PAMBAZUKA NEWS 72
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 72
Two pilot antiretroviral (ARV) programmes, underway in South Africa and Uganda, have demonstrated that AIDS treatment campaigns are possible in poor communities. What's missing to scale-up these initiatives into national programmes is funding, and the political will, healthcare workers say.
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Activists in Kenya are seeking ways to reverse a new law which they say blocks the importation and local manufacture of much-needed cheaper, generic AIDS drugs.
The chief director of the Department of Public Enterprises, Andile Nkuhle, has been suspended amid allegations he had received money from a company which won the bid for a R335million state forestry deal, the department said.
Defence Minister Amama Mbabazi has said the army is seeking to achieve savings by eliminating wastage and corruption by instituting more efficient financial management systems. He said the army would prioritize its missions. Mbabazi was speaking at the opening of a South to South seminar meant to discuss the African experience on security sector transformations.
An estimated US$1 billion has been laundered over the past six years in Zimbabwe, according to the National Economic Consultative Forum.
Church leaders and opposition politicians have described legislative and municipal elections held in Cameroon on 30 June as flawed. The politicians have also called for the polls to be annulled.
As long as women were denied basic needs such as access to condoms and power to negotiate their sexual relationships, the HIV/AIDS epidemic would continue to increase, activists say.
Integrating dual-protection counseling and female condom provision into family planning services appears feasible, as is service providers' acceptance of dual-protection objectives. While providers and clients are key to transforming family planning to dual-protection services, the attitudes and behaviors of clients' male partners must be considered in gauging the success of the dual-protection intervention.
In June 2002, a small, but well selected festival of African cinema, showed that the new wave of African filmmaking is yielding excellent quality that can attract world audiences. In the days preceding the G8 meeting of the political leaders of the world's wealthiest countries, in Kananaskis, Canada, a festival of African films & music helped to raise consciousness about issues concerning Africa.
MISA, a media advocacy organisation whose objective is to promote media freedom, diversity and pluralism is seeking to fill the position of Administrator/Office Manager.
Africans are likely to suffer increasing pollution, ill-health, and loss of farmland unless the continent adopts "clean" technologies and the world does more to fight global warming, the United Nations said last Thursday. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), releasing what it called the most authoritative assessment of Africa's environment ever produced, said many African countries were trying hard to protect their farms, coasts, jungles, and deserts.
A prominent South African politician went on trial on Tuesday charged with fraud and corruption linked to a multi-billion-dollar arms deal. Tony Yengeni, 47, former chief whip of the ruling African National Congress and Michael Worfel, a German who is former head of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co (EADS) in South Africa, appeared in a Pretoria court.
The Ethiopian wolf - one of the rarest animals in the world - is being threatened by farmers using poisons to protect their livestock, campaigners told IRIN on Monday. It is the first time that the wolves, listed by the World Conservation Union as "critically endangered", have been killed as a result of poisoning. Conservationists blame poison for wiping out most other wildlife in the country, such as lions.
ACORD is looking for a new Executive Director to be responsible for the strategic leadership and overall organisational management of all areas of ACORD’s work. S/He will continue the process of change we have been undergoing. This involves changing the focus of our programming to working with communities and social movements in both the North and South and using advocacy and research as tools for change. We are relocating the secretariat from the UK to Africa by the end of 2004 and increasing the status, skills and responsibility of our Programme Managers to strategically manage their programmes.
We are looking for a dynamic person to manage the delivery of all aspects of its programming across 18 countries in Africa and through four cross-cutting thematic programmes and a global programme which gives the overall strategic framework to our programming.
Humanity is heading for a sharp drop in living standards by the middle of the century unless it stops its massive depletion of the Earth's natural resources, according to a report issued Tuesday. Titled "Living Planet Report 2002," the study said there was so much pressure on water supplies, forests, land, and energy sources that within 150 years the planet's riches could be exhausted and temperatures pushed inexorably upwards. WWF figures show while rich nations draw heavily on Earth's resources, people in poor African states eke out an existence without using all that is available to them within their national borders.
The African Union must strengthen the region's human rights institutions if its promise is to become reality, Human Rights Watch says. The African Union's Constitutive Act pledges respect for human rights and rejects the widespread impunity that has characterized armed conflict and political repression in many African countries. In "grave circumstances" such as occurred during the Rwandan genocide, the Constitutive Act authorizes the African Union to intervene. But the existing regional human rights institutions the African Union will inherit have been crippled by a lack of resources and political will.
The political crisis in Madagascar appears to finally be at an end. Saying the incoming President seems to be "a chap who can actually deliver on things," Richard Cromwell of the Institute of Security Studies in Johannesburg discusses how the crisis was resolved and what lies ahead for the impoverished island nation.
Armed with machetes and escorted by comrades toting assault rifles, the group thrusts into the bush singing and shouting. It could be mistaken for a lynch mob, but the quarry is actually an invasive plant: the innocuous-looking prickly pear, which resembles a green cactus.
Girls in Malawi have to overcome a mountain of sometimes insurmountable obstacles if they hope to complete their education, a new study has found. The girls' battle to get an education falls within the shocking statistic that only 20 percent of Malawi's children complete primary school.
King Mswati's efforts to use the constitution to permanently enshrine absolute monarchial power and ban political opposition is being challenged by Western envoys stationed in the kingdom. "The aspirations and basic rights of all Swazi citizens must be guaranteed," warned United States Ambassador to Swaziland, James McGee, in his formal address at an observation marking America's Independence Day last week.
Some 700 Namibian refugees from Botswana's Dukwi refugee camp are set to return home in August when the UN High Commissioner for Refugees completes preparation for their repatriation.
Five camps hosting Burundian refugees in Kibondo, western Tanzania, face a severe funding crisis, greatly hampering the provision of adequate assistance, particularly in education, water and sanitation, a relief organisation told PANA Monday.
Africa is likely to face increasing poverty, environmental decline and ill-health unless urgent action is taken to ensure that development takes environmental impacts into account, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)has warned. Soaring pollution levels, land degradation, droughts and wildlife losses are among the threats to the continent outlined in the UNEP report Africa Environment Outlook (AEO). In addition, climate change and the uncontrolled expansion of cities will have an increasing impact over the next three decades.
Ratcheting up the debate over how and why Malawi sold its emergency food supply, the chief of the IMF has told British parliamentarians that the fault lay with the World Bank and the European Union.
The G8 leaders allocated US$6 billion to Africa, not all of it new, and a paltry sum compared with the US$40-50 billion annually that the World Bank estimates is needed. Unfortunately Africa, and hence AIDS, seems to have dropped down the G8 leaders' list of priorities. The summit chairman, Jean Chrétien, put fighting terrorism first on his list of achievements of the summit. This reordering of priorities does not make sense. The scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and its economic implications, are given in the UNAIDS document, Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, prepared for the 2002 AIDS conference taking place in Barcelona, Spain.
Human rights are under attack every day in countries in southern and eastern Africa. Under pressure to deal harshly with rising levels of crime or through political manipulation, police inflict torture and ill-treat criminal suspects and political activists. Excessive or unjustified lethal force is used to suppress peaceful protest and government opponents are arbitrarily detained, according to a new report from Amnesty International.
Civil society have resolved that continued engagement with the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) must be an “ongoing priority”. “African unity and development have long been a vision of African people. African civil society, therefore, resolves to be vigilant in ensuring that African leaders remain true to their commitments as enunciated in both the Constitutive Act of the AU and the principles of the NEPAD process.” This was the conclusion of a meeting of representatives of African civil society organisations (CSOs), meeting in Durban, South Africa from 1 to 2 July. The meeting was held to discuss the role of CSOs with respect to the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
Rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacked a United Nations-run refugee camp in north western Uganda, killing five refugees and a government soldier, the U.N. said on Tuesday.
Clay Shirky makes some interesting observations about telecommunications myths in the developing world."Something incredibly good is happening in parts of the world with dynamic economies, and that is what people concerned with the digital divide should be thinking about. If the world's poor are to be served by better telecommunications infrastructure, there are obvious things to be done."
Maverick US attorney Ed Fagan and a team of South African lawyers have lodged a new class action that categorises women and children as specific complainants in a multibillion-rand lawsuit against companies thought to have benefited during the apartheid era.
The East African reports that the communications sector in Uganda is growing rapidly. According to the National Information and Communication Technology Policy, the number of mobile phone subscribers in Uganda grew from 3,500 in 1996 to the current total of 360,000.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has said it will continue to administer to refugees in Dadaab camp, northeastern Kenya, despite threats by local politicians who this week accused the agency of ignoring the welfare of local communities around camp.
Refugees will return from Djibouti to Somaliland on Saturday, the UN refugee agency UNHCR announced on Wednesday. It said these first voluntary repatriations were taking place after "long negotiations" between the Djibouti and Somaliland authorities. About 14,000 refugees - out of a total of 21,700 - have registered to return.
Tanzania's new first line drug for treating malaria, Sulphadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP), has been embroiled in a high profile media scare over its potential side effects.
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has no contractual relationship with any firm in its decision requiring businessmen to have electronic cash register (ECR) machines. TRA Director for Taxpayer Education, Protas Mmanda, said in Dar es Salaam that businessmen were free to buy ECRs machines from anywhere in the world provided they meet TRA specifications. He was reacting to allegations raised by one "disappointed businessman" that TRA was promoting ECRs being sold by a company he did not name.
Civil society organisations have urged that African Union (AU) leaders speed up the implementation of two key institutions, which will ensure the accountability and transparency of the AU following its launch. At a meeting on the sidelines of the historic summit, which has seen the AU replace the Organisation of African Unity, activists committed themselves to ensuring that the Union fulfilled its promise of being more "people oriented".
The ruling Front populaire ivoirien (FPI) and the former ruling party, le Parti democratique de Cote d'Ivoire (PDCI) each took 18 councils in Côte d’Ivoire’s first-ever local elections. A total of 58 councils (called departments) were contested in Sunday's polls. Voter-turnout was however a low 30 percent and allegations of fraud have emerged.
The African Union (AU) was launched with much pomp and ceremony in Durban, South Africa, on Tuesday. However, the crisis in Zimbabwe cast a shadow over the festivities. The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai - unable to attend the launch - sent a videotaped message saying the biggest challenge for the AU was the "illegitimate" government of President Robert Mugabe.
President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi publicly accepted defeat after a bid to run for a controversial third term was rejected by the country's parliament last Thursday.
Hard hit by insufficient rainfall, Burkina Faso launched on Tuesday "Operation Saaga" in which it is using two planes to drop chemicals into the clouds to induce rain. "Saaga" means rain in local languages.
The UN Security Council on Tuesday confirmed that the planned Somali peace talks to be held under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, are now scheduled to take place in September.
The warring sides in the southern town of Baidoa have officially signed a ceasefire document, local sources told IRIN on Wednesday. They said the ceasefire, which was arranged by a mediation committee and announced over the weekend, has been observed by both sides, even before it was officially signed. Fighting between rival factions of the Rahanweyn Resistance Army (RRA), which controls much of Bay and Bakol regions in southwestern Somalia, erupted last week.
The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) has agreed to the extension of a ceasefire in the Nuba Mountains region of south-central Sudan, sources close to the rebel group told IRIN.
The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), known as MONUC, confirmed last Friday it had received reports of the presence of hundreds of Rwandan troops and their Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) allies near Moba, in the northern part of Katanga Province. If fighting were to break out between these forces and pro-government forces, it could further endanger the efforts to bring about a political and diplomatic solution to the DRC's long-running war, analysts said.
The rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) last Friday denied claims by the Ethiopian army that it had "completely annihilated" separatist forces in the west of the country. "This is not the first time the Ethiopians have claimed total victory against our forces," OLF spokesman Lencho Bati told IRIN. "Our forces are intact." He admitted that OLF troops had sustained casualties in the fighting which has been raging in the Gambela region for the past two months when the OLF launched an offensive in the area.
"This is my motherland," said Pedro Mtondo, 27. "When I went to Zambia I went because of the war and now that I see my country is okay I want to come back - so I can do something so they can have a better life here." Between 8,000 and 10,000 former refugees are believed to have returned to Angola since the signing of a ceasefire between the Angolan government and the UNITA rebels on 4 April.
The Burundi Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) presented on Monday a coordinated plan to counter the latest cholera outbreak, the UN agency reported. Two cholera-related deaths and 101 cases have been recorded since the outbreak began on 17 June in Bujumbura Mairie, the city centre.
A two-week mass vaccination exercise against meningitis, which kills hundreds of people in West Africa each year, began on Monday in The Gambia.
In response to an outflow of refugees from Liberia into neighbouring countries, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asked donors on Friday for US $10.4 million to fund its emergency relief operations in the region. The bid for funds "comes amid increasing concern over the condition of tens of thousands of displaced Liberians and Sierra Leonean refugees caught up in the conflict", UNHCR spokesman Rod Redmond said in Geneva. "It also follows the arrival of more than 76,000 fresh Liberian refugees in neighbouring countries since the beginning of this year - an exodus continuing."
An increasing number of Burundian refugees in camps in western Tanzania are "dropping out" of the repatriation process, despite having registered for it with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Disagreements over command and control of the army constituted the factor causing talks on a transitional ruling body between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the former rebel Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC) to stall on 5 June.
On Barcelona's streets outside the Aids conference, treatment advocates, doctors and people with HIV/AIDS plan to stage "massive" protests. South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign chairman, Zackie Achmat, says that treatment advocates are also planning a "new pan-African treatment movement, demanding everything from vitamins to anti-retrovirals." The protests are just one sign that this may be the most complex of the Aids conferences since the first took place almost a decade and a half ago. And while much of the noise coming from the 14th Aids International Conference in Barcelona, Spain that began Sunday will be the sound of argument about how much weight to give treatment versus prevention, the real battle cry, raised by voices focused on prevention as well as treatment, is for much more money for the Aids fight.
The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs yesterday began a two-day workshop on the situation of women and children in the country. The theme of the workshop "Promoting Gender Mainstreaming and Children's Rights Protection in Ghana" has the objective of creating a good working relationship between the ministry and the media to help educate the public on the harm of gender imbalances.
Eleven years ago, at the World Summit for Children, world leaders made a joint commitment and issued an urgent universal appeal to give every child a better future. Since then, much progress has been made. However, achievements and gains have been uneven, and many obstacles remain, particularly in developing countries. A brighter future for all has proved elusive, and overall gains have fallen short of national obligations and international commitments.
Prostitution is not a new trade in Rangwe, South Nyanza, but social workers are astounded by its meteoric rise in the height of the Aids pandemic. Nearly 500 orphaned girls in the district have become sex workers. "The epidemic has left them fending for themselves," says Ms Nereah Seda, a community worker. Neglected by relatives, their behaviour is reactive and reckless.
"Dumping" orphans into special child-care centres should only be considered as a last resort, it was agreed during Namibia's second national conference on the plight of orphans, held in Windhoek last week.
Mapanzure High School near Masvingo town was on Monday shut down indefinitely after some of the 50 teachers at the school were beaten up by suspected supporters of the ruling Zanu PF party.
Kenya has a shortfall of 22,000 teachers in both primary and secondary schools. The shortfall will be reduced through recruitment beginning this month, the government says.
The ecological situation in Nigeria will make life unbearable for future generations if an adequate and systematic approach to land degradation is not seriously tackled, Governor Umar Musa Yar'Adua of Katsina State said during the launching of the state "Operation Keep Katsina Clean."
The formerly thick forests of The Gambia have been degraded and reduced during the last century because of large-scale destruction through bush fire, exploitation of forestry resources and cultivation. Because of this development, the government reacted in the early eighties in the western parts of the country through the Gambian-German Forestry Project (GGFP) and in 1996 a forestry project was started.
About 500,000 people have been displaced in Afar and are migrating to neighboring regions as an imminent drought is just around the corner due to the failure of rains for the past two years.
"It’s not knowledge that’s the barrier. It’s political wealth. The world stood by while AIDS overwhelmed Subsaharan Africa. Never again," said Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, in an address to the International Aids Conference in Barcelona.
Women are still poorly represented in management, a report from the Federation of Uganda employers released recently says. The report shows huge disparities in gender when it comes to management positions.
A split has emerged within the ruling Kanu party in Kenya over the announcement by some party members that the son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, should be the party's presidential candidate at the next election.
The first summit of the African Union ended Wednesday with lofty promises of a new era of economic development and good government on a continent plagued by poverty and oppression. Still to be seen is whether member states have the political will to turn those goals into reality.
The Aids virus threatens to destabilise entire nations in Africa, an international conference on the disease was warned this week. Ministers from Botswana told the 14th International Aids Conference that their country was facing "extinction" because nearly 40 per cent of adults were infected. Their warnings came as activists marched on the conference in Barcelona to demand that two million infected people in the developing world were guaranteed access to anti-Aids drugs.
Globalisation: it’s a buzzword you can’t escape. For some it’s the ticket to a democratic world of instant communications and global prosperity. For others it’s a money-mad juggernaut, spinning wildly out of control, threatening both cultural and biological diversity. Today the Western consumer model has seeped into every corner of the globe while gaps in wealth, food security and social provision continue to grow. The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalisation traces the journey towards a borderless world. And in the process it shows that the promise of globalisation is seductive, powerful, and ultimately hollow.
The uproar at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle focused attention on the conflict between the mainly western-owned global corporations and the poorer nations whose natural resources and cheap manpower sustain corporate profits, and who are also the unwilling purchasers of overpriced and inappropriate goods. In this book David Ransom vividly reveals the realities of trade as experienced by coffee-growers in Central America or the workers making jeans in Bangladesh sweatshops. He examines the roles played by the WTO, UNCTAD, ILO, IMF, G7, and other powerful organisations hiding behind bland initials. Even when their motives are benevolent, he argues, their activities are often inadequate and misguided.
Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961. Lumumba was at the centre of the country’s popular defiance towards the relentless exploitation of its Belgian coloniser. When independence was finally won in June 1960, his unscheduled speech at the official ceremonies in Kinshasa, which described Belgian rule as "a humiliating slavery imposed by brute force," received a standing ovation and made him a hero to millions. Within months he was arrested, tortured and executed. This book unravels the appalling mass of lies and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the murder.
Since 1996, Save the Children Canada and UK have been jointly implementing a capacity building project with the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission (DPPC) of the Government of Ethiopia, to strengthen disaster management capacity. The Project Manager is responsible for overall leadership and management of the project, including project design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Established in 1984 in the UK, Islamic Relief is an international NGO seeking to promote sustainable economic and social development by working with local communities - regardless of race, religion or gender - through relief and development activities. We are active in Mali since 1998. Currently, our activities are being implemented in both development and emergency fields. We require an experienced and skilled Programme Manager for our Mali office.
Working with the representative in Lagos and other Ford Foundation staff, the Program Officer will be responsible for the Foundation's West Africa programming on human rights issues in the region.
African health rights activists and researchers from all sub-regions of the continent will meet to discuss issues with policy makers and health service providers -- bringing a forum for debate on some of the most critical issues of Gender and Health in Africa between 4 and 7 February, 2003 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
SciDev.Net is holding a four-day workshop in Entebbe, Uganda between 29 September and 3 October on Science Communication for Sustainable Development. It will bring together a group of scientists, public relations officers, print and radio/TV journalists along with professionals from academies of science, government departments, science and technology policy institutions and non-governmental organisations.
Chapel & York's email-Information Service helps you find the resources you need from amongst the vast amounts of information available for charities, non-profits, & NGOs on-line. The focus is on new funding information, and international and cross-boarder funding.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Development Gateway Foundation have launched the Population and Reproductive Health Internet Portal, a community-built database of shared population information, including data, research, projects, ideas and dialogue. Visitors to the website are able to sign up for free membership, which entitles them to receive regular updates on new resources that are added.
The United States Department of Justice is reported to have alerted AES Corporation about the US$10,000 bribe a contractor in the Bujagali dam construction consortium gave a Ugandan official in 1999. “When the US Department of Justice tipped AES about the bribe, the company immediately instituted a probe into the allegations,” said a source.
Just down the road from the wealthy Johannesburg suburb of Sandton, home to the World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 venue, a human and environmental tragedy is being played out that has nothing to do with sustainability and everything to do with big business’ push for profits at any cost. Though just a few miles from Sandton, Alexandra is not a wealthy suburb. It could fairly be called a shanty-town; a settlement of largely self-built homes of poor black Africans, hardly changed since the apartheid era, where unemployment and AIDS are rife. Some of the homes have mains water, but since the city’s water services were sold off to French-based multinational Suez (formerly Suez Lyonnaise) the bills have tripled and many people can no longer afford to keep the water flowing.
Burundian President Pierre Buyoya said Wednesday his government will hold peace talks with Hutu rebels in Tanzania next week, a report reaching here said. Briefing journalists upon his return from Durban, Buyoya said he met on the sidelines of the African Union summit with South African Vice President Jacob Zuma and Gabon's President Omar Bongo,as well as the head of the regional initiative for Burundi, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni.
Refugees in Ethiopia are to benefit from a US $1.7 million donation from the US government to help make up food shortages.
The new government of Sierra Leone must act decisively to address the issues that gave rise to the bloody decade-long war, Human Rights Watch says in a new briefing paper. President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who will preside over the formal opening of a newly-elected parliament, must set as top priorities steps to establish the rule of law and seek accountability for past abuses. Failure to do so will undermine efforts to establish lasting peace and stability.
Liberian government troops on Tuesday recaptured the town of Tubmanburg, northwest of the capital, Monrovia, from rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD), the government has reported.
Donor countries have agreed on a three-year plan to fund the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) programme. According to a World Bank Group statement, approximately US $23 billion in resources would be made available during the three years, of which almost US $13 billion would come from new contributions from 39 donor countries.
At least 150 women protesters have besieged Chevron-Texaco's main oil export facility in Nigeria's southern oil region to back demands for jobs for their children, company officials said on Wednesday.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has thrown down a challenge to the international community at the AIDS 2002 conference in Barcelona this week, calling for three million people to have access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2005. WHO's goal represents half of the six million people who need treatment now, and a fraction of the 40 million currently living with the virus.
Donors have begun to respond to the World Food Programme's (WFP) massive US $500 million appeal for the millions in need of food aid in six Southern African countries. The United Kingdom had donated US $28.1 million, Canada nearly US $1 million and the Netherlands US $500,000.
The United States Government has given an amount of $185,000 to fund the activities of five Ghanaian organisations to deal with violence against women and children.
Volunteers from the Umsobomvu Youth Fund changed the dull face of the historic St Matthew's High School last week by giving it a fresh coat of paint as a symbol of hope. The fund is working with the Eastern Cape Provincial Council of Churches on the St Matthew's R40000 project -- its biggest project in the country.
The Copperbelt Indian business community has donated medicines worth k10 million and 60 blankets to the Maureen Mwanawasa community initiative (MMCI).
The Maureen Mwanawasa community initiative (MMCI) has donated hospital equipment and accessories worth us$300,000 dollars to Kabwe general hospital. The MCCI also donated medicine and mattresses worth K21 million to the children's ward at Kabwe general hospital.
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will give $8.1 million to 12 African nations to fight HIV/AIDS. The money will be awarded to World Health Organization projects in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The smokestacks of North American and European factories may have spawned the devastating droughts that killed millions of people in Ethiopia and other parts of the Sahel region of Africa.
Scientists have been puzzled about the source of the 40-year dry spell, among the most severe in recorded history. Now a global climate model developed by Leon Rotstayn of CSIRO Australia and Ulrike Lohmann of Dalhousie University in Canada appears to link the two phenomena.
Talent Consortium is looking for helpers to staff exhibition stands at the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development.
The Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) is looking for a Systems Administrator.
As a public policy researcher or analyst, are you able to describe a problem meaningfully, eliminate irrelevant material, say it with numbers, and focus on the central, critical factors? This course is meant to assist you in defining policy problems in a way that eliminates ambiguity.
This 2-day course will enable participants to create a basic website, maintain their organisations' websites - add content to existing pages, add new pages, adapt a site's design, and develop the content and structure of a website.
A major international report released at the XIV International AIDS Conference in Barcelona, Spain finds that an already grim global orphan crisis is set to get much worse as more and more adults with children die from AIDS, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The report, Children on the Brink, calls for action at all levels to assist children, families and communities who are affected by the unprecedented emergency.
Chocolate-manufacturing companies, NGOs and other stakeholders have set up an international foundation to eliminate child labour in West Africa's cocoa industry.