The Country Director will report to the Concern Universal (CU) person responsible for the Southern Africa Region. The Country Director will continue to develop and implement its programme in Mozambique and will be responsible for Programme Officers, Finance Manager and all service staff. The post is based in Lichinga with regular travel to Maputo to continue to develop CU's programme with donors and to consider establishing a CU office there. The post will require regular travel also to Zambezia Province (Milange) and to Blantyre in Malawi. The work base may be reviewed depending to programme demands in the coming years. Closing date: 23 Dec 2004

The only classroom for the mentally disabled in Equatorial Guinea is run by two non-governmental organisations, InteRed and the Teresian Institute. According to an activist in Spain, the country's government have not provided any other public institutions because in their eyes, the mentally handicapped do not exist. The classroom has 40 students and has been providing basic education, adult literacy classes and vocational training since 1983. In order to receive more support and legitimacy, the Institution is placing pressure on the state to officially recognise the issued training certificates in order to help the graduates of their programmes enter the job market.

Egypt's divorce system discriminates against women and undermines their right to end a marriage, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on World Aids Day. In October, the government established family courts but, like no-fault divorce introduced four years earlier, these have failed to tackle ongoing discrimination against women. The 62-page report, "Divorced from Justice: Women's Unequal Access to Divorce in Egypt," documents serious human rights abuses stemming from discriminatory family laws that have resulted in a divorce system that affords separate and unequal treatment to men and women.

A new report by the South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA) has highlighted the challenges and constraints facing education in Africa. According to the Johannesburg-based think tank, more than 40 million children of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa are not receiving an education, (this amounts to almost half the children on the continent who should be in primary school). Enrolment in secondary school in 22 countries is below 20 percent, and less than 10 percent of the workforce has completed secondary school.