On 14 December 2002, Libasse Ndiaye, a cameraman for African Television News (ATN) and Senegal correspondent for the Agence Internationale d'Images de Télévision (AITV) and TV5, was assaulted by security forces at the end of a demonstration. The protest was held by relatives of individuals who perished in a 26 September shipwreck. More than 1,000 people who were travelling on the vessel Joola died on that day.
Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has deplored the failure to solve the murder of Norbert Zongo, publisher of the weekly paper "L'Indépendant", who was shot dead on a road in southern Burkina Faso on 13 December 1998.
UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, launched on Tuesday what it described as "a major campaign" to vaccinate 3.5 million children against measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
When challenged by World Bank officials about the failure of his policies, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president and a strong advocate of education, is reported to have said: "The British Empire left us a country with 85 percent illiterates, two engineers and twelve doctors. When I left office, we had nine percent illiterates and thousands of engineers and doctors." However, over the next 15 years education was practically forgotten and, by 2000, just 55 percent of seven-year-olds were enrolling in primary schools, most of which were poorly maintained and lacking teachers, according to government figures.
A recent court ruling ordering the removal of powerful cabinet minister Nicholas Biwott's name from a list of those implicated in ethnic clashes which rocked the country between 1992 and 1997 has raised questions regarding the independence of Kenya's judicial system, according to local analysts.
West African efforts to halt war in Ivory Coast swung to Senegal on Wednesday as leaders headed there for last-ditch talks, while France hovered in the wings with its own peace initiatives.
A statistical analysis conducted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of a number of nutritional surveys carried out in Eritrea in the last six months indicates that 2.8 million Eritreans - over half the population - are experiencing pre-famine conditions. One-fifth of the population is immediately confronting food shortages that are leading to critical levels of malnutrition among children.
Ahmad Haji Ali Adami, chairman of the electoral commission in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, has described this weekend's local elections as a success. Independent observers also described the polling - which took place on Sunday throughout the breakaway region - as peaceful.
The repatriation of Rwandan refugees from camps in western Tanzania should be "substantively completed" by the end of the year, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Angola's remaining 1,500 troops backing President Denis Sassou-Nguesso in the Republic of Congo (ROC) began to pull out on Monday, thereby ending a five-year presence in the country, according to ROC Deputy Defence Minister Yvon Ndolou.
As part of activities marking 16 Days of Activism on Violence Against Women declared by UNIFEM world wide, The Ark Foundation (Ghana), an advocacy-based women's human rights NGO undertook an educational campaign targeting nine communities in the Eastern Region of the country.
Over 10 mountain gorillas are believed to have been lost after a series of raids this year by poachers in the Virunga volcanoes (Rwanda and DR Congo and Bwindi national park). The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has expressed concern over the recent wave of poaching and kidnapping of the endangered mountain gorillas whose population now stands at 670.
Work on a future rhino sanctuary in Nakasongola district has started. Rhino Fund Uganda Executive Director Yvonne Verkaik said in a statement that over 1200 square meters of bush had already been cleared for an airstrip where flown in rhinos, tourists and emergency veterinary supplies will land.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday defended his deputy's right not to resign over corruption allegations. A day after launching a crackdown against graft by members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), Mbeki said deputy President Jacob Zuma was not obliged to step down simply because the elite police Scorpions were investigating him.
There is something highly symbolic about the way Arthur Chindandala, who lives in a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) earns his living. He beats large shiny bowls out of recycled World Food Programme oil canisters, which he then sells for 25 kwanzas (about 30p) each. And he shapes them on an anvil made out of an upturned shell case. It's not exactly swords into ploughshares, but it's the modern-day equivalent. And it illustrates two great truths about Africa: the terrible toll war has taken on the continent and the spirit of vitality and inventiveness of Africans in their determination to forge new life from the ashes of battle.
Tony Blair would recognise the message at once: education, education, education. He might be a little less familiar with Taklitin walet Farati's means of delivery, which is from the back of a dusty donkey as she plods from village to village in northern Mali. All educators face obstacles, but this 40-year-old widow faces more than most in one of the remotest regions of one of Africa's poorest countries, where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate. Her specific mission is the schooling of young girls, and both the poverty and the traditions of the people are against her.
Kenya's opposition accused the government on Wednesday of trying to buy votes and loot public funds after it made a flurry of large payments to businessmen ahead of general elections on December 27.
Bellanet has produced a report that argues that since ICTs are so widely applicable for many development projects, there is huge diversity in the approaches, methods and findings of ICT's assessments. This, they state, makes it very difficult to have an accurate appreciation of the role of ICT's in development.
SPCA fundraiser Glynis Markus and local casino official Jose Maponyane tried to catch banknotes blown by a money machine in East London recently to raise funds for homeless cats and dogs. Following a call by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), the casino hosted a fundraising bid to assist the organisation.
Over the past 50 years, forced displacement has been a major obstacle to development and the fight against poverty. Despite the efforts of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others to find 'durable solutions' for those who are forced to flee their homes, attitudes have, if anything, hardened towards refugees and asylum-seekers.
Many refugees in Africa avoid camps despite the offer of aid, preferring instead to integrate themselves with local communities in their country of asylum. What factors influence integration and what are the benefits?
The Community Chest street collection here raised R3831, which executive director Joss Hamilton says compares poorly with the more than R1 100 brought in by King William's Town and Queenstown. Hamilton said support for the Christmas raffle was better.
Forced displacement can lead to new social and economic benefits in some cases. Largely, however, it is a traumatic event that leads to a decline in the standard of living and a diminished sense of wellbeing for those displaced. How does current resettlement research deal with the problems of vulnerable groups in displacement processes?
More than 250,000 refugees returned from Sudan to Eritrea between 1991 and 2002, the majority of them without receiving international assistance. Though the causes of this displacement were removed more than ten years ago, there are still some 100,000 Eritrean refugees remaining in Sudan. What factors influence the return of refugees?
Cross-border and within country migration have generated complex and challenging difficulties for the provision of health care. Not only do migrant populations often require specialist treatment for unfamiliar conditions, the numbers involved and the distances traversed often change long-held epidemiological assumptions made about the local population.
Is the formal education system the best avenue for delivery of effective environmental education? Can Ethiopia's newly decentralised educational administrations work with other arms of government and farmers to tackle the short-term and unsustainable resource exploitation patterns which imperil prospects of ever achieving food self-sufficiency?
Attainment of Universal Primary Education has been a long-term objective for the Government of Kenya (GoK) since independence. But declining gross enrolment rates and completion rates of less than 50 per cent over the past 10 years present a considerable challenge to policy-makers. Why are children dropping out of school? Is poverty solely to blame?
The Lesotho National Insurance Group (LNIG) is suing the weekly tabloid "Mohahlaula", for publishing a news item that the company has deemed to be damaging to its business activities. In its 15 November 2002 edition, the publication reported that the company was facing possible bankruptcy due to alleged mismanagement of funds.
With the next phase of Sudan's peace negotiations due to resume in early January 2003, the International Crisis Group has urged both the Khartoum government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) to prepare for compromise to end almost two decades of war. The last round of peace talks, which ended on 18 November 2002, made significant progress but a final protocol on sharing political power and Sudan's considerable oil wealth was not signed, and the late re-emergence of harder line elements on both sides was "worrying".
Aidspan is pleased to announce the launch of "GLOBAL FUND OBSERVER" (GFO), a free email-based newsletter and related discussion forum. GFO provides an independent platform for news, analysis and commentary about the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday defended his "fleeting reference" to HIV/AIDS in a two-hour speech he delivered Monday at the opening of a five-day African National Congress conference, saying that the issue would be "adequately" covered in a party resolution, SAPA/BBC Monitoring reports.
A Belgian lobby group has warned of a possible genocide in Ivory Coast. Prevention Genocides is calling for the immediate deployment of an international police force to stop the mass killing of civilians following the discovery of mass graves and a wave of ethnically motivated murders.