Timberwatch, a coalition of Environmental NGOs and individuals, has called on the South African government as well as the timber industry, to halt the planting of new industrial timber plantations in naturally vegetated areas, especially grasslands.

According to the first post apartheid national Census in 1996, 8.5% of South African children between the ages of 7 and 15 were not in school while approximately 16% of learners in Grades 1 to 7 were out of age (in school but older than their grade cohort by at least three years). From an educational point of view, these two groups of learners represent important lenses for marginality - children, who for whatever reasons, are unable to keep average pace with basic schooling.

The main purpose of this position is to manage GOAL's programme activities in Abyei County, Bahr El Ghazal (BEG) Region. The project activities include Primary Health Care (PHC) and nutrition but the programme is entering a period of expansion where additional medical and non-medical programme activities will become part of the role.

One of Nigeria's oldest and biggest universities has been closed indefinitely over non-payment of teachers' salaries, officials at the institution said on Wednesday. Authorities of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in the northern city of Zaria on Tuesday announced the closure of the institution following a rift between the teachers and the university administration over unpaid salaries, they said.