A fast growing NGO is looking for a Regional Director for Southern Africa who would be based in Harare but with some time spent in Pump Aid's London office and some time overseeing expansion in Malawi. The applicant should have the enthusiasm and ability to help Pump Aid become a major organization in the field of international development. Deadline for applications is 7 April.

The Africa Director, a newly created position, will be responsible for designing and expanding ICTJ's programmatic and strategic work in Africa. S/he will operate with a high degree of autonomy, overseeing ICTJ's entire programme in the region and will report directly to the Executive Vice President of ICTJ. Deadline for applications is 24 April 2007.

More than 18-million cubic metres of wood are indiscriminately cut down in Mozambique, mainly for firewood, each year, according to a report presented by Mario Falcao, a researcher at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, at a debate on the state of the country's forests held in Maputo.

The nearly 400 migrants who thought they were sailing to Europe from the West African nation of Guinea ended up ill, stranded and broke in Mauritania. Not that the gang smuggling them much cared. By the time the engines on the migrants' rust-eaten vessel, Marine I, failed far from European shores, the gang had long since cleared hundreds of thousands of euros in cash.