African Regional Conference, Bamako, 25-30 May 2002

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May 02, 2002

Since Africans have a stake in the Information Society, it is important that they be involved in the preparations of the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December 2003) right from the beginning of the process. All African stakeholders and their partners in development are therefore invited to attend the African Regional Conference in Bamako. Please note that important pre-conference events start on Saturday, May 25. The conference itself begins on Monday, May 28. Deadl...read more

Mali

Peasants, Liberation and Socialism in Africa Conference

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Apr 25, 2002

The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) is convening an international conference entitled `Peasants, Liberation and Socialism` which will be hosted by the University of Leeds. The conference will examine key issues in Africa’s contemporary development as well as reflect on the work of Professor Lionel Cliffe. Lionel Cliffe retired as Professor of Politics at the University of Leeds in September 2001. The conference will explore issues relating to his contribution to African St...read more

UN conference backs indigenous peoples' drug payout

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Apr 25, 2002

A global environmental conference Friday hammered out guidelines to encourage big business to pay indigenous communities for the right to use native plants to make commercial drugs and cosmetics. Delegates from 166 countries adopted global guidelines at the end of a two-week U.N. sponsored conference designed to encourage leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to strike deals with countries where they use genetic resources.

Teacher Education in Malawi: matching supply and demand

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Apr 25, 2002

When the Malawian government introduced a policy of free primary education in 1994, school enrolments soared from 1.9 million to about 3 million. This massive surge has placed severe constraints on the financing of the primary school system. How can Malawi deliver universal primary education? Where will it find the new teachers it needs?

Malawi

Mental Bonds

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Apr 25, 2002

A closer look at the once intractable nature of slavery in Gabon in West Africa
provides a case study for the global phenomenon of human bondage.

NIGERIA: President dismisses rights report

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Apr 25, 2002

Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday dismissed a report by Human Rights Watch on extrajudicial killings by the Nigerian military in 2001, news agencies reported.

Nigeria

Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s Henchmen Demand Top Cabinet, Police Jobs

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Apr 25, 2002

President Robert Mugabe is facing new pressure from his militant war veterans as the former fighters, whose campaign of violence helped win Mugabe’s disputed re-election last month, demand that he appoints them as Cabinet ministers, provincial governors and as Zimbabwe’s ambassadors abroad.

Zimbabwe

Liberia: Former PUL Prexy Wants Newspaper Opened, Extols Press Freedom Activists

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Apr 25, 2002

A former President of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL), Sam Van Kesselly, is calling on Government to "reopen The Journalist Newspaper to help buttress national efforts at creating the needed enabling environment for socioeconomic, political and cultural growth."

Liberia

DFID comes to Zimbabwe's rescue

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Apr 25, 2002

The Department for International Development has provided funding to ease Zimbabwe's woeful food shortage. The funding has made it possible for the Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe to start a feeding programme in rural Zimbabwe for children whose farm worker parents have lost their jobs in Zimbabwe's land acquisitions.

Zimbabwe

South Africa: Telkom donates computers to two schools

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Apr 25, 2002

Telkom Foundation's "Adopt-a-Project" initiative has helped two schools in Umlazi to go on-line. Telkom has donated 20 stand alone computers worth over R50,000, which has been split in half between the schools. The donated computers will form the nucleus of a Telkom-sponsored computer centre that will harness communications technology in a learning environment for the school pupils.

South Africa

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