Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at the "perverse methods of intimidation" used against the Lagos-based weekly The Exclusive by Nigeria's intelligence agency, the State Security Service (SSS), which carried out a heavy-handed raid on its offices on 19 August and then used threats to deter street vendors from selling its latest issue. "President Olusegun Obasanjo can pose as an African peace-maker as much as he likes, but Nigeria continues to be one of the continent's most violent ...read more

Reporters Without Borders has said it is appalled by the impunity with which anonymous phone callers have been making death threats for more than a week against Eddy Péhé, the editor of the opposition daily Le Nouveau Réveil, forcing him to flee his home. "This latest episode in the grim saga endured by Côte d'Ivoire's journalists must be taken seriously," the organisation said. "Whether under pressure or in bad faith, the Ivorian police have failed in their duty to protect citizens, because ...read more

A prominent newspaper distributor was released on bail Tuesday after four days in police detention in the capital, Addis Ababa. Fikre Gudu was arrested in connection with an interview he gave to the private Amharic-language weekly Asqual about his one-month imprisonment in June, according to local sources who spoke to him after his release. In the interview, which ran after his release on July 7, Gudu talked about his arrest and subsequent imprisonment in a detention center outside the capita...read more

African universities need access to communication and information technologies to compete internationally. But they are constrained by the speed at which data can travel to their computers — a measure known as bandwidth. In this article, Steve Song of the Canadian International Development Research Centre argues that wider, cheaper bandwidth could transform the way these universities function.

The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced it has temporarily suspended its five grants to Uganda citing evidence of mismanagement, Reuters reports. The organization made the decision after an investigation of one of the grants by PricewaterhouseCoopers found evidence of "serious mismanagement" by the Project Management Unit in the Ugandan Ministry of Health, a unit that was established to implement the grants.

ActionAid International is active in over 42 countries in Africa, Asia, America and Europe regions in partnership with other organisations. ActionAid Kenya has been working in Kenya since 1972 to facilitate processes that eradicate poverty and ensure social justice through anti-poverty projects, local institutional capability building and public policy influencing. ActionAid Kenya works in 20 districts of Kenya and links key international, national and local institutions in favour of poor peo...read more

Global Rights is a non-profit, human rights advocacy organization that partners with in-country activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global human rights discourse. With offices in 10 countries around the world, we help local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change. A member of the in-country management staff, the Director of Program Performance and Monitoring will take lead responsibility in the areas of financial, grant, hu...read more

HRIP's mission and work are based on the belief that human rights activists have knowledge and skills, as a result of their day-to-day work, that are important to the success not only of their own work, but the work of other activists and organizations, whether in their own or in other countries and regions. IHRIP seeks to facilitate this exchange through sponsoring professional development and exchange projects for staff of human rights organizations; and the development of written resources...read more

ActionApps is a set of collaborative web publishing tools for not-for-profit organisation. It offer a low cost solution for content sharing that both increases the functionality of not-for-profit and NGO websites and facilitates the creation of portals sites, improving the visibility of civil society information. They are driven by free/open source software (FOSS).

After the G8 top and broad international attention for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), its now time to make sure the MDGs are really being implemented. Not just by Western institutes but by local people themselves. Therefore SNV Dutch Development Organisation, the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP) and the UNDP are organising a regional conference, hosted by the Ministry of Local Government of Uganda, from 9-11 August in Kampala, Uganda. The conference will explore what role lo...read more

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