sudan: Daily newspaper banned, editions of two others fail to appear

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Jan 09, 2003

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) has protested the closure of the independent daily newspaper "Al Watan", which the authorities say was shut down based on national security and state of emergency regulations. RSF also protested that the editions of two other independent newspapers, "Al Horriya" and "As Sahafa", failed to appear after having received threats from state security officials.

zimbabwe: zim paper back on streets

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Jan 09, 2003

Zimbabwe's leading independent daily newspaper, the Daily News, is back on sale after a 10-day strike. The Daily News has been a strong critic of President Robert Mugabe's government, and is the best selling newspaper in the country.

Zimbabwe

South Africa: Casino money goes to the dogs

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Dec 19, 2002

SPCA fundraiser Glynis Markus and local casino official Jose Maponyane tried to catch banknotes blown by a money machine in East London recently to raise funds for homeless cats and dogs. Following a call by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), the casino hosted a fundraising bid to assist the organisation.

South Africa

africa: Scientists urge 'fair benefits' from research

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Dec 19, 2002

A group of more than 30 researchers from Africa and the United States has demanded that participants in medical trials in developing countries receive "fair benefits" from the research. Communities involved in medical trials must determine whether they will receive a fair level of benefits, both during and after the research, they say.

Tanzania: INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE

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Dec 19, 2002

The Women’s Dignity Project (WDP) is seeking two interns to work with WDP for six-month to one-year internships in 2003 and 2004 (internships for shorter periods are generally not available). A modest stipend will be paid to interns, but the bulk of costs will be the responsibility of the intern. If interested, please contact the Executive Director of WDP at [email][email protected] or at PO Box 79402, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Tanzania

Zimbabwe: Impact of aids on older people in Africa

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Dec 19, 2002

Older people in most African societies are a vulnerable group as a result of a lifetime of hardship, malnutrition, and poverty. The Aids pandemic is now posing an additional burden on them. In their old age, when they may require support and expect to be looked after, they have to take on the role of caring for others.

Zimbabwe

tanzania: efforts to boost education stepped up

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Dec 19, 2002

When challenged by World Bank officials about the failure of his policies, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president and a strong advocate of education, is reported to have said: "The British Empire left us a country with 85 percent illiterates, two engineers and twelve doctors. When I left office, we had nine percent illiterates and thousands of engineers and doctors." However, over the next 15 years education was practically forgotten and, by 2000, just 55 percent of seven-year-ol...read more

Tanzania

ERITREA: New report indicates severe levels of malnutrition

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Dec 19, 2002

A statistical analysis conducted by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) of a number of nutritional surveys carried out in Eritrea in the last six months indicates that 2.8 million Eritreans - over half the population - are experiencing pre-famine conditions. One-fifth of the population is immediately confronting food shortages that are leading to critical levels of malnutrition among children.

Eritrea

mali: Liberation arrives on the back of a donkey

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Dec 19, 2002

Tony Blair would recognise the message at once: education, education, education. He might be a little less familiar with Taklitin walet Farati's means of delivery, which is from the back of a dusty donkey as she plods from village to village in northern Mali. All educators face obstacles, but this 40-year-old widow faces more than most in one of the remotest regions of one of Africa's poorest countries, where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate. Her specific mission is the schooling...read more

Mali

Burundi: protection coordinator - International Rescue Committee

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Dec 19, 2002

Train IRC staff in human rights, IDP and refugee protection concepts; Monitor protection concerns among IRC beneficiaries, including ethnic discrimination, diversion of relief supplies, lack of access to land, sexual violence, and separation of family members; Collect information relating to protection problems; Ensure that protection and the promotion of human rights is better incorporated into IRC projects through contributing to program design, monitoring and evaluation.

Burundi

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