lesotho: Nearly 62,000 Children in Lesotho At Risk of Starving

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Jul 25, 2002

The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, said more than 440,000 people in the southern African country of Lesotho are at risk of starving, including about 62,000 children under age five. UNICEF has said Lesotho's problem is compounded by poverty and a high level of HIV/AIDS.

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Zimbabwe: Union threatens to urge teachers to boycott classes

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Jul 25, 2002

The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) on Sunday said it would encourage all teachers countrywide to leave their schools if the Ministry of Education Sport and Culture, together with the Public Service Commission, failed to take concrete and visible steps to protect their lives and properties.

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sudan: call for action on arrest of tribal leaders

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Jul 25, 2002

The International Secretariat of the OMCT requests you to write to the authorities of Sudan voicing concern about the arbitrary arrest and detention of 11 leaders from the Four tribe by security forces in Zalingei, Western Darfour, on 11 July.

Second South-South Biopiracy Summit

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Jul 25, 2002

The Second South-South Biopiracy Summit is to be hosted by Biowatch South Africa on the 22-23 August in Johannesburg, South Africa, just prior to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The aim is to raise awareness, enable information sharing, and build capacity on issues of access and benefit sharing, as well as to facilitate the development of mutual strategies and statements for the WSSD. The Summit will also provide an important opportunity to review the progress on implement...read more

tanzania: TANZANIA EXPELS ANOTHER 400 ILLEGAL UGANDAN MIGRANTS

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Jul 25, 2002

Tanzania has expelled another group of 400 Ugandan illegal migrants who have now pitched camp at the Kamwema border post in western Mbarara district.

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DRC: Belgium to finance 5 million primary education textbooks

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Jul 25, 2002

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Belgium has initiated a project to produce five million primary school textbooks for Congolese children and teachers, Belgian Secretary of State for Cooperation and Development Eddy Boutmans has said.

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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Region's children at risk

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Jul 25, 2002

Children account for more than half of the 12.8 million people in Southern Africa threatened by starvation, and related diseases such as measles, cholera and HIV/AIDS.

Free Full Text: FindArticles and MagPortal

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Jul 25, 2002

Greg Notess is a well-known name to online librarians and researchers. His recent piece on locating free full-text articles on the Interent is a useful read. Take a look.

tanzania: Overcrowding in schools shocks us delegation

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Jul 25, 2002

Overcrowding in primary school classrooms might not be a cause for alarm in Tanzania but a group of visiting young politicians from the US were dumbfounded to learn that some classrooms in primary schools in Dar es Salaam accommodate as many as 270 pupils at a time.

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WEST AFRICA: InterAction issues report on sexual exploitation

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Jul 25, 2002

Many factors may explain the vulnerability of displaced people to sexual exploitation but there are "no excuses" for its occurrence, US-based NGOs said in a just-released document titled 'Report of the InterAction Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation of Displaced Children'.

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