The Tech Museum Awards

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Mar 10, 2005

These awards encourage and honour innovators and visionaries the world over who are using technology to contribute to improving the human condition in the categories of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organizations are eligible. The Tech Awards showcase their compelling stories and reward their brilliant accomplishments.

The African University in the 21st Century, June 2005, Durban South Africa

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Mar 10, 2005

SAARDHE 2005 is being held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban, South Africa from 27-29 June 2005. The organisers encourage any participants who :
- is involved in research project links to other African countries
- is supervising postgraduates from the rest of Africa
- is re-curriculating teaching programmes for African issues/knowledge
- is engaged in African Language or Culture Programmes
- is interested in comparative governance ...read more

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Skills Africa Summit, May 2005, Johannesburg South Africa

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Mar 10, 2005

The Skills Africa Summit 2005 is being held at Gallagher Estate, Midrand, Johannesburg from 10-13 May 2005 as our continent’s response to global competitiveness. Learning innovations, training interventions, educational initiatives, competency acquisition, performance improvement and skills development is the key to Africa’s progress. These are also the answer to mitigating the perpetual cycle of poverty and the solution to ending the incessant marginalisation of Africa from the global arena....read more

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Ghana/ Libya: Ghana defends rights of illegal immigrants in Libya

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Mar 17, 2005

The minister for the Interior, Papa Owusu Ankoma stated that the government of Ghana had received complaints by many Ghanaian nationals on their treatment abroad. This in particular included Ghanaians who by some reasons were repatriated, suffering various humiliations including being flown in cargo flights without humane facilities, seizure of their passports, imprisonment without trials and others. Most complaints had been received from Ghanaians expelled from Libya.

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Sudan: Reports of arbitrary arrests, torture

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Mar 03, 2005

The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has been informed by the Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), a member of the OMCT network, of a series of arbitrary arrests and disappearances, as well as torture in detention, in recent days in the Southern Darfur state. According to the information received, on 22 February 2005 security forces arrested Mr. Adam Khamees Altom (40 yrs), from the Zaghawa tribe, from Kalma Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) ca...read more

Ivory Coast: Several reported killed in clashes

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Mar 03, 2005

The situation remained tense in western Cote d'Ivoire on Wednesday as reports filtered out of heavy casualties in a clash between militia fighters supporting President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel fighters on the frontline earlier in the week. Foreign residents in the volatile west of Cote d'Ivoire told IRIN that at least 15 people had been killed and 40 had been injured in Monday's attack on the rebel outpost of Logouale, 520 km northwest of Abidjan.

South Africa: Race and equality in public schools after apartheid

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Mar 03, 2005

The opportunities for education in public schools are still unequal between Black and White children, even after apartheid, and unless the government actively strengthens its support to former Black schools in allocating both budget and personnel, a vicious cycle of poverty and low quality education will persist, says a paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute.

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NAI African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme

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Mar 10, 2005

The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala runs a scholarship programme called The African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme. It is directed at senior scholars in Africa who on invitation can spend up to three months at the Institute to make use of our library and write. The Programme is announced annually, next deadline on 1 April for positions in 2006.

Reforming the Nigerian Higher Education System

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Mar 10, 2005

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce a programme which it is hosting in Nigeria on 21 and 22 March, 2005 in collaboration with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the theme of Reforming the Nigerian Higher Education System.

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World TB Day: Structured discussion announcement - Hidden Heroes

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Mar 10, 2005

As a member of the global Stop TB Partnership, Health and Development Networks (HDN) is pleased to announce a time-limited structured discussion around the theme of the 2005 World TB Day (WTBD) on 24th March 2005.The overall aim of these discussions is to share information and assess the critical role that frontline workers fill in turning back the tide of TB. The discussion will build upon the recognition that government services cannot defeat TB alone and that further improvements in case ...read more

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