ZAMBIA: Farmers report success with conservation farming

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Oct 24, 2002

Zambian subsistence farmers are reporting successes with conservation farming which advocates new methods of maximising crops in areas with low rainfall and difficult conditions.

Zambia

Nigeria: Programme Manager - Catholic Relief Services

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Oct 24, 2002

CRS/Nigeria established its health programme in September 2001, with its initial efforts focusing on the fight against HIV/AIDS. CRS/Nigeria provides technical and financial assistance to the health and social services of the Catholic Church in order to build their capacity to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. CRS is currently looking for a committed Programme Manager to join their Health team.

Nigeria

West Africa: Program Officer - EnterpriseWorks Worldwide

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Oct 24, 2002

Leading international non-profit organization with income-generation mission seeks Program Officer to develop and monitor small-scale irrigated horticulture, oilseed production and processing, tree crops, household energy, village water supply, and village electrification activities in West Africa.

2nd National Multisectoral AIDS Conference

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Oct 24, 2002

The Tanzanian AIDS Society and Tanzanian Commission for AIDS, in collaboration with various stakeholders are organising the 2nd Multisectoral AIDS Conference in order to review the progress being made in responding to the AIDS crisis and deliberate on how the fight against AIDS can be intensified in the future.

zimbabwe: AIDS Orphans Take to the Net

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Oct 17, 2002

James Mlambo,19, is studying telecommunications and electronics engineering in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. His father is a counsellor working for a local organisation, called Mashambanzou, which assists AIDS orphans in Harare. Last year, his father told him that more and more orphans wanted to have access to email. But that was beyond Mashambanzou's scope of activities. So, James decided to help.

Zimbabwe

Materials Request for Counselling and Training Resource Centre

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Oct 17, 2002

Kara Counselling and Training Trust is a leading NGO in the fight against the pandemic of HIV/AIDS. Its services include free counselling and testing services to the general public, training in psychosocial counselling skills and Home Based Care. The Agency is requesting materials related to it’s services to enhance and improve its resource centre.

ethiopia: Concern Over Number of Children Dying Before Five

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Oct 17, 2002

Half a million children under the age of five die each year in Ethiopia because of illnesses such as malaria and measles, as well as pneumonia, diarrhoea, and malnutrition.

Ethiopia

senegal: disease outbreaks reported

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Oct 17, 2002

The Ministry of Health has officially confirmed 15 cases and 2 deaths of yellow fever in Mbacké and Bambey départements, Diourbel region. Laboratory confirmation was made by the WHO Collaborating Centre at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar. All cases except one have been reported in the city of Touba. The other case was reported in Bambey, 70 km west of Touba.

Senegal

malawi/zambia: what makes teachers tick?

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Oct 17, 2002

Reforms and squeeze on education funds has hit education in developing countries as teachers' morale dips to an all time low. Research in Papua New Guinea, Zambia and Malawi highlights a crisis in education because of poor motivation amongst teachers.

Zambia

kenya: moi ordered to hand over ethnic violence report

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Oct 17, 2002

The High Court this week ordered President Moi to immediately release the judicial report into ethnic violence in which hundreds of people died, thousands were displaced and property worth millions of shillings destroyed in the runup to the 1992 and 1997 General Elections.

Kenya

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