Uganda: Makerere University to review affirmative action for female students

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Apr 08, 2004

Makerere University has engaged consultancy researchers to review the 1.5 affirmative action points scheme introduced in 1990, to enable the university to plan accordingly. According to a circular by Sebastian Ngobi, the academic registrar, the research will weigh the principles of affirmative action to enable the university's Senate to make decisions supported by factual and analytical data. Through the affirmative action scheme 1.5 points are added to the score of each eligible female A' le...read more

Uganda

YIZO YIZO 3: The inner city is becoming a new township - South Africa

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Apr 08, 2004

The new third series of the ever popular and controversial Yizo Yizo, which is going to embrace South Africa television screen on the 1st of April 2004, promises to blaze the country with another burning issues. In this new edutainment series, the Yizo Yizo makers attempt to show that the inner city is evolving and is becoming what you can term a "new township".

South Africa

Lesotho Alert: Newspaper threatened

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Apr 08, 2004

The weekly Sesotho tabloid, Mololi, a publication of the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy political party, has been served with a court summons by a Member of Parliament for Mokhotlong constituency No. 79, demanding maloti 350 000 (approximately 54 000 US dollars), for defamation.

Lesotho

Zambia: MDG report justifies more social sector investment

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Mar 25, 2004

Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) has said the glaring failure revealed in the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) report on Zambia justifies the call for more investment in the social sector. Commenting on the contents of the MDG report that was released recently, CSPR assistant co-ordinator Gregory Chikwanka said the report's revelations heralded the need for the government to revisit the resource allocation procedures. The report states that of the 10 MDG targets, Zambia could pro...read more

Zambia

CODESRIA Conference on electronic publishing and dissemination

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Mar 25, 2004

Information and communication technologies have brought considerable changes and innovations in the creation, management, publishing and dissemination of knowledge. Aware of the importance of these technologies and their effects on the production and dissemination of knowledge, CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) will organise from 1 to 2 September 2004 in Dakar, Senegal, a conference on the impact of information and communication technologies on electr...read more

Applications for Claude Ake Visiting Chair

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Mar 25, 2004

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, jointly with The Nordic Africa Institute, offers an annual visiting professorship for up to six months, funded by the Swedish Government. Deadline for proposals (send by ordinary mail) is 30 April 2004.

2004 Human Rights Advocates Programme: Call for Applicants

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Mar 25, 2004

The Centre for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University has announced a call for applications for the 2004 Human Rights Advocates Program. The Human Rights Advocates Program was established in 1989 to build the capacity of grassroots activists worldwide so that they can more effectively address pressing human rights concerns and build linkages with the global human rights community.

Sierra Leone: IPI concerned over criminal prosecution of newspaper editor

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Mar 25, 2004

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives in over 120 countries, is deeply worried by the criminal prosecution of Paul Kamara, the editor of the For Di People independent newspaper. According to information provided to IPI, Kamara is being prosecuted on two counts of "seditious libel" against the president.

Sierra Leone

West/Central Africa: Subregional workshop to reinforce educational planning

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Mar 25, 2004

A subregional workshop is currently taking place in Limbé, Cameroon, to boost the planning capacities of education ministries in Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Rwanda and the Central African Republic. The five-day workshop will bring together directors of educational planning, human resources and finances. It will propose various ways of improving the use of national statistics in educational planning. The workshop is organized by the Pôle de Dakar, a French Cooperation Initiative, the UNESCO Institu...read more

Ghana: Education Set for Record Low

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Mar 25, 2004

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has virtually decreed that the most vulnerable group of children in the educational ladder in the country should go through the first three years of the cycle, the formative years, without textbooks. They should make do with workbooks, the virtually blank books that carry dotted caricatures and no words or content and are primarily used for drawing. Only teachers would have resource books.

Ghana

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